Anorectal Fistula near Great Neck, NY

Biography: Christopher Foglia, M.D., chief of the Colorectal Surgery section at NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens, is a board-certified, fellowship-trained surgeon specializing in general and colorectal surgery. Dr. Foglia earned a B.S. degree from Cornell University in 1995 and his medical degree at the State University of New York Stony Brook School of Medicine in 1999. His post-doctoral training included five years of surgical residency at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, as well as a one-year research residency at Weill Cornell Medical Center and a one-year fellowship in colon and rectal surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Dr. Foglia went on to join the staff at Danbury Hospital in Danbury, CT, where he held the academic appointment of clinical assistant professor of surgery at both New York Medical College and the University of Vermont College Of Medicine. During that period, he was named a Top Doctor in the state by Connecticut Magazine and has been the recipient of several excellence in teaching awards from these academic medical institutions. Dr. Foglia joined New York-Presbyterian/Queens in 2013. In addition to his active clinical practice in colon and rectal surgery, he directs the surgical residency program overseeing the training of 31 surgical residents each year. He participates in research and has been a co-author of peer-reviewed studies published in Surgical Endoscopy and Gastrointestinal Surgery. Dr. Foglia's clinical interests are in minimally invasive and robotic surgery as it relates to the treatment of colorectal conditions such as cancer, diverticulitis, ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Additionally he takes care of common proctologic problems such as hemorrhoids, fissures and anal fistulae.

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Biography: Roger Patrn-Lozano, MD, is a colorectal surgeon at New York-Presybyterian Medical Group Queens and an assistant professor in clinical surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine. He specializes in robotic and minimally invasive surgery and has an expertise in treating inflammatory bowel disease, rectal prolapse, diverticular disease and colon and rectal cancers. Dr. Patrn-Lozano has been published in numerous medical journals, including the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The Journal of Surgical Research and more. He has presented his research at annual medical meetings including the Digestive Disease Week and as an invited lecturer and facilitator at Yale University on topics, including trauma and emergency general surgery, and endoscopic surgery. Dr. Patrn-Lozano is a candidate member of the American College of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, a member of the Yale Surgical Society, and a reviewer for the journal Diseases of the Colon and Rectum. After graduating from Anahuac University School of Medicine in Mexico, Dr. Patrn-Lozano completed his general surgery residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital at Yale School of Medicine and served his fellowship in colon and rectal surgery at Indiana University Medical Center.