Ronnie A. Rosenthal M.D., is a graduate of the SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, where she also did her general surgery residency training and had her first faculty position. She is currently Professor of Surgery and Geriatrics at Yale University School of Medicine and is in her 21st year as Chief of Surgery at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System. She also serves as the Chief Surgical Consultant for VA New England Healthcare System (VISN 1). She is Chair of the ACS Geriatric Surgery Task Force and Co-Director of the ACS NSQIP Geriatric Surgery Pilot. Currently, she is the Co-PI on the “Coalition for Quality in Geriatric Surgery” grant with Dr. Clifford Ko, Director of Quality Programs for the ACS. Through this 4-year national grant, funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF), she has worked with 60 stakeholders to develop a set of standards for the surgical care of older adults, which has culminated in the creation of the ACS Geriatric Surgery Verification Program.
Michael E. Zenilman
Weill Cornell Medicine
Department of Surgery New York Presbyterian Brooklyn
Methodist Hospital
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Michael E. Zenilman, M.D., graduated college at State University of New York at Stony Brook and received his medical degree from SUNY Downstate Medical School in Brooklyn in 1984. He served as Clarence Dennis Professor and Chair of Surgery at SUNY Downstate, Brooklyn, NY, for 10 years. From 2011 to 2016, Dr. Zenilman led the integration of surgical care between the community hospitals and main campus as the inaugural Regional Director of Surgery for the Johns Hopkins Health System. He is currently doing similar work for Weill-Cornell and the NewYork-Presbyterian healthcare network.
An established clinician, teacher, and researcher, Dr. Zenilman has published extensively on pancreatic disease and geriatric surgery and served on the editoria