The Yale School of Medicine Department of Surgery is pleased to announce the following faculty promotions, as approved by the Board of Permanent Officers at its June 22, 2022 meeting:
- Henry Hsia, MD, promotion to Professor of Surgery (Plastic & Reconstructive), Clinician-Scientist Track
- Sanjay Kulkarni, MD, MHCM, promotion to Professor of Surgery (Transplant), Clinician-Educator Track
- Kevin Schuster, MD, MPH, FACS FCCM, promotion to Professor of Surgery (Trauma & Surgical Critical Care), Clinician-Educator Track
“The promotion to full professor is among the most prestigious rites of passage in academia. Dr. Hsia, Dr. Kulkarni, and Dr. Schuster are star scholars — surgeons, educators, researchers, and thought-leaders. As a department, and as a community, we are privileged to celebrate their promotions and their tremendous contributions to academic medicine,” said Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs, Dr. Alan Dardik.
Dr. Hsia’s service to Yale is decades long, having graduated from Yale School of Medicine in 1996, and completing surgical residency at Yale New Haven Hospital in 2002. A Department of Surgery faculty member since 2015, Dr. Hsia is the founding director of the Regenerative Wound Healing Center and Program Director for the Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Residency at YNHH. He was recently appointed Executive Director and Director of Wound Research for the YNHH Executive Committee for Wound Services.
Dr. Kulkarni is a multi-organ transplant surgeon and the Director of the Kidney Transplant Program at YNHH — one of the largest in the country. As Medical Director of the Center for Living Organ Donors, and Physician Executive Director for Clinical Continuity and Integration for YNHH, Dr. Kulkarni plays a key role in community relations.
Dr. Schuster joined the Department of Surgery in 2006, as an attending at Yale New Haven Hospital’s Level 1 Trauma Center. He has played a key role in the Department’s quality-improvement initiatives and is widely known as an authority in critical care surgery, having held leadership positions in many regional and national societies including the Society of Critical Care Medicine, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, New England Surgical Society, and the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma.
A formal reception honoring the promoted faculty is scheduled for October.
Faculty Advisory Committee: Drs. Alan Dardik, Daniel Boffa, Paris Butler, Emily Christison-Lagay, Raul Guzman, Henry Hsia, Benjamin Judson, Linda Maerz, Melissa Perkal, Vikram Reddy, and Ronnie Rosenthal.