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Indraneil Mukherjee, MD, MBBS Assistant Professor, Program Director, Fellowship in Advanced Gastrointestinal and Minimal Invasive Surgery, Associate Program Director, Residency in General Surgery, Faculty Surgeon, Minimal Invasive Surgery (Foregut, Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary and Abdominal Wall Surgery), Staten Island University Hospital, Northwell Health, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell; Associate Medical Professor, Department of Clinical Medicine, CUNY School of Medicine, The City College of New York; Assistant Clinical Professor, American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine

Indraneil Mukherjee, MD, MBBS is a member of the following medical societies: American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, American Cancer Society, American College of Surgeons, American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association, Association for Surgical Education, International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association, Society for Vascular Surgery, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Society of International Humanitarian Surgeons/Surgeons OverSeas (SOS), Society of Robotic Surgery

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Michael Grasso, III, MD Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Urology, New York Medical College; Director, Living Related Kidney Transplantation, Westchester Medical Center; Director of Endourology, Lenox Hill Hospital

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