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Home > Faculty Research

The Department of Surgery at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center has a long and distinguished history of cutting-edge surgical research. Our faculty is passionate about pursuing focused and innovative surgical research.

Recent research by our faculty members:

Faculty Member	Research Area
Michael E. Zenilman, M.D.	Pancreatic Physiology
Dale Distant, M.D.	Kidney Transplantation in Minority Populations, Immunosuppresion
John Kral, M.D., Ph.D.	Surgical Biology of Obesity
Robert Schulze, M.D.	Novel Inhibitors of Sepsis, Role of Aortic Cross Clamp in Resuscitation
Alexander Schwartzman, M.D.	Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Pancreatitis-Associated Protein
Martin Bluth, M.D. Ph.D.	-ICAM and selectin mediated leukocyte circulation and migration patterns in inflammation. -PBMC regulation of inflammatory diseases -Immunoglobulin regulation in autoimmunity and transplantation.