Dr. Peter Terry completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Mount Sinai Hospital,
New York, N.Y. and Fellowship in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, N.Y.

Subsequently he served as intensivist in the cardiothoracic surgical intensive care unit at Long Island Jewish Medical Center (2001-2003). At Staten Island University Hospital, Staten Island, N.Y., Dr. Terry served as intensivist in the cardiothoracicsurgical intensive care unit, the medical/surgical intensive care units and as critical care consultant for the two Staten Island University hospitals (2003-2006).

At New York Hospital Queens, Flushing, N.Y., Dr. Terry served as intensivist in the cardiothoracic surgical intensive care unit, where he worked with Dr. Wilson Ko, who is now Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. He joined Dr. Ko in 2007 to become Chief of the Cardiothoracic Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Downstate Medical Center.

The Cardiothoracic Surgical Intensive Care Unit functions as a result of close collaboration between intensivists, surgeons, nursing, ancillary staff and training house staff. This collaboration is intensely, consistently and reliably focused on providing excellent care, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.

The Cardiothoracic Surgical Intensive Care Unit is a service to Downstate Medical Center and the Community, and care is rendered in a spirit of service as well as excellence. House staff and medical students receive training at the bedside as well participating in didactic exercises.

Dr. Terry is interested in the critical care of the post open heart surgery patient, critical care of the medical or post general surgical patient, prevention and treatment of respiratory failure.
Previous research interests centered on transcriptional control in endothelium in inflammation.