Kartik Prabhakaran, MD

Dr. Prabhakaran serves as Chair, Department of Surgery of WMCHealth and the Director of the WMCHealth Trauma Consortium. In addition, Dr. Prabhakaran serves as the Felicien M. Steichen MD Chair and Professor of Surgery at New York Medical College.

A nationally recognized trauma surgeon and academic leader, Dr. Prabhakaran has made extraordinary contributions to WMC and the field of trauma care. In addition to leading the only adult Level I Trauma Center between New York City and Albany, Dr. Prabhakaran has led the development of an institutional Network Trauma Consortium that has grown into an integrated system consistently achieving the highest standards of clinical excellence, academic rigor, and patient-centered innovation. Dr. Prabhakaran serves as chair of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma for the Greater New York region and is a national reviewer for the American College of Surgeons’ Verification Review Committee.

In addition to his clinical leadership, Dr. Prabhakaran has served as program director for the largest Surgical Critical Care Fellowship in New York State at WMCHealth and has been a dedicated mentor to residents and medical students. 

He completed his undergraduate education and graduate degree in public health at the Johns Hopkins University. After earning his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Dr. Prabhakaran trained in general surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, followed by a fellowship in Trauma and Surgical Critical Care at Lincoln Medical Center/Cornell University.

Dr. Prabhakaran is active in the education of fellows, residents and medical students. His clinical interests lie in general surgery, trauma, and surgical critical care. He is the author of over 90 peer-reviewed publications and textbook chapters with research findings cited by local, national and international press outlets. Dr. Prabhakaran actively serves on both regional and national committees in the field of trauma, and has been an invited speaker to many local, regional, national and international meetings to share his expertise in the field of trauma and acute care surgery.