EDUCATION: North Shore University Hospital
Surgical Critical Care fellowship, June 2008
The Brooklyn Hospital Center
Internship, Residency, and Chief Resident, June 2007
St. George’s University School of Medicine, Grenada, West Indies
Doctor of Medicine, December 2001
Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York
Master of Science, 1996-98 Major: Medical Microbiology/ Minor: Molecular Biology
Bachelor of Science, 1993-96 Major: Biology
Minsk State Medical Institute, Minsk, Belarus
Worked toward completion of Doctor of Neurosurgery until 1992
HONORS/ Top Doctor Awards, 2016, 2018, 2019,
AWARDS: Top Surgeon Awards, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020
Full Academic Scholarship for Graduate Study, LIU, Summer 1996 -Fall 1997
The Phi Sigma Award for Excellence in Research, 1996
Dean’s List at Long Island University, Spring 1994 - Spring 1996
American Chemical Society’s Research Award, May 1995
National Dean’s List, 1994-1995
Academic Scholarship at LIU, Fall 1993 - Spring 1996
EMPLOYMENT: Northwell Health – Staten Island University Hospital
Trauma Medical Director/Director of Acute Care Surgery May 2021 – October 2024
Associate Director of Surgical Critical Care Fellowship April 2023 – October 2024
NYU Langone Health - Brooklyn
Trauma Medical Director August 2018 – April 2021
Interim Trauma Medical Director, January 2018 – August 2018
Physician Informaticist, June 2016 – August 2018
Mount Sinai- Beth Israel Medical Center (Petri)
Surgical Critical Care Attending February 2009- November 2018
NYU Langone – Brooklyn (Former Lutheran Medical Center)
Trauma/General Surgery/Surgical Critical Care Attending July 2008- May 2021
Coney Island Hospital
Clinical Fellow Orthopedics Department. January 2002 – June 2002
Interpreter. Aug. 97- Dec. 97
St. George’s University School of Medicine
Tutor in Anatomy, Histology, Physiology, and Immunology. Fall 98 - Spring 99
T.A. in Immunology and Pathology. Fall 98 - Spring 99
Long Island University, Brooklyn New York
T.A and Tutor in Biology, Anatomy, Microbiology, Physics and Math. Summer 96 - Fall 97
ACTIVITIES: Fellow of The American Association for the Surgery on Trauma 2020 – Present
Disaster Committee 2020 - Present
Member of National Trauma Informatics Board, September 2017 – May 2021
Fellow of international College of Surgeons, March 2017 – Present
Member of EAST, September 2014 – Present
Injury Control and Violence Prevention Committee Since 2018 - Present
Fellow of American College of Surgeons, July 2009- Present
Member of Society of Critical Care Medicine, Fall 2006-Present
Member of American Medical Student Association, Spring 98 – Summer 02
Co-chair of AMSA Health Fair Task Force, Sept. 98 -Dec. 99
Member and Instructor of Emergency Medicine Club at SGUSOM, Jan. 98 -Dec. 99
Member of Surgery Club, Sept. 98 – Dec. 99
BLS Instructor at SGUSOM, Sept. 98 - Dec. 99
Member of the Board of Trustees of European Children Leukemia Foundation, January 1996
- Present
RESEARCH Hypertonic Saline Bolus vs Continues Drip safety outcomes. Lutheran Medical Center 2010-2015
EXPIRIENCE: Lactate levels as predictors of outcome in elderly patients in ICU. SCCM 2007-2008
Small bowel adenocarcinoma presented at TBHC, May 2007
Fragile X Syndrome. Gene Activation. D. Curley, Ph.D., Long Island University
Tumor Specific Antibodies. C. Kovac, Ph.D., Long Island University
Stabilization of Aromatic Ring by Cations. R. Donavan, Ph.D., Long Island University
Immunoguided Therapy. A.P. Krasilnikov M.D., Ph.D., Minsk State Medical Institute
PRESENTATIONS/ Multidisciplinary Management of Acute Compartment Syndrome, Presenter Sep, 2023
SYMPOSIUMS: Surgical Core for Critical Care Nurses (SIUH Northwell Health) – Faculty Jan 2022 -present
NYU Lutheran EMS Symposium Multiple presentations 2008-present
Lactate levels as predictors of outcome in elderly patients in ICU. SCCM Jan 2008
Fragile X-Syndrome. ALU Sequences and their involvement in gene activation.
Master Teases presentation December 1997
Stabilization of Aromatic Ring Molecules by Metallic Cations.
43rd Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium of American Chemical Society, New York 1995
PUBLICATIONS: Preexisting anticoagulation is an independent predictor of mortality in geriatric trauma patients
– a retrospective cohort study. Nikhil Patel, MD, Thomas Kania, MD, Seleshi Demissie, DrPH, MPH,
MS, Timothy Le, MD, Peter Fusco, BS, Justin Yoon, BS, Bryan Lee, MD, Joseph Doran, MD, Jacqueline
Liu, Tori Singer, BA, MS, Galina Glinik, MD, Basem Azab, MD, Olivia Haney, MD, Christopher Esposito,
MD, Indraneil Mukherjee, MD, Krassimir Atanassov, MD, Boris Khodorkovsky, MD and Duraid Younan,
MD. Ann Med Surg, (Lond), Sep 2023, 85(9): 4223-4227, PMID 37663698
Disaster planning for a surgical surge: when mass trauma threatens to overwhelm your operating
rooms
Jay Doucet, David V Shatz, Lewis J Kaplan, Eileen M Bulger, Jeannette Capella, Deborah A Kuhls, Mary Fallat, Kyle N Remick, Christopher Newton, Adam Fox, Randeep Jawa, John A Harvin, David P Blake, Marko Bukur, Jonathan Gates, James Ficke, Mark L Gestring; Joanelle Bailey, Avi Bhavaraju, Alfredo Cesar Cordova, Eleanor Curtis, Michael Kenneth Dalton, Bradley Dennis, Alexander Laurance Eastman, Lee David Faucher, Peter Fischer, Galina A Glinik, Jane Josephine Keating, Katherine Kelley, Alison A Smith, Nicole Toscano, Robert D Winfield, Nicole Toscano. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open. 2023 Jun 28;8(1):e001073. doi: 10.1136/tsaco-202*-******.eCollection 2023. PMID 38020853
Are trauma surgeons prepared? A survey of trauma surgeons' disaster preparedness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
Doucet J, Shatz DV, Kaplan LJ, Bulger EM, Capella J, Kuhls DA, Fallat M, Remick KN, Newton C, Fox A, Jawa R, Harvin JA, Blake DP, Bukur M, Gates J, Ficke J, Gestring ML, Glinik.G, Bailey J ; American Association for Surgery of Trauma Disaster Committee.Trauma Surg Acute Care Open. 2023 Jun 28;8(1):e001073. doi: 10.1136/tsaco-202*-******. eCollection 2023.PMID: 37564125
Stress-Induced (Not Diabetic) Hyperglycemia Is Associated With Mortality in Geriatric
Trauma Patients Audrey C Heldreth 1, Seleshi Demissie 2, Shreya Pandya 3, Matthew Baker 3, Alayna, Gallagher 3, Michael Copty 3, Basem Azab 4, Lilamarie Moko 3, Krassimir Atanassov 3, Asaf Gave 3, Lisa Shimotake 5, Galina Glinik 3, Jonathan Gross 6, Duraid Younan 3 J Surg Res. 2023 Sep;289:247-252. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2023.02.039. Epub 2023 May 5. PMID 37150079
Race Is an Independent Predictor of Length of Stay among Geriatric Trauma Patients
Butler, Kevin DO; Pandya, Shreya MD, MPH; Loui, Taylor MD; Demissie, Seleshi PhD; Moko, Lilamarie MD; Glinik, Galina A MD, FACS; Younan, Duraid S MBChB, FACS
Journal of the American College of Surgeons 235(5):p S294, November 2022. DOI: 10.1097/ 01.XCS.0000895312.18727.0a
Factors Predictive of Mortality among Geriatric Patients Sustaining Low-Energy Blunt Trauma. Patel N, Le TN, Demissie S, Pandya S, Kania T, Copty M, Alothman S, Rost A, Governo C, DiRoma F, Glinik G, Atanassov K, Khodorkovsky B, Szerszen A, Gave A, Younan D.Healthcare (Basel). 2022 Nov 4;10(11):2214. doi: 10.3390/healthcare10112214. PMID 36360555
The Association of Gender and Mortality in Geriatric Trauma Patients.
Pandya S, Le T, Demissie S, Zaky A, Arjmand S, Patel N, Moko L, Garces J, Rivera P, Singer K, Fedoriv I, Garcia Z, Kennedy J, Makkapati B, Mukherjee I, Szerszen A, Gross J, Glinik G, Younan D. Healthcare (Basel). 2022 Aug 5;10(8):1472. doi: 10.3390/healthcare10081472. PMID 36011129
Smartphone application alerts for early trauma team activation: Millennial technology in healthcare. Nicole D Goulet, Helen Liu, Patrizio Petrone, Shahidul Islam, Galina Glinik, D'Andrea K Joseph, Gerard A Baltazar, Surgery 2022 Feb;171(2):511-517. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2021.05.047. Epub 2021 Jun 29. PMID 34210527
Small bowel obstruction caused by primary adenocarcinoma arising from an ileal tubular t type foregut duplication cyst. Jialing Huang; Wenging Cao; Galina Glinik; Ruliang Xu, Human Pathology: Case Reports; Vol 21, September 2020
A previously undescribed hernia containing an acutely inflamed appendix—case report and review of management on hernias containing the vermiform appendix. Kevin Bain, Nicholas Morin, Vadim Meytes, Galina Glinik Laparoscopic Surgery 2018;2:33
FAST Examination Diagnosing Bladder Rupture Following Blunt Pelvic Trauma Bain, Kevin; Kassapidis, Vickie; Meytes, Vadim; Glinik, Galina BMJ Case Reports. 2018 Mar 21; 2018: PMID 29563130
Hypertonic Saline Use in Traumatic Brain Injury: To bolus or not to bolus? International Surgery; 10/2016 David Parizh, MS, DO, Ilya Parizh, Caitlyn Kuwata,, Galina Glinik
Myxedema Pseudovolvulus: case series and review of literature. Annals of Laparoscopic and
Endoscopic Surgery; April 2017. Schulberg S, Meytes V, Morin N, Ferzli G, Adler E, Glinik G.
Uniagnosed hypothyroidism presenting with sigmoid volvulus Journal of Surgical Case Reports
2016, Vadim Meyets, Steven P. Schulberg, Nicholas Morin, and Galina Glinik, PMID 27106615
Laparascopic treatment of Gastric cancer in 17 y/o male. Literature review
Sharique Nazir, MD, Sean Rim, MD, Salvatore Docimo Jr, DO, MS, Zheng Dong, Galina Glinik, MD
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in situs Inversus Totalis patient Complicated by
Cholangiocarcinoma, Sharique Nazir, MD, Cherry Song DO, Syed Rizvi, DO, Fausto Vinces, DO,FACOS,
Galina Glinik, MD,FACS
Traumatic Rapture of Echinococcal Cyst: Case Report
Sharon B. Larson, DO, M.B. Brennan, Galina Glinik, MD, FACS
Ednovascular Repair of a Penetrating Iliac Artery Injury; Case Repost
Sharon B Larson, DO, Galina Glinik, MD, FACS
The Value and Limitations of serial blood lactate Levels as predictors of outcome in elderly
G.A. Glinik, D. Arrese, J. Platz, M. Bank, C.P. Marini, Surgery, NSUH-LIJ Health System, Feb 2008
Immunoguided Therapy in Breast Cancer A.P. Krasilnikov,G.A. Glinik, D.V. Lapitskiy Annual
Science Journal at Minsk State Medical Institute, April 1992.
LICENSURE/ Emergency Medical Technician, Jan. 1996
BOARDS: New York State Medical License, May 2007
American Board of Surgery, December 2008
ATLS Instructor, August 2015
ATLS Student Course Director, 2018
ATLS Instructor Course Director, 2019
American Board of Surgical Critical Care, September 2017
VOLUNTEER: Coney Island Hospital, Jul. 93 – Aug. 97
LANGUAGE: Fluent in Russian (included Medical Terminology)
INTERESTS: Travel,