Mark Talamini

Mark A. Talamini is an American surgeon and partner at Northwell Health. He serves as the editor-in-chief of Surgical Endoscopy, the official journal of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) and the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES). Between 2008 and 2009, he served as the president of SAGES.^[1]

Talamini specializes in gastrointestinal surgery, with a focus on inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. His work includes the application of minimally invasive surgical techniques. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery.

Through his professional career, Talamini has published over 200 research papers and edited Advanced Therapy in Minimally Invasive Surgery (Decker, 2006), a compilation of studies on surgical advancements. In 2013, he was appointed chairman of the Department of Surgery and founding director of the Stony Brook Medical Innovation Institute at the Stony Brook University School of Medicine, alongside being appointed chief of surgical services in 2015.^[2]

Furthermore, Talamini serves as the co-director of Stony Brook's Surgical Outcomes Analysis Research (SOAR) Collaborative, which was established in 2014.

• "Appendectomy: No Cuts, No scars, No sweat." TIME Magazine: The Year in Medicine 2008 (Dec. 1, 2008).
• "Dr. Mark Talamini of UCSD Named Chair of Surgery at Stony Brook." Stony Brook University (July 26, 2013).
• FDA Transcript of Medical Devices Advisory Committee's Gastroenterology and Urology Devices Panel (May 10, 2012).
• FDA Transcript of Medical Devices Advisory Committee's Gastroenterology and Urology Devices Panel (May 15, 2015).
• FDA Transcript of Medical Devices Advisory Committee's Gastroenterology and Urology Devices Panel (Feb. 26, 2016).
• "New Incision Free Procedure Leads to Weight Loss." NBC (May 6, 2009).
• "The No-Incision Appendectomy." TIME Magazine (Apr. 3, 2008).
• "Open Wide. No, Wider: Are We Ready for an Era of 'Natural-Orifice Surgery'?" Newsweek (Apr. 14, 2008).
• "UCSD Medical Center Study May Halt Heartburn." NBC (Feb. 20, 2009).
• "Use of Natural Openings May Ease Weight-Loss Surgery." CNN (Feb. 17, 2009).

• Talamini's profile page at Stony Brook Medicine
• Talamini's journal articles on PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
• "Five Questions" video with Talamini (3:26 min)