Warren D. Widmann, MD

Dr. Widmann is a Clinical Professor of Surgery at the SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. He is Board Certified in Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, and Thoracic Surgery. He graduated from the Yale University School of Medicine and completed internship and residency at Yale New Haven Hospital. He was in private practice in Morristown, New Jersey. He was an associate program director at Columbia and program director at Staten Island University Hospital.

Education

• Undergraduate: Cornell University
• Medical School: Yale School of Medicine
• Internship: Yale School of Medicine
• Residency: Yale School of Medicine
• Fellowship: Yale School of Medicine

Dr. Widmann's research interests have included studies on the hepatic vasculature, development and refinement of cardiac pacemakers, surgical stapling devices, and the use of simulation for surgical training.

Most recently he has focused on surgical education for medical students, residents, and fellows and has developed Board Review Courses. He is on the Editorial Board of the ACS/ABS Score Curriculum. 

• Widmann W D. SCORE School Hypoxemic Syndromes (Pulmonary Embolism, Pneumonia) The Score Portal: https://www.surgicalcore.org/videoplayer//510000409, January 2022

• Widmann WD SCORE School Intubation and Difficult Airway. The SCORE Portal: https://www.surgicalcore.org/videoplayer/510000410 Published January 2022

• Widmann W D. SCORE School Abdominal Compartment   Syndrome: The SCORE Portal https://www.surgicalcore.org/videoplayer/510000408\Published  January 2022

• Sequential Participation in a Multi-Institutional Mock Oral Examination Is Associated With Improved American Board of Surgery Certifying Examination First-Time Pass Rate. Fingeret AL, Arnell T, McNelis J, Statter M, Dresner L, Widmann W. J Surg Educ. 73: 95103, 2016

• Sustained Increased Entry of Medical Students into Surgical Careers: A Student-Led Approach. Salna M, Sia T, Curtis G, Leddy D, Widmann WD. J Surg Educ. 73:151-156, 2016

• Why Should the First Be Last? “Seasonal” Variations in the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME)  Subject Examination Program for Medical Students in  Surgery.  W.D. Widmann, T. Aranoff, B.R. Fleischer,  D. Leddy, M. El-Tamer.  Current Surgery 60:  69-72, 2003

• Radio-frequency Cardiac Pacemaker.  W. D. Widmann, W. L. Glenn, L. Eisenberg, and A. Mauro.  Ann. of  the N. Y. Acad. Sci., III:  992-1006, 1964
• A New Method for Portal Venography:  Retrograde Hepatic Flushing. W. D. Widmann, R. H. Greenspan, M.R. Hales,and J. H. Capps.  Proc. Soc. Exper.  Biol and Med 106: 41: 439-454, 1962