FrankLewisRossMDFACS

Summary

• Dr. Frank Ross is a general surgeon based in New York, NY, with extensive experience in peripheral vascular disease, minimally invasive, breast, and acute care surgery. As an advanced open-water diver, combining diving medicine and surgery led him to focus on wound healing and hyperbaric medicine. He completed his medical education at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and then his surgical residency at Stony Brook University Hospital, now known as Stony Brook Medicine. As one of the original physicians joining Long Island Hyperbaric, he obtained his second board certification in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine under the American Board of Preventive Medicine. He then was appointed as the Medical Director of the wound healing center at Wyckhoff Heights Medical Center. In 2010, Dr. Ross decided to devote his surgical skills to wound healing and hyperbaric medicine and accepted an appointment as an assistant clinical professor of surgery within the department of surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He helped to design and build the first wound care center at NYU Langone Health. At present, he serves as Clinical Professor of Surgery at New York University Grossman School of Medicine and Associate Director at the Helen S. and Martin L. Kimmel Hyperbaric and Advanced Wound Care Center. He has contributed to the field through publications in journals such as the Journal of Vascular Surgery, Advances in Skin & Wound Care, and the Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine Journal. His research interests also include using hyperbaric oxygen in treating sudden sensorineural hearing loss and radiation cystitis and the use of total contact casting in reducing amputations among diabetic patients. Dr. Ross has received several honors including promotion to clinical professor of surgery, fellowship from the American College of Surgeons, and recognition from Healthgrades.