Patricia Sylla MD, FACS, FASCRS
Dr. Patricia Sylla graduated from Cornell Weill Medical College and completed her surgical residency at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital followed by a colorectal fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC. She completed a second fellowship in MIS at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston where she practiced for 7 years. Dr. Sylla is an innovator with particular interest in minimally invasive approaches to rectal diseases and pioneered transanal endoscopic surgery and transanal total mesorectal excision (taTME). Dr. Sylla is currently Professor of Surgery and System Chief of the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital. She also serves as director of clinical trials and Vice Chair of DEI for the Department of surgery. She is the immediate past president of SAGES. Her clinical practice focuses on minimally invasive treatment of IBD, diverticular disease and colorectal cancer.