Manish Tandon
Manish Tandon, MD
Assistant Director of Surgery
NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue
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Commitment to Patient Care
As an acute care surgeon at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue for 10 years – the past eight as Director of the Surgical ICU – Dr. Manish Tandon has come to treasure the teamwork that can make all the difference in a patient’s outcome. He recalls one dramatic example: a patient with a severe gastrointestinal abnormality that required complex, coordinated care for more than a year.
“The patient had enterocutaneous fistulas that were tremendously difficult to manage,” Dr. Tandon relates. “But we had nurses, residents and medical students who took meticulous care of the patient. GI and wound care, IR and vascular helping as we tried to find solutions. PT and OT working with the patient to maintain their strength. Other surgeons provided their expertise and everyone supported the patient and family. And against all odds, the patient walked out of the hospital, wounds well-healed.”
To Dr. Tandon, the case exemplifies the great rewards of working in the public hospital system alongside so many dedicated and highly skilled professionals, everyone focused on getting one patient better. “I have had residents who remembered this patient years later,” he says, “and I always remind them that we were successful because everyone came together and no one ever gave up.”
Dr. Tandon was inspired to become a doctor on visits to his grandmother and a great uncle, physicians in India who never stopped learning and expanding the ways they could help their patients. Since his arrival at Bellevue in 2014, he has been admired for his similarly committed approach to patient care. His leadership paid off last fall, when the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program honored Bellevue for its excellent outcomes in nearly a dozen surgical categories.
“Dr. Tandon is passionate in his work, consistently collaborative and effortlessly professional,” said Dr. Amit Uppal, Bellevue’s Chief Medical Officer. “In his decade at Bellevue, he has been exemplary in everything that the public hospital system is committed to, from quality of care and patient safety to trainee education and teamwork.”