Cassandra Villegas, M.D., MPH
Cassandra Villegas, M.D., MPH

Cassandra Villegas, M.D., MPH

Surgical Critical Care
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Specialties
Surgery, General Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, Trauma, Trauma Surgery, Trauma Surgeon, more

Locations and Appointments


General Surgery - Downtown

41 Elizabeth Street
Suite 507
New York, NY 10013
US
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Trauma, Burns, Acute and Critical Care

520 East 70th Street
Starr Pavilion, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10021
US
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General Surgery - Upper East Side

520 East 70th Street
Starr Pavilion, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10021
US
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  • AETNA
  • Aetna - NYP
  • Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield
  • Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield Healthplus
  • GHI
  • Health Insurance Plan of NY (HIP)
  • Oxford Health Plans
  • United Healthcare
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About Cassandra Villegas, M.D., MPH

Cassandra Villegas, MD MPH is an Attending Surgeon at Weill Cornell Medical Center in the Division of Trauma, Burns, Critical, and Acute Care Surgery. She received her B.S. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University, where she was a President' Scholar and received the Teaching Excellence award. She remained at Stanford University as an instructor and doing neuroscience research before joining Teach for America to teach high school science in Los Angeles Unified School District for five years. There, she won the Most Inspirational Teacher Award before leaving education to attend Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. As a medical student, she completed her MPH at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, focusing on data outcomes research while diversifying her medical training at Guy's, King's, and St. Thomas's Hospital in London, England as well as the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland.


She continued her outcomes research in trauma and health disparities before starting her general surgery residency at the University of Arizona. While there, she took 1st Place in the American College of Surgeons Resident Paper Competition and earned the American Association for the Surgery Resident Scholarship for her work her in trauma outcomes. She received Resident Educator of the Year twice, and was Awarded Resident of the Year at the Southern Arizona Veteran's Hospital. At the conclusion of her residency, she was awarded the Charles Putnam Chief Resident Teaching Award.


Dr. Villegas then completed her Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery Fellowships at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, where she now serves as faculty and continues her research interest in trauma, emergency surgery, and global health surgery. She is a member of the American College of Surgeons, the Easter Association for the Surgery of Trauma, and the Surgical Outcomes Society.


Board Certifications

  • Surgery
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Expertise

  • Abdominal Surgery

  • Adult Trauma

  • Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery

  • Appendectomy

  • Cholecystectomy

  • Critical Care

  • Diverticulitis

  • Gallbladder Surgery

  • Gastrointestinal Surgery

  • Hernia Repair

  • Hernia Surgery

  • Incisional Hernia

  • Inguinal Hernia

  • Laparoscopic Gallbladder Surgery

  • Laparoscopic Surgery

  • Left Groin Hernia

  • Major General Surgery

  • Minimal Access Surgery

  • Minimally Invasive Surgery

  • Minor General Surgery

  • Pancreas and Spleen Surgery

  • Removal of Gallbladder

  • Repair, Hernia

  • Right Groin Hernia

  • Small Bowel Resection

  • Spleen Surgery

  • Stomach Surgery

  • Surgery, General

  • Trauma

  • Trauma and Critical Care

  • Umbilical Hernia

  • Ventral Hernia Repair

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Education

  • Degrees: Columbia University, School of Public Health

  • Degrees: Stanford University

  • Degrees: The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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Titles & Positions

  • Assistant Attending Surgeon

  • Assistant Professor of Surgery

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Hospital Affiliations

  • NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center

  • NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital

Education

  • Degrees: Stanford University
  • Degrees: The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Degrees: Columbia University, School of Public Health

Titles & Positions

  • Assistant Attending Surgeon
  • Assistant Professor of Surgery

Board Certifications

  • Surgery

Languages Spoken

  • English