Surgical Residency Program

On behalf of our faculty, welcome to the Department of Surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center, one of the country leading health care institutions. As chair, my goal is to support clinical excellence, quality education and innovative research. We attract faculty from the nation’s leading institutions and provide state-of the art technology and resources to promote delivery of care of the safest and highest quality.

Since joining the Department as Chairman in 2014, I have had the privilege of being part of tremendous growth in our department, institution and specialty. My roles as a member of the medical executive committee, Chair of the Academic Committee of the HMH network and Surgeon and Chief of the OR’s affords representation of Surgery in all essential domains of the medical center’s function. I am truly excited about the opening of the new Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University and my role as the founding Chair of the Department of Surgery.

Thank you for your interest in the Surgical Residency Program at Hackensack University Medical Center. I encourage you to explore further, how our program will help prepare you to be a Board Certified Surgeon and potential leaders in Surgery.

Martin S. Karpeh Jr., M.D.
Founding Chair, Department of Surgery
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University
Chairperson, Department of Surgery
Hackensack University Medical Center

Located just 8 miles west of Manhattan, Hackensack University Medical Center is a nonprofit teaching and research hospital that is the largest provider of healthcare services in the state of New Jersey with 775 inpatient beds. We are a Level II Trauma Center that sees more than 112,000 patients per year and admits nearly 1,300 trauma patients per year from the Emergency and Trauma Center. Annually, more than 36,000 patients visit the Pediatric Emergency Department. U.S. News & World Report ranked Hackensack University Medical Center #1 overall in the state of New Jersey and #4 in the New York Metropolitan Area in its most recent 2017-18 Best Hospitals rankings. Hackensack University Medical Center has been named one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals by Healthgrades for nine years in a row placing it in the top one percent nationally.

Child Care:
Hackensack University Medical Center is home to one of the largest single-site child care centers in the United States. The four-story, 30,000-square foot facility is called the Sarkis & Siran Gabrellian Child Care & Learning Center (CCLC).