Gustavo Stringel’s Growth-focused Leadership With Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital

With surgical experience extending more than three decades, Gustavo Stringel currently serves as Surgeon in Chief, Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery, and Director of Pediatric Surgery with the Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at the Westchester Medical Center. He has additionally served as Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at New York Medical College, in Valhalla since 1994.

In his nearly two decades with the Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital, Dr. Stringel has overseen the establishment and consolidation of the Division of Pediatric Surgery. The division encompasses three full-time surgeons, as well as five surgeons assisting on a part-time or voluntary basis. He has also overseen establishment of the professional corporation Children’s Surgeons of Westchester, which he heads as President.

One of the most ambitious projects that Gustavo Stringel has participated in involved successful efforts to create a new Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital inpatient unit. He currently serves as an member of the Executive Committee, providing key input into management decisions affecting the Children’s Hospital’s day-to-day operations.

Dedicated to developing and retaining a highly qualified surgical staff, Dr. Stringel has participated in recruitment efforts that brought new cardiac surgery, plastic surgery, neurosurgery, anesthesiology, and liver transplantation specialists to the hospital. In addition, he has guided a significant increase in the complexity and number of pediatric surgical cases over the past eight years. Gustavo Stringel has also led the pediatric hospital’s significant upgrading of surgical equipment. As head of the Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery, he negotiated the acquisition of state-of-the-art operating room laparoscopic equipment, including DaVinci robotic surgical devices and Storz OR 1 equipment.