Department of Surgery is the third department at the School of Medicine established in January 2023. The Department of Surgery has international and local faculty belonging to different main areas of surgical disciplines: General Surgery, Ob/Gyn, Urology, Orthopedics and Traumatology, Ophthalmology, Anesthesiology and Critical Care, and Pediatric Surgery.

Department of Surgery is dedicated to delivering the highest quality, evidence-based, comprehensive, and compassionate patient care across a broad range of surgical specialities within an integrated academic NU Medicine health system, develop leaders in academic surgical disciplines through state-of-the-art training programs created and developed according to the ACGME-I criteria, and pursue research that expands the frontiers of knowledge by advancing innovation, creativity, collaboration and the translation of surgical sciences to patient care.