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St. Lawrence Health System brings new surgeon to Canton-Potsdam Hospital

Posted 7/15/16

POTSDAM – Surgeon Dr. Mark Healey has joined St. Lawrence Health System with surgical privileges at Canton-Potsdam Hospital. Healey has been appointed medical director of the hospital’s Level III …

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St. Lawrence Health System brings new surgeon to Canton-Potsdam Hospital

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POTSDAM – Surgeon Dr. Mark Healey has joined St. Lawrence Health System with surgical privileges at Canton-Potsdam Hospital.

Healey has been appointed medical director of the hospital’s Level III Trauma Center, which is also on the main hospital campus.

As a general surgeon, Healey provides consultations and performs procedures designed to prevent, diagnose, or treat many of the diseases and disorders affecting adults and children. He performs a wide variety of inpatient and outpatient operations and office-based procedures. These include gallbladder surgery, intestinal and colon surgery, and different types of hernia repairs.

He utilizes both open and laparoscopic techniques. He also performs diagnostic upper and lower endoscopy. Some procedures are done to diagnose as well as to treat. For example, Healey performs surgical excision of breast, skin, or soft tissue tumors for biopsy and diagnosis, treatment planning, or removal of cancerous tissue.

Healey is a critical care specialist with expertise in managing medical or surgical patients who are very ill and require support in the intensive care unit. He has served as an intensivist in both medical and surgical ICUs and was the Director of the Surgical ICU at the University of Vermont Medical Center.

Healey has been involved in medical and surgical quality assessment and improvement programs. This includes research and peer-reviewed publications, committee work and policy development, and chairing the Department of Surgery Quality Assessment and Insurance Committee at Fletcher Allen Health Care.

Healey is also a trauma surgeon and has extensive experience in assessment and surgical treatment of traumatic injuries to the head and neck, chest, and abdomen, as well as the treatment of burned or otherwise heavily damaged tissue.

He has a background in policy development and oversight of successful trauma surgery programs.

Healey was awarded his medical degree from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and subsequently completed a general surgical residency at McGill University in Montréal. He completed a fellowship in trauma/critical care at the University of California San Diego. He has held academic appointments in the Department of General Surgery/Trauma at the University of California San Diego Medical Center, the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, SK, the University of Vermont, and in the Master of Physician Assistant Studies Program, a designated Rural Health Research Center, at Franklin Pierce University in West Lebanon, NH.

He is board certified in surgical critical care and is a diplomat of the American Board of Surgery. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada.

Dr. Healey joins SLHS from private practice in Burlington, VT. Prior to entering private practice he was an intensivist and attending surgeon at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, VT, and at Royal University Hospital of the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, SK.

Medicine is a family affair for Dr. Healey. His wife, Brenda J. Healey, MD, an emergency medicine specialist, will join SLHS in CPH’s emergency department. His brother, Gregory, is a well-known family physician with a thriving practice in Canton, NY, who finds time to pen a popular regular column on medical issues for a local newspaper.

For more information about Dr. Healey or to make an appointment for general surgery, interested individuals may call his office at 265-1055.