American Board of Anesthesiology certified, Dr. Elliott Bennett-Guerrero has extensive clinical experience in areas of critical care medicine encompassing cardiology, pharmacology, and internal medicine. A member of the Stony Brook Medicine faculty, Dr. Elliott Bennett-Guerrero is an anesthesiology professor and the medical director for perioperative quality and patient safety.

Dr. Bennett-Guerrero also engages with the department of anesthesiology as vice chair for clinical research and innovation. His responsibilities at Stony Brook Medicine include guiding and promoting initiatives that improve quality of care. Among his areas of focus over the years have been surgical site infections, the effectiveness of blood transfusions, and postoperative morbidity.

Dr. Bennett-Guerrero is well published in his field and coauthored the paper “ABT-719 for the Prevention of Acute Kidney Injury in Patients Undergoing High-Risk Cardiac Surgery: A Randomized Phase 2b Clinical Trial” (Journal of the American Heart Association, 2016). Respected in his field, Dr. Elliott Bennett-Guerrero took part in the NOVA supported PBS program Doctors’ Diaries. This documentary followed seven physicians who graduated from Harvard Medical School in the early 1990s over the course of their careers in medicine across two decades.