Varun Kejriwal Goel MD
Adult Psychiatry chief resident at Cornell, interested in community psychiatry, liberation psychology, and psychedelics. Former surgical AI researcher and general surgery resident.
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Summary
- Dr. Varun Goel is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist based in New York City. He completed his adult psychiatry residency at New York Presbyterian - Weill Cornell in 2025, after serving as the Education & Administrative Chief, and the Chief of DEI. He co-founded and runs a practice called Liberation Psychiatry, and he also works at a safe haven shelter with Janian Medical Care. He practices through the lens of decolonial theory and collective liberation.
Education & Training
New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus)Residency, Psychiatry, 2022 - 2025
University of California San Francisco (East Bay)Residency, Surgery, 2017 - 2022
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiClass of 2017
Certifications & Licensure
NY State Medical License 2022 - 2028
CA State Medical License 2019 - 2023
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychiatry
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Consultant of the Year Highland Hospital Emergency Medicine Department, 2019
- Gold Humanism Honor Society 2017
- Irwin Gelernt, MD Award for Addressing Disparities in Minority Health Mount Sinai, Center for Multicultural Affairs, 2014
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 8 citationsAn artificial intelligence model that automatically labels roux-en-Y gastric bypasses, a comparison to trained surgeon annotators.Danyal Fer, Bokai Zhang, Rami Abukhalil, Varun Goel, Bharti Goel
Surgical Endoscopy. 2023-07-01 - 17 citationsSurgical workflow recognition with temporal convolution and transformer for action segmentation.Bokai Zhang, Bharti Goel, Mohammad Hasan Sarhan, Varun Kejriwal Goel, Rami Abukhalil
International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. 2023-04-01 - Preoperative epigenetic preparation of patients is a current reality.Mihir Chaudhary, Varun K. Goel, Gregory P. Victorino, Alden H. Harken
Surgery. 2019-05-20
Journal Articles
- Towards accurate surgical workflow recognition with convolutional networks and transformersZhang B, Abbing J, Ghanem A, Fer, D, Barker J, Abukhalil R, Goel VK, Milletari F, Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization, 2021
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