During his Residency in Pediatric Surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), a treatment center affiliated with the University of Toronto, Dr. Stringel obtained a Fellowship with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC), moving on to garner a Certificate in Pediatric Surgery from RCPSC in 1979. Licensed by the American Board of Surgery that same year, he accepted a full-time position as an Academic Pediatric Surgeon at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), a post he maintained until 1985. Dr. Stringel also served as an Assistant Professor of Surgery and a Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Ottawa concurrent to his tenure at CHEO.
Relocating to Texas in 1985, Dr. Stringel stepped in as an Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, delving into clinical research endeavors that explored issues such as the effect of dietary nucleotides on gut growth and maturation in weanling rats and the application of systemic antibiotics in the prevention of wound infection in rodents. Dr. Stringel left Texas in 1990 to pursue new challenges when he was appointed as the Director of Pediatric Surgery and the Director of Pediatric Trauma at Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital. Transitioning back into the academic sphere for two years prior to joining the staff of Westchester Medical Center’s Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital, Dr. Gustavo Stringel lent his talents to the State University of New York – Stony Brook. He continues to teach today as a tenured Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at New York Medical College.