Dr. Sysak completed his undergraduate work at Duquesne University and his medical school degree at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.  He completed his internal medicine residency at the Western Pennsylvania Hospital and Nephrology fellowship at Allegheny General Hospital.  Dr. Sysak is an active member of the American Society of Nephrology and the American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology. 

He teaches at the Washington Hospital with their residency program and is Chief of Nephrology at Washington Hospital along with Chief of Medicine at Canonsburg Hospital.