Advanced Physician Services

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Advanced
Physician
Services
PHYSICIAN DIRECTORY
2014-2015
physician DIRECTORY
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CARDIOLOGY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Westchester Heart & Vascular
CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
MEDICINE
Internal Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Endocrinology & Metabolic Disorders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Rheumatology & Immunology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Hematology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
NEUROSURGERY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
ADVANCED OB/GYN ASSOCIATES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Urogynecology, Female Pelvic Medicine
& Reconstructive Surgery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Maternal/ Fetal Medicine Specialists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Division of Gyn/Oncology & Robotic Surgery
Gynecologic Surgery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
ONCOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
PATHOLOGY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
PLASTIC SURGERY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
PSYCHIATRY & MENTAL HEALTH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
RADIOLOGY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
TRANSPLANT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
TRAUMA SURGERY, BURN & WOUND CARE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
VASCULAR SURGERY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Advanced Physician Services
19 BRADHURST AVENUE, HAWTHORNE, NY 10532
855.DR.AT.APS (855) 372-8277
physician DIRECTORY
Previously, in Washington, DC, Dr. Panza held appointments as
WESTCHESTER HEART & VASCULAR
Director of the Division of Cardiology at Washington Hospital
Center; director of the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program
at Georgetown University Hospital–Washington Hospital Center; and
professor of medicine (cardiology) at Georgetown University.
19 Bradhurst Avenue
Suite 3850
Hawthorne, NY 10532
(914) 909-6900
Hasan A. Ahmad, MD
Interventional Cardiology
Hawthorne
575 Hudson Valley Avenue
Advanced Physician Services, PC
Suite 200
EDUCATION
New Windsor, NY 12553
Medical School University of Texas
at San Antonio
(845) 561-2773
Residency Internal Medicine at the
University of Colorado, Denver
Fellowship Cardiology at the University of Colorado, Denver
Fellowship New York Hospital–Cornell
CLINICAL INTEREST General cardiology, non-invasive cardiology, and
Julio A. Panza, MD, FACC
Chief, Cardiology
Hawthorne
interventional cardiology
CARDIOLOGY WESTCHESTER HEART & VASCULAR
Cardiology
Dr. Ahmad is board certified in internal medicine, cardiology, and
interventional cardiology.
EDUCATION
Medical School School of Medical
Sciences at the National University
of Rosario, Argentina
Residency Cardiology at the Italian
Hospital, Buenos Aires
Residency Internal Medicine at the Italian Hospital, Buenos Aires
Fellowship National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, in Bethesda, MD
Wilbert Aronow, MD
Cardiology
Hawthorne
EDUCATION
CLINICAL INTEREST General cardiology, ischemic heart disease,
Medical School Harvard
cardiomyopathies
Medical School
RESEARCH INTEREST Myocardial viability, coronary artery disease,
Residency Michael Reese Hospital
vascular biology
Medical Center
Dr. Panza is certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular disease
Dr. Aronow is Professor of Medicine, Senior Associate Program
by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is a fellow of the
Director of the Cardiology Fellowship Program, Senior Research
American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association
Mentor of the Residency and Fellowship Programs in the Department
and a member of the American Society of Echocardiography and the
Association of Specialty Professors.
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Howard A. Cooper,
MD, FACC
of Medicine, and Senior Associate Director, Center for Educational
Innovations Project Quality Research at Westchester Medical Center/
Director, Inpatient Cardiology
New York Medical College. He has edited 12 books and is the author
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or coauthor of 1,378 papers and of 2,581 publications. He has served
on 3 national guidelines commitees (2 on hypertension and 1 on heart
failure) and is the first author of the American College of Cardiology/
EDUCATION
American Heart Association 2011 expert consensus document on
Medical School Duke University
hypertension in the elderly.
School of Medicine
Residency Duke University
Medical Center
Martin B. Cohen,
MD, FACC
Fellowship National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute / Georgetown
Director, Cardiac Outreach
CLINICAL INTEREST Critical care cardiology, acute myocardial
Hawthorne
EDUCATION
Medical School SUNY Downstate
Medical Center
Residency SUNY Downstate
Medical Center
Fellowship Interventional Cardiology at SUNY Downstate
Medical Center
Fellowship Interventional Cardiology at Westchester Medical Center
CLINICAL INTEREST Clinical electrophysiology and device
University Hospital
infarction, decompensated heart failure, malignant arrhythmias, and
severe valvular heart disease.
RESEARCH INTEREST Dr. Cooper is widely published in the field of
cardiac critical care, particularly in the areas of cardiogenic shock and
intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation.
Dr. Cooper has special interests in the use of therapeutic hypothermia
in survivors of cardiac arrest and in the care of patients with infective
endocarditis. He is also the Program Director of the Cardiovascular
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Disease Fellowship Program.
Dr. Cooper is board certified in Cardiovascular Medicine.
implantation as well as cardiac catheterization and stenting. He
has a special interest in devices such as implantable cardioverter
defibrillators and pacemakers.
Tanya Dutta,
MD, FACC, FASE,
FASNC
RESEARCH INTEREST Stem cell infusions for patients with myocardial
infarctions.
Director, Cardiac Research
Dr. Cohen is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular
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disease, clinical electrophysiology, and interventional cardiology. He is
a fellow of the American College of Cardiology.
EDUCATION
Dr. Cohen is one of very few physicians in the country certified in
Medical School Cornell University
electrophysiology and interventional cardiology. He has been voted
‘Best Doctor’ in New York Magazine and Castle Connolly since 1999.
Medical College
Residency Internal Medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital–Cornell
Fellowship Cardiology at Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
Fellowship Cardiac MR at St. Francis Hospital, Roslyn, NY
Fellowship Cardiac CT at St. Francis Hospital, Roslyn, NY
CLINICAL INTEREST Valvular heart disease, heart disease in women,
and coronary artery disease
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RESEARCH INTEREST Stress MRI perfusion and imaging in structural
articles and an investigator in studies on transplantation and cardiac
heart disease
assist devices.
Dr. Dutta is board certified in internal medicine, cardiology, nuclear
Dr. Gass is on the advisory board of HealthCorps and was appointed
cardiology, echocardiography, and cardiac CT.
as the Integrative Medical Education Director for the National
Dr. Dutta is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a
Institute of Whole Health.
member of the American Society of Echocardiography and the
Previously, he served as medical director of Mount Sinai Hospital’s
American Society of Nuclear Cardiology.
Heart Transplant Program.
Dr. Gass specializes in transplantation and cardiac assist devices and
has been recognized internationally for his work in tailored, minimal
immunosuppression after transplant.
Anthon R. Fuisz, MD
Dr. Gass is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology.
Non-invasive Cardiology
Hawthorne
EDUCATION
Joseph A. George, MD, FACC
Medical School Georgetown University
Residency Oregon Health Services
New Windsor
Fellowship University of Alabama,
Birmingham
EDUCATION
CLINICAL INTEREST Cardiac MRI and CT, Ischemic heart disease,
Medical School University of Navarra,
Cardiomyopathy
Pamplona, Spain
Residency Internal medicine at the
RESEARCH INTEREST Perfusion imaging, Tissue Characterization
Cooper Medical Center, Camden, NJ
Fellowship Cardiology at Rutgers Medical School, Piscataway, NJ
Alan L. Gass, MD, FACC
CLINICAL INTEREST Cardiology
Medical Director, Heart Transplant and
Dr. George is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a
Mechanical Circulatory Support
member of the Medical Society of the State of New York and of the
Hawthorne
Orange County Medical Society.
Previously, Dr. George was chair of the Department of Medicine at
EDUCATION
St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital as well as chair of the Department of
Medical School University of Sassari
Cardiology.
Residency Long Island Jewish
Medical Center
Fellowship Cardiology at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
Dr. George holds board certifications in cardiology and internal
medicine.
Fellowship Cardiac Transplantation at Stanford University
CLINICAL INTEREST Transplantation and cardiac assist devices and
has been recognized internationally for his work in tailored, minimal
immunosuppression after transplant.
RESEARCH INTEREST Dr. Gass is the author of numerous journal
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Joseph M. Harburger,
MD, FACC
New Windsor
Hawthorne
EDUCATION
Medical School Damascus
EDUCATION
Medical School, Syria
Medical School Yale School of
Residency Our Lady of Mercy
Medicine
Medical Center
Residency Internal Medicine at Yale
School of Medicine
Fellowship Cardiology at New York Medical College–Our Lady of
Mercy Medical Center
Fellowship Cardiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
CLINICAL INTEREST Interventional cardiology and peripheral vascular
CLINICAL INTEREST Diagnosis and treatment of all forms of cardiac
disease
and vascular disorders.
Dr. Hadid is board certified in interventional cardiology and nuclear
RESEARCH INTEREST Cardiac lyme disease and atrial fibrillation
cardiology.
Dr. Harburger is board certified in internal medicine,
Dr. Hadid is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a
echocardiography, cardiology, and nuclear cardiology. He is registered
member of the Medical Society of the State of New York and the
in vascular interpretation. He is a fellow of the American College of
Cardiology.
Previously, Dr. Harburger served as attending physician in internal
medicine at Yale–New Haven Hospital.
Ahmad B. Hadid, MD, FACC
Ahmad A. Hadid, MD, FACC
New Windsor
Sei Iwai, MD, FACC, FHRS
Director, Cardiac
EDUCATION
Electrophysiology Service
Hawthorne
Medical School Damascus University,
Syria
Residency Internal Medicine at
EDUCATION
Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center,
Medical School Columbia College of
Bronx, NY
Physicians and Surgeons, New York
Fellowship Cardiology at Westchester Medical Center
CLINICAL INTEREST Interventional Cardiology and general
Columbia-Presbyterian
cardiology practice
RESEARCH INTEREST Advanced treatment for coronary artery
disease and valvular heart disease
Dr. Hadid is board certified in interventional cardiology, cardiovascular
disease, nuclear cardiology, and internal medicine.
Dr. Hadid is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology.
Medical Center, New York
Fellowship Cardiovascular Disease at New York Hospital-Cornell,
New York
Fellowship Cardiac Electrophysiology New York Hospital-Cornell,
New York
CLINICAL INTEREST Therapies for cardiac arrhythmias including:
endocardial and epicardial catheter ablation of arrhythmias such
as atrial fibrillation, SVT, and ventricular tachycardia; implantation
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of cardiac pacemakers, transvenous and subcutaneous ICDs
RESEARCH INTEREST Molecular cardiovascular imaging;
(defibrillators), and biventricular devices; laser lead extraction; and
cardiotoxicity of cancer chemotherapy; behavior, mental stress and
left atrial appendage occlusion device placement.
heart disease; cardiovascular pharmacotherapy.
RESEARCH INTEREST Dr. Iwai has authored over 60 articles and
Dr. Jain is Board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular
book chapters, in areas such as sudden cardiac death, syncope,
Medicine and Nuclear Cardiology. He is a fellow of the American
atrial fibrillation, atrial tachycardia, ventricular tachycardia, and
College of Cardiology and American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
ICDs. Dr. Iwai lectures nationally, and is part of the faculty at various
and a member of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular
international cardiology conferences.
Imaging.
Dr. Iwai is certified in cardiovascular disease and cardiac
electrophysiology by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is
Cardiology.
Gregg M. Lanier,
MD, FACC
Dr. Iwai is named as one of New York Magazine’s “Best Doctors”,
Director, Pulmonary Hypertension
a Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society and the American College of
Program and Associate Director of
Castle Connolly’s “America’s Top Doctors”, and Westchester
the Heart Failure Service
Magazine’s “Top Doctors”.
Hawthorne
Dr. Iwai served previously as Director of the Complex Arrhythmia
Ablation Program as well as the Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship
EDUCATION
Program at Stony Brook University Hospital, and prior to that, as a
Medical School Northwestern
Cardiology and Electrophysiology faculty member and Director of the
Cardiology Fellowship Program at New York Presbyterian HospitalCornell, in Manhattan.
University Medical School, Chicago
Residency Cardiology at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
Fellowship Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
Fellowship Advanced Heart Failure at New York Presbyterian
Diwakar Jain, MD, FACC
Director, Nuclear Cardiology
Hawthorne
EDUCATION
Medical School Medical College,
Rohtak (Kurukshetra University), India
Residency Internal medicine at
the Post Graduate Institute of
Hospital–Columbia University
CLINICAL INTEREST Heart failure and pulmonary hypertension as well
as general cardiology conditions. Dr. Lanier’s clinical interests include
a dedication to education in medicine, and he serves as associate
director of the fellowship program at Westchester.
Dr. Lanier is board certified in internal medicine and cardiology. He
is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of
the International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation and the
Pulmonary Hypertension Association.
Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, India
Fellowship Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
in Chandigarh, India
Fellowship Northwick Park Hospital, Clinical Research Center,
Harrow, UK
Fellowship Yale University School of Medicine
CLINICAL INTEREST Cardiovascular imaging, general cardiology,
heart disease in patients with cancers, stress and heart disease
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John F. Tighe, MD, FACC
New Windsor
New Windsor
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Medical School University of L’Aquila
Medical School Loyola University
School of Medicine and Surgery in
Stritch School of Medicine
L’Aquila, Italy
Walter Reed Army Medical Center,
Washington, DC
St. John’s Episcopal Hospital
Fellowship Cardiology at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center,
Fellowship Cardiovascular Disease at the Walter Reed Army Medical
in the Bronx, NY
Center, in Washington, DC
CLINICAL INTEREST General cardiology
CLINICAL INTEREST Medical imaging, Echocardiology, Angiography
Dr. Lazar specializes in clinical cardiology and is board certified in
RESEARCH INTEREST Valvular heart disease
cardiovascular disease and internal medicine.
Dr. Tighe is board certified in cardiovascular diseases and
Dr. Lazar is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a
cardiovascular computed tomography and a testamur of the National
member of the Medical Society of the State of New York and the
Board of Echocardiography.
Dr. Tighe is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a
Previously, Dr. Lazar served as chair of the Department of Medicine
member of the Society for Cardiovascular Computed Tomography,
and subsequently as vice president and then president of medical
the Medical Society of the State of New York, and the Orange County
staff at St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital.
Medical Society.
Joshua A.B. Melcer,
MD, FACC
Hawthorne
EDUCATION
Medical School Sackler School
of Medicine, in Tel Aviv, Israel
Residency Montefiore Medical Center,
Bronx, NY
Fellowship Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
CLINICAL INTEREST Non-invasive cardiology, including
echocardiography, stress testing and management of blood pressure,
cholesterol, coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, congestive
heart failure and arrhythmias.
Stephen Lazar, MD, FACC
Robert J. Timmermans,
MD, FACC
Director, Cath Lab
Hawthorne
EDUCATION
Medical School New York University
School of Medicine
Residency NYU Medical Center
Fellowship Interventional cardiology at NYU Medical Center
Fellowship Cardiology at NYU Medical Center
CLINICAL INTEREST Transradial artery cardiac catheterization.
Previously, Dr. Timmermans served as an attending physician at St.
Francis Hospital, Roslyn, NY, and at Danbury Hospital, in Connecticut.
Dr. Melcer is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular
disease, echocardiography, and nuclear cardiology. He is a fellow of
the American College of Cardiology and a member of the American
Heart Association and American Society of Echocardiography.
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minimally invasive approaches, OPCAB, and particularly, mitral valve
repair procedures.
Previously, he served as interim chief for SUNY Brooklyn, the Brooklyn
VA Hospital, and Kings County Hospital. He then joined the staff at
100 Woods Road
Mount Sinai Hospital to begin its heart transplant program.
Valhalla, NY 10595
(914) 493-8793
Masashi Kai, MD
Thoracic and Cardiothoracic Surgery
Valhalla
EDUCATION
Steven L. Lansman, MD, PhD
Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Valhalla
Medical School Jikei University, Japan
Residency Kyoto University, Japan
Fellowship Minimally Invasive
Cardiothoracic surgery at New York
University Medical Center
EDUCATION
Fellowship Heart Transplantation at New York Presbyterian Hospital–
Medical School State University of
Columbia University Medical Center
New York Health Science Center
Fellowship Mechanical Circulatory support device transplantation at
at Brooklyn
New York Presbyterian Hospital–Columbia University Medical Center
Residency Albert Einstein–Montefiore
Medical Center, Bronx, NY
Fellowship Cardiac Surgery at the State University of New York
Fellowship Cardiac Transplantation at Stanford University Hospital
CLINICAL INTEREST Cardiac surgery, heart transplantation, assist
CLINICAL INTEREST General cardiac surgery and mechanical
circulatory devices, with a clinical focus on surgery for heart failure.
RESEARCH INTEREST Treatment of Cardiogenic shock, Ventricular
Assist Devices and Extra Corporeal Oxygenation
devices, aortic aneurysm surgery, coronary bypass surgery, aortic
Dr. Kai is certified by the Japanese Board of Cardiovascular Surgery.
valve and mitral valve surgery, and transcatheter aortic valve
He is a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons as well as the
replacement for high-risk patients.
International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation.
CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY WESTCHESTER HEART & VASCULAR
Cardiothoracic Surgery
RESEARCH INTEREST Aortic aneurysm surgery and has, for the past
20 years, organized The Aortic Symposium series, an internationally
recognized forum for aortic surgery.
Dr. Lansman is a member of the American Association for Thoracic
Surgery, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, and the New York Society
for Thoracic Surgery. He is certified by the American Board of
Thoracic Surgery.
While heart transplantation, assist devices, surgery for heart failure,
and aortic aneurysm surgery remain Dr. Lansman’s special interests,
coronary bypass surgery, aortic valve, and mitral valve surgery
comprise most of his caseload; in these areas, his interests include
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Dr. Malekan is a Diplomate of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery
Thoracic and Cardiothoracic Surgery
and the American Board of Surgery as well certified by the National
Valhalla
Board of Medical Examiners.
EDUCATION
Medical School New York
Medical College
Residency General Surgery at
David Spielvogel, MD
New York Medical College–
Program Director, Heart
Westchester Medical Center
Transplantation and Mechanical
Residency Cardiothoracic Surgery at Albert Einstein–Montefiore
Circulatory Support
Valhalla
Fellowship Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Jacobi
Medical Center
EDUCATION
CLINICAL INTEREST Cardiac and general thoracic surgery.
Medical School SUNY Health Science
Dr. Lafaro is a member of the American College of Surgeons, the
Center, Brooklyn
American Board of Thoracic Surgery, the American College of
Residency General Surgery at SUNY Health Science Center, Brooklyn
Cardiology, the American College of Chest Physicians, the American
Residency Cardiothoracic Surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center
Board of Surgery, the American Heart Association, the Society of
Specialist Registrar Cardiothoracic surgery at Harefield Hospital
Thoracic Surgeons, and the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society.
in the UK
Dr. Lafaro is board certified in cardiothoracic surgery.
Fellowship Mount Sinai School of Medicine
CLINICAL INTEREST Cardiothoracic surgery, aortic surgery, heart
transplant, and mechanic circulatory support. In addition to the
Ramin Malekan, MD
preceding, his clinical focus is in cardiac surgery, coronary artery
Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
bypass, and valve repair and replacement.
Valhalla
RESEARCH INTEREST Dr. Spielvogel has written extensively on
thoracic aortic aneurysm repair and has helped pioneer many of
EDUCATION
the surgical techniques now used in treating this condition. He has
Medical School Mount Sinai School
of Medicine
Residency General surgery at Long
Island Jewish Medical Center
lectured at national meetings, prestigious American medical centers
and internationally on his widely adopted method of aortic arch
replacement. He has won numerous awards for his work, presented at
a wide range of professional conferences and co-authored more than
Residency Cardiothoracic Surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center
75 original peer-reviewed articles, books and chapters.
Fellowship Harrison Department of Surgical Research at the University
Dr. Spielvogel is certified by the National Board of Medical Examiners,
of Pennsylvania
the American Board of Surgery, and the American Board of Thoracic
CLINICAL INTEREST Cardiac surgery, cardiac transplantation, and
Surgery. He is also a member of the New York Society of Thoracic
circulatory assist devices. His clinical focus is in mitral valve repair and
surgery for atrial fibrillation.
RESEARCH INTEREST Aortic dissection, cardiac bypass surgery as
well as surgical treatment of heart failure. In addition, Dr. Malekan
has presented at national and international conferences including the
CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY WESTCHESTER HEART & VASCULAR
Rocco J. Lafaro, MD
Surgeons, the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation,
the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, and the American Association of
Thoracic Surgeons.
Previously, Dr. Spielvogel served as program director of heart
transplantation at Mount Sinai Medical Center.
American Heart Association.
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Director, Valve Disease Center
Internal Medicine
Cardiothoracic Surgery
19 Bradhurst Ave
Valhalla
Suite 3090
EDUCATION
Medical School University of Toronto
Hawthorne, NY 10532
(914) 592-2400
Residency Cardiac Surgery at the
University of Toronto
Fellowship Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, in complex mitral
valve repair and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)
Hospital Services
100 Woods Rd
Fellowship TAVR at the University of Pennsylvania and at the Leipzig
Taylor Care
Heart Center as the Edward Diethrich International Traveling Fellow
Valhalla, NY 10595
CLINICAL INTEREST Advanced cardiac life support, aortic surgery,
(914) 493-6616
coronary bypass, endovascular surgery, heart valve surgery, high-risk
INTERNAL MEDICINE APS MEDICINE
Gilbert H. L. Tang,
MD, MSc, MBA, FRCSC
cardiac surgery, minimally invasive valve surgery, mitral valve surgery,
thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR), transcatheter aortic
valve replacement (TAVR), percutaneous mitral valve repair.
RESEARCH INTEREST Valvular heart disease, aortic disease, TAVR,
William H. Frishman, MD
cardiac and structural heart imaging, medical innovation, clinical trials.
Director, Medicine
Dr. Tang is board certified in cardiac surgery by the Royal College of
Hawthorne
Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He is a fellow of the Royal College
of Surgeons of Canada and a member of the Society of Thoracic
Surgeons, the American Heart Association, and the New York Society
EDUCATION
of Thoracic Surgery.
Medical School Boston University
Residency Albert Einstein–Montefiore
Previously, Dr. Tang held an appointment as clinical instructor of
Medical Center
surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Fellowship New York Hospital–Cornell
Medical Center
CLINICAL INTEREST Cardiology and cardiovascular pharmacology.
RESEARCH INTEREST Cardiovascular pharmacotherapeutics,
complimantary and integrative therapies for cardiovascular disease,
cardiovascular regeneration and stem cell therapy, and hypertension
Dr. Frishman holds certifications in internal medicine, cardiology,
and clinical pharmacology. His clinical focus is in cardiology and
cardiovascular pharmacology.
Dr. Frishman is a master of the American College of Physicians and a
member of Alpha Omega Alpha and the American Heart Association.
Dr. Frishman served previously as associate chair and chief of
medicine at Albert Einstein–Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.
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Maria F. Capparelli, MD, MS
Chief, Internal Medicine and Director
Internal Medicine
of the Adult Primary Care Center
Hawthorne
Valhalla
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Medical School Albert Einstein College
Medical College
of Medicine
Internship Westchester Medical Center
Residency Westchester Medical Center
Jacobi Medical Center
CLINICAL INTEREST Health promotion, disease prevention, health
CLINICAL INTEREST Internal Medicine, with a clinical focus in primary
maintenance, patient education, and diagnoses and treatment of
care and medical education.
acute and chronic illness.
Dr. Forman is a member of the American College of Physicians and
Dr. Capparelli is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine.
She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member
Previously, Dr. Forman served as director of occupational health at
of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Society. She is also Director of
Westchester Medical Center and as clerkship director, Department of
Patient Satisfaction.
Internal Medicine, New York Medical College.
Dr. Capparelli previous experience includes a position as a research
Leanne Forman, MD
assistant in the Department of Pharmacology, where she studied the
vascular and renal mechanisms of blood pressure regulation.
Arif Mumtaz, MD
Chief, Internal Medicine
Hawthorne
Christine E. Carosella, MD
Internal Medicine
Hawthorne
EDUCATION
Medical School King Edward Medical
College, Lahore, Pakistan
EDUCATION
Residency New York Medical College–
Medical College
CLINICAL INTEREST Internal Medicine, with a clinical focus as a
hospitalist in inpatient care.
Dr. Mumtaz is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Mumtaz is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and
member of the Society of General Medicine and the Association of
Pakistani Physicians of North America.
CLINICAL INTEREST Primary care and the coordination of care in
complex patient populations.
Dr. Carosella is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Carosella is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a
member of the Society of General Internal Medicine.
Previously, Dr. Carosella served as attending physician at St. Agnes
Hospital and as its site director of the fifth pathway.
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Internship Calcutta Medical College
Internal Medicine
Residency internal medicine at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center
Valhalla
CLINICAL INTEREST Internal Medicine, with a clinical focus on
occupational health and policy, wound and hyperbaric medicine,
EDUCATION
outpatient and inpatient care, and medical student and resident
training and education.
Medical College
Dr. Kar is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a
Residency Mount Sinai Hospital
member of the American Medical Association and the Alliance for
CLINICAL INTEREST Internal Medicine,
Academic Internal Medicine.
with a focus on clinical practice and residency training.
Dr. Gennarelli is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Bernard J. Katz, MD
Internal Medicine
Valhalla
Carol L. Karmen, MD
Associate Chief, Internal Medicine
Hawthorne
EDUCATION
of Medicine
Residency New York Medical College–
EDUCATION
Melissa D. Gennarelli, MD
Medical School St. George Hospital
University School of Medicine
Residency Brooklyn and Elmhurst
Hospitals
CLINICAL INTEREST Inpatient medicine
Dr. Katz is board certified in internal medicine and geriatrics. He is
a fellow of the American College of Physicians. Previously, Dr. Katz
served as attending physician at Lincoln Hospital.
CLINICAL INTEREST Primary Care Internal Medicine.
Dr. Karmen is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Karmen is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a
Randy A. Goldberg, MD, MPH
member of the Society of General Internal Medicine and the Alpha
Internal Medicine
Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society.
Valhalla
EDUCATION
Kausik Kar, MD
Internal Medicine and Medical Director
at the Occupational Health Center
and Hyperbaric Medicine Unit
Valhalla
Medical College
CLINICAL INTEREST Hospital
Medicine, Gay and Lesbian Health
RESEARCH INTEREST Patient safety, Medical education, Cost
EDUCATION
effectiveness/Comparative Efficiency
Medical School Medical College of the
Dr. Goldberg is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine,
University of Calcutta, India
with a Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine.
Dr. Goldberg is a fellow of the American College of Physicians as well
as a member of the AMA and the GLMA.
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Gary Rogg, MD
Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine
Valhalla
Hawthorne
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Medical School Shanghai First
Medical College
Internship Bronx Municipal
Residency New York Medical College
Hospital Center
CLINICAL INTEREST Internal Medicine.
CLINICAL INTEREST General
Medical Care
Dr. Guo is a member of the American Medical Association.
RESEARCH INTEREST Preventative aspects of healthcare, signs and
symptoms of disease
Stephen A. Lobo, MD
Dr. Rogg is Board Certified in Internal Medicine.
Internal Medicine
Valhalla
EDUCATION
Medical School University of Louisville
School of Medicine
Gary G. Guo, MD, PhD
Tushar Shah, MBBS
Internal Medicine
Valhalla
Residency UMDNJ–Robert Wood
EDUCATION
Johnson Medical School
Medical School N.H.L Municipal
Fellowship Infectious Diseases
Medical College
at New York Medical College
Internal Medicine
Christopher C. Nabors, MD
Director, Center for Educational
Innovations Project Quality Research
Valhalla
Sachin S. Sule, MD
Director, Internal Medicine Residency
Program
Hawthorne
EDUCATION
Medical School Louisiana State
EDUCATION
University
CLINICAL INTEREST Quality improvement, patient safety, and
educational initiatives, and he has focused on improving handoff
communication through technological innovation.
Medical School T. N. Medical College at
the University of Mumbai, India
CLINICAL INTEREST Internal Medicine,
with a clinical focus in hospital medicine
Dr. Sule is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
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Dr. Sule is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a
member of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine.
Previous positions include an appointment as associate professor of
clinical medicine at New York Medical College.
Eric R. Wold, MD, MS
Internal Medicine
Valhalla
Pulmonary,
Critical Care &
Sleep Medicine
100 Woods Rd
Macy Pavilion - Pulmonary Lab
Valhalla, NY 10595
EDUCATION
(914) 493-7518
Medical School University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Internship Yale–New Haven Hospital
Residency Yale–New Haven Hospital
Fellowship Medical Ethics at University of Chicago
Fellowship Clinical Epidemiology at Weill-Cornell New York Hospital
CLINICAL INTEREST General Internal Medicine
George P. Maguire, MD
Dr. Wold is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Chief, Pulmonary, Critical Care and
Sleep Medicine
Valhalla
Shick H. Yu, MD
EDUCATION
Internal Medicine
Medical School SUNY Downstate,
Hawthorne
Brooklyn
Residency SUNY Downstate, Brooklyn
EDUCATION
Fellowship SUNY Downstate, Brooklyn
Medical School SUNY Upstate–Health
CLINICAL INTEREST Respiratory failure and COPD.
Science Center at Syracuse
Internship North Shore University
Hospital, Manhassett, NY
Residency Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Residency North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, NY
CLINICAL INTEREST General Internal Medicine, with a clinical focus in
preventative medicine and hypertensive diseases.
PULMONARY, CRITICAL CARE & SLEEP MEDICINE APS MEDICINE
Dr. Maguire is certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease, critical
care medicine, and sleep medicine. His clinical focus is in respiratory
failure and COPD.
Dr. Maguire is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the
American College of Chest Physicians and a member of the American
Thoracic Society.
Dr. Yu is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and certified
by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
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Stuart G. Lehrman, MD
Co-Director, Neuro Intensive Care Unit
Director, Pulmonary Function, Exercise
Valhalla
Physiology and Sleep Medicine
Valhalla
EDUCATION
Medical School University of Calcutta,
EDUCATION
India
Medical School SUNY Downstate,
Brooklyn
New York Medical College
Residency Cedars-Sinai Medical
Fellowship Pulmonary/Critical Care at Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
Center, Los Angeles
New York
Fellowship Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
CLINICAL INTEREST Holds certifications in internal medicine,
CLINICAL INTEREST Critical care and sleep medicine.
pulmonary disease, sleep medicine, neurocritical care, and critical care
medicine, with a particular focus on neurocritical care.
Dr. Chandy currently serves as Vice-President of the New York
State Thoracic Society and is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, the
American College of Chest Physicians, the American Thoracic Society,
the Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program
Directors, Mensa, and the Neurocritical Care Society.
Dr. Lehrman is certified in internal medicine, pulmonary care, critical
care, sleep medicine, and neurocritical care.
Dr. Lehrman is a member of the American Thoracic Society, the
Neurocritical Care Society, and the American Academy of
Sleep Medicine.
Previously, Dr. Lehrman held an appointment as assistant professor
of medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine.
Lisa P. Paul, MD
Lawrence J. DeLorenzo, MD
Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep
Director, Chest Clinic and Director,
Medicine and Director of Medical
Adult Cystic Fibrosis
Intensive Care Unit
Valhalla
Valhalla
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Medical School PSG Institute of
Medical Sciences and Research, India
Medical College
Residency Internal Medicine at Metropolitan Hospital Center–New
Fellowship New York Medical College
York Medical College
CLINICAL INTEREST Neurocritical care, EBUS, and cystic fibrosis.
Fellowship Pulmonary medicine at Metropolitan Hospital Center–
CLINICAL INTEREST Respiratory failure and COPD.
Dr. DeLorenzo is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary care,
PULMONARY, CRITICAL CARE & SLEEP MEDICINE APS MEDICINE
Dipak Chandy, MD
Dr. Paul is certified in pulmonary medicine, critical care, neurocritical
care and internal medicine.
Dr. Paul is a member of the American College of Chest Physicians, the
American Thoracic Society, and the Neurocritical Care Society.
and critical care medicine.
Dr. DeLorenzo is a fellow of the American College of Physicians
and the American College of Chest Physicians and a member of the
American Thoracic Society.
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Michael Goldberg, MD
Endocrinology
Valhalla
APS MEDICINE
EDUCATION
19 Bradhurst Ave
School of Medicine
Suite 3070
Residency NYU–Bellevue
Hospital Center
Hawthorne, NY 10532
Fellowship Mount Sinai School of Medicine
(914) 372-7887
CLINICAL INTEREST Diabetes, thyroid disorders, metabolic bone
disease, adrenal disorders, and pituitary disorders.
Dr. Goldberg holds certifications in endocrinology, diabetes, and
metabolism.
Irene A. Weiss, MD
Chief, Endocrinology
Hawthorne
Dr. Goldberg is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and of
the American College of Endocrinology.
EDUCATION
Harriette R. Mogul, MD, MPH
Medical School Cornell University
Medical College
Endocrinology
Internship University Hospital
Hawthorne
of Cleveland
Residency University Hospitals of Cleveland–Cleveland VA Hospital
EDUCATION
Fellowship Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
Medical School Albert Einstein
CLINICAL INTEREST Endocrinology and metabolism, with a clinical
Medical School
focus in diabetes and thyroid disorders.
Residency Bronx Municipal
Hospital Center
Dr. Weiss is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in
internal medicine and endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism.
Dr. Weiss is a member of the Endocrine Society and a fellow of the
American College of Physicians.
Dr. Weiss’s previous positions include serving as associate chief of the
Division of Endocrinology at Metropolitan Hospital Center, New York.
ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLIC DISORDERS APS MEDICINE
Endocrinology
& Metabolic Disorders
Fellowship Westchester Medical Center
Master of Public Health Columbia University School of Public Health
(Epidemiology)
CLINICAL INTEREST Women’s Health, with a focus on weight gain,
obesity management, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, menopause,
osteoporosis, and pituitary disease
RESEARCH INTERESTS Dr. Mogul designed and conducted various
clinical trials, including multicenter studies of adults with Prader
Willi Syndrome, menopausal women in an inner city setting, and the
recently completed EMPOWIR (Enhance the Metabolic Profile of
Women with Insulin Resistance) Trial which targeted peri-menopausal
women with midlife weight gain and insulin elevations.
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for Medical Research in Women
Rheumatology
& Immunology
Dr. Mogul is a member of the Societies of Endocrinology, Obesity
APS MEDICINE
Dr. Mogul was previously Director of Health Services at Barnard
College and Director and Founder of the Barnard-Columbia Institute
and IGF-1.
19 Bradhurst Ave
Monica G. Schwarcz, MD
Suite 3070
Endocrinology
Hawthorne, NY 10532
Hawthorne
(914) 372-7887
EDUCATION
Medical School Howard University
Residency Columbia Presbyterian
Fellowship Harbor – UCLA
Julia Y. Ash, MD
Medical Center
Associate Chief, Rheumatology CLINICAL INTEREST Diabetes, Thyroid Diseases, Osteoporosis,
Hawthorne
Hypercalcemia-high/low calcium, Pituitary Diseases/Tumors, Adrenal
Disease-nodule/insufficiency, Cushings Syndrome, Polycystic Ovarian
EDUCATION
Syndrome-PCOS, Hirsutism, Lipid disorders, Thyroid U/S and FNA
and Biopsy.
New York at Stony Brook
Dr. Schwarcz is board certified in Endocrinology.
Internship Winthrop University
RHEUMATOLOGY & IMMUNOLOGY APS MEDICINE
Medical Center
Residency Winthrop University Medical Center
Fellowship Massachusetts General Hospital
Guy Valiquette, MD
Fellowship New York University Medical Center
Endocrinology
CLINICAL INTEREST Rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and scleroderma
Hawthorne
Dr. Ash is board certified in rheumatology. She is a member of the
American College of Rheumatology.
EDUCATION
Medical School McGill University,
Montreal, Canada
Internship Royal Victoria Hospital,
Montreal, Canada
Residency Université de Montréal
Fellowship Université de Montréal Royal Victoria Hospital
CLINICAL INTEREST Endocrinology, with a clinical focus in pituitary
disease. He is certified by the Royal College of Physicians of Canada.
Dr. Valiquette’s previous positions include an appointment as assistant
professor of medicine at Columbia University. He is a member of the
Endocrine Society.
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Rheumatology
Hawthorne
HEMATOLOGY APS MEDICINE
Ioannis Tassiulas, MD, PhD
Hematology
APS MEDICINE
EDUCATION
19 Bradhurst Ave
Medical School Aristotle University
Suite 3070
School of Medicine, Thessaloniki,
Greece
Internship National Institute Health,
Hawthorne, NY 10532
(914) 372-7887
Bethesda, Maryland
Internship Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia
Residency Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia
Fellowship Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Medical College
of Cornell University
CLINICAL INTEREST Rheumatology, with a clinical focus in
Robert G. Lerner, MD
rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthropathies, systemic lupus
Chief, Hematology and Hemostasis
erythematosus, and vasculitis.
Hawthorne
Dr. Tassiulas is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine
and Rheumatology.
EDUCATION
Dr. Tassiulas is affiliated with the American College of Rheumatology
and the American College of Physicians.
School of Medicine
Internship Bellevue Hospital CenterNYU
Residency Bellevue and Montefiore Hospitals
Fellowship NIH fellowship in Hematology at the University of
Southern California and Los Angeles County Hospital
CLINICAL INTEREST Hematology, with a clinical focus in general
hematology and hemostasis and thrombosis.
Dr. Lerner is certified in internal medicine, hematology, and
medical oncology.
Dr. Lerner is president of Westchester County Medical Society
and member of the Medical Society of the State of New York, the
International Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis, the American
Medical Association, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the
American Heart Association, and the American Society of Hematology.
Previously, he served as an attending physician at Metropolitan
Hospital and Lenox Hill Hospital.
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John Abrahams, MD
Neurosurgery
Hawthorne
19 Bradhurst Ave
Suite 3040N
EDUCATION
Hawthorne, NY 10532
NEUROSURGERY
Neurosurgery
Medical College
(914) 493-2363
Residency University of Pennsylvania
Fellowship Hospital of the University
of Pennsylvania
CLINICAL INTEREST Brain tumors, spine tumors, spinal cord tumors
and pituitary tumor
Michael F. Stiefel, MD, PhD
Chief, Neurovascular Surgery and
Director, Neurovascular Institute
Hawthorne
EDUCATION
Medical School Medical College of
Virginia, MD, PhD
Dr. Abrahams has successfully treated hundreds of brain aneurysms
using state-of-the-art technology and protocols. A full-time faculty
member, Dr. Abrahams is an associate professor of Neurosurgery at
New York Medical College.
Dr. Abrahams also invented and developed a new medical hydrogel to
substantially reduce bleeding during surgery, as well as an injection to
treat back pain.
Dr. Abrahams is a member American Board of Neurological Surgeons
Internship University of Pennsylvania
Residency University of Pennsylvania
Fellowship Barrow Neurological Institute, University of Pennsylvania
CLINICAL INTEREST Cerebrovascular and endovascular neurosurgery.
Yin C. Hu, MD
Cerebrovascular/Endovascular Neurosurgery
Dr. Stiefel performs microsurgical and endovascular procedures for
Hawthorne
the treatment of cerebral aneurysms, arteriovenous malformaitons
(AVMs), arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs), carotid stenosis, intracranial
stenosis, stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage, stenting and bypass
procedures.
EDUCATION
Medical School Chicago Medical School
Residency Neurosurgery at Case Western Research University,
RESEARCH INTEREST Developing novel endovascular techniques for
Cleveland
the treatment of cerebral aneurysms and ischemic stroke.
Fellowship Endovascular Neurosurgery at Barrow Neurological
Dr. Stiefel is certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery.
Institute, Phoenix, AZ
Fellowship Cerebrovascular/skull base neurosurgery at Barrow
Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ
CLINICAL INTEREST Microsurgical and neurointerventional
neurosurgery techniques for complex neurovascular diseases and
tumors of the brain and spine.
RESEARCH INTEREST Acute Stroke, Malformations, Brain, Aneurysm,
Cavernous, Coiling Surgery, Stent Surgery, Craniotomy, Bypass
Surgery, Acute stroke interventions
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19 Bradhurst Avenue
Suite 2700
Hawthorne, NY 10532
(914) 493-2280
ADVANCED OB/GYN ASSOCIATES
Advanced
Ob/Gyn Associates
Howard Blanchette,
MD, FRCS(C), FACOG
Director, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Hawthorne
EDUCATION
Medical School McGill University,
Montreal, Canada
Residency University of Southern
California Medical Center, Los Angeles
Dr. Blanchette has held teaching appointments at Tufts University
School of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Harvard
Medical School, Yale University, and the University of Southern
California School of Medicine, where he is an Emeritus Clinical
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Senior Examiner for and Director of the American Board of Obstetrics
and Gynecology, Dr. Blanchette has also been inducted into the Alpha
Omega Alpha chapter at New York Medical College.
Dr. Blanchette has published and presented on many obstetric and
gynecological topics throughout the country including, “The Rising
Cesarean Delivery Rate in America: What are the Consequences?”
published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
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Chief, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Hawthorne
Dr. Ballard-Basile is a board-certified physician with the American
Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Previously, Dr. Ballard-Basile worked in private practice in the Hudson
Valley and helped initiate the robotic surgery program at Good
Samaritan Hospital, Suffern.
EDUCATION
of Medicine
Residency Obstetrics and Gynecology
at Albert Einstein–Montefiore Medical Center
General Obstetrics and Gynecology
CLINICAL INTEREST Contraception, family planning, high-risk
Hawthorne
pregnancies, and minimally invasive surgery.
RESEARCH INTERESTS Complementary and alternative medicine,
EDUCATION
cord blood and endothelial progenitor cells, microbiome aspects of
Medical School Ross University
perinatal health.
Residency Danbury Hospital
Dr. Kessler is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and is a
CLINICAL INTEREST Adolescent health,
fellow of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
pelvic pain, and sexual dysfunction.
Previously, Dr. Kessler worked as a clinical instructor and assistant
professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Albert Einstein College
of Medicine and as a staff attending at Jacobi Medical Center, in the
Bronx, NY.
RESEARCH INTEREST Breast feeding
Dr. Kapoor is certified by the American Congress of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists. She currently serves as the on-site Residency Director.
Karen S. Ballard-Basile,
DO, MPH, FACOG
Dhruti Mehta,
MD, FACOG
Hawthorne
Hawthorne
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Medical School Oklahoma State
Medical School Howard University
University College of Osteopathic
Medicine
Residency OB/GYN residency at Texas Tech University’s Health
Sciences Center, Amarillo
Master’s in Public Health East Carolina University
CLINICAL INTEREST Minimally invasive gynecologic surgery and in
managing and treating dysplasia and women’s health
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Monica Kapoor,
MD, FACOG
Michael S. Kessler,
MD, FACOG
obstetrics and gynocology
Dr. Mehta is a fellow of the American Congress of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists. She is experienced in minimally invasive surgeries,
such as laparoscopic surgery and hysteroscopy, as well as diagnosis of
cervical/vaginal pathology through colposcopy.
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physician DIRECTORY
Maternal Fetal
Medicine Specialists
Suite 2700
19 Bradhurst Avenue
Hawthorne, NY 10532
19 Bradhurst Avenue
(914) 493-2280
Suite 2700
Hawthorne, NY 10532
(914) 493-2280
Arash Rahi, MD, MSc,
FACOG
Andrew Elimian, MD,
FACOG
Chief, Urogynecology, Female Pelvic
Chief, Maternal Fetal Medicine
Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery
Hawthorne
Hawthorne
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Medical School Faculty of Health
Sciences, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
School of Medicine
Residency Internal Medicine at Nassau
Residency Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of
University Medical Center, East Meadow, NY
Pennsylvania
Residency Obstetrics and Gynecology at New York Medical College
Fellowship Urogynecology at NYU School of Medicine
Fellowship Maternal Fetal Medicine at New York Medical College
CLINICAL INTEREST Minimally invasive surgery, natural body
CLINICAL INTEREST Prematurity, fetal diagnosis and treatment,
orifice surgery, robotic and laparoscopic surgery, urinary and
medical disorders of pregnancy, intrapartum fetal surveillance, and
fecal incontinence, pelvic pain, pelvic organ prolapse, large uterus
perinatal research.
hysterectomy, urogynecology, and pelvic reconstruction.
RESEARCH INTEREST Advanced vaginal surgery
Dr. Rahi is board certified in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive
surgery. He is also board certified in the field of obstetrics and
gynecology.
Dr. Rahi also serves his community as a Firefighter, Emergency
Medical Services Quality Improvement Chief, NYS Police Surgeon
Dr. Elimian is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and in
maternal-fetal Medicine and is a fellow of the American Congress of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists and a member of the Society for
Maternal-Fetal Medicine.
UROGYNECOLOGY | MATERNAL FETAL MEDICINE ADVANCED OB/GYN ASSOCIATES
Urogynecology,
Female Pelvic Medicine
& Reconstructive
Surgery
Dr. Elimian previously served as faculty at Stony Brook University
and the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, where he
established the fellowship program in Maternal Fetal Medicine.
while also serving in the Coast Guard Auxilary Services.
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Maternal Fetal Medicine
Yvonne S. Thornton,
MD, MPH, ScD(hon),
FACOG, FACS
Hawthorne
Hawthorne
EDUCATION
Medical School University of Manitoba,
EDUCATION
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Medical School Columbia University
Residency Health Sciences Center,
Residency Roosevelt Hospital
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Fellowship Royal College of Surgeons of Canada
Fellowship Columbia University
CLINICAL INTEREST Dr. Thornton was the first African-American
CLINICAL INTEREST Application of dynamic ultrasound in the
woman in the United States to be board-certified in High-Risk
identification of the fetus at risk in-utero; development of the standard
obstetrics (Maternal-Fetal Medicine), to be accepted into The New
method for amniotic fluid volume measurement and interpretation.
York Obstetrical Society and to be invited as an oral board examiner
RESEARCH INTEREST Authored more than 170 peer-reviewed
scientific articles, hundreds of invited articles, and 7 books including a
single author textbook in Maternal Fetal Medicine.
Dr. Manning is an honorary member of 70 national and international
OB/GYN and medical societies. Among his previous positions was an
appointment to a one-year teaching exercise at Oxford University.
Geetha Rajendran, MD,
FACOG
Hawthorne
for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Thornton
was one of the original American investigators who pioneered early
prenatal diagnostic testing known as CVS (chorionic villus sampling).
Dr. Thornton has served on the faculties of the Uniformed Services
University of the Health Sciences, University of Medicine and Dentistry
of New Jersey, Cornell (Weill) University Medical College and
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She joined
the faculty of New York Medical College in 2008 and is a Clinical
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
RESEARCH INTEREST Dr. Thornton past research interests in
Maternal-Fetal Medicine have been conducted at The Rockefeller
University, the National Institutes of Health Pregnancy Research
Branch, National Naval Medical Center, Naval Medical Research
EDUCATION
Institute, and New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Her most
recent research has been focused on obesity in pregnancy. Her
Medical College
biography is presently in Who’s Who in America, Wikipedia and Who’s
Residency Obstetrics and Gynecology at
Who in the World. She has been listed in The Best Doctors——New
New York Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn
York Metro Area, as well as in New York Magazine as one of the top
Fellowship Maternal Fetal Medicine at Westchester Medical Center
ten Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialists in New York City.
CLINICAL INTEREST Preeclampsia, premature and maternal-fetal
Dr. Thornton was the first female African American Perinatologist.
MATERNAL FETAL MEDICINE ADVANCED OB/GYN ASSOCIATES
Frank A. Manning, MD,
FACOG
medical complications
Dr. Rajendran is certified by the American Board of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists and by the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine. She
specializes in care of high-risk pregnancies.
Dr. Rajendran is a member of the American Congress of Obstetricians
and Gynecologists.
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Dr. Wong is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and NTQR.
Dr. Wong is a member of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and
Hawthorne
a fellow of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
EDUCATION
Medical School Morehouse School
Catherine B. Karimov,
MD, FACOG, FACMG
of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Chief, Clinical Genetics for Women’s
at State University of New York,
Health
Downstate Medical Center
Hawthorne
Residency Obstetrics and Gynecology at Kings County Hospital,
Brooklyn
EDUCATION
Fellowship Maternal Fetal Medicine at Johns Hopkins University
Medical School Temple University
School of Medicine
CLINICAL INTEREST Prevention of preterm birth and medical
complications of pregnancy.
at Winthrop University Hospital
Fellowship Medical Genetics at Harvard University
RESEARCH INTEREST Preterm birth
CLINICAL INTEREST Fetal anomalies and ultrasound for prenatal
Dr. White is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and in
diagnosis of genetic syndromes. Managment of women with
maternal fetal medicine.
underlying Genetic disorders
Dr. White is a member of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
RESEARCH INTEREST Cord blood stem cells and connective tissue
Society and the American Congress of Obstetricians and
disorders
Gynecologists.
Dr. Karimov is a fellow of both the American College of Medical
Previously, Dr. White served as Residency Program Director for
Genetics and the American Congress of Obstetricians and
Obstetrics and Gynecology at Nassau University Medical Center, East
Gynecologists.
Meadow, NY.
Previously, Dr. Karimov served as director of the Division of Genetics
at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.
MATERNAL FETAL MEDICINE ADVANCED OB/GYN ASSOCIATES
Desmond A. White,
MD, FACOG
Jennifer L. Wong,
MD, FACOG
Hawthorne
EDUCATION
Medical School Medical College
of Georgia
Residency Stamford Hospital
Fellowship Mount Sinai Hospital
CLINICAL INTEREST Diabetes, multiple gestations, preterm labor, and
cervical insufficiency.
RESEARCH INTEREST Prenatal diagnosis, Preterm labor,
Multiple gestations
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Tana Pradhan, DO, FACOG
Gynecologic Oncology and Robotic
Gynecologic Surgery
Hawthorne
EDUCATION
Medical School University of Medicine
19 Bradhurst Avenue
and Dentistry of New Jersey, School of
Suite 2575
Osteopathic Medicine
Residency Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Department of Obstetrics
Hawthorne, NY 10532
and Gynecology
(914) 493-2181
Fellowship State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center
CLINICAL INTEREST Minimally invasive surgery
Member of NRG Oncology (formerly Gynecologic Oncology Group),
Society of Gynecologic Oncology, International Gynecological Cancer
Society, ACOG, ASCO
Sean Tedjarati, MD, MPH,
FRCS, MPH, FACOG
Chief, Gynecologic Oncology and
Robotic Gynecologic Surgery
Hawthorne
EDUCATION
Medical School Spartan Health
Sciences University, School of Medicine
Residency The Ohio State University, College of Medicine and Public
Health
Fellowship The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center and
Research Institute
CLINICAL INTEREST Cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, women’s health
throughout the world
Member of World Health Organization, NRG Oncology (formerly
Gynecologic Oncology Group), Society of Gynecologic Oncology,
International Gynecological Cancer Society, ACOG, Fellow of Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, ASCO
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Tarah Pua,
MD, MS, FACOG
Gynecologic Oncology and Robotic
Gynecologic Surgery
Hawthorne
EDUCATION
School of Medicine
Residency New York University Langone Medical Center
Fellowship New York University Langone Medical Center Fellowship in
Integrative Medicine-University of Arizona (2012-present)
CLINICAL INTEREST Integrative Medicine
Member of NRG Oncology (formerly Gynecologic Oncology Group),
Society of Gynecologic Oncology, ACOG, ASCO
DIVISION OF GYN/ONCOLOGY & ROBOTIC GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY ADVANCED OB/GYN ASSOCIATES
Division of Gyn/
Oncology & Robotic
Gynecologic Surgery
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Pathology
19 Bradhurst Ave
100 Woods Road
Suite 2575
Macy 1421
Hawthorne, NY 10532
Valhalla, NY 10535
(914) 493-2181
(914) 493-8796
ONCOLOGY | PATHOLOGY
Oncology
John Fallon, MD
Michael Fanucchi, MD
Medical Oncology
Director, Pathology Services
Valhalla
Valhalla
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Medical School Albany
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Medical College
Residency Bronx Municipal Hospital
Residency Massachusetts
General Hospital
Center, Albert Einstein College
of Medicine
Fellowship Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,
Cornell University
CLINICAL INTEREST Lung Cancer, Hepatocellular Carcinoma, General
Oncology
RESEARCH INTEREST Lung Cancer, Hepatocellular Carcinoma,
Personalized Oncology
Fellowship Harvard Medical School
CLINICAL INTEREST Cardiovascular pathology
RESEARCH INTEREST Transplant pathology, Next Generation
sequencing
Dr. Fallon is a Diplomate of the American Board of Pathology in
anatomic pathology. In addition, he currently holds the position of
Professor of Pathology and Medicine at New York Medical College,
Dr. Fanucchi is the Medical Director of Westchester Advanced
and he is an adjunct professor of pathology at Mount Sinai School
Oncology and Infusion Center, a partnership with Memorial Sloan
of Medicine.
Kettering Cancer Center. He is a Professor of Medicine at New York
Dr. Fallon chairs multiple committees at New York Medical College and
Medical College.
is a member of the Medical Executive Committee, Cancer Committee,
Executive Quality Council, Tissue and Procedure Committee, and
the coordinator of the Tumor Registry Data Quality Committee at
Westchester Medical Center.
Dr. Fallon is Chairman of Pathology, New York Medical College.
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Chief, Pathology Services
Valhalla
RESEARCH INTEREST HIV-associated nephropathy, thrombotic
microangiopathy, and hypertension with regards to renin-
EDUCATION
angiotensin-aldosterone system.
Medical School Dhaka Medical College,
Dr. Chander has collaborated on several NIH and American Heart
Bangladesh
Association funded studies and published in renal pathology. She
Residency Westchester Medical
serves on several medical school and hospital committees and
Center/New York Medical College
contributes towards pathology teaching at New York Medical
Fellowship New York University Medical Center, NY
College.
CLINICAL INTEREST Blood and lymphoid neoplasms (leukemia
Dr. Chander is Professor of Pathology at New York Medical College
and lymphoma)
and is board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology.
PATHOLOGY
Humayun Islam, MD, PhD
Dr. Islam is Director of the Pathology Residency Program at New
York Medical College/Westchester Medical Center. He also has
an appointment as Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and
Larissa Debelenko, MD
Medicine at New York Medical College. Dr. Islam is a skilled
Pathology
surgical pathologist.
Valhalla
Dr. Islam received his Ph.D. degree from Hokkaido University School
of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan. He completed his residency in combined
EDUCATION
anatomic and clinical pathology and later he completed a fellowship in
Medical School Bogomolets National
hematopathology.
Medical University, Kiev, Ukraine
Dr. Islam is board certified in Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology,
Residency New York Presbyterian
and Hematology by the American Board of Pathology.
Hospital – College of Physician and
Dr. Islam serves on various committees at New York Medical College
and Westchester Medical Center including IRB, Oncology Panel at
NYMC, and GME Executive Committee at WMC.
Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY
Fellowship Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, fellowship in
surgical pathology and Boston Children’s Hospital – Harvard Medical
School, fellowship in pediatric pathology
CLINICAL INTEREST Solid tumors
Praveen Chander, MD
RESEARCH INTEREST Tumor suppressor genes, tumor predisposition
Director, Renal Pathology
syndromes.
Valhalla
EDUCATION
Medical School All India Institute
of Medical Sciences
Residency Metropolitan Hospital
Medical Center and Flower and Fifth
Avenue Hospital, NY and New York Medical College
Fellowships Kidney Institute of the State of New York, Albany and
Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, NY
CLINICAL INTEREST Liver Pathology, Transplant Pathology,
Renal Pathology
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in charge of the pathology resident teaching in cytopathology and
Pathology
gynecologic pathology.
Valhalla
Dr. Liying Han is board certified in anatomic pathology, clinical
EDUCATION
pathology, and cytopathology. She is Director of Cytopathology, and
PATHOLOGY
Julia de La Garza, MD
Assistant Professor of Pathology, New York Medical College.
Medical School St. George’s University
School of Medicine in Grenada,
West Indies
George M. Kleinman, MD
Residency Mount Sinai Medical Center
and School of Medicine, NY and Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL
Pathology
Fellowship Jackson Memorial Hospital
Valhalla
CLINICAL AND RESEARCH INTEREST Autopsy: Adult and Pediatric,
Inflammation & Repair, Infectious Disease, Genetics, Congenital
EDUCATION
Anomalies, Renal, Liver and GI transplant, Lymphoma, and Leukemias
Medical School State University
of New York at Buffalo
Dr. de la Garza is an assistant professor of Pathology in the
Residency Massachusetts
Department of Pathology and the assistant director of the Pathology
General Hospital
Teaching Program at New York Medical College
Dr. de la Garza completed residencies in anatomic and clinical
CLINICAL INTEREST Brain tumor and skeletal muscle pathology
pathology and completed an immunology and transplant pathology
fellowship then a forensic pathology fellowship at the Miami Dade
Medical Examiner’s Office in Miami, Florida. Prior to joining the staff
at APS she was a forensic pathologist/medical examiner with the City
Patrick Lento, MD
of New York. She is board certified in Anatomic Pathology.
Pathology
Valhalla
EDUCATION
Liying Han, MD, PhD
Medical School Georgetown University
Pathology
of Medicine
Valhalla
Residency The Mount Sinai Hospital
EDUCATION
Medical School Fourth Military
Medical University
Residency North Shore University
Hospital - NYU School of Medicine
Fellowship Detroit Medical Center - Wayne State University
CLINICAL INTEREST Cytopathology, gynecologic pathology,
and molecular pathology
Dr. Han is active in teaching and research. She teaches the pathology/
pathophysiology courses for the 2nd year medical students at New
York Medical College. She teaches Neoplasia and Female Genital
Fellowship The Mount Sinai Hospital
CLINICAL INTEREST Medical education, Autopsy pathology,
Cardiovascular pathology
Dr. Lento is professor of pathology and clinical medicine in the
Department of Pathology and the director of the pathology teaching
program at New York Medical College. He is also on staff as an
attending in the Department of Pathology at Westchester
Medical Center.
Dr. Lento is a member of the Georgetown chapter of Alpha Omega
Alpha (AOA) and is board certified in internal medicine and anatomic
and clinical pathology.
System to New York Medical College masters students. She is also
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Monghao Zhong, MD, PhD
Pathology
Pathology
Valhalla
Valhalla
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Medical School Sir Salimullah Medical
Medical School Tongji Medical College
College, Dhaka, Bangladesh
of Huazhong University of Science and Residency Oregon Health and Science
Technology
University
Residency University of Medicine and
Fellowship Vanderbilt University Medical Center
CLINICAL INTEREST Hematopathology and Surgical Pathology
RESEARCH INTEREST Cytogenetics of Hematological Malignancies
Dr. Shakil is an attending physician in the Department of Pathology
and Assistant Professor at New York Medical College. She received
her Ph.D. in Cytogenetics from Hiroshima University, Japan. She
completed her residencies in both anatomic and clinical pathology
and did a two year fellowship in hematopathology.
Dr. Shakil is board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology and
hematology.
PATHOLOGY
Fouzia A. Shakil, MD, PhD
Dentistry of New Jersey
Fellowship Mount Sinai Medical Center, Northwestern University
CLINICAL INTEREST Genitourinary malignancies, Molecular pathology,
surgical pathology
RESEARCH INTEREST Biomarkers and molecular mechanisms of
Urologic Cancers, Next generation sequence application in
clinical tests.
In addition to his extensive basic research training, Dr. Zhong obtained
further clinical expertise in pathology and expanded his exposure
to translational research during residency training at New Jersey
Medical School. He also had training in both molecular pathology and
genitourinary pathology at Mount Sinai Hospital and Northwestern
Yasmin Yusuf, MD
University. Dr. Zhong continues to work in surgical pathology and
molecular pathology. His research goals are to pursue studies that
Pathology
ultimately impact the diagnosis and treatment of cancer at the
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molecular level.
Prior to coming to Westchester Medical Center, Dr. Zhong was trained
EDUCATION
in basic research and pathology. After graduating from Tongji Medical
Medical School Dow Medical College,
University in China, he obtained his PhD in molecular biology in the
Pakistan, College of Physicians and
laboratory of Dr. David Foster at Hunter College of The City University
Surgeons, Pakistan
of New York. Subsequently, he completed his postdoctoral training at
Rockefeller University with Dr. James Darnell.
Center/Metropolitan Hospital
CLINICAL INTEREST Breast Pathology/Cytopathology
Dr. Yusuf is an attending pathologist at APS. She also has a teaching
appointment as Assistant Professor, New York Medical College.
Dr. Yusuf received her training at Westchester Medical Center for
anatomic, clinical, and cytopathology. She is board certified in
anatomic pathology, clinical pathology, and cytopathology. She is a
skilled surgical and cytopathologist.
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Nitin K. Sekhri, MD
Medical Director, Pain Management
Hawthorne
EDUCATION
100 Woods Road
Valhalla, NY 10595
of Medicine
(914) 493-1990
Residency Columbia University
Medical Center
Fellowship Columbia University Medical Center
CLINICAL INTEREST Anesthesiology, Pain Management and
Palliative Care.
Dr. Sekhri is Board Certified in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
Mario Nelson, MD
He is a member of the American Medical Association and American
Director, Rehabilitation Medicine
Society of Anesthesiology.
Valhalla
EDUCATION
Kin Tsoi, MD
Haiti School of Medicine
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Residency Metropolitan Hospital
Valhalla
Fellowship Westchester Medical Center
PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION
Physical Medicine
& Rehabilitation
EDUCATION
Dr. Nelson is Board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Medical School St. George’s University,
He is a member of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and
School of Medicine
Rehabilitation.
Residency Brookdale University
Hospital, Brooklyn, NY
Fellowship Spinal and Skeletal Pain and Medicine and Minimally
Negin Gohari, DO
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Valhalla
EDUCATION
Medical School New York College of
Osteopathic Medicine of NYIT
Invasive Pain Institute, Utica, NY
CLINICAL INTEREST EMG/NCS, Minimally invasive spine surgery,
Endoscopic Discectomy, Lumbar discography
Dr. Tsoi is fully board certified in Internal Medicine and a member of
the American Medical Association, Medical Society of the State of
New York, International Spinal and Intervention Society, and the North
American Spine Society.
Residency North Shore LIJ Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation
Dr. Gohari is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
She is a member of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation
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Psychiatry/Mental Health
7 Coates Drive
100 Woods Road
Suite 5
Behavioral Health Center
Goshen, NY 10924
Valhalla, NY 10595
(845) 294-3312
(914) 493-7088
Francis V. Winski, MD
Stephen Ferrando, MD
Plastic Surgery
Chief, Psychiatry
Goshen
Valhalla
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Medical School New York Medical
Medical School Northwestern
College
University Medical School
Internship Metropolitan Hospital
Residency Psychiatry University of
California
Fellowship Cornell University Medical College
Residency George Washington University
CLINICAL INTEREST Neurological disease, Psychosomatic Medicine
CLINICAL INTEREST Abdominoplasty, Blepharoplasty, Body
RESEARCH INTEREST Quality of Life aspects of HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis
Contouring (After Weight Loss Surgery), Botox® Injection, Breast
Augmentation and Reconstruction, Captique™ Injections, Collagen
Injections, Correction of Protruding Ears, Cosmetic Laser Surgery,
Dressing and/or Debridement of Wound, Infection, or Burn; Ear
Pinning, Excision, Shaving, or Destruction of Skin and Subcutaneous
Tissue, Tissue Transfer, Facial Reconstruction, Full Face Lift, Hylaform
Injections, Incisional/Ventral Hernia Repair, Open Liposuction, Lymph
Node Biopsy or Excision, Mastectomy, Restylane® Injections, Tattoo
removal, Varicose Vein Procedure
Dr. Winski is certified in Plastic Surgery through the American Board
of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery.
PLASTIC SURGERY | PSYCHIATRY/MENTAL HEALTH
Plastic Surgery
Dr. Ferrando has authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and
book chapters and is a peer-reviewer for journals that span multiple
medical specialties. He is Editor-In-Chief of “Neurobehavioral HIV
Medicine,” a peer-reviewed journal; Senior Editor of “Psychiatry-inReview,” a multi-media Psychiatry board review guide; as well as
“Clinical Manual of Psychopharmacology in the Medically Ill,” published
by the American Psychiatric Press, Inc. Dr. Ferrando is past president
of the New York Area Society for Liaison Psychiatry; is a Fellow of the
Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and is a 15-year member of the
American Psychiatric Association Committee on AIDS. Dr. Ferrando
served as a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Clinical Public Health
as well as Vice Chair for Psychosomatic Medicine and Departmental
Operations in the Department of Psychiatry at New York-Presbyterian
Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He was also Dewitt Wallace
Senior in the Department and the Associate Medical Director and Vice
Chair for Clinical Programs for New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill
Cornell Medical College’s Westchester Division.
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Martha C. Gamboa, MD
Psychiatry
Psychiatry
Valhalla
Valhalla
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Medical School University of Illinois
Medical School La Universidad del
at Chicago
Valle, Cali, Colombia
Residency Psychiatry at the Mount
Sinai Hospital, New York City
Fellowship Psychosomatic medicine at NYU School of Medicine
PSYCHIATRY/MENTAL HEALTH
Catherine Daniels, MD
CLINICAL INTEREST Liver, Kidney and Heart Transplant Programs
CLINICAL INTEREST General psychiatry and consultation-liaison
as a Transplant Psychiatrist, prognostic and rehabilitative factors for
psychiatry, with a special interest in women’s mental health.
Hepatic Encephalopathy in post-liver transplant patients
Dr. Daniels is board certified in psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine.
Dr. Gamboa is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences at the New York Medical College. She evaluates patients
directly, supervises residents and medical students in their clinical
work and also participates in their academic development through
Jay Draoua, MD
formal lectures and journal clubs relevant to the Psychosomatic
Psychiatry
Medicine areas.
Valhalla
Dr. Gamboa is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences at the New York Medical College. She evaluates patients
EDUCATION
directly, supervises residents and medical students in their clinical
Medical School INESSM Algiers
Fellowship College of Physicians
work and also participates in their academic development through
formal lectures and journal clubs relevant to the Psychosomatic
Medicine areas.
and Surgeons of Columbia University
and the New York State Psychiatric Institute
CLINICAL INTEREST Integration between education and
clinical services.
RESEARCH INTEREST Pharmacokinetic Drug Interaction and
Pharmacogenomics
Dr. Draoua is Board Certified in Psychiatry and Director of
Undergraduate Medical Education at the New York Medical College.
He completed a two year certification training program in
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy at New York Medical College.
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Alexander Lerman, MD
Psychiatry
Clinical Director,
Valhalla
Adult Out-Patient Clinic
Valhalla
EDUCATION
Medical School Indiana University
EDUCATION
Residency Albert Einstein College
Medical School Downstate College
of Medicine
of Medicine
Internship Kings County Hospital
Fellowship Albert Einstein College
of Medicine
CLINICAL INTEREST Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry
RESEARCH INTEREST Addiction treatment, Psychosomatic Medicine
Dr. Kemker is a member of the Consultation-Liaison Team. Previously,
she had worked with hospitalized patients at New York Hospital, North
Central Bronx Hospital, the AIDS Care Center, and the medical and
surgical units at Westchester Medical Center.
Dr. Kemker currently is working as the ACT Team Psychiatrist and as
a supervising psychiatrist in the Outpatient Division. Throughout her
career, her major interest has been in working with multidisciplinary
teams; particularly when the patients and their families are struggling
with psychiatric illness complicated by medical problems and addiction.
Dr. Kemker is Board Certified in Psychiatry, with additional
qualifications in Psychosomatic Medicine.
Fellowship New York Hospital
CLINICAL INTEREST Diagnostic assessment, treatment of adolescent
behavioral and emotional problems, integration of neuropsychiatric
treatment with evidence-based and humanistic disciplines of
psychological, family, and creative arts therapy.
Early in his career, Dr. Lerman served as a member of the Westchester
Medical Center Mobile Crisis team, a unique organization with a deep
commitment to community psychiatry and patient care.
Dr. Lerman is trained in adult and child psychiatry and is a cum
laude graduate of Downstate College of Medicine. He completed
psychoanalytic training at the Columbia University Psychoanalytic
Center, where he now serves as a faculty member. Dr. Lerman has
served as a consultant to numerous school districts and educational
institutions, and as an educator of mental health professionals in a
variety of venues.
Lidia Klepacz, MD
Olga Lev, MD
Adult and Geriatric Psychiatry
Psychiatry
Valhalla
Valhalla
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Medical School Medical University,
Medical School Kuibishev Medical
Lublin, Poland
Institute, Russia
Residency St. Luke’s - Roosevelt
Hospital
Fellowship Samara Medical University,
Russia
Fellowship NYU School of Medicine
CLINICAL INTEREST Psychiatry Trauma & Geriatrics
Dr. Klepacz did four years psychiatry training at the Department of
Psychiatry, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland. She is Board
Susan Kemker, MD
Dr. Lev has extensive training in Psychiatry and in Clinical supervision
of psychiatric and neurology residents. She is ECFMG and ABPN
certified.
certified in both specialties Adult Psychiatry and Geriatric Psychiatry.
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Melissa Otero, PsyD
Adult and Geriatric Psychiatry
Psychiatry
Valhalla
Valhalla
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Medical School Ferkauf Graduate
Residency Psychiatry at the College of
School of Psychology at
Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia
Yeshiva University
University and the New York State
CLINICAL INTEREST Childhood and
Psychiatric Institute
Fellowship Columbia and the New York State Psychiatric Institute
for a 2-year joint Research Fellowship in Affective Disorders and
adolescent psychology
Dr. Otero is a licensed psychologist who currently works in the Child
Psychobiological Sciences
& Adolescent Outpatient Department.
CLINICAL INTEREST Geriatric Psychiatry
Dr. Otero has received advanced training in group psychotherapy
Dr. Nobler remained as faculty at Columbia and the New York State
Psychiatric Institute as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator in
several federally-funded research grants in Electroconvulsive Therapy,
Neuroimaging, and Late-Life Depression.
Dr. Nobler specializes in adult psychiatry and sub-specializes in
geriatric psychiatry. He is board certified in Adult Psychiatry, with
added qualifications in Geriatric Psychiatry.
Mitchell S. Nobler, M.D.
from the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society, the regional affiliate
of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. Dr. Otero has also
received training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy through Behavioral
Tech, LLC and is a member of the DBT team in the outpatient clinic.
Dr. Otero is fluent in Spanish, and provides individual psychotherapy in
Spanish for those individuals who feel most comfortable speaking in
their native language.
Dr. Otero works in individual, family, and group formats with children
and adolescents who struggle with mood issues, anxiety, self-injury,
social skills deficits, disruptive behaviors, trauma-related issues,
Melissa Nord, PsyD
chronic illness, and Pervasive Developmental Disorders, particularly
Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome.
Program Director, Adolescent Inpatient
Psychiatry
Valhalla
Santhi Ratakonda, MBBS
General Psychiatry
EDUCATION
Valhalla
Doctoral School Clinical Child
Psychology from the Ferkauf Graduate
EDUCATION
School of Psychology at Yeshiva
University
Internship St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center
Fellowship St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center
Medical School SV Medical College,
India
Residency Psychiatry at New York
Hospital-Cornell
CLINICAL INTEREST Treating children, adolescents, and young adults
Fellowship Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
who struggle with anxiety, depression, and attentional difficulties.
studying the diagnoses and treatment of psychotic disorders
Dr. Nord is the Program Director of the Adolescent Inpatient
Psychiatry Unit (B1) and Director of the Westchester Medical Center
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Program.
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CLINICAL INTEREST General psychiatry and works in the acute adult
Pamela P. Siller, MD
inpatient unit.
Acting Chief, Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry
Dr. Ratakonda specializes in general psychiatry and works in the acute
Valhalla
adult inpatient unit. He is board certified in psychiatry.
EDUCATION
Medical School BA/MD program from
Gary Schultheis, MD
Brooklyn College/SUNY Downstate
Individual and Group Therapy
Valhalla
EDUCATION
Pittsburgh
Internship Internal Medicine at Beth
Israel Hospital, NY
Residency Psychiatric training at Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston, MA
Medical School
Residency North Shore University Hospital
Fellowship Long Island Jewish, Zucker Hillside Hospital.
CLINICAL INTEREST Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Mood Disorders,
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
RESEARCH INTEREST Anxiety Disorders
Dr. Siller is a Board Certified Psychiatrist in Child, Adolescent and
Adult Psychiatry.
Dr. Siller serves on the Executive Board of NEFESH International, and
CLINICAL INTEREST Individual and group therapy treatment of highly
is a representative of the Greater Long Island Psychiatric Society, a
impaired outpatients.
division of the American Psychiatric Association. She is an Assistant
Dr. Schultheis served for 20 years as Medical Director of Geriatric
Clinical Professor at New York Medical College.
Psychiatry, and Adult Outpatient Psychiatrist, at the SoundviewThrogs Neck Community Mental Health Center, an affiliate at the
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he was Assistant Professor
Yvette Smolin, MD
of Psychiatry.
Director, Consultation-Liaison
For the past 9 years Dr. Schultheis has worked and supervised at the
Psychiatry
Behavioral Health Center, Adult OPD, as an Attending Psychiatrist,
Valhalla
and also as Supervising Psychiatrist of a number of Intensive
Outpatient Programs. He is also Supervising Psychiatrist at the
Aids Care Center of Westchester Medical Center. He has been a
EDUCATION
faculty member of New York Medical College as Assistant Professor
Medical School New Jersey
of Psychiatry.
Medical School
Residency Psychiatry at Albert Einstein
Dr. Schultheis is board certified in psychiatry.
College of Medicine/Montefiore
Medical Center
Fellowship Psycho-oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center, NY
CLINICAL INTEREST Medically ill patients who have psychiatric
symptoms/disorders.
Dr. Smolin is board certified in psychiatry and psychosomatic
medicine. She specializes in working with the medically ill who have
psychiatric symptoms/disorders.
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Child Psychiatry
Valhalla
Radiology
19 Bradhurst Avenue
EDUCATION
Suite 1000
Hawthorne, NY 10532
of Medicine
Internship Pediatrics and Residency
RADIOLOGY
David Steinberg, MD
(914) 493-2500
in Psychiatry at Einstein
Residency Psychiatry at Einstein
Fellowships Child Psychiatry at UCLA and Psychiatric Epidemiology
at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
CLINICAL INTEREST Early intervention and developmental delay
100 Woods Road
Valhalla, NY 10595
(914) 493-6692
RESEARCH INTEREST Early Neurological Development Disorder
Dr. Steinberg is board certified in Adult, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Hiejin Yoon, MD
Zvi Lefkovitz, MD, FACR
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Director, Radiology
Valhalla
Valhalla
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Medical School Ewha Women’s
Medical School Rosalind Franklin
University School of Medicine,
University of Medicine and Science
South Korea
Residency Diagnostic Radiology at
Residency Medical College
Maimonides Medical Center,
of Wisconsin
Brooklyn, NY
Fellowship Long Island Jewish Medical Center, School of Medicine
Fellowship Interventional Radiology/CT at SUNY Health Sciences
at Hofstra University
Center, Brooklyn, NY
CLINICAL INTEREST Child and Adolescent psychiatry focusing
CLINICAL INTEREST Diagnostic radiology, with a clinical focus in
on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Eating Disorder and
thoracic radiology.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) for youth
RESEARCH INTEREST Improving self-control among youth with
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
RESEARCH INTEREST Use of regional PACS and reducing radiation
doses.
Dr. Lefkovitz is certified by the American Board of Radiology. He
Dr. Yoon currently serves as medical director in the Child and
specializes in diagnostic radiology, with a clinical focus in thoracic
Adolescent Outpatient Clinic, Behavioral Health Center at Westchester
radiology.
Medical Center. She also serves as consulting child and adolescent
psychiatrist of Maria Fareri Children’s hospital.
Dr. Yoon exhibits her expertise by serving as a peer reviewer
and sitting on the editorial board for highly regarded academic
journals in her field, such as Psychiatry Investigation and Child
Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience. She is board certified in
Dr. Lefkovitz is a fellow of the American College of Radiology and a
member of the Radiology Society of North America, the American
Roentgen Ray Society, and the New York Roentgen Society.
Previously, Dr. Lefkovitz served as vice chairman of the Department of
Radiology at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York.
general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry.
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Perry Gerard, MD, FACR
Neuroradiology
Director, Nuclear Medicine
Valhalla
Valhalla
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Medical School University
Medical School Ross University School
of Minnesota
of Medicine
Residency Diagnostic Radiology at the
Residency Diagnostic Radiology at the
Mayo Clinic
Maimonides Medical Center
Fellowship Neuroradiology at the Mayo Clinic
CLINICAL INTEREST Advanced MR and CT imaging and its clinical
Fellowship Nuclear Medicine/Imaging at the Maimonides
Medical Center
application to diverse pediatric adult central nervous system diseases,
CLINICAL INTEREST All aspects of clinical and therapeutic nuclear
including brain tumors and epilepsy.
medicine.
Dr. Bobra is certified by the American Board of Radiology, with an
Dr. Gerard is certified by the American Board of Radiology in nuclear
added qualification in neuroradiology.
radiology and holds an additional board certification in nuclear
Dr. Bobra is a member of the American Society of Neuroradiology and
the Radiological Society of North America.
RADIOLOGY
Shalabh Bobra, MD
cardiology. His clinical focus is in all aspects of clinical and therapeutic
nuclear medicine.
Dr. Gerard is a member of the American College of Radiology, the
Society of Nuclear Medicine, and the Radiological Society of North
Adele R Brudnicki, MD
America.
Chief, Body Imaging and Director,
Pediatric Radiology
Valhalla
Anthony G. Gilet, MD
Director, Radiology Residency Program
EDUCATION
and Director, Body MRI Valhalla
of Medicine
Residency Long Island College Hospital
EDUCATION
Fellowship Babies Hospital at Columbia–Presbyterian Medical Center
Medical School SUNY Upstate Medical
CLINICAL INTEREST Emergency Pediatric Imaging, Minimizing
University, Syracuse
Residency Diagnostic Radiology at
radiation dose in pediatric imaging.
RESEARCH INTEREST Investigator in premature infant
neuroprotective drug trial and multi institutional screening trial for
venous clot development in a critical care setting.
Dr. Brudnicki is certified in diagnostic radiology by the American
Board of Radiology, with a Certification of Added Qualification in
pediatric radiology.
Dr. Brudnicki is a member of the Society for Pediatric Radiology, the
Radiological Society of North America, and the American Roentgen
Ray Society.
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Stony Brook University Medical Center
Fellowship MRI at New York University Medical Center
CLINICAL INTEREST MRI, body imaging, and cardiac imaging, with
a particular focus in MR enterography, prostate MRI, pelvic MRI, MR
urography, liver MRI, and MRCP.
RESEARCH INTEREST Dose optimization in CT scanning, Female
pelvic MRI, Prostate MRI, Advanced renal MRI, MR imaging in
pregnancy.
Dr. Gilet is certified by the American Board of Radiology, in cardiac
MRI and cardiac CT. He specializes in MRI, body imaging, and cardiac
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Shekher Maddineni, MD
pelvic MRI, MR urography, liver MRI, and MRCP.
Vascular/Interventional Radiology
Valhalla
Dr. Gilet is a member of the American College of Radiology, the
Radiological Society of North America, the American Roentgen
Ray Society, the Association of Program Directors in Radiology, the
EDUCATION
NYRRS, and the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.
RADIOLOGY
imaging, with a particular focus in MR enterography, prostate MRI,
School of Medicine
Residency Harlem Hospital, Beth Israel
Andrezej Jedynak, MD
Body Imaging
Medical Center
Fellowship Vascular and Interventional Radiology at Montefiore
Valhalla
CLINICAL INTEREST Fibroid embolization, vericocele embolization,
EDUCATION
microwave ablation, chemo embolization, and trauma.
Medical School University of Medicine
Dr. Maddineni is certified by the American Board of Radiology, with a
and Dentistry of New Jersey, New
Certification of Added Qualification in interventional radiology.
Jersey Medical School
Residency Diagnostic Radiology,
University Hospital-New Jersey Medical School
Dr. Maddineni is a member of the Radiological Society of North
America and the Society of Interventional Radiology.
Fellowship Magnetic Resonance Imaging, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI
CLINICAL INTEREST Abdominal MRI with a focus on liver, abdomen/
pelvic CT, Musculoskeletal imaging
Samuel McCabe, MD
Vascular/Interventional Radiology
Valhalla
EDUCATION
Lesli M. LeCompte, MD
Medical School SUNY Buffalo
Pediatric Radiology
Residency University of Rochester
Valhalla
Fellowship Mount Sinai School of
Medicine
EDUCATION
CLINICAL INTEREST Interventional oncology, portal hypertension, and
hepatobiliary and genitourinary intervention.
Medical College
Center–New York Medical College
Fellowship Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia at the University of
Pennsylvania
CLINICAL INTEREST Pediatric MR imaging, including MR urography,
MR enterography, and fetal MR imaging.
Dr. LeCompte is certified by the American Board of Radiology, with a
Certification of Added Qualification in pediatrics. Her clinical focus is
in pediatric MR imaging, including MR urography, MR enterography,
and fetal MR imaging.
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physician DIRECTORY
Himanshu Patel, MD
Body Imaging
Director, Musculoskeletal Radiology
Valhalla
Hawthorne
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Medical School Mount Sinai
School of Medicine
School of Medicine
Residency St. Luke’s Roosevelt
Hospital Center, New York
Fellowship Hospital for Special Surgery
Fellowship Cross sectional imaging at Tufts/New England Medical
Center, Boston
RADIOLOGY
Steven Medwid, MD
CLINICAL INTEREST Musculoskelatal ultrasound and image guided
therapeutic joint injections
CLINICAL INTEREST Body imaging, chest imaging, mammography.
RESEARCH INTEREST Cartilage sensitive MRI techniques.
Dr. Patel is certified by the American Board of Radiology. His clinical
Hasit Mehta, MD
Neuroradiology Valhalla
focus is in Cartilage Sensitive MRI and diagnostic and therapeutic
injections.
Dr. Patel is a member of the Radiological Society of North America
and the American Roentgen Ray Society.
EDUCATION
Grigory N. Rozenblit, MD
Medical School School of Medicine
Director, Vascular and Interventional
at the State University of New York
Radiology
at Buffalo
Valhalla
Residency Parkland Hospital at the
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Fellowship Neurological Institute at Columbia University
EDUCATION
CLINICAL INTEREST Advanced MR imaging
Medical School Kuibyshev Medical
Dr. Mehta is certified by the American Board of Radiology and holds a
Residency Department of Radiology at
School, Russia
Certification of Added Qualification in Neuroradiology.
St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital Center,
New York
Dr. Mehta is a member of the American Society of Neuroradiology.
Fellowship Cardiovascular Radiology at New York Hospital–Cornell
Fellowship Interventional Radiology at New York Hospital–Cornell
CLINICAL INTEREST Vascular and interventional radiology.
RESEARCH INTEREST Interventional Oncology, Portal Hypertension
Dr. Rozenblit is certified by the American Board of Radiology in
diagnostic Radiology, with a Certification of Added Qualification in
Vascular and Interventional Radiology.
Dr. Rozenblit is a fellow of the Society of Interventional Radiology.
a member of the Radiological Society of North America and the
American Roentgen Ray Society.
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physician DIRECTORY
Robert S. Shapiro, MD
Director, Breast Imaging
Medical Director, Advanced Imaging;
Hawthorne
Director, Clinical Affairs and Quality
Assurance
EDUCATION
Hawthorne
Residency State University of
EDUCATION
New York Health Science Center,
Brooklyn, NY
of Medicine
CLINICAL INTEREST Breast malignancy and Medical Ethics
Residency Diagnostic Radiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Dr. Sanchez previously served as attending radiologist at St. John’s
CLINICAL INTEREST Body imaging, with a clinical focus in body CT
Riverside Hospital, in Yonkers, NY. He is an Assistant Professor in
and hepatic imaging.
Radiology.
Dr. Shapiro is certified by the American Board of Radiology and
Dr. Sanchez is certified by the American Board of Radiology and a
a member of the Radiological Society of North America and the
member of the American College of Radiology, the Society of Breast
American Roentgen Ray Society.
Imaging, and the New York Breast Imaging Society.
Dr. Shapiro served previously as vice chair of radiology and director of
RADIOLOGY
Julian W. Sanchez, MD
body imaging at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York.
Amar Shah, MD
Director, Cardiovascular MR and CT
Pierre-Yves J. Sonke, MD
Hawthorne
Body Imaging
Valhalla
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
New York at Stony Brook
Medical School Erasmus Medical
Residency University of Pittsburgh
School, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Fellowship Massachusetts
Residency Nuclear Medicine at North
General Hospital
CLINICAL INTEREST Diagnostic radiology, with a clinical focus in
cardiac imaging, thoracic imaging, and vascular imaging.
RESEARCH INTEREST Dr. Shah has authored numerous scientific
publications. He is on the faculty of New York Medical College and is
an Assistant Professor in Radiology.
Dr. Shah holds certifications with the American Board of Radiology
and the Certification Board of Cardiac Computed Tomography.
Dr. Shah is a member of the Radiology Society of North America, the
Shore Hospital, Long Island, NY
Fellowship Cancer Research, Amsterdam, Holland
CLINICAL INTEREST Lymphoscintigraphy, body CT, MR and
ultrasound, nuclear medicine, and PET CT.
Dr. Sonke is an attending physician in Body Imaging, Nuclear Medicine,
and PET CT at Westchester Medical Center.
Dr. Sonke is certified by the American Board of Radiology. His clinical
focus is in lymphoscintigraphy, body CT, MR and ultrasound, nuclear
medicine, and PET CT.
American College of Radiology, the American Roentgen Ray Society,
the North American Society of Cardiovascular Imaging, the Society for
Cardiac Computed Tomography, the Society for Cardiovascular MRI,
and the Society for Thoracic Imaging.
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physician DIRECTORY
Director, Neuroradiology
Valhalla
TRANSPLANT
Michael S. Tenner, MD
Transplant
100 Woods Road
EDUCATION
Valhalla, NY 10595
Medical School University of Maryland,
(914) 493-8916
Baltimore
Residency University Hospital,
Baltimore
Fellowship Neurological Institute of New York, Columbia–Presbyterian
Medical Center
CLINICAL INTEREST Stroke, carotid stenosis, cerebral aneurysm,
Youmin Wu, MD
arterial venous malformations, brain and central nervous system
Chief, Intra-Abdominal Transplant &
disease, and tumor evaluations.
Hepatobiliary Surgery
Dr. Tenner is certified by the American Board of Radiology with a
Valhalla
Certification of Added Qualification in neuroradiology.
Dr. Tenner is a member of the American Society of Neuroradiology,
EDUCATION
the American Medical Association, and the Radiological Society of
Medical School Nanjing Medical
North America.
University, Nanjing, China
Residency First Affiliated Hospital
of Nanjing, China
Fellowship Thomas Starzl Transplant Institute at the University
of Pittsburgh, PA
After completing his training, Dr. Wu went on to build outstanding
programs in liver, kidney and small bowel transplantation. He then
joined the University of Iowa in 1993, where he spent 10 years building
one of the nation’s most vibrant multi-organ transplant programs.
Dr. Wu has performed over 1000 liver and kidney transplants
throughout his career and may be best known for pioneering
cavaplasty, one the most widely used surgical techniques in liver
transplant today. Some of his other noteworthy accomplishments
include setting four world records in liver transplant, including a
record for performing a transplant on the youngest recipient, a
19-day-old baby.
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physician DIRECTORY
Thomas Diflo, MD
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Surgical Director, Kidney
Valhalla
Transplantation
Valhalla
EDUCATION
Medical School Carol Davila University
EDUCATION
of Medicine & Pharmacy, Bucharest,
Medical School Boston University
Romania
School of Medicine
Residency Surgery at Boston University
Fellowship New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
CLINICAL INTEREST Complications of Cirrhosis, Endoscopic therapy
RESEARCH INTEREST Myfortic Conversion in Post-Operative Renal
of portal hypertension and management of viral hepatitis per post-
Transplant Patients
liver transplantation.
TRANSPLANT
Roxana Bodin, MD
Dr. Diflo has performed nearly 1,000 kidney and liver transplants, and
Dr. Bodin is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and
his scientific interests include the mechanisms of chronic rejection,
Transplant Hepatology. She serves as an Assistant Professor of Clinical
and the pharmacokinetics and mechanisms of action of various
Medicine at New York Medical College, and an Attending Transplant
immunosuppressant medications.
Hepatologist at Westchester Medical Center.
Dr. Bodin is fluent in Romanian, Spanish, French and English.
Since 2001 Dr. Diflo has become a widely recognized expert on the
international trade of transplanted organs, with a particular interest in
the transplantation of the organs of executed prisoners in China.
Abhay Dhand, MD
Director, Transplantation Infectious
Daniel Glicklich, MD
Diseases Program
Medical Director,
Valhalla
Kidney Transplantation
Valhalla
EDUCATION
Medical School All India Institute of
EDUCATION
Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Residency Internal Medicine
of Medical School
Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY
Internship Harlem Hospital and
Fellowship Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, TuftsNew England Medical Center, Boston, MA
Dr. Dhand is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious
diseases.
Medical Montefiore Medical Center
Residency Harlem Hospital and Medical Montefiore Medical Center
Fellowship Nephrology at Harlem Hospital and Medical Montefiore
Medical Center
Having published more than 65 peered-reviewed papers, Dr. Glicklich
is well known for his work and academic interest in complications and
management of chronic renal failure following transplantation. He has
a strong commitment to medical education and has trained more than
150 Nephrology fellows. Dr. Glicklich is the founding member of the
New York Transplant Nephrology Consortium.
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physician DIRECTORY
Transplant
David C. Wolf, MD,
FACP, FACG, AGAF
Valhalla
Medical Director, Liver Transplantation
Valhalla
EDUCATION
Medical School Iran University of
EDUCATION
Medical Sciences and Health Services
(IUMS), Tehran
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Residency St. Barnabas Hospital, Weill
Cornell Medical College, Bronx, NY
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
Fellowship Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC and
Fellowship Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA
Fellowship Bronx Municipal Hospital, Albert Einstein College
Dr. Tabriziani is a member of the American Society of Transplant
TRANSPLANT
Hossein Tabriziani, MD
of Medicine
(AST), American Society of Nephrology (ASN) and the American
Dr. Wolf is a Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Department of
College of Physicians (ACP)
Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatobiliary Diseases at
the New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY. Previously he served on
the faculties at the University of Cincinnati and the Mount Sinai School
Gregory Veillette, MD
Intra-abdominal Transplantation
Surgery
Hawthorne
of Medicine. In 1996, Dr. Wolf established the Liver Transplant Program
at the Westchester Medical Center, where he continues to serve as
its Medical Director. He has published more than 30 papers and 60
abstracts, primarily focusing upon the variceal bleeding and liver
cancer.
EDUCATION
Connecticut School of Medicine
Internship General Surgery,
Massachusetts General Hospital
Residency Massachusetts General Hospital
Fellowship Transplantation Biology Research Center at
Harvard Medical School
Dr. Veillette is a board-certified surgeon with expertise in the areas of
adult and pediatric liver, kidney and pancreas transplantation, split-liver
and living donor transplantation, laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, and
hepatobiliary/pancreatic surgery. His research interests include the
mechanisms of immunologic tolerance and the effects of donor brain
death on tolerance induction and allograft function.
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physician DIRECTORY
Residency Surgery at Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, Brooklyn
Residency Plastic surgery at Georgetown University Hospital,
Washington, DC
Dr. Golembe is a fellow of the American College of Clinical Wound
Specialists and a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons,
19 Bradhurst Ave
the New York Regional Society of Plastic and Reconstructive
Suite 3050N
Surgeons, the Medical Society of the County of Kings, the Undersea
Hawthorne, NY 10532
and Hyperbaric Medical Society, and the Wound Healing Society.
(914) 493-7065
Dr. Golembe is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and
is board certified in undersea and hyperbaric medicine.
7 Coates Drive
Goshen, NY 10924
Dmitriy V. Karev
MD, PhD
(845) 294-3312 (Office)
General Surgeon and Surgical
Critical Care Surgery Hawthorne
TRAUMA SURGERY, BURN & WOUND CARE
Trauma Surgery,
Burn & Wound Care
Corrado P. Marini, MD
EDUCATION
Chief, Surgical Critical Care Surgery
Medical School Kharkov Medical
Hawthorne
Institute
Internship North Shore-LIJ Medical Center, NY
EDUCATION
Residency Brooklyn Hospital Center
Medical School University of Naples
Fellowship UMDNY – University Hospital
Residency Maimonides Hospital
CLINICAL INTEREST Trauma, Abscess, Bronchoscopy, Fractured Ribs,
Fellowship Maimonides Hospital
Wound Infection, Hernia and Colectomy
CLINICAL INTEREST Trauma,
Fractured Ribs, Hernia, Abscess, Wound Infection, Colectomy and
Bronchoscopy
Gary G. Lombardo, MD
General Surgery and Surgical Critical
Edward Golembe, MD
Wound Care Specialist
Valhalla
EDUCATION
Medical School Catholic University,
Louvain, Belgium
Medical College
Care Surgery
Hawthorne
EDUCATION
Medical School Ross University
Internship St. Vincent Medical Center
Residency St. Vincent Medical Center
Fellowship University of Pennsylvania
CLINICAL INTEREST Trauma, Fractured Ribs, Hernia, Abscess, Wound
Infection, Colectomy and Bronchoscopy
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physician DIRECTORY
Joseph Turkowski, MD
General Surgery, Trauma, and
Director, Burn Services
Critical Care
Hawthorne
Hawthorne
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Medical School Rush Medical College
Medical School Creighton University
Internship St. Vincent’s Medical Center,
School of Medicine
NY
Residency St. Vincent’s Medical Center,
Fellowship Surgical Critical Care at Westchester Medical Center
CLINICAL INTEREST Trauma, Hernia Repair, Appendectomy
Dr. Policastro is affiliated with the American College of Surgeons,
the American Society of Breast Surgeons, the American Medical
Association, the New York State Medical Society, the Society of
Critical Care Medicine, and Westchester County Medical Society.
Dr. Policastro holds certifications in general surgery and surgical
NY
Fellowship Weill Cornell Medical College
TRAUMA SURGERY, BURN & WOUND CARE
Anthony J. Policastro, MD
critical care.
Cordelia V. Sharma, MD
Medical Director, Trauma Services
Hawthorne
EDUCATION
Medical School Stanley Medical
College
Residency Advocate Illinois Masonic
Medical Center
Fellowship University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Dr. Sharma is board certified in Critical Care Medicine
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physician DIRECTORY
Sateesh Babu, MD, FACS
Chief, Vascular and Endovascular
Surgery
Hawthorne and Mount Kisco
19 Bradhurst Avenue
Suite 3850
EDUCATION
Hawthorne, NY 10532
Karnataka, India
(914) 909-6900
Metropolitan Hospital
103 South Bedford Road
Residency General Surgery at New York Medical College
Fellowship Vascular Surgery at Metropolitan Hospital
Suite 207
Fellowship Vascular Surgery at New York Medical College
Mt Kisco, NY 10549
CLINICAL INTEREST Corotid disease, aneurysms
(914) 241-3204
RESEARCH INTEREST Vascular Disease in end stage renal
disease patients.
15 North Broadway,
Suite D
White Plains, NY 10601
(914) 593-1234
Dr. Babu is a diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and was
awarded its Certification of Special Qualification in vascular surgery.
He is also a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and is a
member of numerous regional, national, and international vascular
surgery societies.
670 Stoneleigh Avenue
Suite C-118,
Francis X. Carroll, MD,
FACS, FCCP
Carmel, NY 10512
Vascular/Thoracic Surgery
VASCULAR SURGERY WESTCHESTER HEART & VASCULAR
Vascular Surgery
New Windsor and Carmel
(845) 278-9670
EDUCATION
Medical School SUNY College of
Medicine, Brooklyn, NY
Residency General Surgery at St.
Vincent’s Hospital, NY
Fellowship Cardiovascular Surgery at SUNY Brooklyn,NY
CLINICAL INTEREST Minimally invasive thoracic surgery, Endovascular
procedures, and varicose vein treatments. Procedures include EVAR
for AAA peripheral interventions including angiography, angioplasty,
stents anatheractomy.
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physician DIRECTORY
His clinical interest is in minimally invasive thoracic surgery,
Igor Laskowski, MD,
PhD, FACS, RVI, RPVI
endovascular procedures, and varicose vein treatments.
Vascular Surgery
Dr. Carroll is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and
Mount Kisco & Hawthorne
Dr. Carroll is double board certified in surgery and thoracic surgery.
a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons including VAT
lobectomy, EBUS, EMNB and video media stinoscopy and the New
EDUCATION
York Society of Vascular Surgeons..
Medical School Warsaw
Medical University
Arun Goyal, MD, FACS, RPVI
Director, Laser Vein Center Mount Kisco & White Plains
EDUCATION
Columbia–Presbyterian Medical Center
Fellowship Vascular Surgery at New York University Medical Center
Fellowship Transplant Immunology at Harvard Medical School
CLINICAL INTEREST Aortic surgery, minimally invasive treatment of
vascular diseases, limb salvage surgery, and treatment of advanced
venous disease
Medical College
Dr. Laskowski is an author and co-author of a number of peer-
reviewed publications and has presented his results in national
Mount Sinai Hospital, NY
conferences.
Fellowship Vascular Surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital, NY
Dr. Laskowski is board certified in vascular surgery. He specializes
CLINICAL INTEREST Minimally invasive treatment of varicose veins.
in the treatment of venous disease. He is a fellow of the American
RESEARCH INTEREST Endovenous treatment, minimally invasive
College of Surgeons.
vascular disease
Having completed over 3,000 closure procedures and laser
treatments, Dr. Arun Goyal is a pioneer in the field of minimally
Romeo B. Mateo, MD
invasive treatment of varicose veins. The closure procedure is a
Vascular Surgery
minimally invasive procedure done under local anesthesia and has
Hawthorne & New Windsor
replaced the vein stripping and ligation surgery which was common
in the past.
EDUCATION
Dr. Goyal is board certified in general and vascular surgery and
Medical School Brown University
specializes in the minimally invasive treatment of varicose veins.
VASCULAR SURGERY WESTCHESTER HEART & VASCULAR
Rhode Island Hospital
Dr. Goyal is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a
Fellowship Vascular Surgery at the
member of the American College of Phlebology.
Cleveland Clinic
CLINICAL INTEREST Endovascular surgery and the minimally invasive
treatment of vascular diseases.
RESEARCH INTEREST Endovascular surgery and the minimally
invasive treatment of vascular disease.
Dr. Mateo is board certified in general surgery and has a Certification
of Added Qualification in vascular surgery. His clinical focus is in
endovascular surgery and the minimally invasive treatment of
vascular diseases.
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Dr. Mateo is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and
a member of the American Medical Association, the American
Medical Student Association, the Rhode Island Medical Society, the
International Society for Endovascular Surgery, and the New York
Society of Vascular Surgery.
Pravin M. Shah, MD,
FACS, RVT
Vascular Surgery
Hawthorne & Mt. Kisco
EDUCATION
Medical School Bombay University,
India
Residency Misericordia-Fordham
University
Fellowship Ellis Hospital
CLINICAL INTEREST Skin laser, sclerotherapy, ultra sound-guided
sclerotherapy, mini phlebectomy, and VNUS closure
Dr. Shah has authored numerous scientific publications. He is on the
faculty of New York Medical College and holds the rank of professor of
surgery.
Dr. Shah is a diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and holds
a Certificate of Special Qualification in vascular surgery. He is also a
diplomate of the American Board of Phlebology and a fellow of the
American College of Surgeons.
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