I am a triple board-certified in internal medicine, pulmonary, and critical care medicine practicing currently as Director of critical care services at South Shore University Hospital and previously I was the chief of Critical Care Medicine within the department of cardiovascular & thoracic surgery, Director of Critical Care service for the Heart Hospital at Northwell Health’s only quaternary care hospital where I oversaw the administrative and clinical care of patients in both the CVICU and cardiac intensive care unit.

My entire 28-year professional career has been focused on the care of medically and surgically complex cardiovascular intensive care unit patients. In this environment, I have a great fortune and unique skill set to work side by side with outstanding cardiac anesthesiologists, cardiovascular and thoracic surgeons, interventional cardiologists, Heart Failure & Transplant cardiologists, as well all the specialties that touch on these complex critically ill patients.

My unique background and clinical experience are highlighted by my membership and current chairmanship of the FDA’s Anesthesiology & Respiratory Devices Panel, as well as guest membership on the Clinical Chemistry & Clinical Toxicology Panel, the Circulatory Devices panel, and the general medical devices panel. I completed my medical school at Stony Brook School of Medicine on Long Island New York, completed both my internal medicine residency and pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine fellowship at Winthrop University Hospital located on Long Island, New York. I am currently an Associate Professor of Medicine and Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.

My leadership roles and responsibilities are numerous and impactful within the hospital and health system, with the most recent being chair of the quality committee and chair of the hospital M&M committee. Past leadership roles included director, Critical Care Services Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital; Chair, Critical Care Committee; Chair, Cardiac arrest-rapid response committee; Chair, CLOT committee, Medical Director, Respiratory Therapy Services; Co-Chair, Organ Donor Committee; Medical Director, Cardiothoracic ICU; Medical lead on the health systems monitoring initiative; and as past system director of critical care services for cardiovascular and thoracic surgery for the entire health system, which encompasses five campuses. In addition, as chair of the quality committee, I have interactions across all service lines in my hospital including Neurosurgery, Neurology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Trauma-Acute Care Surgery, Cardiology, Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Orthopedics, just to name a few. I have a unique skill set and experience that separates me from most physicians from a clinical, administrative, leadership, and clinical research perspective.