Divisions
Division of Endocrinology
Faculty:
- Vladimir Privman, MD - Chief
- Marina Movshovich, MD
- Patricia Park, MD
The Division of Endocrinology provides comprehensive consultative diagnostic and therapeutic services for patients with diabetes mellitus, endocrine and metabolic diseases.
Fellowship:
- none
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Services:
- Comprehensive diabetes care
- Diagnosis and management of various thyroid disorders
- Thyroid biopsy
- Metabolic bone disease and osteoporosis
- Diseases of the adrenal and pituitary glands
- Male and female gonadal dysfunction
Division of Infectious Diseases
Faculty:
- Douglas Sepkowitz, MD – Chief
- Olga Badem, MD
- Preeti Nautiyal, MD
The Division of Infectious Diseases provides comprehensive consultative diagnostic and therapeutic services for patients with presumptive infectious diseases.
Fellowship:
Long Island College Hospital has a joint fellowship with Maimonides Medical Center and Coney Island Hospital. An infectious diseases fellow rounds monthly on the consultation service.
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Services:
- Comprehensive HIV care
- Chronic hepatitis evaluation and treatment
- STD evaluation and treatment
- Travel counseling and immunization
- Infections in immunocompromised and critically ill hosts
- Epidemiology and infection control
Division of Gastroenterology
Faculty:
- Irwin Grossman, MD – Chief, Program Director
- Adnan Khdair, MD – Director of Endoscopy
- Kirk J. Zachary, MD
The Division of Gastroenterology has a large full-time and voluntary faculty. The division performs thousands of inpatient and outpatient consultations and over 6,000 endoscopic procedures annually.
Fellowship:
The Division of Gastroenterology has a fully accredited three year program in collaboration with Woodhull Medical Center. Two fellows are accepted into the program annually. The program participates in ERAS and the NRMP for selection of new fellows.
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Services:
- Upper GI endoscopy
- Colonoscopy
- ERCP
- Esophageal motility studies
- Small bowel capsule endoscopy
Division of Pulmonary Medicine
Faculty:
- Peter Smith, MD – Chief
- Michael Bergman, MD – Director of ICU
- Ute Rosa, MD
- Joshua Rosenberg, MD
The Division of Pulmonary Medicine provides inpatient and outpatient consultation for patients with a variety of respiratory disorders. The full time and voluntary faculty of the division provides critical care attending coverage for medical patients in the intensive care unit and specialty-oriented respiratory care unit.
Fellowship:
Long Island College Hospital participates in a joint pulmonary/critical care fellowship with SUNY/Downstate Medical Center. A pulmonary fellow rotates monthly at Long Island College Hospital.
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Services:
- Pulmonary Function Lab
- Bronchoscopy
- Ventilatory support
- Smoking Cessation Program
Division of Rheumatology
Faculty:
- Daniel Ricciardi, MD – Chief
- Frederick Ast, MD
- Yusuf Yazici, MD
The Division of Rheumatology provides inpatient and outpatient consultation for patients with a variety of rheumatologic disorders. Residents interact with the faculty on the inpatient services, in the outpatient clinic and through elective rotations in the private practice office.
Fellowship:
- none
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Services:
- Comprehensive evaluation and treatment of rheumatologic and vasculitic diseases
- Therapeutic and diagnostic joint aspiration
- Immune modulator therapy for rheumatologic conditions
Division of Geriatrics
Faculty:
- Concha Mendoza, MD – Chief
- Nehal Doshi, MD
The Division of Geriatrics provides comprehensive inpatient and outpatient evaluation and care for frail elderly. Residents receive training through rotation on a dedicated geriatric service.
Fellowship:
- none
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Services:
- Dedicated geriatric inpatient service
- Memory disorders clinic
Division of Hematology-Oncology
Faculty:
- Michael Geraghty, MD – Chief
- Phyllis Hyde, MD
- Li-The Wu, MD
The Division of Hematology-Oncology provides inpatient and outpatient consultative evaluation and treatment for a wide variety of hematologic conditions and both solid and hematologic malignancies. Residents receive training through interaction with consulting attendings or fellows from the division or through rotation as consultants on the hematology-oncology elective.
Fellowship:
The Long Island College Hospital participates in a joint fellowship with SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Fellows rotate monthly on the consultation service at Long Island College Hospital.
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Services:
- Bone marrow aspirate and biopsy
- Outpatient chemotherapy/infusion center
Division of Nephrology
Faculty:
- Morrell Avram, MD – Chief
- Neil Mittman, MD – Associate Chief, Program Director
- Paul Fein, MD
- Amado Gan, MD
- Lalathaksha Kumbar, MD
- Moro Salifu, MD
The Division of Nephrology maintains a very active inpatient and outpatient consultation service evaluating and treating patients with a variety of renal diseases and associated metabolic derangements. The hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis programs are among the oldest and most established in the United States. The division is involved in cutting edge clinical practice with the recent introduction of interventional vascular access maintenance program by nephrologists. All faculty members, fellows and many residents are involved in the ongoing clinical research for which the division is renowned.
Fellowship:
The Division of Nephrology has a fully accredited two year training program with three fellows in each of the two years.
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Services:
- Inpatient and outpatient hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis
- Hypertension clinic
- Interventional vascular access outpatient facility
- Renal biopsy
- Evaluation and management of acute and chronic renal failure
- Evaluation and management of fluid and electrolyte disorders
Division of Cardiology
Faculty:
- Balendu Vasavada, MD – Chief
- Niki Kantrowitz, MD – Director Invasive Cardiology
- Deepika Mishra, MD – Program Director
- Cesare Saponieri, MD – Director Electrophysiology
- Furquan Tejani, MD
- Sapan Talati, MD - Hospitalist
- Harishchandra Mahaseth, MD - Hospitalist
- Carlos Rodriguez, MD
- Ozgen Dogan, MD
- Sudhesh Srivastava, MD
- Sudarsanam Konka, MD
- Nicholas Caccavo, MD
The Division of Cardiology provides comprehensive diagnostic evaluation and ongoing care for patients with cardiovascular disease. Cardiology evaluations and treatment are provided by full-time and voluntary faculty and specialty fellows in a variety of settings including outpatient specialty clinics, the consultation service, the coronary care and telemetry units. Medical resident training in cardiology occurs in all these venues under the direct supervision of cardiology attendings and fellows. Clinical research is an important aspect of the cardiology specialty training program. Medical residents frequently collaborate in research projects with the cardiology fellows and attendings.
Fellowship:
There is a three year accredited cardiology fellowship at Long Island College Hospital which is affiliated with Beth Israel Medical Center. There are four fellows per year of training.
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Services:
- Transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography
- Holter monitoring
- Cardiac catheterization laboratory
- Electrophysiology laboratory
- Nuclear cardiology
- Tilt table evaluation
- Emergency angioplasty
Division of General Internal Medicine
Faculty:
- Robert Levey, MD – Vice Chairman for Academic Affairs and Chief of General Internal Medicine
- Jeffrey Vieira, MD - Residency Program Director and Director Ambulatory Medicine
Inpatient/Hospitalist
- Lawrence Wolf, MD – Associate Program Director / Director of Hospitalist Service
- Khadija Chaudrey, MD
- Pwint Htwe, MD
- Jack Katri, MD
- Naseem Khan, MD
Outpatient
- Lidiya Markova, MD
- Eileen Rassi, MD
- Matthew Lane, MD
The general internal medicine faculty is dedicated to the education of medical residents in all aspects of inpatient and outpatient care. An evidence-based approach to diagnosis and treatment of disease is stressed through didactics and supervised patient care. Residents are given increasing responsibility and independence over their three years of training commensurate with their demonstrated knowledge and clinical judgment.