North Shore University Hospital Physician Leadership 2019 Alessandro Bellucci, MD, FACP Executive Director
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North Shore University Hospital Physician Leadership 2019 Alessandro Bellucci, MD, FACP Executive Director Dr. Sandro Bellucci is the Executive Director of North Shore University Hospital where he is responsible for the daily operations of that 804 bed facility which supports approximately 3,000 specialist and subspecialist physicians, 16 clinical service lines and corresponding support staff. Dr. Bellucci joined the NSUH medical staff in 1982 and has practiced there for over 30 years. Prior to his appointment as Executive Director he held numerous leadership positions within the Division of Nephrology and Department of Medicine, including serving as executive vice chair and interim chair of the Department of Medicine. Dr. Bellucci served as President of the Medical Staff from May 1999 to April 2000, at the time of the merger of the North Shore Health System with the Long Island Jewish Health System. Dr. Bellucci is an associate professor of medicine at the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine. As a practicing nephrologist, Dr. Bellucci specializes in acute renal failure, vascular access, acid base disturbances, hypertension, evaluation of renal function and kidney stones. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and a member of the American Society of Nephrology, the International Society of Nephrology and the National Kidney Foundation. Dr. Bellucci graduated summa cum laude from the University of Medicine and Surgery in Florence, Italy, and completed his residency and chief residency in NYC at an affiliate of New York Medical College. He completed clinical and research fellowships in nephrology at NSUH. Dr. Bellucci can be reached at 516-562-3550. Michael Gitman, MD, FACP Medical Director Dr. Gitman serves as North Shore University Hospital’s Medical Director where he oversees the hospital’s medical affairs, quality management, and patient safety efforts. Dr. Gitman previously served as associate medical director at NSUH. Prior to his current role Dr. Gitman served as the Vice Chairman for Academic Affairs and Quality in the NSLIJ Department of Medicine. During that time he held multiple committee roles including Chair of the LIJ Medication Safety committee, Associate Chair of the LIJ Performance Improvement Coordination Group and Chair of the NSLIJ Department of Medicine Performance Improvement Coordination Group. Dr. Gitman is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Hofstra North Shore LIJ School of Medicine. Over the past decade Dr. Gitman has been extensively involved in physician education. He served as Program Director for the NSUH Nephrology Fellowship and AECOM LIJ Internal Medicine Clerkship Site Director. He has been awarded the NSUH Full- Time Faculty Teacher of the Year Award and the AECOM Samuel M. Rosen Outstanding Teacher Award. Dr. Gitman has multiple publications and presentations in the field of clinical nephrology. Dr. Gitman is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and a member of the American Society of Nephrology. He received a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and a medical degree from SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse where he was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. He completed a residency and chief residency in internal medicine, as well as fellowship in nephrology at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Subsequently he completed the Greater New York Hospital Association Clinical Quality Fellowship. In addition to his administrative duties, Dr. Gitman continues to maintain a clinical practice in nephrology. Dr. Gitman can be reached at 516-562-4029. Matthew Bank, MD, FACS Chief, Division of Acute Care Surgery Matthew Bank, MD, FACS is the Chief, Division of Acute Care Surgery, at North Shore University Hospital. In addition, Dr. Bank has served as the Trauma Medical Director of North Shore’s Trauma Center since 2007. In this capacity, in he lead North Shore’s successful efforts to become the first American College of Surgeons Verified Level One Trauma Center in the New York City / Long Island Region. Dr. Bank also has served as the Program Director of North Shore’s Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, and Co-Director, Surgical Intensive Care Unit, since 2006. Dr. Bank is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a New York Surgical Society member. In addition, he is a member of the New York Department of Health (DOH) State Trauma Advisory Committee and the Chairman of the New York State DOH Subcommittee on Trauma Center Performance Improvement. Dr. Bank has published numerous articles relating to trauma and critical care. He is a Department of Defense funded investigator and his current research interests include the immunological response to spinal cord injuries and the outcomes of trauma patients. Dr. Bank grew up on Long Island, graduated from New York Medical College, trained in General Surgery at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, and completed his training as a critical care fellow at Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Bank came to North Shore University Hospital immediately after graduating his fellowship in 2001. Dr. Bank can be reached at 516-562-2993. Maria Torroella Carney, MD Chief, Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine Dr. Maria Carney serves as Chief, Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine in the Department of Medicine and the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine. She is an internist, geriatrician, and palliative care physician with experience in public health who has dedicated most of her career to the care and advocacy of the elderly and vulnerable populations. Dr. Carney received her medical degree from New York Medical College, completed her residency training in Internal Medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill/Cornell Medical Center, and completed a research oriented fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. She has published articles, chapters, and edited medical books in the areas of dementia, advance directives, palliative medicine, and emergency response for vulnerable populations. From early 2008 through 2011, she was Commissioner of the Nassau County Department of Health on Long Island serving a population of 1.3 million residents. She is the first known physician with a specialty in Geriatric Medicine to serve as commissioner of a health department in New York State. She effectively addressed major challenges including the 2010 H1N1 influenza response, for which she received the BOCES (Board of Cooperative Education Services) Nassau County Council of Superintendents’ Award and the New York State Association of County Health Officials’ Public Health Professional of the Year Award. Her career focus has been to promote longevity and to educate, advocate, and care for the most vulnerable in society. She is a Long Island Trustee of the Energeia Partnership Class of 2011, and founding board member for Nassau Center for Health Initiatives, a 501c3 non for profit public health institute for the Long Island region. She has an interest in partnering with community organizations to serve an aging and advanced ill population in the region. Dr. Carney can be reached at 718-470-7270. Tylis Y Chang MD Medical Director, Laboratories, NSUH Vice-Chair, Pathology Informatics Chief Medical Information Officer, Pathology Service Line Dr Chang joined NSUH and North Shore LIJ in 2014 in the capacity of Medical Director for the NSUH Laboratories, as well as Vice-Chair and CMIO for Pathology. In these roles, Dr Chang was tasked with leading Pathology to better serve patients, clinicians and the health care system by leveraging the existing infrastructure as well as evaluating and implementing new IT technologies that could create value to our customers. Prior to joining North Shore, Dr. Chang spent 12 years at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, where he served as the Director of Pathology Informatics as well as the Director of Laboratories at the Weiler Hospital and Montefiore Medical Park overseeing rapid response, transfusion, surgical pathology, oncology, molecular and cytogenetics laboratories. Prior to that, Dr Chang worked as an engineer in Silicon Valley (1998-2001) and was NIH funded at the University of Rochester and University of Pennsylvania; at the latter, he completed his residency and transfusion medicine fellowship training (1993-1998). In his spare time, Dr. Chang is a Conservation Fellow at the Wildlife Conservation Society where he helped found a mobile molecular infectious disease laboratory. This laboratory travels around the globe to diagnose disease outbreaks and perform disease surveillance in wildlife of conservation interest. Dr. Chang can be reached at 516-975-1339 or [email protected]. Jesse Chusid, MD, MBA Chairman, Department of Radiology Dr. Jesse Chusid currently serves as the Vice Chairman of Quality and Informatics for the Department of Radiology and as the Associate Medical Director for North Shore University Hospital. Dr. Chusid earned his Bachelor of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Doctor of Medicine from Cornell University Medical College. He completed a radiology residency and served as chief resident at North Shore University Hospital and completed a Cardiac and Thoracic Imaging fellowship at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He subsequently earned a Master of Business Administration from the New York University, Stern School of Business. Dr. Chusid serves as the Chairman of the Imaging Service Line PICG and is a member of the Medical Group Board of Governors and of the Medical Group Quality and HIT subcommittees. Dr. Chusid can be reached at 516-562-4801. Gene Coppa, MD, MBA SVP of Surgical Services for NSLIJHS Chairman of Surgery, NSUH Gene F. Coppa, MD, is senior vice president of surgical services for the North Shore-LIJ Health System, and chairman of surgery at North Shore University Hospital (NSUH) and LIJ Medical Center. In these roles, he is responsible for developing a strategic plan for surgical services, and facilitating quality improvements in all surgical disciplines across the health system.