2019 Honorees Interfaith Medical Center Montefiore Hospital Mount Sinai Health System Prissana L. Alston, EdD, Chief (Moses Campus) Mount Sinai Beth Israel BronxCare Health System Nursing Officer/Senior Vice Ulrich P. Jorde, MD, Section Michael R. Berman, MD, John R. Colon, Assistant Secretary, President, Nursing Head, Heart Failure, Cardiac A luncheon honoring outstanding Chief Quality Officer Board of Trustees Transplantation and Mechanical Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center personal leadership to improve Circulatory Support Mount Sinai Brooklyn The Brookdale University Cynthia Wright, RN, Patient Care Kinta A. Alexander, DrPH, quality of care, patient safety, Medical Center Director of the Emergency Montefiore Mount Vernon Infection Control Manager David Rose, MD, Chief Medical Department Hospital and patient experience Officer and Senior Vice President Alison Vail, RN, Director of The Mount Sinai Hospital Maimonides Medical Center for Medical and Academic Affairs Nursing Gopi Patel, MD, Hospital Patrick I. Borgen, MD, Chair, Epidemiologist You are cordially invited to Monday, May 6, 2019 The Brooklyn Hospital Center Department of Surgery and Montefiore New Rochelle Vasantha K. Kondamudi, MD, Director, Maimonides Breast Center Hospital Mount Sinai St. Luke’s United Hospital Fund’s 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Executive Vice President and Michael Rubertone, Director, Natalia Cineas, DNP, MediSys Health Network Network Physician Executive Quality and Regulatory Affairs Deputy Chief Nursing Officer Luigi G. Tullo, MD, Vice Chair, Cipriani 42nd Street Catholic Health Services of Department of Ambulatory Care Montefiore School Health Mount Sinai Queens Long Island Program Allison Dempsey, MPH, 110 East 42nd Street Memorial Sloan Kettering Kimon Bekelis, MD, Chair of Rosy Chhabra, PsyD, Community Assistant Director of Quality Cancer Center New York City Neurointerventional Services Health Director Louis P. Voigt, MD, Chair, Mount Sinai West Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center Ethics Committee Montefiore Wakefield Hospital Jennifer Jaromahum, RN, Christopher Moore, RN, Minimum (Wakefield Campus) Deputy Chief Nursing Officer Presenting the Excellence in Data Set Coordinator Montefiore Health System Joan O’Brien, RN, Director of New York Eye and Ear Infirmary Health Care Award for Quality Nursing Gurwin Jewish Nursing and Burke Rehabilitation Hospital of Mount Sinai Improvement Champions Rehabilitation Center Carolin Dohle, MD, Assistant Montefiore Nyack Hospital Sangyoon Jason Shin, DO, Sherry-Ann Rampersad-Lalchan, Chief Medical Officer and Anthony V. Matejicka, II, DO, Medical Director of RN, Transition Nurse Educator Co-Director, Performance Chief Medical Officer Pre-Surgical Testing Remarks by Improvement Hackensack Meridian Health St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital South Nassau Communities Carol Leah Barsky, MD, Children’s Hospital at Gina Del Savio, MD, Chief Hospital Carolyn Clancy, MD Executive Vice President and Montefiore Medical Officer Shivani Young, RN, Assistant Deputy Under Secretary Chief Quality Officer Alan Shapiro, MD, Assistant and Director, Quality Management Veterans Health Administration Clinical Professor in Pediatrics Mary V. Kelley, MBA, Vice Hospital for Special Surgery U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Steven K. Magid, MD, Chief at Albert Einstein College of President, Quality Management Medicine and Senior Medical Medical Information Officer White Plains Hospital Director for Community Susan O’Boyle, RN, Pediatric Programs CONTINUED ON BACK > Vice President of Quality HONOREES CONTINUED The New Jewish Home Northwell Health Solutions Richmond University ABOUT THE AWARD Sonya Choudhury, MPA, Zenobia Brown, MD, Vice Medical Center Long-Term Care Nurse President and Medical Director Jessie Saverimuttu, MD, Infectious United Hospital Fund’s Practitioner Diseases Attending and Chief of the Tribute to Excellence in Lenox Hill Hospital and Quality Improvement Department Health Care celebrates Jill Kalman, MD, Executive Mila Lasker, RPh, Associate the New York metropolitan Director SBH Health System Director of Pharmacy Daniel P. Lombardi, DO, Vice region as a center of North Shore University Hospital NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens President, Chief Quality Officer, excellence in health care Andrea Restifo, RN, Sorana Segal-Maurer, MD, Patient Safety Officer and honors extraordinary Associate Executive Director Director, The Dr. James J. Rahal personal leadership to St. John’s Episcopal Hospital Jr. Division of Infectious Diseases Northern Westchester Hospital improve quality of care, Del Joiner, MEd, Vice President and Marla Koroly, MD, Senior Vice patient safety, and patient Chief Quality Officer Northwell Health President, Medical Affairs, experience. Honorees are Chief Medical Officer Stamford Health selected by their hospital or Northwell Health Behavioral Michael F. Parry, MD, The Thomas J. long-term care organization Health Solutions Peconic Bay Medical Center Bradsell Chair of Infectious Diseases Carolyn Sweetapple, PhD, RN, Jean Marie Cacciabaudo, MD, for their vision and Executive Director Medical Director SUNY Downstate Medical Center accomplishment. Mohamed Rami Nakeshbandi, MD, Cohen Children’s Medical NuHealth/Nassau University Chief Quality Officer and Associate Center Medical Center United Hospital Fund is Chief Medical Officer Peter Silver, MD, Medical Director George J. Tsunis, Chairman and an independent nonprofit Interim Chief Executive Officer Visiting Nurse Service organization, founded in Northwell Health of New York 1879, whose mission is to Corporate Quality NYC Health + Hospitals Rose Madden-Baer, DNP, Senior build a more effective health Karen Nelson, RN, MBA, Vice Caralee Caplan-Shaw, MD, Medical Vice President, Population Health President Clinical Excellence Director, Tuberculosis Program and care system—one that is and Clinical Support Services and Quality Director, Bellevue Chest Service affordable and accessible, Yale New Haven Health provides a better patient Northwell Health Eastern NYU Winthrop Hospital L. Scott Sussman, MD, Senior experience and the highest Region and Southside Hospital Virginia Peragallo-Dittko, RN, Medical Director, Clinical Operations quality of care, and achieves Jay Enden, MD, Regional Executive Director, Diabetes and optimal health outcomes. Medical Director Obesity Institute Yale New Haven Hospital/ Yale Medicine Forest Hills Hospital Parker Jewish Institute for Health Christian M. Pettker, MD, Associate Mitch Jacobs, MD, Medical Care and Rehabilitation Chief Quality Officer Director Susan E. Costella, RN, Clinical Director of Nursing – Subacute www.uhfnyc.org.