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Ask well-nigh Financial Assistance Find a Phone Number / Contact Patient Visit A Patient / View Visiting Hours Find Directions/Maps Access My Medical Records Make anVisitRefill My Prescription LearnWell-nighOur Centers ofSuperintendencyThank a Staff Member or Physician Volunteer Department Chairs Home /Well-nighNuHealth / Department Chairs Raymond Pesso, MD Anesthesiology Raymond Pesso, M.D., chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at Nassau University Medical Center, is moreover anTeammateProfessor at Hofstra University School of Medicine. An zippy partner and member of theWorkbenchof Directors of the North American Partners in Anesthesia (NAPA), the largest anesthesia medical undertone in the country, Dr. Pesso received his BS in Biochemistry from SUNY Stony Brook. His medical stratum was completed at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA. Amgad N. Makaryus, MD, FACC, FACP, FASE, FSCCT Cardiology Dr. Amgad N. Makaryus completed medical school training at the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, in 2000. He went on to well-constructed his Internal Medicine residency and cardiovascular fellowship at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, NY. Subspecialty training in cardiovascular imaging, including echocardiography, cardiac CT and cardiac MRI, was completed in 2006-2007 at Columbia-Presbyterian MedicalPart-wayin New York City. Dr. Makaryus returned to North Shore University Hospital (NSUH) in 2007, and served as director of cardiac CT and MRI (2008-2012). He was moreover the director of the echocardiography laboratory at NSUH from 2009 to 2012. Board-certified in internal medicine and cardiology, Dr. Makaryus likewise received certification from the NationalWorkbenchof Echocardiography, CertificationWorkbenchof Nuclear Cardiology, and Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. He has moreover completed Level II training in cardiac MRI. He is a founding member of the Society of Cardiovascular CT, a member of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the American Society of Echocardiography, the North American Society of Cardiovascular Imaging, and the American College of Physicians. Dr. Makaryus has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications and typesetting chapters in the field of cardiology and cardiovascular imaging. His research interests include the platonic using and integration of cardiovascular imaging into the towardly diagnosis and management of patients with and at risk for cardiovascular disease. Anthony Boutin, MD, FACEP, FAAEM Emergency Medicine Anthony Boutin, M.D., board-certified in Emergency Medicine, completed his residency in emergency medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, Long Island, NY. He has wide-stretching clinical experiences as a staff physician in emergency medicine, and as an zookeeper involved with multiple hospital committees, in wing to resident and student teaching activities. Dr. Boutin is zippy in Emergency Medical Services Pre-Hospital superintendency as a member of Nassau Regional EMS Council and Medical Advisory Board. Since his inrush at Nassau University MedicalPart-way(NUMC), Dr. Boutin has successfully supervised the inception, diamond and relocation of the emergency department, and improved emergency department operations spritz and quality of care. Under the leadership of Dr. Boutin, NUMC has recently received the 2012 Press Ganey Top ImproverRibbon– Patient Satisfaction in Emergency Department. In addition, NUMC has been awarded the AHA/ASA Gold Plus designation for Stroke for 2011 and 2012. Dr. Boutin is an teammate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Among his many associations, Dr. Boutin is medical director of the Nassau County Police Ambulance and the Nassau University MedicalPart-wayAmbulance Division. He is on the sense of Long Island Jewish MedicalPart-wayOralWorkbenchReview Course, and Mount Sinai MedicalPart-wayand Elmhurst Hospital OralWorkbenchReview Course. He is moreover an ACLS/ATLS instructor. Peter A. Guiney, DO, FACOFP Family Medicine Dr. Peter Guiney serves as director of the Family Medicine Residency Program and chairman of the newly created Department of Family Medicine at Nassau University Medical Center. He earned his medical stratum at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine (now New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine), and is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Guiney completed his Family Medicine Residency at Peninsula Hospital Center. After completion of his residency training, he worked as an peekaboo physician in the Peninsula Hospital Emergency Room for several years. He became director of the Family Practice Residency Program and director of Medical Education at Peninsula HospitalPart-wayin the years following. He practiced privately in Ozone Park, Queens, for increasingly than 20 years, and has served as medical director at Daytop Village Inc., a multinational drug rehab facility in Queens. Dr. Guiney has practiced in the underserved polity throughout his unshortened professional life. He remains single-minded to the training of family medicine doctors to write the current national physician shortage, and recruiting program graduates for ongoing primary superintendency service in the NuHealth/LIFQHC Family Health Centers. Paul Mustacchia, MD, FACP, MBA Department of Medicine Paul Mustacchia graduated from SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine. He completed his residency and fellowship training at Columbia Presbyterian MedicalPart-wayin New York, New York. He is a board-certified Internist and Gastroenterologist. For the past 9 years, he has served asSeniorPhysician and Gastroenterology Fellowship Program Director at Nassau University Medical Center. He is moreover a member of the Internal Medicine Residency Leadership Committee Medical and Professional Affairs Committee, and Quality and Professional Affairs Committee at Nassau University Medical Center. For the past 5 years, he has served as Associate Chairman of Medicine, and for the past 3 years he has moreover served as President of the Medical Staff. John Riggs, MD Obstetrics/Gynecology Dr. Riggs joined the Nassau University MedicalPart-wayin August 2015 as chairman of the OB/GYN department. He is originally from Haddonfield, in southern New Jersey. He attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., for undergraduate and medical school education, and completed his residency in OB/GYN at St. Barnabas MedicalPart-wayin Livingston, New Jersey. From 1989-1999, he worked with his father, Joseph, in private practice in Haddon Heights, New Jersey, where they specialized in wide gynecologic surgery. After his father/partner retired, Dr. Riggs moved to NYC and joined the staff of Wyckoff Heights MedicalPart-wayin Brooklyn. Over the next 15 years, he held multiple positions at Wyckoff: director of gynecology and urogynecology, director of the women’s health center, chairman of OB/GYN, President of the medical staff, and President of the medical board. He subsequently practiced for three years at Brooklyn Hospital in unstipulated OB/GYN. Dr. Riggs is currently clinical chair of OB/GYN at the American University in Antigua (AUA). He is moreover an zippy member of the American Medical Association, American College of OB/GYN, United Healthcare credentials committee, Georgetown University medical alumni workbench and workbench of governors. His interests include all sports, weightlifting and traveling. Marcelle Morcos, MD Ophthalmology Marcelle M. Morcos, MD, FACS, is the chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology, and the director of the Residency Training program at Nassau University Medical Center. She moreover serves as the Director of Medical Student Education for the Department of Ophthalmology at NUMC. An Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the State University of New York School of Medicine at Stony Brook, Dr. Morcos is board-certified and a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. She graduated from Cairo University Medical School in Egypt, and completed her Ophthalmology Residency at Nassau University MedicalPart-wayin 1980. Upon completion of her residency, Dr. Morcos ripened a very successful practice in Queens, NY. She became the program director of Ophthalmology at NUMC in 1999, and was named theSeniorof theSemesterof Ophthalmology in 2001. Under her leadership, this small semester under the auspices of the Department of Surgery became an self-sustaining department in 2007, of which she is its first chairman. In 2011, the Department moved into a brand-new state-of-the-art EyePart-waythat serves well over 11,000 patients a year. Dedicated to patient superintendency and vision preservation, as well as medical education, Dr. Morcos has published numerous articles, and commonly presents at professional meetings. She has received numerous accolades on a national and international level, and has been mentioned among Americas Top Ophthalmologists by Consumers Research Council, and Who’s Who in Executive and Professional Women in Teaching and Education. She was selected as Top Ophthalmologist in NY by the InternationalUndertoneof Healthcare Professionals in 2013. Charles Ruotolo, MD Orthopedics Charles Ruotolo, M.D., graduated among the top of New York Medical College School of Medicine in 1995. He completed an orthopedic residency program at SUNY at StonyCreekin 2000. After his residency, he underwent fellowship training in sports medicine and shoulder surgery, at the prestigious Sports Clinic of Laguna Hills in California, under the tutelage of Wesley Nottage, MD. It is here where he perfected his wide arthroscopic surgical skills. Dr. Ruotolo is board-certified in orthopedic surgery, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. As an Associate Master Instructor of Arthroscopy for the ArthroscopyUndertoneof North America, Dr. Ruotolo urgently teaches other orthopedic surgeons wide arthroscopic skills in shoulder surgery. Named the top surgical student in his graduating medical-student matriculation of 210 students, Dr. Ruotolo was named the peekaboo of the year in 2003 for the orthopedic training program at SUNY at Stony Brook. As an voracious researcher, he has published multiple wares on shoulder injuries and shoulder surgery in the peer review journals of Arthroscopic Surgery, and of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, as well as several typesetting chapters on the same. As the chairman of the Department of Orthopedics at Nassau University Medical Center, Dr. Ruotolo is helping to guide the hospital in its revival as a leading part-way for orthopedic surgery. He has ripened a cadre group of highly skilled orthopedic surgeons at NUMC, providing some of the weightier superintendency in orthopedic spine surgery, orthopedic trauma surgery, minimally invasive joint-replacement surgery, arthroscopic surgery and sports medicine. Rachel Robbins, MD Acting Chair, Pathology & Laboratory Dr. Robbins earned her M.D. at Cornell University Medical School. She trained at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, including a fellowship in Neuropathology. In addition, she completed fellowships in Surgical Pathology and Orthopedic Pathology at New York University School of Medicine, and the Hospital for Joint Diseases, respectively. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, including a year at the University of Oxford. She is board-certified by the AmericanWorkbenchof Pathology in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology. She is a published tragedian of multiple articles, and holds an visit as ClinicalTeammateProfessor in the Department of Pathology at Hofstra University North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine. Dr. Robbins arrives at NUMC having spent the previous fourteen years as a pathologist in the North Shore-LIJ Health System, most recently as Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Services at Glen Cove Hospital. Dr. Robbins chaired several committees, and served on several others, at Glen Cove Hospital, and in the Pathology Department of the North Shore-LIJ Health System. Krishan Kumar, MD., FAAP, FACEP, Pediatrics Dr. Krishan Kumar, M.D., FAAP, FACEP,  Chair of Pediatrics, is workbench certified in pediatrics emergency medicine and unstipulated pediatrics. Dr. Kumar is Professor of Pediatrics at NY College of Osteopathic Medical School andTeammateProfessor of Emergency Medicine at NY Medical College. Dr. Kumar serves as Medical Director of Fire Police EMS Academy, Nassau County. Dr Kumar graduated from GSVM Medical College, India in 1977 and emigrated to the United States in 1984. He obtained remoter training in Emergency Medicine/ Pediatrics at Lincoln hospital in 1988. Since then, he has been serving the community, as an emergency medicine specialist at various hospitals and medical schools. Dr Kumar’s main interest and passion is management of any emergency that may skiver or harm patients. He has been teaching emergency medicine and pediatrics to medical students, residents, fellows and EMS students for the last 25 years. His special interest, in international emergency medicine, leads him to unhook many lectures and workshops overseas. He moreover chaired INTEM (International Emergency Medicine) endorsed by ACEP for 16 CME credits in India in 2006. Dr Kumar has received many awards and accolades from very prestigious institutions, organizations, and elected officials such as Peter King,- Chairman of Homeland Security, USA. Dr. Kumar was honored  with a Congressional Certificate of Merit ribbon in 2011. Nalini Kanth, MD, MBA Acting Chair, Radiology Nalini Kanth MD, MBA is currently the Acting Chair of Radiology having served as Vice-Chair of the department for the prior 2 years as well as residency program director for the past 9 years. She is a workbench certified radiologist, having completed her radiology training at Nassau University MedicalPart-wayand fellowship training in Cross-Sectional Imaging at SUNY Stony brook. She moreover did a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of California at San Francisco, in thoracic imaging. She has since obtained an MBA in Health Services Management and a clinical quality fellowship. Dr. Kanth has served as president the Long island Radiological Society in 2014 and held several officers positions in that society prior to that. She has served on various committees in the American College of Radiology, American Roentgen Ray Society and American Society of Emergency Radiology. Academically she has over fifty publications and presentations and has the sense visit of Associate Professor of Radiology at SUNY StonyCreekand NYCOM. She has served NUMC as Chair of the Graduate Medical Education Program Director’s committee and is currently President of the Medical Staff at NUMC. Glenn Faust, MD, FACS Surgery Dr. Glenn Faust received his medical doctor stratum from Yale University School of Medicine in 1986. He did his surgical residency and vascular fellowship at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He stayed on staff at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, rhadamanthine the senior of theSemesterof Vascular Surgery in 2000. As of 2007, he was scheduled Chairman of Surgery at Nassau University Medical Center. He holds many committee positions at NUMC, most importantly as chairman of the Medical Board. Dr. Faust’s areas of expertise include treatment of rectal aortic aneurysms, carotid disease, lower extremity vascular problems, and venous disease. 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