Mount Sinai South Nassau Doctors Named to Castle Connolly’s 30th Anniversary Top Doctors Guide
Posted: Jul. 6, 2023
Castle Connolly has named nine Mount Sinai South Nassau physicians to its 2023 30th Anniversary Top Doctors guide. Nationally, only 7 percent of more than 850,000 practicing doctors in the United States earned Castle Connolly “Top Doctors” designation this year.
The Mount Sinai South Nassau doctors along with their specialties included in this year’s guide are:
- Ann Buhl, MD, Gynecologic Oncology, Director, Gynecologic Oncology
- Carlos Montoya-Iraheta, MD, Pediatric Cardiology, Chief, Pediatric Cardiology
- Rajiv Datta, MD, Surgery, Chair, Department of Surgery
- Alan Garely, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Steven M. Harris, MD, Urology
- Jay Itzkowitz, MD, Emergency Medicine, Chair, Department of Emergency Services
- Sherry Megalla, MD, Cardiology,
- Matthew D. Rifkin, MD, Diagnostic Radiology, Chair, Department of Radiology
- Neil Soskel, MD, Family Medicine
“I commend each of these tremendous physicians for this outstanding accomplishment,” said Adhi Sharma, MD, President of Mount Sinai South Nassau. “Their commitment to providing expert, patient-centered care does not go unrecognized by their peers as well as our nurses and advanced practice practitioners.”
According to Castle Connolly, the doctors are best-in-class health care providers, embodying excellence in clinical care as well as interpersonal skills. The doctors were peer-nominated and selected based on extensive research, careful review, and screening conducted by Castle Connolly’s physician-led research team.
The Top Doctors guide is a carefully curated list of more than 63,000 board certified U.S. physicians across all 50 states and all major specialties. Selected physicians specialize in more than 65 medical specialties and subspecialties for the care and treatment of more than 2,100 diseases and medical conditions.
Recent research, conducted by Castle Connolly in conjunction with Everyday Health, underscores the importance of finding a trusted doctor. The research found that 82 percent of consumers consider a doctor to be important in their life, far eclipsing other services, like accountants, lawyers, and even child care. Additionally, the research found that Black patients were more than twice as likely as white patients to say that finding a doctor who shares their race/ethnicity will lead to better health outcomes and will get them to be more compliant.
About Mount Sinai South Nassau
The Long Island flagship hospital of the Mount Sinai Health System, Mount Sinai South Nassau is designated a Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for outstanding nursing care. Mount Sinai South Nassau is one of the region’s largest hospitals, with 455 beds, more than 900 physicians and 3,600 employees. Located in Oceanside, New York, the hospital is an acute-care, not-for-profit teaching hospital that provides state-of-the-art care in cardiac, oncologic, orthopedic, bariatric, pain management, mental health, and emergency services.
In addition to its extensive outpatient specialty centers, Mount Sinai South Nassau provides emergency and elective angioplasty, and offers Novalis Tx™ and Gamma Knife® radiosurgery technologies. Mount Sinai South Nassau operates the only Trauma Center on the South Shore of Nassau County verified by the American College of Surgeons as well as Long Island’s only free-standing, 9-1-1 receiving Emergency Department in Long Beach. Mount Sinai South Nassau also is a designated Stroke Center by the New York State Department of Health and Comprehensive Community Cancer Center by the American College of Surgeons; is an accredited center of the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Association and Quality Improvement Program; and an Infectious Diseases Society of America Antimicrobial Stewardship Center of Excellence. For more information, go to www.mountsinai.org/southnassau.