Clinical Leadership
At Mount Sinai South Nassau, our clinical leaders and their departments work diligently to ensure your safety, comfort and satisfaction.
Anesthesiology
Alan Sim, MD
Department Chair
Emergency Medicine
Jay Itzkowitz, MD
Department Chair
Lincoln Ferguson, MD
Chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Family Practice
Samuel Sandowski, MD
Department Chair; Vice President, Medical Education
Clinical Laboratories and Pathology
Medicine
Aaron E. Glatt, MD
Department Chair; Chief, Infectious Diseases
Raul Mendoza, MD
Associate Chair of Medicine, Physician-in-Charge, Critical Care Unit
Lawrence Kanner, MD
Chief of Cardiology; Director of Electrophysiology/Arrhythmia Services
Jason Freeman, MD
Director of Interventional Cardiology
Jonathan Altus, MD
Chief of Pulmonary Medicine
Frank Coletta, MD
Chief, Critical Care; Associate Director, Sleep Center
Louis Saffran, MD
Associate Chief, Critical Care; Director, Sleep Center
Stanley Goldstein, MD
Chief, Allergy / Immunology
Kerin Hausknecht, MD
Chief, Neurology and Stroke Center
Russell Cohen, MD
Chief of Dermatology
Effie Tsomos, MD
Chief of Endocrinology
Jonathan Zinberg, MD
Associate Chief, Gastroenterology
Iman Andalib, MD
Associate Chief, Interventional Gastroenterology / Associate Director, GI Fellowship Program
Louis Swartz, MD
Chief of Nephrology
Frank Gress, MD
Chief, Gastroenterology / Director, GI Fellowship Program
Clifford Feiner, DO
Chief, Geriatrics
Stephen Kadish, MD
Associate Chief, GI Endoscopy, General
Richard M. Lee, MD
Chief, Hematology / Oncology
Ricardo Cruz, MD
Chief, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Stuart Kaplan, MD
Chief, Rheumatology
John Ioannou, MD
Director of Outpatient Dialysis
Michael Sood, MD
Director, Non-Invasive Cardiology
Hai-Wen Ma, MD
Chief, Hospitalist Services / Associate Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Cheriyan Thomas, MD
Associate Chief, Hospitalist Services
Steven Weiss, MD
Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Yelena Markovskaya, MD
Medical Advisor, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program / Infectious Diseases
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Alan Garely, MD
Chair of Obstetrics & Gynecology; Director of Urogynecology
Edmund Tomlinson, MD
Vice Chair of Obstetrics & Gynecology; Chief of Obstetrics
Robert Dean, MD
Coordinator for Medical Student Education
Dina El Kady, MD
Chief of Maternal Fetal Medicine
Ira Bachman, MD
Director of Gynecology
Ann Buhl, MD
Director of Gynecologic Oncology
Claudia Ravins, MD
Director of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery
Salma Rahimi, MD
Director of Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program
Frederic Moon, DO
Director of Family Medicine Center for Ob/Gyn
Pediatrics
Lincoln Ferguson, MD
Department Chair
Psychiatry & Behavioral Health
Stanley Reddy, MD
Department Chair
Radiology
Matthew Rifkin, MD
Department Chair
Michael Brisman, MD
Chief of Surgical Neuro-Oncology; Co-Director, Gamma Knife
Surgery
Rajiv Datta, MD
Department Chair; Director of the Gertrude & Louis Feil Cancer Center; Director of Surgical Oncology/Head & Neck
Kenneth Becker, MD
Director of General Surgery
Eric Seitelman, MD
Program Director General Surgery
Christine Hodyl, DO
Director of Breast Services
Dean Pappas, MD
Chief of Colon & Rectal Surgery
Rajeev Vohra, MD
Director of Minimally Invasive & Bariatric Surgery
Stephen Onesti, MD
Director of Neurosurgery
Richard Nauheim, MD
Director of Ophthalmology
Robert Licul, DDS
Director of Oral Surgery
Rajesh Kakani, MD
Director of Otolaryngology
Stelios Koutsoumbelis, MD
Chief of Orthopedic Surgery
Juan Goez, DPM
Director of Podiatry, Orthopedic Surgery
George Xipoleas, MD
Director of Plastic Surgery
Foula Kontonicolas, MD
Director, Surgical Critical Care
Shahriyour Andaz, MD
Director, Thoracic Surgery and Clinical Research
Vanessa Gibson, MD
Director, Thoracic Oncology
James Maurer, MD
Trauma Medical Director
Michael Herman, MD
Director of Urology
Daniel McCally, MD
Assistant Director of Urology
Harmandeep Singh, MD
Director, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Charles C. Sticco, DO
Director, Wound Care Center
Ganesh Gunasekaran, MD
Director, Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) Service