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Mauricio Alarçon, analyst in the North Shore-LIJ Health
System’s Office of the Chief Information Officer, was a member of
one of the winning teams, Team greatOne, which placed third in
the popHealth Tool Development Challenge. The competition was
launched in the fall of 2011 as part of the Office of the National
Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s Investing in
Innovation (i2) initiative.
The title of Master of the American College of Physicians
was bestowed on Jack Ansel, MD, chairman of the Department of
Medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital, in recognition of his outstanding
and extraordinary career accomplishments. He received the title at
a convocation ceremony during the American College of Physicians’
Annual Meeting, Internal Medicine 2012, held in New Orleans.
Michael S. Aronoff, MD, a long-standing voluntary attending
in the Department of Psychiatry at Lenox Hill Hospital and host
of a two-hour interview and call-in program, The Psychiatry Show, on
SiriusXM Doctor Radio, presented a paper titled “Terrorism: The
Ecstasy of Hatred” at the Annual Tristate American Academy of
Psychiatry and the Law (SSPL) Forensic Psychiatry Conference in
San Juan, Puerto Rico, in December 2011.
Louis-Jean Auguste, MD, a surgeon with privileges at North
Shore University Hospital (NSUH) and LIJ, co-authored two
abstracts accepted for publication at the Society of Surgical
Oncology meeting in Orlando, FL, this spring: “Gastric Cancer
Surgery in a Low Volume Center – Are Long Term Outcomes
Comparable?” and “Have Outcomes in Gastric Adenocarcinoma
Improved over the Last Decade? A 20-Year Retrospective Review.”
Patrick Basu, MD, chief of gastroenterology and gastrointestinal
endoscopy at Forest Hills Hospital, and Sakina Farhat, MD, thirdyear
medical resident, recently lectured on “Effect of Vitamin E
and Alfa Lipoic Acid (ALA) in Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease:
A Randomized, Placebo Controlled Open Label Prospective
Clinical Trial — VAIN Trial” at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the
American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) in Washington, DC,
and received the ACG Auxiliary Award for the best scientific paper
by physicians in training or by a fellow/member of the ACG. They
also received the ACG 2011 Presidential Poster Award for “Single
Use of Romilopostim Thrombopoietin Analogue (TPO) in Severe
Thrombocytopenia for Outpatient Percutaneous Liver Biopsy in
Patients with Chronic Liver
Disease (CLD).”
Catherine Blotiau,
coordinator of the health system’s
Department of Public Health
Education and Nassau County’s
58 Summer 2012
Safe Kids coordinator, was one of the leaders of a “Train the
Trainers” session held in Levittown in February. The trainees were
16 Circle Kers, members of Circle K International, a Kiwanis
service organization that is open to college and university students.
The lessons included bike and helmet safety, fire safety, water safety,
pedestrian safety and how to call 9-1-1.
Leigh Briscoe-Dwyer, PharmD, RPh, chief pharmacy and
medical safety officer for the North Shore-LIJ Health System, has
been named to the Executive Committee of the New York State
Board of Pharmacy, which regulates the practice of pharmacy in
the state. She is in line to chair the board in 2015.
Alan Cooper, PhD, vice president of learning and innovation
for the North Shore-LIJ Health System, associate dean for
knowledge management and associate professor of science education
and population health at the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of
Medicine, has been named associate editor for the Leadership
and Organizational Development (LOD) collection of the MedEd
PORTAL of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
The LOD collection is an online repository of innovative materials
pertaining to leadership development and its relationship to
improved organizational performance.
Nick Fitterman, MD, FACP, FHM, has been elected governor
of the American College of Physicians (ACP) for the Long Island
Region. Dr. Fitterman, medical director of the newly established
Group Health Management and former director of hospitalist
services and chief of staff at Huntington Hospital, began a oneyear
term as governor-elect in April, to be followed by a four-year
term as governor.
Steven Fishbane, MD, director of research in the Department
of Medicine, North Shore University Hospital and LIJ Medical
Center, and vice president of network dialysis services, North
Shore-LIJ Health System, was elected to the Board of Directors
of the Renal Physicians Association (RPA), an association of
5,000 nephrologists. He also serves on their Government Affairs,
Anemia and Quality, Safety and Accountability Committees.
Sajith Foustin, MD, and Lynn Ang, MD, medical residents
at Forest Hills Hospital, presented three posters at the Annual
Scientific Meeting of the ACG in Washington, DC. The posters
were: “Effect of Interferon Alpha on Parathyroid Gland in Chronic
Hepatitis B and C”; “Serum Retinol
Binding Protein 4 (RBP) Is a
Unique Surrogate Marker of End
Stage Liver Disease” and “Irritable
Bladder Syndrome (IBS) Is a Part of
Functional Bowel Syndrome (FBS).”