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Carlos E. Ruiz, MD, PhD, director of the structural
and congenital heart disease program of the Department of
Interventional Cardiology at Lenox Hill Hospital, recently wrote
“Optimizing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Sizing and Minimizing
Vascular Complications,” and cowrote “Percutaneous Closure
of Periprosthetic Paravalvular Leaks,” “Clinical Outcomes in
Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Closure of Periprosthetic
Paravalvular Leaks” and “Clinical Experience with Percutaneous
Left Ventricular Transapical Access for Interventions in Structural
Heart Defects: A Safe Access and Secure Exit” for the Journal of the
American College of Cardiology. In addition, he coauthored “Vacuum
Thrombectomy of Large Right Atrial Thrombus” for Catheterization
Cardiovascular Interventions, “Percutaneous Mitral Valve Treatment” for
Minerva Cardiologica, and “Use of Multi-Modality Imaging in a Patient
with a Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava, Partial Anomalous
Pulmonary Venous Connection, and Sinus Venosus-Type Atrial
Septal Defect” for the European Heart Journal.
Neil Sanghvi, MD, cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist
at Lenox Hill Hospital, recently wrote “Mechanisms and Application
of Cardiac Cryoablation” for EP Lab Digest.
Giles R. Scuderi, MD, vice president of orthopedic services
for the North Shore-LIJ Health System, coauthored several
chapters of the 2012 edition of the textbook Surgery of the Knee.
These include “Surgical Approaches in Total Knee Arthroplasty,”
“Posterior Cruciate Ligament Substituting Total Knee Arthroplasty,”
“Complications of Total Knee Arthroplasty” and “Revision of
Aseptic Failed Total Knee Arthroplasty.” Dr. Scuderi and
Nicholas A. Sgaglione, MD, chair of orthopedic surgery at
NSUH and LIJ, were recently named to the “125 Outstanding
Knee Surgeons” list published by Becker’s Orthopedic, Spine & Pain
Management Review.
Michael Setzen, MD, FACS, FAAP, chief of rhinology at NSUH,
recently served as program organizer and scientific chairman for
the December 2011 meeting of the American College of Surgeons,
co-sponsored by the Nassau Surgical Society and the Brooklyn
Long Island Chapter. The keynote speaker was Mike Francesa of
WFAN’s “Mike and the Mad Dog” and “Miked Up” programs. This
year’s attendance set a record of
510 surgeons, many from the
North Shore-LIJ Health System.
Terence Smith, administrator
of Huntington Hospital’s
Dolan Family Health Center, was
Kanti Rai, MD,
Receives ASCO Award
Kanti R. Rai, MD, BS, one of the Special Awards
Honorees of the American Society for Clinical Oncology, is the
recipient of the 2012 David A. Karnofsky Memorial Award and
Lecture for his outstanding achievements in
cancer research and for his influence on the
treatment of patients with cancer. Dr. Rai is
chief of the North Shore-LIJ Health System’s
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research and
Treatment Program and the Joel Finkelstein
Cancer Foundation Professor of Medicine at
the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, where he
also holds the title of professor of molecular medicine. As an
investigator with The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research,
Dr. Rai is known for establishing the Rai clinical staging system
for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), which is based on an
analysis of how the body is affected by the abnormal lymphocytes.
Giles Scuderi, MD,
Knee Society President
Giles R. Scuderi, MD, vice president of orthopedic
services for the North Shore-LIJ Health System and an
attending at Franklin and Lenox Hill Hospitals, was recently
appointed president of The Knee Society at its Open Meeting
in San Francisco. The Knee Society, founded
in 1983, is a closed-membership organization
of orthopedic surgeons specializing in
treatment of the knee joint. Dr. Scuderi has
served on the society’s executive board for the
last decade in numerous leadership positions.
He also chaired the Society’s Research
Committee and plays an instrumental role in the development
and worldwide distribution of The 2011 Knee Society Scoring
System © , a universally recognized outcomes measurement tool.
one of the honorees at the Leadership Huntington gala and graduation
of the class of 2012 in April, receiving the Community Leadership
Award. He is described by Leadership Huntington as a “passionate
advocate for affordable community healthcare.” The Dolan
Family Health Center opened its doors in October 1995 as Long
Island’s only privately owned, charitably supported, free-standing
facility dedicated to providing primary and preventive healthcare to
uninsured and underinsured families.
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