Attending Physician, Internal Medicine
NYC Health + Hospitals/Coler

An Early Calling to Help

Dr. Xiang Nong Luo is praised as an outstanding multi-specialty physician who has assumed a variety of roles at Coler — managing patients with complex medical issues, improving dementia care and working with the physical therapy department.

He has assumed a leadership role in the Department of Medicine, where he has assisted in preventing unnecessary hospitalizations and recently took on the challenge of improving the rehabilitation and nursing facility’s dementia care program. He has also provided specialty consultations to NYC Health + Hospitals since 2000, and works diligently with Coler’s Physical Therapy department to improve the speed and accuracy of consults and assist with prosthetics and orthotics.

Dr. Luo is also appreciated for imparting his Internal Medicine expertise to the staff through formal and informal education, and for his eagerness to cover other units and support his colleagues. In addition to his health system work, he has been in private practice in Queens for 14 years.

He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree at Hunan Medical University, Changsha, Hunan, China, followed by a Master of Medicine degree in Experimental Oncology at the university’s Cancer Research Institute. Dr. Luo spent four years as a Research Associate in the Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center and worked at Coler-Goldwater and Carter facilities as an Attending Physician in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, before coming to Coler in 2016.

The China of Dr. Luo’s childhood was poor and short of doctors. Because of the shortage, his 7-year-old brother died from diphtheria. “Since then I swore I wanted to be a doctor when I grow up, to help patients,” he says.

Dr. Luo says he is proud to see patients recover following his treatment. “When I see the resident/patient, I always think that what I should do for her/him if she/he is my mother, father, sister or brother. I have to do my best to help.”

“I think compassion is the most important word to bear in my heart as a doctor.”

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