Doctors’ Day 2019

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With our celebration of Doctors’ Day, NYC Health + Hospitals honors an outstanding array of physicians blazing exciting paths toward a new era of health delivery for our patients. This year’s honorees include pediatricians, primary care physicians, optometrists, dentists, Emergency Room doctors, and more.

Reflecting a range of specialties and years of service, the award-winning physicians were drawn from NYC Health + Hospitals’ multi-ethnic and multi-cultural workforce, showcasing the health system’s strength in providing culturally competent care to all, without exception.

Bronx

Oyebisi Jegede, MD
Attending Physician, Infectious Disease and Internal Medicine
NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, Belvis

Sheldon H. Teperman, MD, FACS
Trauma Medical Director
NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi

Pronoy Kumar Roy, MD
Unit Chief, Inpatient Psychiatry
NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln

Belkis J. Vizcaino-Reyes, MD, MPH, FAAP
Attending Physician, Pediatrics
NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, Morrisania

Lorenzo L. Scotti, DPM, DABFAS
Director of Podiatry
NYC Health + Hospitals/North Central Bronx

Brooklyn

Aristotle Lyssikatos, DDS, MS, FAGD
Attending Dentist
Program Director of the Dental Practice Residency Program
NYC Health + Hospitals/Coney Island

Magalie Pierre-Louis, MD
Pediatric Attending
NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, Cumberland

Lloyd P. Haskes, OD, FAAO
Chief, Eye Care Services
NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, East New York

Andrew G. Winer, MD
Chief of Urology
NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County

Inna Sosina, MD
Attending Physician
NYC Health + Hospitals/McKinney

Regina Hammock, DO
Program Director, Emergency Medicine Residency
Simulation Center at NYC Health + Hospitals/Coney Island

Ershad Elahi, MD
Vice Chief, Emergency Department
NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull

Manhattan

Amit Uppal, MD
Section Chief, Pulmonary Critical Care, & Sleep Medicine, Associate Chief of Medicine, Director of Medical ICU
NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue

Yelena Suler, MD
Chief, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
NYC Health + Hospitals/Carter

Xian Nong Luo, MD, FAAPMR
Attending Physician, Internal Medicine
NYC Health + Hospitals/Coler

Nathaniel Lim Yao, MD
Primary Care Physician, Family Medicine-Integrative Medicine
Chief Medical Information Officer
NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, Gouverneur

Andrea N. Cotler, OD, FAAO
Director of Eye & Vision Services
Chief of Optometry
NYC Health + Hospitals/Gouverneur

Claricio de Castro, MD
Attending Anesthesiologist
Director, Pain Management Service
NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem

Jennifer M. Harley, MD
Chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatobiliary Diseases
Director, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Fellowship Programs
NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan