Jason Chinitz, MD joined Northwell Health as a Cardiologist specializing in Cardiac Electrophysiology in 2015. He has been the Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology at South Shore University Hospital since 2017, and is an Associate Professor of Cardiology at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Dr. Chinitz specializes in the management of patients with heart rhythm disorders, with a focus on catheter-based interventional procedures for patients with atrial fibrillation. Before joining Northwell, he graduated medical school from the University of Pennsylvania, completed fellowships in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Cardiovascular Disease and at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Mt Sinai Hospital, respectively, and Internal Medicine Residency at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He is a Fellow of the American Heart Association and Heart Rhythm Society.

Dr. Laurence M. Epstein is the System Director of Electrophysiology for Northwell Health, New York. In addition, he is
a professor of Cardiology at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/ Northwell. The author of over 150 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Epstein’s clinical and research interests include pathophysiology and treatment of a variety of cardiac arrhythmias. This has included device therapy, catheter ablation, and image-guided therapy. He is considered one of the world’s experts in transvenous lead management and extraction. He has been listed as one of America’s Top Doctors by Castle Connolly and named a top cardiac electrophysiologist by Boston Magazine.  Dr. Epstein received his medical degree from the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed an internal medicine residency at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF) and a cardiology fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He then completed a clinical fellowship and a research fellowship in cardiac electrophysiology at UCSF. Dr. Epstein is board-certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular disease, as well as cardiac electrophysiology.

Board certifications
Internal Medicine – American Board of Internal Medicine

Administrative titles
System Director Electrophysiology

Academic titles
Professor, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Professor, Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing

Education
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Residencies
University of CA at San Francisco School of Med

Fellowships
University of CA at San Francisco School of Med
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
University of CA at San Francisco School of Med

Board certifications
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology – American Board of IM / Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

Administrative titles
Director of Service – Director of Electrophysiology of Cardiology – Electrophysiology, Staten Island University Hospital

Academic titles
Associate Professor, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Chief resident
Mt Sinai West

Education
New York Medical College

Residencies
Mt Sinai West

Fellowships
Virginia Commonwealth University
Henry Ford Hospital

Dr. Shephal Doshi practices Cardiac Electrophysiology (EP) and the management of arrhythmias. He specializes in interventional therapies for arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia.

Born in Chicago and growing up in Southern California, he attended college at the University of California, Riverside. He received his Cardiac EP training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and served as a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. He joined the Pacific Heart Institute in 2004 and soon became the Director of Cardiac and Pacing at Providence, Saint John’s Health Center now the Executive Director of the Minerd Heart and Vascular Institute.

Dr. Doshi remains active in cutting-edge ablation research involving different forms of ablation energy including pulse field ablation (PFA), laser, cryo, and radiofrequency. He has been a principal investigator (PI) in studies involving PFA, balloon and contact force sensing ablation for atrial fibrillation.

Currently, he remains one of the national PIs and leading experts in alternative therapies to blood thinners in patients with atrial fibrillation to reduce their risk of stroke. He is one of the most experienced implanters worldwide of the Watchman left atrial appendage occluder and is the co National PI for the PINNACLE FLX/CHAMPION AF & Conform IDE Trials. Under his direction, St. Johns Health Center has one of the longest US experiences with this procedure. With this procedure, patients with atrial fibrillation (a heart rhythm disorder) are able to stop their blood thinners.

He remains active in publishing and has co-authored many articles in peer-reviewed cardia and EP journals. He travels internationally lecturing and continues to be involved in clinical research and procedures in Europe, South America, and Asia.

Cardiac electrophysiology is not his only passion, however. He remains an avid lifelong LA Lakers fan and loves beach sports, live music, and football.

Dr Stevenson earned his bachelor’s degree from University of South Florida in 1973 and his medical degree from Tulane University in 1979.  After training in internal medicine and cardiology at UCLA Center for the Health Sciences he was a research fellow at the University of Limberg, Maastricht, the Netherlands under the direction of Hein Wellens and Pedro Brugada.  He joined the faculty of Medicine at UCLA in 1985 and moved to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston in 1993 where he became Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in 2005.  In 2017 he joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University Medical center where he currently holds the title of Professor of Medicine. 

In the late 1980s he established a program for catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias at UCLA.  In a series of clinical and computational modeling projects he defined techniques using programmed electrical stimulation to localize the source of arrhythmias within the heart thereby facilitating catheter ablation.  Refinement of these techniques and their application with advanced technologies have remained a cornerstone of arrhythmia evaluation and therapy for over 30 years.  His clinical work focuses on the management of difficult to treat cardiac arrhythmias, and his program at Vanderbilt continues to treat patients referred from throughout North America. 

Through clinical cardiac electrophysiology fellowship programs and postdoctoral research fellowships he has mentored over 70 trainees from the US and abroad. He has been honored with the Vanderbilt Cardiovascular Medicine Teaching award (2020), the Heart Rhythm Society Distinguished Teacher Award (2018), the Michel Mirowski Lectureship from Johns Hopkins Medical School (2018), the Prystowsky Lectureship from the Heart Rhythm Society (2016), the Michel Mirowski Award for Excellence in Clinical Cardiology and Electrophysiology (2012), and the Thinker Award from the University of Miami.  He is past president of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society (2009), and is the founding editor of Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology of the American Heart Association (2008-2017). 

Dr. Akhrass is the associate director of cardiac electrophysiology at the Staten Island University Hospital – Northwell Health, New York. He is a dedicated clinician and educator. Dr. Akhrass’ clinical practice is focused on Arrhythmia Management, catheter ablation, and prevention of sudden cardiac death. In addition, he is involved in quality initiatives in Electrophysiology, and interventions to improve safety and reduce peri-procedural complications.

After earning his medical degree from the St. Joseph’s University in Lebanon, Dr. Akhrass completed his internal medicine residency and cardiovascular fellowship at the State University of New York – Health Sciences Center at Downstate, and his electrophysiology fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital at St. Luke’s in New York.

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Kabir Bhasin, MD is the director of the Center for Atrial Fibrillation at Lenox Hill and of Cardiac Electrophysiology Lenox Hill Greenwich Village.  He is a clinical electrophysiologic with expertise in ablation of atrial and ventricular tachyarrhythmias, left atrial appendage occlusion, management of channelopathies, and cardiac device therapies.  His clinical research interests include novel ablation therapies, management of conduction system disease following valvular interventions, and genetic predisposition to sudden cardiac death.  Dr. Bhasin has co-authored several publications in cardiac electrophysiology.   Dr. Bhasin received his medical degree from Rutgers – New Jersey Medical School.  He completed his residency at Yale New Haven Hospital and went on to complete a combined cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology fellowship at Mt. Sinai Medical Center.

Lauren Cooper, MD, MHS, is an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist at North Shore University Hospital where she serves as the Director of Heart Failure and holds academic appointments as Associate Professor in the Department of Cardiology at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and Associate Professor in the Institute of Health System Science at Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research.

Dr. Cooper completed an internal medicine residency and a clinical fellowship in advanced heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, and cardiac transplantation at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She completed a cardiovascular diseases fellowship and clinical research fellowship at Duke University and received a Master of Health Science in Clinical Research from Duke in 2016. She is board certified in internal medicine, cardiology, and advanced heart failure. She is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the Heart Failure Society of America and is a member of the Heart Failure and Transplant Section Leadership Council of the American College of Cardiology.

Dr. Cooper’s clinical expertise is in advanced heart failure, temporary and durable mechanical circulatory support, and heart transplantation. Her research portfolio has focused on using data from clinical trials, registries, and administrative data sets to examine outcomes in patients along the spectrum of heart failure, from chronic heart failure to acute heart failure, as well as advanced heart failure. She currently serves as the Principal Investigator of the R01 funded, “Mechanistic insights from longitudinal changes in blood and urine proteins to explain efficacy and safety of torsemide vs furosemide after a heart failure hospitalization.” She is also active in site-based research and investigator-initiated research at her institution.

She has authored or co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications, including 20 as the primary author. She has reviewed manuscripts for 15 journals, including the top cardiology and heart failure journals. She has been invited to speak or moderate programs locally, nationally, and internationally.

Dr. Bruce G. Goldner is a clinician in the field of electrophysiology who has remained at the cutting edge of technology performing complex ablations of arrhythmias, left atrial appendage closures, leadless pacemakers, biventricular devices, and left bundle area pacing. Long Island Jewish Medical Center was one of the first institutions in the world to perform most ablations without the use of fluoroscopy. At the time he started to perform epicardial ablation, LIJMC was the first institution on Long Island to perform this procedure. Despite the time necessary to learn, perform, and improve upon these procedures, he has had an opportunity to teach and, in the process, received 2 teaching awards. His team has published manuscripts in multiple major journals over the years. They have also participated in major multicenter trials.
In the early 1990s, Dr. Goldner helped develop the cardiology and electrophysiology curriculum at North Shore University and in 2000 at Long Island Jewish Medical Center for the cardiology fellows. Moreover, he helped to develop the electrophysiology curriculum for Hofstra Medical Students and participated in ECG teaching sessions at Hofstra. He has also taught medical students, interns, residents, and fellows and mentored junior-level electrophysiology attending physicians who have gone on to attain major positions at other institutions.
Dr. Goldner has participated in major multicenter trials which have led to major changes in guidelines and the development of new products. Long Island Jewish Medical Center led the way in enrollment in the Navigate Study which tested a new quadripolar lead for biventricular pacing. Northwell Health was the 3rd highest enrolling center in the world for this trial. As a clinician in electrophysiology, satisfaction is derived from the notion that we are helping patients to live longer, healthier lives.

Rajat Goyal, MD, is a Cardiac Electrophysiologist at Mather Memorial Hospital where he serves as the Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Lab and holds an academic appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cardiology at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.
Dr. Goyal completed an Internal Medicine residency at Boston University Medical Center. He went on to complete a fellowship in cardiovascular disease at Stony Brook University Hospital and an advanced fellowship in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Echocardiography, Nuclear Cardiology, and Cardiac Electrophysiology. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the Heart Rhythm Society.
Dr. Goyal has clinical expertise in therapies for the full range of electrophysiologic diseases including complex ablation, left atrial appendage closure, chronic lead extraction, and device implantation. He has a special interest in conduction system pacing and the complex interaction between congestive heart failure and arrhythmia disorders. He has a passion for teaching and participates in graduate medical education through the Internal Medicine residency programs at South Shore University Hospital and Mather Hospital as well as the Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology program at Northwell.

My passion in Medicine has always been to learn and to educate. I have always tried to simplify complex topics so that I can be an effective learner and teacher. I have been fortunate to work under the tutelage of remarkable mentors to carry this passion.

During my residency training, I remember when I won the Resident of the Year. I was called to a meeting on the telemetry floor with my program director and co-residents and received the award as a surprise. It was a great feeling to be appreciated by my colleagues. I soon became Chief resident and continued through to become Chief fellow during Cardiology training.

My first time outside of the Northwell system was during my Electrophysiology fellowship in Boston. Mark Josephson, Alfred Buxton, and Peter Zimetbaum were great mentors of the field. It was a dream come true to learn from them. I came back home to Northwell two years later and I taught the Cardiology fellows what I learned. I won the Teacher of the Year during my first year as attending. It was amazing how much I learned and taught the fellows during that year. I also got involved with teaching at the medical school small group EKG sessions.

I soon started to focus on my clinical work and established great relationships with cardiology attendings in the community. I quickly became a high-volume operator in EP procedures. During this time, I was also working closely with the Cardiology fellows and IM residents in research. We currently present abstracts and posters at multiple meetings on a yearly basis. We have also published numerous manuscripts and continue to do so. I also published a book chapter with our Pulmonary colleagues on atrial fibrillation and sleep apnea.

As I became more comfortable with my clinical work and research, I started to focus on ways to improve the EP lab with regards to efficiency. I thought if we could finish procedures in a timely manner, we would have more time to teach and do research. I was appointed Director of the EP lab last year and have continued to help grow the volume and improve efficiency. I am continuing to improve my leadership skills to help create a department that works together in an efficient and safe manner for patients.

My plan for the next phase of my development is to establish a more national presence. I want to be able to conduct sessions at ACC and HRS. At the same time, I want to continue to teach and be involved in research with the IM residents and Cardiology/EP fellows. I will always be a learner first and that is my basis of growing. I am very excited about what the future brings.

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Dr. Shahryar G. Saba is a cardiologist with expertise in multimodality cardiovascular imaging. He spent two additional years of subspecialty training in cardiovascular magnetic resonance and computed tomography at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. His areas of expertise include non-ischemic cardiomyopathies, athlete’s heart, and myocardial perfusion imaging with cardiovascular magnetic resonance.

Moussa Saleh, MD, is a clinical and interventional cardiac electrophysiologist at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cardiology at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.

Dr. Saleh attended Loma Linda University School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine training at North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He completed his cardiovascular disease fellowship at University of California, San Francisco-Fresno and his advanced training in electrophysiology at Lenox Hill Hospital and North Shore University Hospital. Dr. Saleh is board certified in internal medicine, cardiology, and clinical electrophysiology. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology as well as Heart Rhythm Society.

Born and bred in Hudson County NJ, I always knew I wanted to be a doctor. I was fortunate enough to find amazing mentors at a young age to help me become the first physician in my family. I graduated from medical school from Rutgers UMDNJ in Newark and went on to train at Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia for internal medicine, followed by Cooper University Hospital in Camden for cardiology and finally NY Presbyterian -Columbia University Hospital for electrophysiology.

As the only female electrophysiologist in the Northwell system, I perform all EP procedures including complex ablations, left atrial appendage occlusion, leadless device and subcutaneous device implants.

Dr. Nicholas T. Skipitaris is a practicing clinical cardiac electrophysiologist. He is presently the Western Regional Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology for Northwell Health and practices at the Heart Rhythm Center at Lenox Hill Heart and Lung in New York City. He is assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra University / Northwell Health. Previously, he was the Medical Director of Electrophysiology Operations and assistant professor of medicine and cardiology at Mount Sinai Hospital and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He graduated from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Religion and received his M.D. degree from the Dartmouth-Brown Program in Medicine. More recently, he received an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Bellevue Hospital Center / NYU Medical Center and completed fellowships in cardiology and electrophysiology at the NYU Medical Center. He is a Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society and the American College of Cardiology and a member of the Hellenic Medical Society of New York.

Dr. Skipitaris has expertise in ablative and device therapy for the treatment of cardiac rhythm disturbances and is actively involved in research in those areas. He is currently involved in researching new strategies to treat atrial fibrillation and the use of non-invasive mapping of complex arrhythmias. He also has a particular interest in the prevention of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) and believes that increasing community awareness, making AEDs more accessible and teaching CPR/AED use to the public is particularly important to make an impact in this area. He has organized numerous SCA awareness programs, large scale CPR/AED training events and has been involved in the education and SCA screening of thousands of people in the New York area. He is a recipient of the American Heart Association’s Lifesaver Award, and the 2014 Dominic A. Murray 21 Memorial Foundation HeartSaver 2014 award, recognizing his work in this area. He has been named “Top Doctor” in his field since 2018.

Dr. Kristin Stawiarski completed her residency and general cardiology fellowship at Bridgeport Hospital as part of the Yale University training program. She went on to finish her advanced heart failure and transplant training at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. Dr. Stawiarski joined the Northwell Advanced HF faculty in 2022.

Granit Veseli, MD is a cardiac electrophysiologist practicing at Huntington Hospital, NY. He was born in Kosova and came to the United States when he was 15 years old. He is a graduate of Rutgers University. He obtained his medical degree from Ross University. He completed his internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. He completed his cardiac electrophysiology fellowship at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, NY. Dr. Veseli is passionate in treating and caring for his patients with a variety of cardiac arrhythmia conditions including atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, implanting cardiac electronic devices that ultimately improve patient’s quality of life. He strives to have a great relationship and provide comfort and encouragement to his patients. Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology is an evolving field and he enjoys learning and embracing the new innovative treatment therapies. During his free time he enjoys spending time with his family and playing sports such as tennis, skiing, and soccer.

Jonathan Willner, MD is a cardiac electrophysiologist at North Shore University Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Cardiology at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra.

Dr. Willner completed his medical school and residency training at New York University, where he also served as Chief Resident. He worked as an NIH Clinical Research Scholar and then completed clinical fellowships in cardiovascular disease and clinical electrophysiology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center. He is board certified in cardiovascular disease and electrophysiology.

Dr. Willner’s clinical expertise is in the medical and procedural management of complex arrhythmia, including cardiac device implantation, catheter ablation of simple and complex atrial and ventricular arrhythmia, and left atrial appendage occlusion device implantation. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 peer-reviewed journal articles in cardiology and electrophysiology and has been a panelist and moderator and local, regional, and national electrophysiology conferences.

Harout Yacoub, MD is the director of noninvasive cardiac imaging at Staten Island University Hospital- Northwell Health and an assistant professor of Medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He is a multimodality imager with clinical expertise in echocardiography, cardiac CT, cardiac MRI, and nuclear cardiology.  His clinical research interests include coronary plaque analysis, coronary artery disease, chest pain management, structural procedure planning, and noninvasive electrophysiology procedure planning.

Dr. Yacoub received his medical degree from Tishreen University School of Medicine. He completed his residency and cardiovascular disease fellowship at Northwell Health Staten Island University Hospital and an advanced cardiac imaging fellowship at NYP Columbia University Medical Center.