Board certifications
Gastroenterology – American Board of IM / Gastroenterology
Administrative titles
Director – Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program of Medicine – Gastroenterology, Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Director – Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program of Medicine – Gastroenterology, North Shore University Hospital
Academic titles
Professor, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Education
SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine
Residencies
Lenox Hill Hospital
St Barnabas Medical Center
Fellowships
Lenox Hill Hospital
Affiliations
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
North Shore University Hospital
Plainview Hospital
Dr. Swaminath, MD serves as the Chief of GI at LHH and Director of the IBD Program. He is a practicing gastroenterologist with a clinical practice focused on treating patients with Crohn s and colitis, a major contributor to the gastroenterology fellowship training program at Lenox Hill Hospital, and with an appointment as an Associate Professor in the School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine. Dr. Swaminath provides multidisciplinary care for complex patients, leads the multidisciplinary IBD case conference, and is the principal investigator on a number of phase III clinical trials.
In addition to authoring numerous original clinical, translational, and review articles, Dr. Swaminath is a sought after speaker in the field of inflammatory bowel diseases. He has served as a NYC Crohn s and Colitis Foundation Chapter Medical Advisory Committee chair and currently participates as a member of the national scientific advisory Professional Education Committee. He has been featured on television news, and numerous print and online media.
Dr. Pardi is a physician specializing in gastroenterology.
In addition to his clinical activities, Dr. Pardi is active in research and education, providing mentorship to residents and subspecialty fellows.
He is Division Chair of the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
Dr. Pardi is a highly sought after speaker and has spoken in venues across the country and abroad on topics related to:
Jennifer Agnew, MD, FACS, FASCRS is dedicated to providing comprehensive and compassionate patient care to the New York community. Her specialized training afforded her experience in abdominal colon and rectal surgery, as well as management of complex anal and rectal disease. Dr. Agnew is skilled in all aspects of colon and rectal surgery and maintains a particular clinical interest in minimally invasive surgery, including laparoscopic, robotic and transanal techniques. Dr. Agnew has conducted clinical research within her field and has been invited to present her work at local and regional colon and rectal surgical society meetings. Dr. Agnew is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and
Nutrition
Director, Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy
Fellowship
Staten Island University Hospital
Northwell Health
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Zucker School of Medicine
Juan Carlos Bucobo, MD is a nationally recognized clinician and educator in advanced therapeutic endoscopy, specializing in endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR), endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), endoluminal stent placement, and deep small bowel enteroscopy. He is a Professor of Medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and is the Vice President for Gastroenterology Services for Northwell Health overseeing GI throughout the health system.
Chief, Gastroenterology, Peconic Bay Medical Center
Northwell Health Physician Partners
Katz Institute for Women’s Health
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Zucker School of Medicine
Board certifications
Internal Medicine – American Board of Internal Medicine
Gastroenterology – American Board of IM / Gastroenterology
Academic titles
Assistant Professor, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Chief resident
Montefiore Medical Center – Moses Division
Education
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine
Residencies
Montefiore Medical Center – Moses Division
Fellowships
North Shore University Hospital
Affiliations
Lenox Hill Hospital
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
North Shore University Hospital
North Shore University Hospital Syosset
Phelps Memorial Hospital Center
Plainview Hospital
Director, Endoscopy
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Associate Program Director, Advanced Therapeutic
Endoscopy Fellowship
Staten Island University Hospital
Northwell Health
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Zucker School of Medicine
Integrative Gastroenterologist
Founder, Center for Integrative Gut Health
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Zucker School of Medicine
Dr. Harmit S Kalia is a Transplant Hepatologist who received medical education at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine in Old Westbury, NY. He trained in Internal Medicine Residency at UMDNJ in Newark and stayed on as a Chief Resident at the East Orange VA. He completed a Transplant Hepatology Fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City and a Gastroenterology Fellowship at UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ. From 2009-2019, he was at Montefiore Medical Center, caring for patients with liver disease and helping with liver transplant outreach efforts. He was at NYU Transplant Institute for the next two years, where he helped grow the Liver Transplant program by leading the outreach activities. In 2022, he joined Northwell Transplant Institute as a Director for Strategic Development and Outreach to assist with the program’s growth. His clinical interests include providing high-quality care for patients with end-stage liver disease. He is committed to educating future healthcare professionals and raising awareness regarding liver disease in the community. His research interests include viral hepatitis and autoimmune hepatitis.
Lead Physician Assistant, Inpatient GI Services
Department of Gastroenterology
North Shore University Hospital
Northwell Health
Transplant Hepatology
Northwell Health
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Zucker School of Medicine
Board certifications
Internal Medicine – American Board of Internal Medicine
Gastroenterology – American Board of IM / Gastroenterology
Administrative titles
Chief of Clinical Quality – Gastroenterology Northwell Health
Director – Endoscopic Ultrasound, NSUH
Academic titles
Assistant Professor, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Education
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Residencies
University of CA at San Francisco School of Med
Fellowships
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
UMass Memorial Medical Center – University Campus
Affiliations
Glen Cove Hospital
Huntington Hospital
Lenox Hill Hospital
Long Island Jewish Forest Hills
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
North Shore University Hospital
North Shore University Hospital Syosset
Plainview Hospital
South Shore University Hospital
Staten Island University Hospital
Northwell Health Cancer Institute
Dr. Hatef Massoumi is a transplant hepatologist and Associate Professor of Medicine. He graduated from the Iran University of Medical Sciences. He finished his Internal Medicine residency and Gastroenterology fellowship at Our Lady of Medical Center/New York Medical College, currently known as Montefiore Wakefield Division. He did a year of Transplant Hepatology at Mount Sinai Medical Center. In 2007, he returned to Montefiore and was part of the team that started the Montefiore Liver Transplant Program. He stayed there for 15 years until he joined Northwell as Clinical Director of the Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation at Lenox Hill. His primary interest is in the care of critically ill patients with liver disease and immune-mediated liver diseases, focusing on the minority population.
Dr. Ramona Rajapakse is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine, Hofstra, Northwell. She graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland. She completed her medicine residency and Gastroenterology fellowship at the Leicester Royal Infirmary in England and Lenox Hill hospital in New York where she trained under the mentorship of Dr. Burton Korelitz. She held a faculty position at Stony Brook University Hospital in New York for 20 years, where she was a clinical director, faculty senator, chairperson of QA, developed the IBD service, the fellowship IBD and GI curriculum, and initiated and became a director of the multidisciplinary Stonybrook IBD center. Her clinical practice and research interests are focused on IBD. In addition, she is an active advocate for patients through the Crohn’s and Colitis foundation and the public affairs committee of the ACG. For her work with patients, the CCFA honored her with a distinguished physician award in 2020.
In 2019 she was recruited to initiate a Gastroenterology Fellowship at Mather hospital, Northwell Health where she is now program director, and where she continues her role as an educator, clinical researcher and clinician with a special interest in IBD.
An internationally recognized colorectal surgeon, Feza Remzi, MD is a leader in the surgical management of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and other colorectal diseases. He specializes in the treatment of patients with complex colorectal conditions including ulcerative colitis, Crohn s Disease, diverticulitis, pelvic pouch procedures, sphincter-saving operations of the rectum, and re-operative abdominopelvic surgeries. Dr. Remzi has published over 300 peer- reviewed articles and book chapters on the surgical management of IBD, and ileal J-pouch. He has been recognized with several awards and honors, including being voted as one of the Castle Connolly and New York Magazine Top Doctors in New York. In 2010, he was honored with honorary fellowship/membership at the Annual National Surgical Congress in Turkey as the first recipient of this award from this society. A native of Turkey, Dr. Remzi earned his medical degree from Hacettepe University School of Medicine in Ankara, Turkey. He completed his general surgery residency and a fellowship in colon and rectal surgery at the Cleveland Clinic.
Department of Gastroenterology
Northwell Health
Assistant Professor, Gastroenterology
Zucker School of Medicine
Nitzan Roth, MD PhD joined Northwell Health in 2018 to help build the new liver transplant program at North Shore University Hospital. She is the Director of the Women’s Liver Health Program in conjunction with the Katz Institute for Women’s Health. Dr. Roth is experienced in the diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of liver diseases and in the evaluation and care of patients with advanced cirrhosis, liver cancer, or acute liver failure, both pre- and post-liver transplantation. Her special interests include prevention and multidisciplinary treatment of alcohol-associated liver diseases; evaluation and management of chronic liver disease during pregnancy and pregnancy-related liver diseases; and long-term health maintenance of liver transplant recipients.
Dr. Roth completed her undergraduate degree at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and received her MD and a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Southern California. She completed her Internal Medicine residency training and Gastroenterology fellowship at the Los Angeles County – University of Southern California Medical Center (LAC-USC) from 2011-2017 prior to moving to New York to complete an additional Advanced and Transplant Hepatology fellowship at the Mount Sinai Medical Center from 2017-2018. She is board certified in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, and Transplant Hepatology by the American Board of Internal Medicine. She is a member of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), the American Society of Transplantation (AST), and the International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS). Dr. Roth presents novel findings annually at society meetings and has published articles and book chapters on topics including alcohol-associated liver disease and portal hypertension.
Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Liver Diseases
and Nutrition
Cohen Children’s Medical Center
Instructor, Center for Pediatric Research and
Bioelectronic Medicine
Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Zucker School of Medicine
Medical Director, Liver Transplant
Associate Chief, Division of Hepatology
Northwell Center for Liver Disease and
Transplantation
Department of Medicine
North Shore University Hospital
Northwell Health
Program Director, Transplant Hepatology Fellowship
Professor, Medicine
Zucker School of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Zucker School of Medicine
Gastroenterologist
Northwell Health
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Zucker School of Medicine
Director, Gastroenterology Fellowship
Director, Motility at Northwell Health
North Shore University Hospital
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Zucker School of Medicine
Attending Physician
Long Island Jewish Valley Stream
Northwell Health
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