As Medical Director of Huntington Hospital, Dr. Cacciabaudo, oversees Medical Staff, Quality, Medical
Education, Radiology, Pharmacy and the Clinical Laboratory, Pathology and Blood Bank. She works collaboratively with nursing and hospital leadership in overseeing patient safety issues and standards of care at the 220-bed community hospital. She is proud of her team as Huntington Hospital is the only 5 Star CMS Hospital in Suffolk County. She has been a spokesperson for the American Heart Association for over 20 years and was a member of the Eastern States AHA Board of Directors. Throughout her career, she has been involved in research on the diagnosis and prevention of heart disease in women.

Previously, Dr. Cacciabaudo served as Medical Director of Peconic Bay Medical Center, Southside
Hospital’s Chief of Cardiology and Long Island Jewish Medical Center’s Associate Medical Director.
Under her leadership at Southside Hospital, she worked with the multidisciplinary team that brought
open heart surgery and advanced complex cardiac care to Suffolk County. She is the recipient of the
Northwell Health Truly Award in Mentorship recognizing her dedication to developing physicians and future physician leaders over the years. In 2019, she received the United Hospital Fund Excellence in Health Care Award for championing quality improvement. She also received the Northwell Health President’s Award in 2016 for Team Innovation. She chaired the Physician Engagement Committee in Northwell Health Physician Partners and brought physician star ratings and comments to the internet so that patients can have insight into what other patients are saying about their physicians.

Dr. Cacciabaudo received her medical training at New York Medical College and served as intern and resident at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where her training also included clinical fellowships in hypertension and cardiology.

Board certifications
Internal Medicine – American Board of Internal Medicine
Cardiovascular Disease – American Board of IM / Cardiovascular Disease
Interventional Cardiology – American Board of IM / Interventional Cardiology

Administrative titles
Director – Interventional Cardiology – Huntington
Director – Interventional Cardiology of Cardiology, Huntington Hospital

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

Education
State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo

Residencies
Montefiore Medical Center – Moses Division

Fellowships
Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine
Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine

Non-Invasive Cardiology
South Shore University Hospital

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Jason Chinitz is a cardiac electrophysiologist, an Associate Professor of Cardiology for the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He serves as the Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology at South Shore University Hospital, and the director of EP Quality for Northwell Health’s Eastern Region. He specializes in catheter ablation, left atrial appendage occlusion, and cardiac device implantation. He has research interests in improving outcomes in patients with atrial fibrillation, and has been the PI on several Industry sponsored and investigator-initiated clinical trials. After completing medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, he completed a residency in Internal Medicine at NY Presbyterian-Weill Cornell, fellowship in cardiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and fellowship in Cardiac Electrophysiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

Director, Cardiovascular Catheterization Laboratories
Mather Hospital
Professor, Cardiology

Internal Medicine
Weight Management
Assistant Professor, Medicine

Director, Interventional Cardiology
Lenox Health Greenwich Village
Assistant Professor, Cardiology

Dr. Paul Maccaro is a Cardiac Electrophysiologist and joined Northwell Physician Partners (then North Shore Health System) in 1997. He currently serves as Vice-Chairman of Cardiology and Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology for Huntington Hospital.  Dr. Maccaro performs a variety of Electrophysiology procedures for the treatment of patients with Arrhythmia including device implantation and catheter ablation. He is an active Investigator on numerous clinical trials.

Dr. Maccaro is Assistant Professor of Cardiology, Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine.  He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, a Fellow of the American College of Physician, and a Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society. He currently serves as president of the Medical Staff of Huntington Hospital. Dr. Maccaro serves as Chairman of the Northwell HealthIRB committee D.

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Director, Cardiovascular Health & Lipidology of Cardiology
North Shore University Hospital
Associate Professor, Cardiology
Associate Professor, Medicine

As a military child and a former opera singer, Ms. Nahrwold found her way to both NYC and medicine later in life. She completed the Masters Direct Entry program at Columbia University School of Nursing, ultimately earning both her BSN and MSN as part of the accelerated program. With a keen interest in pursuing cardiology as a subspecialty, she focused her education and clinical experience on this goal. She joined the preventive cardiology team at Northwell Health/Lenox Hill Hospital as a nurse practitioner in late 2018, and was promoted to senior nurse practitioner in 2022. She works in both the outpatient and inpatient setting to provide comprehensive cardiovascular care, with an emphasis on ASCVD risk reduction, women’s heart health and cardiometabolic disease management. She is active in several professional organizations, including the ACC, NPA and as a committee member in the NLA.

Nisha Parikh, MD, MPH will be joining Northwell Health as System Director, Women’s Heart Program and Director, Katz Institute for Women’s Heath, Cardiovascular Medicine in early 2024. Dr. Parikh will provide clinical and administrative oversight to the Women’s Heart Program, including further developing and implementing policies and procedures to ensure quality patient care and efficient operations. She will also be responsible for monitoring quality measures and performance and helping to further the academic mission, including innovative research and teaching. She will be clinically based at Long Island Jewish Medical Center.

Dr. Parikh received her undergraduate degree (biology) and master’s degree (epidemiology, biostatistics) from the University of California, Berkeley and her medical degree from New York Medical College. She trained in internal medicine at Tufts Medical Center, cardiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and performed a research fellowship at the Framingham Heart Study. After spending a few years practicing cardiology in Hawaii, Dr. Parikh joined the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco where she focuses on women’s heart disease and cardiac imaging. Her research areas of interest include adverse pregnancy outcomes, cardiovascular risk stratification and biomarkers, reproductive health, and health equity. She is a member of a number of leadership committees at the American Heart Association, has received NIH funding and has published >80 peer reviewed manuscripts, is an active teacher and mentor, and is Deputy Editor, Cardiovascular Diseases, UpToDate.

Director, Cardiovascular MR and CT
North Shore University Hospital
Assistant Professor, Cardiology

Heart Failure Cardiology
Peconic Bay Medical Center
Assistant Professor, Cardiology