Medical Director, Cardiac Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support North Shore University Hospital Assistant Professor, Cardiology
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.
Nurse Practitioner
Advanced Heart Failure
Cardiology at Brightwaters
South Shore University Hospital
Northwell Health
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
Heart and Lung Transplant
North Shore University Hospital
Northwell Health
Director, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Northwell Health
Assistant Professor, Cardiology
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
As the Director of Structural Heart Echocardiography within the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at North Shore University Hospital, Northwell Health, Dr. Koss is responsible for providing clinical leadership and imaging expertise in structural echocardiography in our SHD program. Dr. Koss focuses on implementing a collaborative strategy across the health system to improve quality, identify and implement best practices, develop clinical protocols, and recruit new technologies in the SHD echocardiography program.
Dr. Koss has participated in multiple landmark TAVR trials (including EXPAND II), percutaneous mitral repair and replacement trials (COAPT, CLASP IID and IIF, Apollo), and tricuspid repair and replacement trials (Triluminate, CLASPII TR, TRISCEND). Dr. Koss has particular interest and expertise in 3D echocardiography, structural heart imaging, and intra-operative and interventional transesophageal echocardiography. She has provided intra-procedural guidance for the above procedures as well as alcohol septal ablation, percutaneous paravalvular leak closure and percutaneous PFO/ASD/VSD closure.
Dr. Koss is committed to helping advance patient care and outcomes in structural heart disease and helping to give patients the opportunity to benefit from cutting edge technologies.
Cardiology
Advanced Heart Failure
Huntington Hospital
Northwell Health
Nurse Practitioner
Cardiology
Lenox Hill Hospital
Northwell Health
Senior Nurse Practitioner
North Shore University Hospital
Northwell Health
Cardiology Fellow
North Shore University Hospital
Long Island Jewish Hospital
Northwell Health
Matthew Pierce, MD, MBA is the Cardiology Critical Care Site Director at North Shore University Hospital and is Assistant Professor in Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He practices primarily in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit in the Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital at North Shore University Hospital. Dr. Pierce received his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine, graduating in 2011. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Morningside-West and fellowships in cardiovascular disease at Temple University Hospital and medical critical care at Yale New Haven Hospital.
Nurse Practitioner
Advanced Heart Failure/Heart Transplant
North Shore University Hospital
Northwell Health
Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist
Northern Westchester Hospital
Northwell Health
Geurys Rojas-Marte, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Cardiology at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He is an Advanced Heart Failure, Transplant Cardiology, and Pulmonary Hypertension specialist at Staten Island University Hospital/Northwell.
Supervisor, Advanced Clinical Providers
North Shore University Hospital
Northwell Health
LVAD Coordinator, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
North Shore University Hospital
Northwell Health
Cardiology Fellow
North Shore University Hospital
Long Island Jewish Hospital
Northwell Health
Cardiology Fellow
Cardiovascular Disease
Staten Island University Hospital
Northwell Health
Director, Heart Failure
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Northwell Health
Program Director, Advanced Heart
Failure/Transplant Cardiology Fellowship
Assistant Professor, Cardiology
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Non-Invasive Cardiologist
North Shore University Hospital
Northwell Health
Assistant Professor, Cardiology
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
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.
Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist
South Shore University Hospital
Northwell Health
Cardiology Resident
North Shore University Hospital
Long Island Jewish Hospital
Northwell Health
Sirish Vullaganti, MD, MSc is the Director of Heart Failure at Lenox Hill Hospital. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering at Northwestern University and medical degree at the University of Alabama-Birmingham where he graduated with honors. He completed his medical residency at New York Presbyterian-Columbia and both Cardiology and Advanced Heart Failure fellowships at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
His clinical interests include management of heart failure across all spectrums of severity, LVAD and heart transplant care, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy treatments, and the use of advanced imaging modalities in patients with heart failure. He is also passionate about education both at the medical trainee and patient levels.
Director, Interventional Heart Failure
Lenox Hill Hospital
Northwell Health
Assistant Professor, Cardiology
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Project Manager
Cardiology Service Line
Northwell Health
Project Manager
Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery
Northwell Health
