Dr. Rekhtman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dermatology at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra / Northwell. He is board certified in dermatology by the American Board of Dermatology. Dr. Rekhtman is also the Co-Director of the Inpatient Dermatology Consultation Service at Northshore University Hospital, Long Island Jewish Hospital, and Cohen’s Children Medical Center. He additionally serves as the Program Director for the Residency Training Program in Dermatology at Northwell Health.

Dr. Rekhtman received a Doctorate in Pharmacy from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. While working as a clinical pharmacist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Dr. Rekhtman also pursued a Master of Public Health specializing in Healthcare Policy and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health. This led to his induction into the Delta Omega Honor Society for public health and the Upsilon Phi Delta Honor Society for healthcare management. Dr. Rekhtman went on to earn is medical degree from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He subsequently completed his residency in dermatology at Northwell Health where he served as Academic Chief Resident in his final year. Dr. Rekhtman’s clinical interests include inpatient consultative dermatology, cutaneous drug toxicities, general dermatology, complex medical dermatology, and rheumatic skin diseases (i.e. lupus, dermatomyositis, psoriasis, vasculitis, etc.). His Research interests are primarily focused on inpatient and acute dermatologic conditions as well as on cutaneous drug toxicities.

Dr. Rekhtman also has a strong interest in medical student and dermatology resident education. Dr. Rekhtman has served in a variety of leadership roles, including membership on the Council of Science and Research, as well as the Healthcare Finance Committee within the American Academy of Dermatology. He also serves on multiple graduate medical educational committees within Northwell Health.

Dr. Shaigany is an Assistant Professor for the Department of Dermatology at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra / Northwell. She also serves as Co-director of the Inpatient Dermatology Consultative Service and as an Attending Physician for the Cutaneous Toxicities to Chemotherapies Program in partnership with the Monter Cancer Center.

Dr. Shaigany has an undergraduate degree in Theater from Northwestern University and worked as a professional actor in New York prior to switching to a career in medicine. She subsequently earned her medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Shaigany completed her dermatology residency training at New York University. She also completed a research fellowship at Columbia University with a focus on melanocyte biology and BRAF mutated melanoma.

Dr. Shaigany is the recipient of Rudin Foundation Grants for research involving the diagnosis of pyoderma gangrenosum and its associated comorbidities, as well as the diagnosis of cutaneous infection. She was awarded a grant from the American Skin Association for her research on melanoma. She was also awarded with a Women s Dermatologic Society Mentorship Award for her interest in complex medical dermatology. Dr. Shaigany has authored several peer-reviewed articles that have been published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (JAAD), Lancet, among others.

Dr. Shaigany s subspecialty interest encompasses a wide variety of skin conditions including neutrophilic dermatoses (i.e. pyoderma gangrenosum, Sweet syndrome), cutaneous toxicities to chemotherapy, cutaneous vasculitis, cutaneous infection, dermatomyositis and other connective tissue disorders, drug rashes and inflammatory skin disease (i.e. atopic dermatitis and psoriasis). In addition to her interests in complex medical dermatology, she also enjoys seeing patients with more routine general cosmetic and medical dermatology concerns.

Alexander Barbaro, MD, specializes in medical oncology, hematology and internal medicine, and is an assistant professor at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.

Drawing on a lifelong love of science, Dr. Barbaro first became attracted to medicine because it combined research with making a difference in people’s lives. After earning his medical degree at Temple University School of Medicine, he did a residency at Montefiore Medical Center and a fellowship at NYU Langone Health. He chose oncology as a specialty because, during training, he saw and appreciated the patient-doctor relationships forged in that field.

In some specialties, you may see a patient once for 15 minutes. But with oncology, you’re on a journey with a patient, you’re working together, he says. You have deep, meaningful relationships and that’s what attracted me, along with the innovations in cancer care, which are very exciting.

Dr. Barbaro joined Northwell in 2023, in part because it allowed him to expand his ability to teach. He’d been a physics tutor in college, and then received a commendation during residency for organizing lectures for medical students. That passion for education extends to patient care because it provides a level of empowerment and advocacy that’s essential for oncology patients and their families, he believes.

Doctors should be teachers as well as care providers, says Dr. Barbaro. I take the approach where I’m not just spitting jargon at patients, I’m helping them understand what it means to have this diagnosis and what treatment entails. It’s incredibly important to me to educate patients in a way that gives them more confidence and a sense of control over their care.

He’s establishing a working group at Northwell focusing on patient education, especially when it comes to side effects of new cancer therapies. His goal is to stratify risks and anticipate side effects in a way that leads to minimizing them, in order to keep boosting beneficial outcomes.

In terms of what patients have taught him, Dr. Barbaro says he’s learned about resiliency, particularly in the midst of a difficult diagnosis. He’s often inspired by the strength of his patients, as well as that of their families and friends. Almost every day, I’m impressed by the human spirit, he says.

Dr. Garg is a Professor and the Founding Chair for the Department of Dermatology at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra / Northwell. He is a Professor in the Center for Health Innovation and Outcomes Research at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. Dr. Garg also serves as Chair of the Board of Governors for Northwell Health Physician Partners. He is board certified in Dermatology by the American Board of Dermatology. Dr. Garg earned his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He completed his internship and residency in dermatology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has held faculty positions at University of Massachusetts and at Boston University Medical Center, where he directed the Residency Training Program in Dermatology as well as the undergraduate medical curricula in dermatology for the school of medicine.

Dr. Garg’s funded research interests include identification of comorbidities using Big Data, and development of disease and outcome measures in hidradenitis suppurativa and psoriasis. Through his grants, Dr. Garg has also developed innovative teaching strategies to improve training and education outcomes, including the development and validation of a skin cancer OSCE. He has published a number of articles in the peer-reviewed literature and has authored several book chapters. Dr. Garg has had leadership roles within prominent national professional organizations, including the American Academy of Dermatology, the American Board of Dermatology, the Accreditation Counsel of Graduate Medical Education, the Association of Professors of Dermatology, the Medical Dermatological Society, the National Psoriasis Foundation, the Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation, the Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis, and the CHORD COUSIN Collaboration (C3). Dr. Garg also serves on editorial boards for the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. He is editor-in-chief of the first edition book on Rheumatic Skin Diseases. Dr. Garg was awarded the 2016 Thomas G. Pearson, EdD Memorial Education Award by the American Academy of Dermatology. Dr. Garg has achieved international recognition as a skilled medical dermatologist and a medical educator. His subspecialty expertise is in interdisciplinary based care for patients with autoimmune and inflammatory skin diseases including psoriasis, hidradenitis suppurativa, lupus, dermatomyositis, and vasculitis.

Kenar D. Jhaveri, MD, is Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief in the Division of Kidney Diseases and Hypertension at Northwell Health and Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He completed his residency training at Yale University New Haven Hospital in Internal Medicine and then a fellowship in Nephrology at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell campus. His clinical interests are in glomerular diseases and onconephrology( cancer and its effect on the kidney). He is the founding member of the American Society of Onconephrology.

He is a columnist for the ASN Kidney News for the section called “Detective Nephron.” His interest in nephrology education is vested in using creative ways of teaching nephrology to medical students, residents, and fellows. He has published on onconephrology, Glomerular diseases, AKI and also in using social media and other innovative tools (games, concept maps, role playing, creative writing) to make nephrology a fun and exciting field. His most recent projects are in learning about renal toxicities of targeted oncological agents, immunotherapies, and COVID related AKI and glomerular diseases.