2015 Backus Hospital Medical Staff
Anesthesiology
Jeremy Burke, MD
Cynthia Campbell, MD
James M. D’Amato, MD
Gregory Fauteux, MD
Adam D. Goldstein, MD
Daniel Hseuh, MD
Yong Jo, MD
Mohan Kasaraneni, MD
Michael Loiacono, DO
Frank Ocasio, MD
Mary Ann Pudimat, MD
Paul Pudimat, MD, Chief
Robert Ringering, DO
John Satterfield, MD
Angela Smith, DO
Lora Stephens, DO
Cardiology
Amr Atef, MD
Ramak (Robert) Attaran, MD, Consulting
Paige Brennan, MD
J. Chua Chiaco, MD
Jai Chakrabarti, MD
Gilbert Ching, MD
Mark Fisherkeller, MD
John Foley, MD
Michael Fucci, DO
Steven Goldblatt, MD
James Healy, MD
Ting Li, MD, PhD
Adam Niedelman, MD
Mridula Rai, MD
Christopher Regan, MD
Jeffrey Seltzer, MD
Steven Zweibel, MD
Dentistry
Cristina Pas Baens, DMD
Kirk Engel, DMD
Richard Martin, MD, DMD
Richard Snayd, DDS
Robert Strick, DMD, Chief
Dermatology
Kirkland Lau, DO
Howard W. Rogers, MD, PhD
R. D. Tanskley, MD
Diagnostic Imaging
Jill Bergson, MD
James Burch, MD
Felicia Cuomo, MD
Ajay Dalal, MD
William Donovan, MD, MPH
Gregory Dubel, MD
Nathaniel Dueker, MD
Thomas Fay, MD
Richard Gessman, MD
Christopher Hobbie, MD, Consulting
Bryan Jay, MD
Phillip Kohanski, MD, Chief
Igor Latich, MD
Herb Lustberg, MD
Justin Routhier, MD
Stacy L. Spooner, MD
Sarah T. Stewart, MD
Sumathi Wable, MD, Consulting
Mark Weiss, MD, Consulting
Emergency Services
Nader Bahadory, DO, Chief
Jeffrey Bernstein, MD
Thomas Ceddia, MD
Robert Dinwoodie, DO
Daniel Fagnant, DO
Fred Fenton, DO
Richard Goulding, MD
Andrew Griscom, MD
Marc Guttman, MD
William E.J. Horgan, MD
Scott W. Jolin, MD
Kenneth Larsen, DO
David McCann, MD
Kyle McClaine, MD
John McCue, MD
Mark Muetterties, MD
Lindsay Roberts, MD
Richard Ryan, MD
Robert Sidman, MD, Chairman, Medical Services, Acting Chief Occupational Medicine
Nathan Siegel, MD
Mary Ann Smith, MD
Devin Sokolowski, MD
Matthew Spates, MD
John Stallard, MD
Vivian Weinberger, DO
Gregory Young, MD
Endocrinology
Constantin Carseli, MD
Ria M. Lim, MD
Socorro Vargas, MD
Family Medicine
Leah Briones, MD
Helar Campos, MD
Colleen Casey, DO
Arabinda Chatterjee, MD
Nita Chatterjee, MD
Bert Coppotelli, MD
Mark DePonte, MD, Chief
John Greeley, MD
Daniel Hartman, MD
Luisa Hiendlmayr, MD
William Hernandez, MD
Yogesh Katechia, MD
Christopher Kolker, MD
Jyothirmayee Korivi, MD
Linda Lacerte, MD
Anisha Parekh, MD
Tony Schwartz, MD
Jennifer Varghese, MD
Claire M. Warren, MD
Wenying Yan, MD
Gastroenterology
Abera Abay, MD
Tonya E.L. Hall, MD
Ashan Manohar, MD
Jefrey Salek, MD
You S. Sang, MD
Shivani Sood, MD, MPH
Kolala Sridhar, MD
General Surgery
Sultan Ahamed, MD
Cristobal Alvarado, MD
Sergio R. Casillas, MD
David Coletti, MD
Jeffrey Goldblatt, MD
Kathleen Kurowski, MD
John Pagnozzi, MD
Mark Tousignant, MD, Chief
Mark Tramontozzi, MD
John Wesolek, MD
Gynecology Oncology
Amy Brown, MD
Paul DiSilvestro, MD, Consulting
Cornelius Granai III, MD, Consulting
Cara Mathews, MD, Consulting
Ashley Stuckey, MD, Consulting
Hospitalist
Adedotun Adebamiro, MD
Setareh L. Balazadeh, MD
Jennifer Bellino, MD
Xiaoyan Chen, MD
Stuart Deglin, MD
Vanessa Evardone, MD
Rommel Geronimo, MD
Maria Sabsay Goral, MD
Juan Gabriel Guillot, MD
Mariano Librojo, MD
Zhenxiang Liu, MD, PhD
Shuaike Ma, MD
Yazeed Maghaydah, MD
Naomi Nomizu, MD, Chief
Joseph Perez, MD
Andrzej P. Porebski, MD
Manisha Prakash, MD
Ataul M. Qureshi, MD
Shareen Rodrigues, MD
Khurram Shahzad, MD
James E. Sullivan, MD, Chief Internal Medicine
Infectious Disease
Michael J. Rajkumar, MD
Clifford Stirba, MD
Internal Medicine
Jan J. Akus, MD
Terry Baksh, MD
James Bucci, MD
Amanda Conti, MD
Mary Cummings Satti, MD
Steven M. Curland, MD
Jorge Dabdoub, MD
Paul Deutsch, MD, RPh
Stephen Ducey, MD
Ilona Figura, MD
Katherine Flanagan, MD
Liliana Galan, MD
Christin Homiski, MD
Cornelio Hong, MD
Catherine E. Hylwa, MD
Mahesh Kabadi, MD
Hanna Kackielo, MD
Stephen J. Kaye, MD
Paqui Motyl, MD
Mohammad Qureshi, MD
Yahya Qureshi, MD
Peter H. Shea, MD
Priya Tandon, MD
Kartik Viswanathan, MD
Salman Zafar, MD
Uzma Zaidi, MD
Maternal Fetal Medicine
Adam Borgida, MD, Consulting
Stephen Carr, MD, Consulting
Elisa Gianferrari, MD, Consulting
Jennifer Park, MD, Consulting
Katharine D. Wenstrom, MD, Consulting
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Abbot Laptook, MD, Consulting
James Padbury, MD, Consulting
Steven Peterec, MD, Consulting
Nephrology
Jay Ginsberg, MD
Mihkel J. Haus, MD
Mihaela O. Negulescu, MD
Thomas C. Peter, MD
Altaf Rasool, MD
Neurological Surgery
Gregory Criscuolo, MD
Camille G. Salame, MD, MS, Chief
Neurology
Anthony G. Alessi, MD
Maria Moro de Casillas, MD
Emily Gilmore
Glenn Kolluri, MD, Consulting
Jorge Mendizabal, MD, Consulting
Royya Modir, MD, Consulting
Anis Racy, MD
Kamaldeen Saldin, MD, Consulting
Jason Shen, MD, Consulting
David J. Shiling, MD
Derek Smith, MD, Chief
John Tauro, DO, DC
David Tinklepaugh, MD
Edward Yu, MD, Consulting
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Julie Belcher, MD
Stephen Briggs, MD
Matthew W. Brown, MD, Chief
Yu Ming Victor Fang, MD, Consulting
Suzelle Hendsch, MD, Consulting
David Kalla, MD
Christopher Nold, MD, Consulting
Kellen Sikora, MD
Melissa Welch, MD
Carol A. Wheeler, MD, Consulting
Occupational Medicine
Robert Creutz, MD
Barbara Deindorfer, MD
Randall Graff, MD
Kathleen Katamura, MD
Oncology / Hematology
Anca Bulgaru, MD
Mandeep Dhami, MD
Jeffrey Gordon, MD
Mithlesh Govil, MD
Kandhasamy Jagathambal, MD
Dinesh Kapur, MD
Stephen Lattanzi, MD
Dennis Slater, MD
Jie Yang, MD
Ophthalmology
Nauman Chaudhry, MD
Juner Marianela Colina-Biscotto, MD
Kevin B. Cranmer, MD, Chief
Jeffrey A. Hertz, MD
Peter S. McKay, MD
David Oakley, MD
Anish U. Shah, MD
Ron W. Slocumb, MD
Orthopedic Surgery
Ammar Anbari, MD
Nicole L. Arcand, MD
William Cambridge, MD
John J. Giacchetto, MD
Daniel Glenney, MD
Michael Halperin, MD
Tarik Kardestuncer, MD, Chief
Frank Maletz, MD
Joseph Noonan, MD
Kenneth Paonessa, MD
Jeffrey Salkin, MD
Scott J.C. Stanat, MD
Patricia A. Stuart, MD
Otolaryngology
Jerilyn S. Allen, MD
William T. Culviner, MD
Steven J. Green, MD
Gregory T. Lesnik, MD, Chief
Thomas H. Lesnik, MD
Stephen M. Rouse, MD
Pain Management
Edward P. Hargus, MD
John J. Paggioli, MD
Pathology
Catherine M. Breen, MD, MPH
Jila Khorsand, MD
Svetlana Kondratiev, MD
Timothy Pal, MD
Jiafan Qi, MD
Mirela Stancu, MD, Chief
Olga Weinberg, MD
Anna Vischio, MD
Gengsheng Yu, MD, PhD
Pediatrics
Nancy K. Cusmano, MD
Mary Eslick, MD
Laurentiu Galan, MD
Richard W. Geller, MD
Richard Lavoie, MD
Andrea McCullough-Hlobik, DO
Christina McLean, MD
Ravi Prakash, MD
David Schoon, MD
Timothy Sullivan, MD
Rachna Walia, MD, Chief
Ramindra Walia, MD
Pediatric Cardiology
John Fahey, MD, Consulting
Alan H. Friedman, MD, Consulting
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Richard Agag, MD, Consulting
Thomas C. Cherry, Jr., MD
David Greenspun, MD, Consulting
John C. Lee, MD
Vinod V. Pathy, MD
Podiatry
Joseph W. DiFrancesca, DPM
Jeffrey Kierstein, DPM
Eric Levine, DPM
Anthony Morgan, DPM
Christopher Payette, DPM
Edward Tarka, DPM
Psychiatry
Brian Benton, MD,Chief
Barclay Caras, MD
Tiwalola Kolawole, MD
Gene Maran, MD
Mahmoud S. Okasha, MD
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Mari Adachi, MD
Saima Ansari, MD
Priya Bakaya, MD
Thinesh Dahanayake, MD
Paul Greif, MD
Steven Powell, MD
Olimpia Radu, MD
Donna Romito, DO
Setu Vora, MD
Rehabilitative Medicine
Gabriel Abella, MD
Joseph O’Keefe, MD, Consulting
Mohammed Pasha, MD
Joseph Peters, MD, Consulting
Rheumatology
Robert Levin, MD, Consulting
Harjinder Chowdhary, MD
Sandeep Varma, MD
Therapeutic Radiology
Nicole Anderson, MD
Helaine Bertsch, MD
Stephen Boyd, MD
Robert Dowsett, MD
Neal Goldberg, MD
Stephen Hauser, MD
Anwar Khan, MD
Susan Kim, MD
Kenneth Leopold, MD
Sheida Mani, MD
Andrew Salner, MD
Joseph Weissberg, MD
Thoracic-Vascular Surgery
Michael Deren, MD
Mario Katigbak, MD, Consulting
Urology
Franklin P. Friedman, MD, Chief
T. Casey McCullough, DO
Brandon Stahl, MD
Honorary
Taher U. Akhand, MD
Donald A. Amaro, DMD
Lakshmi Basu, MD
Michael G. Betten, MD
Larry Coletti, MD
Carl C. Conrad, MD
Robert E. Crootof, MD
Kenneth M. Cynn, MD
James A. Dyer, DMD
Malcolm S. Edgar, Jr., MD
Sa-id Esfahanian, MD
Gerald R. Fabry, MD
Christopher C. Glenney, MD
Leonard A. Greene, MD
Salim S. Isa, MD
Manuel E. Kadish, MD
Nagireddy Kamireddy, MD
Honorary (cont)
A. Joseph Kantharaj, MD
Morris E. Katz, MD
Robert Kerrigan, MD
Eliahu Koren, MD
Woong B. Lee, MD
Jeremiah J. Lowney, DDS
Gowd S. Nagaraj, MD
Katherine M. Prioli, MD
Koon J. Rhee, MD
William G. Richeimer, MD
Howard B. Segal, MD
K. S. Taylor, MD
Clemencio B. Torres, MD
W. Gordon Van Nes, MD
Hany S. Wahba, MD
William A. Wainright, MD