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
Associate 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.
Jerome D. Waye, MD retired 3 years ago from active practice as a full time endoscopist at Mount Sinai Hospital. He began private practice in 1963 and is a Professor Emeritus. He developed many techniques in colonoscopy and has been one of the best known teachers of endoscopy having participated in many live courses throughout the world. While in private practice he published over 200 papers and wrote 7 books. He was one of the co-founders of the NYSGE and has been president of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, president of the American College of Gastroenterology and president of the World Endoscopy Organization. He is currently successfully training endoscopists in Uganda via zoom, being the first person to teach endoscopy remotely.
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Board certifications
Gastroenterology – American Board of IM / Gastroenterology
Academic titles
Assistant Professor, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Education
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Residencies
Mount Sinai Beth Israel — Petrie Division
Fellowships
Mount Sinai Beth Israel — Petrie Division
Affiliations
Lenox Hill Hospital
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
North Shore University Hospital
Northwell Health Cancer Institute
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 has recently joined Northwell Health as the Vice President for Gastroenterology Services and is overseeing the expansion of GI throughout the health system.
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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
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Dr Bethany DeVito has been part of the Northwell Health GI Faculty since 2004. She is currently the Medical Director of Northwell Health Endoscopy Center of Long Island and the Associate Chief of GI of North Shore/LIJ Hospitals. Her main focus of interest are on women’s GI health, colon cancer screening, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease and GERD.
Lisa Garcia MSN ANP-BC and AGACNP-BC has been an acute care nurse practitioner with Northwell for thirteen years. Her expertise has been with pulmonary medicine, cardiothoracic surgery, inpatient gastroenterology, and now is in a leadership role with occupational medicine. Lisa remains per diem with inpatient gastroenterology at Peconic and is gaining experience with the transplant service at Manhasset.
Jocelyn Khor is a physician assistant student from New York Institute of Technology who is part of the graduating class of 2023. Her professional career interests include gastroenterology and women’s health.
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
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Dr. Aurora Pryor is Surgeon in Chief at Long Island Jewish Hospital and System Director for Bariatric Surgery at Northwell Health. She grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan and received her undergrad degree in engineering and her MD from Duke University. She completed her residency in General Surgery at Duke, followed by a fellowship in minimally invasive surgery. She was on the faculty at Duke from 2003-2011. She held multiple leadership roles at Duke. Moving to New York in 2011, she served as Vice Chair of Surgery, Chief of Bariatric, Foregut and Advanced GI Surgery and Director of the Bariatric and Metabolic Weight Loss Center at Stony Brook from 2011-2022. She was also director of the Advanced GI/MIS/Bariatric/Foregut fellowship at Stony Brook.
Dr. Pryor was the 2019-2020 President of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES). She has also served as the SAGES Treasurer, Finance Chair, Membership Chair and the Research and Career Development Chair, among other roles. Dr. Pryor currently serves on the American Board of Surgery as a Councilor and as the Vice Chair of the General Surgery Board. She is also Chair of the In Training Exam Committee and Chair of the Video Based Assessment (VBA)Task Force. In addition, Dr. Pryor serves the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) as the NY chapter President. She has served multiple national leadership roles within ASMBS including as a member of the Executive Council from 2014-2017. She is past President of the Eastern Long Island Chapter of the American College of Surgeons and the Fellowship Council. Previous Fellowship Council roles have included Secretary/Treasurer, First and Second Vice-President. She is an Associate Editor for Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, has served as Subject Editor for Surgical Endoscopy. She serves on the editorial boards of Annals of Surgery and the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. In 2021, she started the Women’s Leadership in Surgery Society for which she is the inaugural President.
Dr. Pryor’s work has appeared in more than 250 publications, and she has co-edited four textbooks. She has given more than 300 presentations worldwide, has received a number of research grants and holds patents for several surgical technologies, including the Transenterix SPIDER single port system. Her current research efforts focus on advancing laparoscopic bariatric and GI surgery techniques and outcomes, and on new technology in surgery. Her clinical care focuses on individualized treatment options of patients with gastroesophageal diseases, obesity and hernia. She offers a range of laparoscopic, endoscopic and traditional surgical approaches. She has actively engaged in several FDA trials and offers the latest available treatment options to her patients.
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Dr. Kara Raphael is the GI lead for the Pancreatic Cyst and High Risk Screening Program within the Pancreas Disease Center at Northwell Health. She completed her undergraduate education at Washington University in St. Louis and then obtained her medical degree from Emory University School of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine residency training at Emory before coming to the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra-Northwell, where she completed both her general gastroenterology fellowship followed by an advanced endoscopy fellowship at North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Subsequently, Dr. Raphael joined the Division of Gastroenterology at Northwell Health as one of the advanced endoscopy faculty members and as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra-Northwell. Academically, she is interested in identifying risk factors for progression of both pre-malignant and malignant pancreatic diseases, as well as developing novel endoscopic techniques for diagnosis and therapy of these diseases.
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.
Dr. Sanjaya Satapathy is currently Professor of Medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at the Hofstra University, and serving as the Medical Director of Liver Transplantation at the Northshore University Hospital/Northwell Health. Dr. Satapathy’s research focuses on NAFLD, Hepatitis C, post-transplant outcomes, particularly in patients with NASH, sarcopenia, and hepatitis C. Dr. Satapathy is a skilled advanced endoscopist including EUS and ERCP. He has published more than 150 peer reviewed publications in high impact journals (h-Index 30, i10-Index 73, Citations 4671). Dr. Satapathy is board certified in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, and Transplant Hepatology by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He has also earned a Masters in Epidemiology and Clinical Investigation from the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center. Dr. Satapathy has received several accolades throughout his career, numerous industries sponsored clinical research grants including grants from NIH and currently a Fellow of American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (FASGE), American College of Gastroenterology (FACG), American Gastroenterological Association (AGAF), American Association of the Liver Diseases (FAASLD). Dr. Satapathy is currently the Editor in Chief for Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Associate Editor of Hepatitis B Annual, and is the current steering committee member as well as the Chair of the Education subcommittee for the American Association for the Study of the Liver Diseases, Clinical Practice Sig. Most recently he was a finalist for the Truly Rising Star Award sponsored by Northwell Health. He has also been recognized by the Castle Connolly Top Doctor for 2021 and 2022.
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Arvind J. Trindade is the director of endoscopy at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and an associate professor at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. He is a national leader in clinical care and clinical research in Barrett’s esophagus. Dr. Trindade received his medical degree from Rutgers University-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 2006, and completed both his residency in internal medicine and gastroenterology fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital. He subsequently completed his advanced endoscopy fellowship at Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
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Assistant Vice President, Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Office of Academic Affairs
Northwell Health
Senior CME Program Administrator
My name is Stephanie Kamel, and I am a physician assistant student at New York Institute of Technology expecting to graduate on May 22, 2022. I received a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York where I served as a volunteer emergency first responder with NY State Parks and Fairview Fire Department. I am a member of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, and New York State Society of Physician Assistants, and am certified in advanced cardiac life support. I am currently completing a year of clinical clerkships in multiple fields of medicine in various medical centers and private practices throughout New York. After my experience with Doctors Without Borders in South Africa, I am committed to being part of a solution that will provide access to healthcare and medical resources to underserved communities.
Project Manager, CME
Northwell Health
