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Graduate School of Social Service. She was named Social Worker of the Year for 2016 by the National Association of Puerto Rican Hispanic Social Workers, and in 2015 received the Unidad Latina Leadership Award from the New York State Senate. Diaz resides in Smithtown with her wife, Erma. Mercy Medical Center has appointed Shan Ahmed, DO, MS, FACOEP, FACEP, CHCQM, Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of Medical Affairs. His extensive background and clinical expertise will help further Mercy's overall strategic vision for leading-edge expertise, advanced technology and compassionate care. Previously, Dr. Ahmed was the regional medical director and director of operations for Island Medical Management (IMM) in Hauppauge. IMM provides physician management and staffing services to more than 80 hospitals throughout the U.S. At IMM, Dr. Ahmed managed several emergency departments including those of St. Joseph Hospital, St. Charles Hospital, St. Catherine's of Siena Medical Center and South Nassau Communities Hospital. Dr. Ahmed earned his bachelor's degree at SUNY Stony Brook and his doctorate at New York Institute of Technology, New York College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM). He completed his residency in emergency medicine at Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip and was on staff there for several years as an attending physician and assistant residency director. Dr. Ahmed's teaching experience includes being part of the core faculty in the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Good Samaritan. He also was on faculty at the NYITCOM. Dr. Ahmed has delivered many lectures at medical conventions locally and nationally. In addition, he served as chair of the Undergraduate Medical Education Committee for many years for the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians. Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Professor Haichao Wang, PhD, received a¥$1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute for General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to continue his search to identify different proteins associated with sepsis, which could lead to a targeted treatment for the condition. This is the fourth NIH grant¥since 2002 that Wang has received for sepsis research. Wang and his team will be examining the levels of TTN and HMGB1 in mice to map the different ways TTN and HMGB1 are interacting to increase or reduce the inflammation related to sepsis. Dorf & Nelson LLP announced today that noted medical malpractice defense litigator John Lyddane has joined the firm as a partner. Lyddane will head up Dorf & Nelson's Medical Malpractice Defense Group in New York. He joins from Martin Clearwater & Bell. Lyddane has tried well over 250 cases to dismissal or verdict. His cases have included malpractice claims and product liability as well as general commercial litigation, usually with a highly technical factual component. He is also a widely published and frequent speaker on professional liability and risk management topics. His wide-ranging roster of corporate clients has included hospitals, insurance carriers, product manufacturers, large residential landlords, municipalities and the state of New York. He also has represented numerous prominent individual defendants including physicians at teaching hospitals, other attorneys and engineers. Additionally, he has ser ved as national claims counsel for two corporate suppliers of medical ser vices. Lyddane holds a J.D. from Syracuse University School of Law, and a Bachelor of Arts from The University of Rochester. Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Associate Professor Ona E. Bloom, PhD, un - covered that white blood cell genes are present at different levels in people with spinal cord injuries. These findings, published online in the Journal of Neurotrauma, are a first step to understanding and developing better interven - tions for infections in people with spinal cord injury, which is the leading cause of death in these individuals. South Nassau Communities Hospital recently appointed Rockville Centre pulmonologist Frank Coletta, MD, FCCP, Co-chair of its prestigious President's Club. Comprised of more than 350 physi - cians, local business leaders, and South Nassau administrators, staff and board members, the President's Club has been at the forefront of leadership and philanthropy at South Nassau. In addition to serving as its Medical Staff President and Co-Director of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Dr. Coletta holds numerous leadership positions at South Nassau including Co-director, Respiratory Care Department; Co-director, Center for Sleep Medicine and Board Member of its ACO. He also serves on the hospital's Ethics Committee, Physicians Advisory Group, EMR Steering Committee, Trauma Committee, and Medical Board. He also has served as chair of the Critical Care Steering and Performance Improvement Committee. Dr. Coletta, who joined South Nassau's medical staff in July 1996, is board-certified in Pulmonary Medicine and Sleep Medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine. ■ Shan Ahmed, DO, MS, FACOEP, FACEP, CHCQM Haichao Wang, PhD Haichao Wang, PhD Ona E. Bloom, PhD Ona E. Bloom, PhD 1 7 M D N E W S . C O M /// M D N E W S L O N G I S L A N D ■ 2 018

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