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Sands Point resident and cancer survivor Peter A. Forman presented the medical staff at NYU Winthrop Hospital with a large ship's bell that is to serve as a symbol of hope in the hospital's Oncology/Hematology Infusion Center. The bell is to be rung in celebration by patients — like Forman — who conquer cancer. Forman initiated the bell-ringing to mark the milestone that his own treatments have concluded, and he is now cancer-free. In honor of all those that come after him in conquering cancer, Forman had the new brass bell inscribed with the following, "Ring this bell, three times well, to celebrate this day. This course is run, my treatment done; now I am on my way." From left, in rear row: Peter Forman and his family are joined by Jaime Andres Suarez-Londono, MD, and Jeffrey Schneider, MD, at NYU Winthrop Hospital. Joseph J. Fennessy Anthony Cancellieri The Chair and Vice Chair of South Nassau's Board of Directors, Joseph J. Fennessy and Anthony Cancellieri, respectively, have been appointed to the Boards of Trustees of the Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS). Fennessy has served on South Nassau's Board of Directors since September of 2003 and was elected Chair in June 2012. He is a retired former partner and Chief Operating Officer of the Deloitte & Touche LLP's Northeast region. Cancellieri, formerly a Vice President of Park Strategies LLC, was appointed to South Nassau's Board of Directors in 2009. Prior to joining Park Strategies in October 2006, Cancellieri served as Chief Deputy County Executive of Nassau County, the highest- ranking appointed official within the coun - ty administration. NYU Winthrop Hospital announced that Lyn Weiss, MD, has joined the hospital as the inaugural Chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr. Weiss brings to the hospital more than 30 years of expertise in rehabilitation medicine and is an industry trailblazer who was among the first-ever women (in 1996) to serve as Chair of a hospital's rehabilitation department. In her leadership position at NYU Winthrop, she will align the services of the hospital's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation department with that of NYU Langone's Rusk Rehabilitation, which for 29 consecutive years has been ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top 10 rehabilitation programs in the country. Lyn Weiss, MD Prior to joining NYU Winthrop, Dr. Weiss was Chair and Director of Residency Training for the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Nassau University Medical Center, where she was also Director of Electrodiagnostic Medicine and Chair of the Ethics Committee. She is board-certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (also called physiatry) as well as Electrodiagnostic Medicine. T. Christopher Windham, MD Steven H. Stepp Sunny P. Chiu, MPH Catholic Health Services (CHS) announced key leadership appointments for its physician partner groups. T. Christopher Windham, MD, has joined as Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of CHS Physician Partners (CHSPP), the health system's network of 1,800 physicians. Steven H. Stepp has been named Vice President of Population Health Analytics at CHSPP. Also, Sunny P. Chiu, MPH, has been named Chief Administrative Officer for the employed physi - cian group, which includes about 250 physicians. Before CHSPP, Dr. Windham, a surgical on- cologist, earned his medical degree at Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia and a master's in Health Care Management from Harvard University. Stepp comes from WakeMed Health & Hospitals in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he was the Director of Informatics and Decision Support and led the organization's data and analytics team. He earned a Master of Business Administration from Temple University and a bachelor's in operations management and in - dustrial engineering at Susquehanna University. Chiu recently served as Chief Administrative Officer for Mount Sinai Health Partners and Vice President of Mount Sinai Health Systems' Community Practice Services. He earned a Master of Public Health from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and a Master of Business Administration from University of California. n 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 ■ 2 019 1 9

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