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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Iyabode (Yabo) Alfred, PhD, RN, Vice President for Operations Catholic Health Services' Catholic Home Care and Good Shepherd Hospice have named Iyabode (Yabo) Alfred, PhD, RN, Vice President for Operations. Prior to joining CHS, Dr. Alfred served as Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer of the Visiting Nurse Association of Albany. She also spent 16 years at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York where she held various staff and administrative roles. The Staten Island resident earned her doctorate in education/nursing from Capella University, has a master's in nursing from the University of Phoenix and a bachelor's in nursing from New York University. Additionally, Dr. Alfred served as an adjunct professor at the City University of New York/Hunter College and at Long Island University. David Hirsch, MD, DDS, FACS David Hirsch, MD, DDS, FACS has been named Senior Vice President of the dental medicine service line at Northwell Health. He will continue to serve as the Chief of the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital, a position he has held for the past five years. Dr. Hirsch, who runs a successful private practice in addition to his hospital posts, is a pioneer in the field of jaw reconstruction and virtual surgical planning. Dr. Hirsch earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell University, where, in addition to graduating with honors, he was a NCAA Division I champion college wrestler. He went on to attend NYU College of Dentistry and subsequently NYU School of Medicine, where he graduated at the top of his class. Dr. Hirsch supplemented his medical training with an internship in general surgery at NYU, a six-year oral and maxillofacial surgery residency at Bellevue/NYU, and a head-and- neck surgical oncology fellowship at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center and Providence Hospital in Portland, Oregon. Krista Lim-Hing, MD, Director, Linda and John Bohlsen Neurosciences ICU at South Shore University Hospital PHOTO CREDIT: NORTHWELL HEALTH Krista Lim-Hing, MD, has been appointed Director of the Linda and John Bohlsen Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit at South Shore University Hospital (SSUH). Over the past year, Dr. Lim-Hing has served as a neurointensivist at SSUH and at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, as well as a telehealth medical intensivist at Northwell Health's eICU. Earning her medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia Regents University, Dr. Lim- Hing completed her postdoctoral training, including an internship in internal medicine and a neurology residency, at Thomas Jefferson University, as well as a fellowship in neurocritical care at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland. Her clinical expertise includes subarachnoid and intracerebral hemorrhage, acute stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, epilepticus, post-cardiac arrest and neuroethics. Aaron E. Glatt, MD, 2020 recipient of the New York Chapter of the American College of Physicians Laureate Award The New York Chapter of the American College of Physicians recently announced that Aaron E. Glatt, MD, Chair of the Department of Medicine and Chief of Infectious Diseases at Mount Sinai South Nassau, is recognized as the 2020 recipient of its prestigious Laureate Award. Dr. Glatt has also been designated a Master of the American College of Physicians by the American College of Physicians Awards Committee. The Laureate Award honors Fellows and Masters of the College who have demonstrated, by their example and conduct, an abiding commitment to excellence in medical care, education or research through service to their community, their chapter and the American College of Physicians. The American College of Physicians is the 1 4

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