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Glen Cove Hospital announced that Luigi M. Capobianco, MD, has been appointed Chief of Geriatrics at Glen Cove Hospital. Philip V. DeLuca, MD, has been named Chief of General Internal Medicine at the facility. Both physicians are affiliated with the School Street Family Practice in Glen Cove. Dr. Capobianco holds numerous positions at community nursing and rehabilitation facilities, including Medical Director of the Visiting Nurse Association of Long Island and the Ozanam Hall of Queens Nursing Home. He also is an attending physician at Glengariff-Health Related Facility and Marquis Care Center, both in Glen Cove. Since 1988, he has been an attending physician at Glen Cove Hospital and also served as chief resident. Dr. Capobianco earned his medical degree from the University of Sienna Faculty of Medicine and Surgery in Sienna, Italy, and completed his residency in family practice at Glen Cove Hospital. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Practice and the American College of Specialists on Geriatrics. Dr. Capobianco is board-certified in family practice, geriatrics, family and internal medicine, and medical directorship. He is an Adjunct Clinical Professor at LIU Post–Long Island University's School of Health Professions. Dr. DeLuca earned his medical degree from the Universita Degli Studi Catania in Catania, Italy. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Northeastern Ohio University College of Medicine. Dr. DeLuca is an attending physician at the Marquis Care Center and Glengariff–Poplar Hill Facility in Glen Cove. Board-certified in internal medi - cine, Dr. DeLuca is a member of the American Medical Association, the New York State Medical Society and the Nassau County Medical Society. He has served in several leadership roles of the Medical Board at Glen Cove Hospital, including president, vice president and secretary/treasurer. Neuropsychologist Gad E. Klein, PhD, Co- Director of the Long Island Concussion Center at Neurological Surgery, P.C., was interviewed by NBC New York's Pei-Sze Cheng on the safety of football helmets used by student athletes in tri-state schools. The in-depth investigative story, which aired in November, addressed the recent rise in football-related concussions in high school sports, and whether certain helmets provide more protection than others. Nyapati R. Rao, MD, MS, Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Nassau University Medical Center, has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates. Dr. Rao's initial term will be four years, Jan. 1, 2015–Dec. 31, 2018, at which time he will be eligible for re-election to a final four-year term. Dr. Rao is a leading scholar on the demographic, labor relations, educational, sociocultural, and developmental issues facing international medical graduate (IMG) physicians. For more than two de - cades, he has also been a tireless advocate for IMG physicians in numerous medical professional forums. For the past eight years, he has been the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Chief Academic Officer at NuHealth's Nassau University Medical Center, an award-winning safety-net hospital for the underserved whose staff includes a significant number of IMG physicians. Prior to 2006, for 19 years he served as a psychiatry training director, first at Brookdale Hospital and then at SUNY Downstate Medical School. Raj K. Narayan, MD, and Brett E. Skolnick, PhD, are among the authors of a paper published in December on a clinical trial of progesterone for severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). The study concluded that there were no clinical benefits after five days of treatment with a novel formu - lation of progesterone acutely administered to patients with TBI. "A Clinical Trial of Progesterone for Severe Traumatic Brain Injury" was published online by The New England Journal of Medicine, Dec. 10 and in print on Dec. 25, 2014. The study was funded by BHR Pharma. n Luigi M. Capobianco, MD Philip V. DeLuca, MD Brett E. Skolnick, PhD Raj K. Narayan, MD Gad E. Klein, PhD SHARE YOUR NEWS MD NEWS IS now accepting submissions for our new People in the News section, which highlights physicians, executives and organizations making news in our region. Submissions may include: + New appointments/elected positions + New initiatives and partnerships + Newly published research + Awards and achievements + Topics of local interest Please keep your submissions brief. Publication of submissions and/or headshots/photos is on a space-available basis. Please email submissions and high-resolution images to Paula Slater at pslater.mdn@verizon.net with the subject field "People in the News." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + +++ + +++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PEOPLE IN THE NEWS 1 2 | Long Island MD NEWS n M D N E W S . CO M

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