New York Magazine names 29 St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan Physicians as Top Docs in New York Metro Area
07/08/2008
Contact: Mary Mooney
212/604-2675
New York, NY (July 8, 2008) - New York Magazine has rated 29 doctors from St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan among the best doctors of 2008 in its June 16 issue. The 29 doctors included in the magazine's annual 'Who's Who' of New York's medical community cover a wide variety of specialties at the hospital.
'We are thrilled to have so many physicians from our system listed among the best in the entire New York metropolitan area,' said Henry Amoroso. 'This demonstrates the high quality of care we offer at St. Vincent's Manhattan.'
The magazine's prestigious list of top physicians is compiled in collaboration with Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., the publishers of Top Doctors: New York Metro Area. The selections are based on surveys of more than 20,000 doctors, nurses and hospital administrators, who answered questionnaires distributed by Castle Connolly researchers. The roster contains the names of doctors in New York City, Long Island, Rockland County, Westchester County, northern and central New Jersey, and Fairfield County, Connecticut.
The 29 St. Vincent's doctors named are Reese Abright, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Ashok Anant, Neurological Surgery; Alan Astrow, Medical Oncology; Deborah Axelrod, Surgery; Godfrey Burns, Nephrology; Salvatore Caruana, Otolaryngology; John Coppola, Cardiovascular Disease; Jay Dolitsky, Pediatric Otolaryngology; Michael Fanucchi, Medical Oncology; Hal Freiman, Gastroenterology; Bruce Gingold, Colon and Rectal Surgery; Norman Godfrey, Plastic Surgery; Philip Godfrey, Plastic Surgery; Michael Grasso, Urology; Robert Grossi, Vascular Surgery; Samuel Grubman, Allergy and Immunology; Sanford Kempin, Hematology; Adam Kolker, Plastic Surgery; Samuel Lang, Thoracic Surgery; Christopher Linstrom, Otolaryngology; Mary Marron-Corwin, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine; David Mazza, Allergy & Immunology; Andrew Merola, Orthopaedic Surgery; Christopher Mills, Surgery; Raj Murali, Neurological Surgery; Jeffrey Nichols, Geriatric Medicine; John Romano, Dermatology; Henry Tischler, Orthopaedic Surgery and Peter Zeale, Internal Medicine.
About Saint Vincent's
Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers (Saint Vincent's) is anchored by St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan, an academic medical center located in Greenwich Village and the only
emergency room on the Westside of Manhattan from Midtown to Tribeca, St. Vincent's Westchester, a behavioral health hospital in Westchester County, and continuing care services that include two skilled nursing facilities in Brooklyn, another on Staten Island, a hospice, and a home health agency serving the Metropolitan New York area. Its behavioral health services also provide supportive housing programs for people with mental illness throughout the Metropolitan area. Saint Vincent's is the designated provider for the New York and New Jersey region of the US Family Health Plan sponsored by the US Department of Defense.
Saint Vincent's serves as the academic medical center of New York Medical College in New York City. The healthcare organization is sponsored by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Brooklyn and the president of the Sisters of Charity of New York.
