David Rivadeneira was named director of the Northwell Health Cancer Institute at Huntington. For the past seven years, Rivadeneira has led surgical services and colorectal surgery at Huntington Hospital.
Rivadeneira specializes in laparoscopic, and other minimally invasive procedures including advanced robotic procedures for the treatment of colon and rectal diseases, including cancer. He is a professor of surgery at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.
The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine has devastated the Ukrainian healthcare infrastructure, disrupting cancer care, halting clinical trials, and compounding long-standing systemic challenges. Even before the war, Ukraine’s oncology system faced major constraints: Limited access to radiotherapy equipment, outdated chemotherapy supply chains, and workforce shortages. The invasion intensified these issues—cancer hospitals were damaged, warehouses destroyed,...
