Northwell Health and the START Center for Cancer Research announced plans to form a groundbreaking partnership.
Five Northwell Health hospitals received top scores in cardiothoracic surgery specialties, including certain lung procedures and open-heart surgeries, in the latest ratings from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons.
The Northwell Health Cancer Institute and its Center for Genomic Medicine opened Long Island’s first clinical Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, a $3.2 million 2,800 square foot state-of-the-art facility with technology of next-generation sequencing that provides point-of-care tumor and patient genomic profiling to inform precision cancer therapy.
Northwell Health President & CEO Michael Dowling and Bruce Stillman, President & CEO of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Source: Northwell HealthThe Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Northwell Health have renewed their affiliation that was originally announced in 2015.
A. Samer Al-Homsi, a leader in hematology, was appointed as system chief of blood and marrow transplant and cellular therapy at the Northwell Health Cancer Institute.
Mehran Habibi was named director of breast surgery for Staten Island University Hospital and chief of breast surgery for Northwell Health system’s Western Region, which includes Staten Island, Manhattan, and Westchester County. He will also serve as director of international program development for the Northwell Cancer Institute.
The Northwell Health Cancer Institute has established Cancer Care Direct, a comprehensive program to connect patients with clinical registered nurse navigators who can provide expert guidance to patients and caregivers from diagnosis to treatment to survivorship.
Richard D. Carvajal, a clinician and researcher in melanoma and early phase drug development, was named deputy physician-in-chief and director of medical oncology at the Northwell Health Cancer Institute.
Douglas Gladstone was named chief of hematologic malignancies at the Northwell Health Cancer Institute.
Northwell Health received a gift from trustee Roy J. Zuckerberg to create the R.J. Zuckerberg Cancer Hospital at Long Island Jewish Medical Center—the first cancer hospital and cancer campus on Long Island.
