New York Magazine Best Doctors 2011: St. Francis Has More Top Doctors for Cardiac Care than Any Other Hospital on Long Island

Roslyn, New York – Once again, St. Francis Hospital, The Heart Center® has more top doctors for cardiac care on this year’s New York Magazine Best Doctors list than any other hospital on Long Island. Eight St. Francis physicians made the selective list, six of them in a cardiac specialty category.

The popular, yearly list is generated by Castle Connolly, the publisher of America’s Top Doctors, which is widely recognized as one of the most authoritative guides to the best physicians in the nation. New York Magazine’s complete list can be accessed at http://newyorkmetro.com/bestdoctors/index.htm.

Congratulations to all of the St. Francis physicians who made the 2011 list in both cardiac and noncardiac specialties:

Who picks the doctors?

A New York City research and information company, Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., publishes an annual guidebook, Top Doctors: New York Metro Area, which lists those whom Castle Connolly has determined to be in the top 10 percent of the region’s physicians – more than 6,000 in all. For the past fourteen years, Castle Connolly has been providing New York Magazine with a shorter version of this list for the magazine’s “Best Doctors” issue. Space prohibits New York from publishing the full list; this year the doctors on the list number 1,144.

Please see full list below of all the St. Francis physicians in the New York Metro edition.

2011 Castle Connolly America’s Top Doctors New York Metro Area

St. Francis Hospital Physicians

Meyer Abittan, M.D. (Interventional Cardiology)
Andrew Berke, M.D. (Interventional Cardiology)
Jay Bosworth, M.D. (Radiation-Oncology)
Robert Broderick, M.D. (Ophthalmology)
Kenneth Crystal, M.D. (Radiology Orthopedic)
Richard D'Agostino, M.D. (Surgery)
Gregory DeVita, M.D. (Plastic Surgery)
Ari Ezratty, M.D. (Cardiovascular Disease)
Joseph Feinberg, M.D. (Plastic Surgery)
Harold Fernandez, M.D. (Thoracic Surgery)
Marvin Frogel, M.D. (Psychiatry)
Gary Gecelter, M.D. (Surgery)
Aaron Gindea, M.D. (Cardiovascular Disease)
Leslie Goldberg, M.D. (Ophthalmology)
Kenneth Goodman, M.D. (Diagnostic Radiology)
Jeffrey Gordon, M.D. (Endocrinology)
Steven Greenberg, M.D. (Cardiovascular Disease)
Ronnie Hershman, M.D. (Cardiovascular Disease)
Lewis Kurtz, M.D. (Surgery)
Sean Levchuck, M.D. (Pediatric Cardiology)
Joseph Levine, M.D. (Cardiac Electrophysiology)*
Andrew Lituchy, M.D. (Interventional Cardiology)
Alan Marks, M.D. (Ophthalmology)
Kenneth Mattucci, M.D. (Otolaryngology)
Michael Moseson, M.D. (Colon and Rectal Surgery)
Thomas Nicosia, M.D. (Cardiovascular Disease)
Thomas Pappas, M.D. (Cardiovascular Disease)
Philip Perlman, M.D. (Otolaryngology)
George Petrossian, M.D. (Interventional Cardiology)*
Philip Ragone, M.D. (Neurology)
Milton Reitman, M.D. (Pediatric Cardiology)
Daniel Rich, M.D. (Orthopedic Surgery)
Newell Robinson, M.D. (Thoracic Surgery)
Kenneth Rosenthal, M.D. (Ophthalmology)
Steve Rucker, M.D. (Internal Medicine)
Scott Sherman, M.D. (Diagnostic Radiology)
Richard Shlofmitz, M.D. (Cardiovascular Disease)*
Raymond Soletic, M.D. (Otolaryngology)
Louise Spadaro, M.D. (Cardiovascular Disease)
James Taylor, M.D. (Thoracic Surgery)
Ambrose Vallone, M.D. (Pediatric Cardiology)
Rita Weiss, M.D. (Oncology)

*These three doctors were also selected for inclusion in America’s Top Doctors (National Edition).

Contact:
Paul Barry, 516-705-6657, paul.barry@chsli.org
Rosemary Gomez, 516-705-6656, rosemary.gomez@chsli.org