HEALTHY LIFESTYLE with Host Lori Anne Casdia with Guests Dr. Nick Fitterman and RJ Civello, RN from Northwell Health.
Nick Fitterman, MD, MACP, SFHM is the Executive Director Huntington Hospital
Northwell Health and Professor of Medicine, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine. Dr. Fitterman attended SUNY Stony Brook for his undergraduate education in Biochemistry (1980-84). He obtained his medical degree at the SUNY Medical School in Brooklyn (Downstate- 1984-88). He then completed a residency in Internal Medicine and a Chief Residency at the Stony Brook University Hospital (1988-1992). Dr. Fitterman founded the Huntington Hospital HMG in 2006. He was appointed Chief of Staff in 2009. Dr. Fitterman has held leadership positions in national societies (District President, state council member, Governor of NYACP; Chapter President SHM) and was recognized on the Honor Roll of Top Hospitalists in 2008. Dr. Fitterman has co-authored over 30 publications in peer-reviewed journals; is a Master of the ACP and a senior fellow of the SHM. He also served as Chair of the test writing committee of the ABIM. Dr. Fitterman has been appointed Professor of Medicine in the newly founded Hofstra University School of Medicine and participated in supervising the introduction to the clinical experience outpatient initiative of the school. In May of 2013, Northwell created a Hospital Medicine service line. Dr. Fitterman was appointed Vice-Chair of this service line, overseeing the 15 Hospital Medicine programs providing services across the Northwell Health system In October 2018 he was appointed the Executive Director of Huntington Hospital.
RJ Civello, RN is Chief Nursing Officer at South Shore University Hospital. He recently had some of his nurses care for patients during the peak COVID-19 and then sent some staff in kind to help Utah. During the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingales' birthday year - 2020 he pauses over the eventful year and the tenacity and heart of his nurses. The hospital is the recipient of the Beacon Award memorializing excellence as well as the NICHE award. Giving much credit to the successfulness of the programs at the hospitals to Maureen White who oversees 23 hospitals in the Northwell Health System.
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www.northwell.edu
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