With our celebration of Doctors’ Day, NYC Health + Hospitals honors an outstanding array group of physicians that battled the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to provide vaccinations and primary care to keep all New Yorkers healthy and safe.
Watch video message from Dr. Anthony Fauci thanking our doctors.

Bronx

Nail Cemalovic, MD
Director, Intensive Care Unit
NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln

Nelly Maseda, MD, FAAP
Director of Pediatrics
NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, Morrisania

Jessica Stoeckel, MD
Director, Intensive Care Unit
NYC Health + Hospitals/North Central Bronx

Elana Sydney, MD
Chief of Ambulatory Care
NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi
Brooklyn

Nayaz Ahmed, MD
Primary Care Physician
NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, Cumberland

Susan W. Law, DO, MPH
Neurology Attending Physician
NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County

Lucia Palladino, MD
Attending Critical Care Physician
NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull

Tess Punnapuzha, MD
Primary Care Physician
NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, East New York

Michelle Soto, MD, MBA
Chief of Ambulatory Care
NYC Health + Hospitals/Coney Island
Manhattan

Rachel Bring, MD
Attending Physician
NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, Judson

Nicola Kotchev, MD
Attending Physician, Geriatrics
NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan

Leonardo Lopez, MD
Associate Chief of Psychiatry
NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue

Sanjay Patel, MD
Infectious Diseases Physician
NYC Health + Hospitals/Carter

Cara Taubman, MD, MPH
Assistant Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Program
NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem

Deane Tsuei, MD, Ph.D.
Associate Director of Medicine
NYC Health + Hospitals/Coler
Queens

Parampreet Bakshi, MD
Associate Director of Ambulatory Care
NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens

Devorah Judith Nazarian, MD
Associate Director, Emergency Department
NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst

Tricia Camille Yusaf, MD
Associate Education Director
NYC Health + Hospitals/Simulation Center
Staten Island

Edward Rendon, MD
Attending Psychiatrist
NYC Health + Hospitals/Sea View
Citywide

Frantz Medard, MD
Attending Physician
NYC Health + Hospitals/Correctional Health Services

Sanjiv Shah, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer
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