Dr. Schwartz is board certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Chest Physicians. He is also a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the Western Thoracic Surgical Association, the American Medical Association, the American Heart Association, the New York State Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the Andrew G. Morrow Society, the Frank Spencer Surgical Society, the Los Angeles Heart Institute, the Los Angeles Country Medical Association, the Medical Society of the State of New York, the American Diabetes Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Schwartz is also the author of numerous papers and has been published in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, the European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Circulation, the Journal of Surgical Research, the Journal of Lipid Research, the America Journal of Cardiology and the Journal of Laproendoscopic Surgery. Dr. Schwartz has also written several book chapters and numerous abstracts. He is a Merle Wood Scholar of the Andrew G. Morrow Society from the National Institute of Health, and is the past recipient of the Sampson Award from the Western Thoracic Surgical Association, the Bristol Award from the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Schwartz received his post-graduate medical training in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery at New York University Medical Center and his general surgical training from Albert Einstein College of Medicine Montefiore Medical Center. Dr. Schwartz completed a surgical research fellowship at New York University.
Winthrop to host walk
In recognition of National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month in October, Winthrop-University Hospital's Department of Social Work and Women's Health Services will hold its second annual "Walk to Remember" on Saturday, Oct. 1, at 10 a.m. at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow. The walk will benefit families that are newly bereaved due to pregnancy loss, stillbirth, early infant loss and loss due to fetal abnormalities, as well as to memorialize and remember their losses."Our walk is dedicated to all the babies who die each year from any cause prior to or after birth," said Margaret Fusco, a maternal child social worker at Winthrop. "It also symbolically joins all the people nationwide who are working to raise awareness of prenatal grief and ensure that sensitive care is given to parents who experience the death of a baby or loss of a pregnancy."Last year's inaugural walk drew more than 200 people.For more information or to register for the Walk to Remember, call (516) 663-9363.
Winthrop's fourth cath lab opens
To meet the growing needs of Long Islanders with heart disease and blood vessel disorders in the neck, arms and legs, Winthrop-University Hospital has just opened its fourth catheterization laboratory.Housed in the Mineola hospital's Miller Interventional Cardiology Pavilion, this state-of-the-art, technologically advanced facility permits both cardiac and vascular procedures to be performed in the same space. "This [new facility] gives Winthrop extraordinary flexibility and lets us maximize technology to benefit even more patients," said Kevin P. Marzo, chief of Winthrop's Division of Cardiology and director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory. "Having the ability to see tiny details more clearly allows the physician to perform these delicate procedures with more safety and skill than ever before." Heart patients are currently being treated in the new lab. Persons with peripheral vascular disease will be treated beginning in early 2006.The laboratory and its equipment, manufactured by the General Electric Company, has one of the most sophisticated imaging systems in use today, including flat-panel technology that offers incredible resolution of real-time images. In the latest DOH report on Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (angioplasties) for the 2001-03 three-year cycle, Winthrop's interventional cardiology program had the lowest risk-adjusted mortality rate (RAMR, 0.38%) on Long Island for all angioplasty procedures both in emergency and non-emergency cases. The hospital had significantly lower rates than the statewide average, designated with a two-star ranking, for the three-year periods of 1999-2001, 2000-2002 and 2001-2003, as well as the individual year of 2001.
