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Cohen Children’s Medical Center has appointed Fiona Levy, MD, as the new medical director at Cohen Children’s Medical Center, where she will oversee the hospital’s medical staff, lead medical staff engagement and development, and participate in community outreach efforts.

Levy will work collaboratively with the provider staff, residents, nursing, hospital leadership and all other disciplines to help ensure the delivery of high-quality, effective, efficient and patient-centered care.

Levy joins Cohen Children’s from Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital—part of NYU Langone Health—where she served as executive director of the Sala Institute for Child and Family Centered Care since 2014. She also served as vice chair of clinical affairs for the Department of Pediatrics at the New York University School of Medicine.

Prior to that, Levy spent three years as vice president and chief quality officer at Cohen Children’s, during which time she was also an attending physician in the hospital’s pediatric intensive care unit and a professor of pediatrics at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Earlier in her career, Levy held a number of clinical leadership positions at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Children’s Medical Center Dallas.

Levy earned her medical degree from New York Medical College and she also holds a Master of Business Administration from Washington University and a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from Wellesley College. Throughout her career, Levy has completed a number of prestigious committee assignments and she currently serves on the board of trustees for the Children’s Hospital Association.

Cohen Children’s Medical Center is also pleased to announce that Nancy Palumbo, MD—who served as the hospital’s interim medical director since January 2022 while continuing her role as chief of hospital medicine—has been promoted to associate medical director for Cohen Children’s. Palumbo joined Cohen Children’s as a pediatric hospitalist in 2008 and later served as associate pediatric program director, director of the pediatrics hospitalist program, and division chief for pediatric hospitalist medicine. A graduate of Northwell’s high-potential physician program, she is also an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Zucker School of Medicine. Palumbo earned her medical degree from SUNY Downstate Medical School and her bachelor’s degree from New York University.

Northwell Health is New York State’s largest health care provider and private employer, with 21 hospitals, 850 outpatient facilities and more than 12,000 affiliated physicians. The health provider cares for more than two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from its communities. Its 79,000 employees—18,900 nurses and 4,900 employed doctors, including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners—are working to change health care for the better. Breakthroughs are being made in medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. The next generation of medical professionals is being trained at the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies. For information on Northwell Health’s more than 100 medical specialties, visit www.Northwell.edu and follow them @ NorthwellHealth on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.

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