NEWSMAKERS plus awards and events NEW STATEN ISLAND SITE FOR ENTA
TWO DOCTORS JOIN WESTMED
ENT AND ALLERGY ASSOCIATES L.L.P® (ENTA) has embarked on an ambitious expansion of its Staten Island office. In March 2014, the Staten Island office of ENTA will relocate to 1 Teleport Drive from its current address at 1887 Richmond Ave. The new, larger office will include 16 exam rooms, three of them for allergy. The in-house audiology suite will include two audiology booths, an advanced audiology testing room and a hearing aid dispensary. To enhance the range of available services, ENTA also announced that its four-bed sleep lab will be at the new 1 Teleport Drive location, ensuring that the practice maintains comprehensive care at all of its 40 facilities. “When the opportunity to relocate our Staten Island office arose, we leapt at the chance to provide more exam rooms, more technology and further space for growth,” said Dr. Wayne Eisman, ENTA president. DR. GAIL M. DELASHO
FULL STEAM AHEAD IN BROOKLYN ENT AND ALLERGY ASSOCIATES® L.L.P. (ENTA) headquartered in Tarrytown, confirmed that its brand new 12,000-square-foot clinical site at 1 Pierrepont Plaza in Brooklyn Heights will be opening shortly; construction is scheduled to begin by mid-October. This development –– which will allow ENTA, an advanced ear, nose, throat, allergy and audiology medical practice to better serve the communities of Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, downtown Brooklyn, Park Slope, Dumbo, Carroll Gardens, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene and Boerum Hills, –– is the result of a lease signed with the building’s landlord, Forest City Pierrepont Inc., as well as the primary tenant, Mount Sinai Hospital. ENTA has an affiliation with Mount Sinai across the practice’s 40 offices throughout New York and New Jersey particularly for the screening and treatment of diseases of the head, neck and esophagus. Members of the practice at the site include Ramez Habib, otolaryngologist; Sheldon Palgon, otolaryngologist; Christopher Song, otolaryngologist; Francisca Yao, otolaryngologist; Roheen Raithatha, fellowship trained rhinologist and skull base surgeon; Milo Vassallo, allergist and immunologist; and Sofya Shlafman, audiologist. Tahl Colen, fellowship trained neurootologist from the Bay Ridge East office, will see patients on a part-time basis. ENTA is also recruiting a board-certified, fellowshiptrained pediatric otolaryngologist for this location to further bolster the range of services provided. For more information, visit entandallergy.com.
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DR. GAIL M. DELASHO of Ridgefield, Conn., and DR. JULIANNE MARIE DUNNE of White Plains with offices at 1230 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains, have joined WESTMED Medical Group, a Purchase-based multispecialty medical practice. DeLasho has been in private practice in White Plains since 2001. In her gynecology- only practice, she sees women of all ages, with a special emphasis on perimenopause and menopause. She is board certified and is a Fellow, American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists. After receiving her medical degree from St. George’s University School of Medicine, DeLasho completed her residency training at Boston City Hospital and an ultrasound fellowship at King’s College Hospital in London, England. She was previously attending staff at Saint John’s Episcopal Hospital, where she supervised
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residents and house physicians. After that, Dr. DeLasho was a staff physician with Kaiser Permanente and served as the OB/ GYN department’s acting chief. She is affiliated with White Plains Hospital and The Rye Ambulatory Surgery Center. Dunne is board certified and a Fellow, American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She has been in practice in the White Plains area since 1999 and in private practice since 2008. She sees women of all ages in her gynecology-only practice and has a special interest in adolescent gynecology. After completing a pre-med program at Columbia University, she received her medical degree at Cornell University Medical College and went on to do her internship and residency training at The New York Hospital. Dunne is affiliated with White Plains Hospital and The Rye Ambulatory Surgery Center.
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SUSAN LAUER, principal of Aspire Consulting in Hyde Park, was named to Careers for People with Disabilities Inc. Board of Directors. Located in Valhalla, Careers’ mission is to insure disabled individuals find sustained, meaningful employment in the communities in which they live. Aspire Consulting offers companies creative, effective ways to meet strategic planning, leadership development and process improvement challenges. A resident of Briarcliff Manor, Lauer is a member of a number of community organizations, including Ossining Communities that Care, Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce, Affiliate Resource Associates Corp., Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Healthcare Industry Foundation and the American College of Healthcare Executives. For more information about Careers programs for disabled individuals or employers in need of qualified help, contact the Valhalla office at 741-8500, or the Carmel office at (845) 225-8007 or visit careersforpeoplewithdisabilities.org.
SOPHIE R. KAUFMAN, DPS, has been appointed to the position of assistant dean for grants and strategic initiatives at Pace University College of Health Professions. Kaufman started at Pace in 2002 as administrative director and in 2011 was appointed to executive director of ALPS (Advancing Leadership, Partnerships and Scholarship) at the College of Health Professions’ Center of Excellence. During her time at Pace, Kaufman has facilitated the acquisition of millions of dollars of external grant funding, overseeing endowed student scholarships and other endowed accounts, assisting faculty to seek internal and external grant funding, coordinating the work of graduate assistants, fostering international partnerships for CHP faculty and students and more. During the past few years she also pursued the Doctor of Professional Studies degree at Pace/Lubin, which she received at the May commencement.