Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer/Chief Financial Officer
Mount Sinai South Nassau
CHRISTINE PONZIO
Executive Director
Winters Center for Autism
KAITLIN POWERS
Regional Director of Admissions
Long Beach Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
AMY RECCO
COO, Owner & Vice President
Friends for Life Homecare & Medicaid Consultants
JEFFREY L. REYNOLDS, PhD
President & CEO
Family & Children’s Association
YOLANDA ROBANO-GROSS, LMSW, MHA
CEO
Options for Community Living, Inc.
STAVROULA SAVELIDIS, MS
Executive Director
Nassau County Medical Society
KERRI ANNE SCANLON, RN, FAAN
Executive Director
Glen Cove Hospital, Northwell Health
MELISSA SCHACHTER, MS, CCC-SLP, TSSLD
Director
Speech Language Place
GARY SCHLESINGER
President & CEO
ParCare Community Health Network
CMSGT (RET.) EDWARD SCHLOEMAN
Chairman
Operation Warrior Shield
AMY SILVA-MAGALHAES
COO
The Bristal Assisted Living
SHARON SOMEKH, MD, IBCLC
Pediatrician
Concierge Pediatric Practice
SPECIAL AWARDS
DISTINGUISHED VISIONARY
MICHAEL J. DOWLING
CEO
Northwell Health
DISTINGUISHED VISIONARY
PATRICK M. O’SHAUGHNESSY, DO, MBA
President & CEO
Catholic Health
EDUCATION
DAVID BATTINELLI, MD
Executive Vice President & Physician-in-Chief,
Northwell Health
Dean,
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
EDUCATION
MARIA FLETCHER, PhD
Associate Dean for Nursing & Associate Professor
St. Joseph’s University
EDUCATION
DEBORAH HUNT, PhD, RN
Dean & Professor
Adelphi University
EDUCATION
PETER IGARASHI, MD
Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook
Stony Brook Medicine
EDUCATION
NICOLE WADSWORTH
Dean & Professor
New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM)
EDUCATION
CHRISTOPHER R. VAKOC, MD/PhD
Alan and Edith Seligson Professor of Cancer Research
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR
PROF. CHAD BOUTON
VP, Advanced Engineering, Director of Neural Bypass and Brain-Computer Interface Laboratory,
Institute for Bioelectronic Medicine Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research,
Northwell Health