Ivor S. Douglas, MD, FRCP (UK), FCCP
Barbara and William Rosenthal Chair and Director
Department of Medicine

Ivor S. Douglas, MD, is the Barbara and William Rosenthal Chair and Professor of Medicine at New York Medical College, and Director of Medicine at Westchester Medical Center. He assumed these roles in 2025 after more than two decades of leadership in academic pulmonary and critical care medicine.
Dr. Douglas earned his medical degree in South Africa before completing internal medicine residency training in London, United Kingdom. He then pursued fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Chicago. Following his fellowship, he joined the faculty at the University of Colorado, where he served as Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Denver Health Medical Center and directed the Medical Intensive Care Unit from 2002 through 2025.
An internationally recognized physician-scientist, Dr. Douglas is the principal investigator of ongoing investigations in critical illness, including basic mechanistic studies of acute lung injury, sepsis, and septic shock, as well as therapeutic strategies for shock resuscitation and long-term outcomes after critical illness. He directs a research program funded by the NIH, Department of Defense, and industry sponsors, and serves on steering committees and data safety monitoring boards for multicenter international trials in critical care. His leadership in health services research includes the design and implementation of sepsis resuscitation programs using Lean systems engineering approaches.
Dr. Douglas has authored or co-authored more than one hundred scientific publications and book chapters. He is co-Editor of Principles of Critical Care, the leading international textbook in the field. His contributions to medical education have been recognized with teaching awards at the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and the University of Colorado. He has also held prominent professional leadership roles, including serving as Chair of the American Thoracic Society’s Health Policy Committee and as Chair of the ATS Critical Care Assembly Program Committee from 2014 to 2016.
Honored regularly for his clinical excellence, Dr. Douglas has been recognized annually since 2008 in Denver’s 5280 Magazine “Top Doctor” listings as well as in Best Doctors in America. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) and Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians (FCCP).
Beyond his professional commitments, Dr. Douglas is an avid music enthusiast, genealogist, and tennis player.

Animita Saha, MD
Residency Program Director

Dr. Animita Saha is a distinguished physician and educator with a comprehensive background in internal medicine. She earned her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Nilratan Sircar Medical College in Kolkata, India, in 1988. Following her medical degree, Dr. Saha completed her MD in Anesthesiology at the Institute of Medical Sciences, Varanasi, India, in 1995. She pursued further training in internal medicine, serving as an intern and resident at Long Island College Hospital (SUNY Downstate), Brooklyn, New York, from 1995 to 1998.
She has been a prominent educator, serving as Associate Professor at the UNC School of Medicine and Wake Forest School of Medicine, and currently as Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Westchester Medical Center.
Her teaching portfolio includes roles as a preceptor and course director at various prestigious institutions, and she has been instrumental in developing and delivering didactic and systematic instruction across several programs. Dr. Saha has also made significant contributions to clinical practice, including innovations in patient care and quality improvement initiatives. Her present areas of special interest and expertise include safe opioid prescription, treatment for opioid use disorder, complex care management with high SDOH index and primary care of adults with development disability.
Dr. Saha is actively involved in community service and global outreach, including volunteer work with unhoused individuals, drug and alcohol rehab programs, and COVID-19 relief efforts. Her leadership extends to serving on advisory boards for non-profit organizations focused on education and public health efforts in underserved population in Indian subcontinent and autism advocacy.
Recognized for her dedication, Dr. Saha has received numerous honors, including the Volunteerism and Community Service Award and the Diversity Champion Award. Her impactful work continues to influence both local and international healthcare communities.

Jason Goutis, MD
Director, Adult Ambulatory Care Clinic

After majoring in Biochemistry at Tufts University and obtaining a master’s degree in Physiology from Georgetown University, Dr. Goutis attended medical school at the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara in Mexico. He completed a required fifth year through New York Medical College, after which he completed his residency in internal medicine at Westchester Medical Center. After residency, Dr. Goutis joined the faculty at WMC and currently is involved in supervising and teaching residents primarily in the outpatient continuity clinic. He is the Director of the Point-of-Care Ultrasound Program for internal medicine, as well as the Chair of the Quality Assurance Process Improvement Committee. He also has special interest in global medicine and medical missions.

Latif Salam, MD
Associate Program Director

Dr. Latif Salam holds a position of Attending Physician and Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine. Before coming to Westchester Medical Center, Dr. Salam served as a teaching faculty at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, NY where he spent the last seven years as an Academic Hospitalist in the Department of Medicine. He was a member of the SUNY Downstate College of Medicine Admissions & Interview Committee. He has received multiple prestigious awards including Teacher of the Year in recognition of his dedication to teaching and academic medicine. Dr. Salam completed his Internal Medicine Residency Training at New York Presbyterian-Brooklyn Methodist Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and a fellow of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Salam holds strong interest in healthcare disparity amongst minorities and in mentorship of medical students interested in Internal Medicine specialty.

Jaishvi Eapen, MD
Associate Program Director

Dr. Jaishvi Eapen is an Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine residency program and an Assistant Professor at New York Medical College’s Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology. She completed her internal medicine residency at NYU School of Medicine (Brooklyn Campus) and her Infectious Disease fellowship at NYU School of Medicine (Manhattan Campus).
She previously served as teaching faculty and Associate Program Director for the Infectious Disease Fellowship Program at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, where she was honored with the Teacher of the Year Award during her first year as an attending.
Dr. Eapen joined Westchester Medical Center in 2022, where she continues to pursue her professional interests in graduate medical education, patient safety and quality improvement, and antimicrobial stewardship. In recognition of her sustained commitment to excellence in clinical teaching and medical professionalism, she was elected to membership in Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA), the national medical honor society.

Liana Tatarian, MD
Associate Program Director

Dr. Tatarian is Associate Residency Program Director and Assistant Professor of Medicine at New York Medical College. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency through the Stony Brook University Hospital system where she was appointed Chief Resident for her exceptional leadership skills. Following completion of residency, she joined Westchester Medical Center in 2021 as an Academic Hospitalist. She is deeply passionate about resident education and looks forward to mentoring the next generation of exceptional physicians.

Austin Charnis
Residency Program Manager, Internal Medicine

Austin Charnis, a native of Westchester County, has been the administrator of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Westchester Medical Center since 2019. Prior to this role Austin held positions at our institution as fellowship coordinator in medicine subspecialties and administrative assistant in the Office of Graduate Medical Education. His professional interests include medical education, communications and technology, and he is highly passionate about supporting our residents, faculty and staff.

Jason Jacobson, MD
Associate Program Director
Residency Research Coordinator

Dr. Jason Jacobson is an academic cardiac electrophysiologist with a strong interest in developing novel approaches for the management of ventricular arrhythmia, particularly in patients with structural heart disease, a population significantly affected by electrical disorders. He has conducted basic studies using both small and large mammalian models to define the structural and anatomical origins of rhythm disturbances.
Dr. Jacobson’s central area of investigation focuses on the electrophysiologic identification of ventricular tachycardia substrate in patients with structural heart disease, integrating advanced imaging techniques such as intracardiac echocardiography, cardiac CT, and MRI. In addition, his research emphasizes the implementation of electroanatomic mapping techniques in clinical settings and the application of pulsed field ablation in the ventricles, in collaboration with industry partners to develop innovative systems for clinical use.

Andrea Porrovecchio, MD, FACP
Section Chief, General Internal Medicine

Dr. Porrovecchio completed her medical degree from New York Medical College in June 2002. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Keesler Medical Center in June 2005 while serving on active duty in the United States Air Force. She was recruited to join the faculty at the Montefiore/Einstein in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an academic hospitalist after completing her active-duty commitment to the USAF in 2008. She held multiple leadership roles there including Director of the Medical Service and the Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency at the Wakefield Campus. She came to Westchester Medical Center as the Section Chief for General Internal Medicine in September 2020. Her interests include Quality and Process Improvement and Point of Care Ultrasound.

Leanne Forman, MD
Immediate Past Program Director

Dr. Forman served as program director from 2017 to 2024, after serving in leadership positions in the residency as the Section Chief and Director of Outpatient Medicine for more than ten years. Dr. Forman has more than 25 years of experience in graduate and undergraduate medical education at several distinguished institutions. She has consistently been recognized for excellence in teaching and contributions to the program.