Leadership
& Faculty

Program Leadership

Ivor S. Douglas, MD
Director & Chairman, 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.

Associate Program Directors

Latif Salam, MD

Jaishvi Eapen, MD

Duo Jin, MD

Liana Tatarian, DO

Jason Jacobson, MD

Program Administrators

Austin Charnis
Program Manager

Carter Taylor
Program Coordinator

Section Chiefs

Olusegun Ishmael, MD
Internal Medicine

Alan Gass, MD
Cardiology

Edward Lebovics, MD
Gastro-enterology

Michael Klein, MD Nephrology

Marc El Khoury, MD
Infectious Disease

Dipak Chandy, MD
Pulmonary/
Critical Care

Marjorie Zauderer, MD
Hematology/
Oncology

Michael Goldberg, MD
Endocrinology

Julia Ash, MD
Rheumatology

Mara Lugassy, MD
Palliative Care

Internal Medicine Ambulatory Faculty

Russel Rozario, MD
Director, Resident Clinic
WMC Alumni

Rebecca Glassman, MD
Director, Ally Care Center

Christine Carosella, MD
WMC Alumni

Abishake Sapkota, MD

Dennis John, MD
WMC Alumni

Avraham Marcucci, MD
WMC Alumni

Rachel Topp, MD
WMC Alumni

Internal Medicine Hospitalist Faculty

Keron Matthew, MD

Vincent Prawoko, MD

Shushunova Sangia, MD

Gary Guo, MD

Dafna Somogyi, MD
WMC Alumni

Yaakov Spira, MD
WMC Alumni

Ronald Cho, MD

Richard Gil, MD

Christopher Nabors, MD
WMC Alumni

Jessica Accardi, MD
WMC Alumni

Merita Shehu, MD

Tejinderpal Singh, MD

Mitra Rezvani, MD

Eric Wold, MD

David Kastrinsky, MD
WMC Alumni

Randy Goldberg, MD
WMC Alumni

Leanne Forman, MD
Past Program Director

Arif Mumtaz, MD