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Biography: Dr. Pressman is the Associate Program Director of the Cardiology Fellowship program. He joined Einstein in March 2006 and is board certified in Cardiovascular Diseases and Adult Comprehensive Echocardiography. He is a reviewer for the American Journal of Cardiology and the International Journal of Cardiology. His research interests include mitral valve disease and sleep disorders as they affect cardiac function. Dr. Pressman was a member of the Self Study Task Force on Physician Education of the American College of Cardiology and is on the Board of Directors of the Delaware Valley Echo Society. Awards and Distinctions America's Top Cardiologists 2014 Areas of Interest: Adult Echocardiography Cardiovascular Diseases

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Biography: Dr. Pratik Patel, MD is an Interventional Cardiology Specialist who practices in Monroe Township, NJ. He is 57 years old and has been practicing for 28 years. Dr. Pratik Patel, MD is affiliated with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.

Biography: Dr. Vivian Abascal, MD is a Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. She is 68 years old and has been practicing for 42 years. Dr. Vivian Abascal, MD is affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital.

Biography: Dr. Alfonso Waller, MD is a Cardiology Specialist who practices in Newark, NJ. He is 45 years old and has been practicing for 19 years. Dr. Alfonso Waller, MD is affiliated with Newark Beth Israel Medical Center.

Biography: Dr. Matthew Montgomery is an interventional heart failure cardiologist on the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Team. Dr. Montgomery's specialties include advanced heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, heart transplantation and coronary interventions. Prior to coming to Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Jersey City Medical Center, he worked as an Internal Medicine Hospitalist at Morristown Medical Center, Aria-Jefferson Health, and Nazareth Hospital in Philadelphia. He completed fellowships in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center as well as Interventional and General Cardiology fellowships at Deborah Heart and Lung Center. He also completed his Internal Medicine residency training at Aria-Jefferson Health in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Montgomery completed his medical education at Philadelphi College of Osteopathic Medicine. He also holds a Master's in Public Health from Yale School of Public Health and a Master's in Business Administration from St. Joseph's University. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine from the American Osteopathic Board of Internal Medicine and is licensed in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Biography: Dr. Marc Cohen, MD is an Interventional Cardiology Specialist who practices in Newark, NJ. He is 72 years old and has been practicing for 48 years. Dr. Marc Cohen, MD is affiliated with Newark Beth Israel Medical Center.

Biography: Dr. Andrew J. Kaufman, an expert in advanced minimally invasive thoracic surgery and thoracic surgical oncology, is the Director of The Thoracic Surgery Airway Program and The Asian Thoracic Surgery Program at Mount Sinai, as well as the Associate Program Director for the Thoracic Surgery Residency Program. He attended New York University School of Medicine for medical school and general surgery training. He completed a two year research fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and was awarded a national TSFRE Research Fellowship Grant and the Chairman's Award for Excellence in Basic Science Research. Dr. Kaufman went on to complete his residency on the Thoracic Surgery track in cardiothoracic surgery, specializing in thoracic surgery, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center/New York Hospital Weill-Cornell Medical Center as the Memorial Fellow in General Thoracic Surgery where he received the Alumni Foundation Award for All-Around Clinical Excellence. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Kaufman especially enjoys spending time with and getting to know the people he meets in the office and hospital. He is dedicated to the compassionate care of people and their families across all social, economic, and cultural backgrounds. Having lived and studied in China for two years, Dr. Kaufman is fluent in Mandarin and conversational in Cantonese. His background in Asian language and culture inspired the development of the Asian Thoracic Surgery Program at the Mount Sinai. The program focuses on providing the most advanced multidisciplinary care for the Asian community with the goal of integrating community outreach, patient education, and scientific research to provide comprehensive care in this important New York City population. Dr. Kaufman is clinically focused on advanced minimally invasive and lung sparing surgery for thoracic malignancies. These specialized cancer operations conserve lung tissue and preserve respiratory function with faster recovery times. Andrew has published and presented widely on his lung sparing techniques of Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) segmentectomy for early lung cancers as well as pleurectomy and decortication for malignant pleural mesothelioma. His research interests are focused on combining clinical, pathologic, and genetic data to better understand lung cancer in smokers and non-smokers. Dr. Kaufman works closely with the Interventional Pulmonary Division to locate and mark small early cancers with Navigational Bronchoscopy in order to facilitate VATS lung sparing segmentectomy. This collaboration is also essential to The Thoracic Surgery Airway Program, which focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of benign and malignant diseases of the trachea and airways, such as tracheobronchomalacia and tracheal stenosis, utilizing both surgical and interventional techniques. In his spare time, Dr. Kaufman enjoys spending time with his wife and two terrific daughters. He is an avid cook, guitarist, and tennis player.

Biography: Dr. Amaah is the Director of Noninvasive Cardiology at Einstein Medical Center and Professor of Medicine (clinical track) at Jefferson Medical College. He is board certified by the Subspecialty Board on Cardiovascular Disease of the American Board of Internal Medicine, the National Board of Echocardiography, the Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. A Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the American Society of Echocardiography and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Dr. Amaah has authored more than 140 publications, book chapters and review articles in the field of cardiology and serves as a reviewer of several cardiology journals. Dr. Amaah has received Awards and Distinctions as Castle Connolly Top Doctor Cardiology 2013 – 2018; Top Doc, Philadelphia Magazine 2017 – 2018; Top Doctor Cardiology US News Health, 2008 – 2018