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    Michael Gitman, MD

    President of North Shore University Hospital/SVP/Deputy Market President
    Northwell Health

    Michael Gitman, MD, serves as the president of North Shore University Hospital and deputy market president for Northwell Health’s Central Market. As president, Gitman leads the executive management of the 806-bed quaternary care hospital. He is responsible for its overall strategy, financial stewardship and leadership, overseeing a facility that is a cornerstone of Northwell Health and is an academic campus for the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. In his role as deputy market president, he supports efforts to advance and evolve the market’s strategy.


    Previously, Gitman served as president of Long Island Jewish Medical Center, a 580-bed tertiary hospital and academic campus of the medical school. Before that, Gitman served as chief medical officer of North Shore University Hospital, where he oversaw the hospital’s medical affairs, quality management and patient safety efforts.


    Gitman is an associate professor of medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Over the past two decades, Gitman has been extensively involved in physician education. He received multiple teaching awards and published manuscripts furthering the knowledge of clinical nephrology.


    Gitman received a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and a medical degree from SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse, where he was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. He completed an internal medicine residency, as well as a fellowship in nephrology at Mount Sinai Medical Center.

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