GRATEFUL NUMC PATIENT RETURNS TO THANK HIS PHYSICIANS AND NURSES FOR THE GREAT CARE RECEIVED DURING HIS MULTIPLE HOSPITALIZATIONS

Vito Losito, one of Nassau University Medical Center’s patients, had survived end stage liver disease and returned to express his gratitude and appreciation to the staff of the hospital. According to his attending physician, Kaleem Rizvon, MD, Mr. Losito is a 52 year old man whose initial consultation with Nassau University Medical Center’s gastroenterology and hepatology team took place about a year ago. Mr. Vito required multiple hospitalizations at NUMC for upper gastrointestinal bleeding that showed further progression of his liver disease. He was transferred to the Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation at Columbia University for a liver transplant.
Mr. Losito recently visited NUMC’s gastroenterology clinic, with a healthy liver, to convey his appreciation to the entire gastroenterology and hepatology team of physicians, nurses and clerical staff and said: “I wish to acknowledge the doctors, nurses and entire staff on the second, eight and ninth floors of NUMC, where I have always been treated with great care and respect.”
Mr. Losito added: “I am now a 7 week post-op liver transplant patient enjoying a second chance at life with the help, assistance, care, empathy and professionalism of the entire staff at NUMC that has been involved with my care. I shall be eternally grateful to these men and women, for without them, I would not be alive today to give them the thanks and recognition that they so richly deserve.”

In the photo, (left to right) Drs. Kaleem Rizvon (Attending Physician), Khan Bitni (GI Fellow), Paul Mustacchia (Chief of GI) along with Mr. Vito Losito , Drs. Duane Moise (GI fellow), Krishnaiyer Subramani (Attending Physician), Omer Masood (GI Fellow) and Maheswar Pillai (Resident).