NUMC FAMILY MEDICINE RESIDENTS, MATTHEW REIFLER, DO, AND SYED A. MAQSOOD, DO, INVITED TO PRESENT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH POSTERS AT THE NYS OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY

Victor F. Politi, MD, FACP, FACEP                                          Michael B. Mirotznik, Esq.,

President/CEO                                                                             Chairman Board of Directors
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 11, 2017

PRESS CONTACT:

Shelley Lotenberg

shelley@numc.edu

516-572-6055

East Meadow, NY……….Victor F. Politi, MD, FACP, FACEP, NuHealth/NUMC’s President/CEO, announces that two of the Nassau University Medical Center’s family medicine residents, Matthew Reifler, DO and Syed A. Maqsood, DO, had been invited to present their scientific research posters at the annual poster competition which took place on April 7, 2017, at the Regional Osteopathic Convention of the New York State Osteopathic Medical Society.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for our family medicine residents to participate in a scientific convention and to have their research posters presented and discussed at the poster competition,” said Dr. Politi. “We are very proud that they submitted their abstracts and were invited to present their research.”

Peter A. Guiney, DO, Chair and Residency Program Director for the Department of Family Medicine at NUMC, served as a mentor for the two lead authors: Matthew Reifler, DO, PGY-I and Syed Maqsood, DO, PGY-II.Dr. Reifler’s research dealt with “Elevated Liver Function Tests in Legionnaires’ Disease” and Dr. Maqsood’s research was titled “Vascular Lesions in Childhood: What You See Is Not Always What You  Get: A Case Report”.

Dr. Guiney indicated: “We are very proud to have our residents represent NUMC at this regional competition. It shows our family medicine residents are involved in scholarly activity in the form of research and we look forward to having them enter other regional competitions such at NYCOMEC and NUMC’s own Resident Research Day.”

Photo left to right:

Matthew Reifler, DO, Peter Guiney, DO, Syed Maqsood, DO and Emmanuel Decade, DO.

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