Millennium Magazine_3rdEd

142 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine C onducting research on juvenile diabetes in India, Dr. C.S. Pitchumoni has been serving as chief of gastroenterology at St. Peter’s University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, since 2002. Also hosting his own private practice in gastroenterology in New York since 1972, he has been the program director of internal medicine at Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center and a professor of community and preventive medicine at New York Medical College. During this tenure, Dr. Pitchumoni has contributed 220 peer-reviewed papers, 100 book chapters, and four books. His most recent textbook is titled “Geriatrics Gastroenterology,” a two-volume book that will be published in 2020. He recently published the textbook “Netter’s Gastroenterology” in March 2019. The recipient of an MD from Thiruvananthapuram Medical College in his native country of India, Dr. Pitchumoni is a master of the American College of Physicians and fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Recently, he was honored with the St. Peter’s University Hospital Physician Appreciation Award in 2018. However, he cites a career highlight as having the opportunity to teach thousands of medical students, many of whom considered him their mentor. CHIEF OF GASTROENTEROLOGY St. Peters University Hospital Kendall Park, NJ D rawing upon more than 30 years of experience in medicine, Dr. Stephen M. Pastores has been serving Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center since 1999 in myriad roles, including as attending critical care physician, program director of critical care medicine, and vice chair of education in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine. Alongside these appointments, he has also been a professor of medicine and anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine since 2007. Inspired to enter the medical field by his parents, who were both health care practitioners, Dr. Pastores received a BS in Biology from the University of Santo Tomas and MD from Lyceum- Northwestern University in the Philippines. He was trained and board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease and critical care medicine. He has since conducted research on septic shock and the use of corticosteroids in critical illness and has dedicated his expertise to critical care organizations and educational fellowships. Since 2018, Dr. Pastores has been a Master of the American College of Physicians. He has garnered multiple accolades, including a Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Critical Care Medicine and as Chancellor of the American College of Critical Care Medicine. CRITICAL CARE PHYSICIAN Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York, NY HEALTH AND WELLNESS C.S. PITCHUMONI, MD STEPHEN M. PASTORES, MD