Lewis Teperman

Health June 4, 2019

At Manhasset hospital, they’re a liver to their people

By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island’s first adult liver-transplant program has been green-stamped by state health officials. The Sandra Atlas Bass Center for Liver Diseases, housed inside North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, will begin prioritizing surgical candidates later this month, now that the New York State Department of Health has approved Northwell Health’s new liver-transplant program. The program “opens access to critically ill patients in an underserved area that stretches from Suffolk and Nassau…

Health February 20, 2018

NSUH close to performing LI’s first liver transplants

By GREGORY ZELLER // Marking another first for Northwell Health, state health officials have greenlighted Long Island’s first liver-transplant program. The New Hyde Park-based health system announced Tuesday that the New York State Department of Health has granted “contingent approval” to North Shore University Hospital’s request to establish an adult liver-transplant program. Specifically, the Health Department’s Public Health and Health Planning Council has sanctioned the application of NSUH’s Adult Liver Transplant Service and forwarded its…

Health June 27, 2016

New director spearheads Northwell liver effort

Northwell Health’s drive for a new liver-transplant program kicked into gear Monday with the appointment of a new transplantation director. Lewis Teperman has been named the new vice chair of surgery at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset and will become Northwell Health’s director of organ transplantation, the health system said in a statement. Tepermen was recruited from New York University’s Langone Medical Center and the NYU School of Medicine, where he also served as…