22 JULY 21 - JULY 27, 2017 BROOKLYN MEDIA GROUP
Latest Medcast Plus episode focuses
on prostate cancer, kidney stones
BY JAIME DEJESUS
JDEJESUSBROOKLYNREPORTER.COM
Keeping audience members on
top of their health, especially
when screening for cancer,
was the main topic for the latest episode
of “Medcast Plus,” a television
features program aimed at informing
Brooklynites about various health
issues, with doctors as featured guests.
In the most recent edition, urologist
Dr. Yan Wolfson was the show’s guest.
“Essentially, I discussed state-of-the-art
thinking about prostate cancer, the
importance of screening and potential
treatment options,” he said. “In the
episode, we also answered questions
about kidney stone disease in terms
of diagnosis and treatment.”
Wolfson stressed that patients must
be proactive in exploring their health.
“The key points would be that screening
is available and recommended,”
he said. “It’s not a di cult thing to do.
And it could potentially diagnose a
signifi cant problem. There have been
a lot of advances in medicine so we can
o er a variety of di erent treatments
and a lot of them are non-surgical.”
The doctor, who made his fi rst appearance
on the show, found it to be an
enjoyable and important experience.
“They cover some important topics and
it’s a nice, relaxed forum where you
can educate people,” he said. "It’s good
in that it’s not commercially driven. It’s
a really good public use of resources.”
The show’s host Ilana Kozak found
Wolfson to be very informative. “Dr.
Wolfson provided extensive information
about the di erent types of
screenings available,” she said.
She added that Wolfson was a great
guest. “It was very pleasant to interview
a doctor that has many years of real life
experience and who is so very knowledgeable
about the subject,” Kozak said.
“Being a host of the Medcast show
is great,” she added. “The show o ers
viewers access to valuable information
that may not be readily available
regarding a variety of healthcare
subjects."
Greg Romenski is the executive
producer of “Medcast Plus.” The next
episode will air on Thursday, July 27
on Channel 79 on Time Warner, 68
on Optimum, 83 on RCN and 43 on
Verizon Fios.
Photo courtesy of Greg Romenski
Bensonhurst native new president of NewYork-
Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
BY JONATHAN SPERLING
EDITORIALBROOKLYNREPORTER.COM
The new president of
NewYork-Presbyterian
Brooklyn Methodist
Hospital, Dr. Richard Liebowitz,
is a Bensonhurst
native who is delighted
to shepherd the medical
institution as it moves into
the future, serving people
across the borough.
“I want everybody to know
that the care they can get at a
hospital in Brooklyn is the same
care they can get in Manhattan,”
said Liebowitz, who joined NewYork
Presbyterian in 2006, and took
over the reins of NewYork-Presbyterian
Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
on February 6, 2017. “Every hospital
is never satisfi ed with quality of
care; we’re always striving for more.
I want to take a great hospital and
make it better by expanding the care
that we provide.”
The appointment made Liebowitz
responsible for the leadership and
oversight of the hospital, 506 Sixth
Street, which serves approximately
42,000 patients every year.
Prior to his role as president, Liebowitz
— who replaced Mark Mundy,
who retired in 2016 — served as vice
president of medical a airs, associate
chief medical o cer and chief
medical o cer for NewYork-Presbyterian.
In his past roles, Liebowitz
was responsible for overseeing the
institution’s service lines, clinical
program development and physician
recruitment.
Liebowitz credits the rest of the institution's
leadership team for aiding
in his transition into his current position.
Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
merged with NewYork-Presbyterian
in December, 2016.
“As chief medical o cer, my area
of concentration was 10 feet wide
and one mile deep," he said. "As
president, it’s 100 miles wide
and nowhere near as deep. It’s
a lot skinnier in terms of the
depth of knowledge but I am
responsible for everything,
so you become dependent on
everyone you work with in the
rest of the leadership team.
“It’s about having a great group
and great leadership team for
things that one person alone cannot
do,” he stressed
Liebowitz credits the hospital’s
work environment and wide scope
of care as the reason behind his
decision to continue with the administrative
side of medical care.
“The most rewarding aspect is
really getting to know a lot of the
people who work here and seeing
the real a ection and dedication
our employees have for the hospital,"
Liebowitz said. "Seeing the impact
that a hospital has on a patient’s life
and how people can benefi t from the
work we are doing is why I gave up
on being an individual practitioner
and gravitated more toward the
administrative end.”
Dr. Yan Wolfson with host Ilana Kozak.
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Photo courtesy of NewYork-Presbyterian
Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
Dr. Richard Liebowitz.