David Guarraia, MD
Dr. Guarraia is a graduate of St. George’s University School of Medicine where he completed his medical degree. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Arizona and a cardiology fellowship from Oregon Health and Sciences University.

Currently, Dr. Guarraia is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and Director of Preventive Cardiology and Cardiac Rehabilitation.  

Jacob Levitt, MD
Jacob Oren Levitt, M.D. is Clinical Professor in the Department of Dermatology at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY.  Currently (as of November 6, 2021), he is in private practice with The Dermatology Specialists in New York City.  Until August 2021, he was Vice Chair of the department and heavily involved in teaching residents and medical students.  He was Course Director of the second year medical student dermatology pathophysiology course at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY for ten years from his Chief Residency year at Mount Sinai in 2004 until 2014.  From 2010 - 2020, he was Residency Director of Dermatology.  Clinical interests include autoimmune bullous disease, hidradenitis suppurativa, pyoderma gangrenosum, erythema multiforme, and medical education.  Dr. Levitt did his dermatology residency at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, his internship at Sound Shore Medical Center, New Rochelle, NY, and medical school training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.  He received a B.A. degree in Chemistry from Yale University.  Dr. Levitt has competency in conversational Hebrew and Spanish, and some French and Japanese.  He speaks English ok.

Non-work activities include thirty-six years of Shotokan Karate (5th degree black belt and instructor), wing chun, jiujitsu, kali, and boxing.  He is past-President and Medical Director of the Periodic Paralysis Association (he also has this disease), and was former Director of the Bronx Yale Alumni Schools Committee.  He served on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology from 2008-2013.  In medical school (circa 1999-2000), Dr. Levitt was a co-founder of the ECHO Free Clinic in the Bronx, NY, designed to render medical care to uninsured patients.  The first of its kind in the nation, this clinic model has been emulated by medical schools across the country.  He is also a licensed wildlife rehabilitator in New York State and has an interest in gardening, focusing on native flowers, shrubs, and trees to encourage pollinator pathways and a balanced suburban ecosystem.

 Dr. Levitt has over 60 publications, including 7 book chapters, one book (Safety in Office-Based Dermatologic Surgery), and one educational App (Dermswipe, free on the App store, available internationally, developed with Dr. Usama Syed and Dr. Aakaash Varma).  He has been a speaker at the American Academy of Dermatology on head lice and scabies, procedural safety in dermatology, and U.S. generic drug pricing.  He was meeting Chair of the July 2017 AAD Summer Meeting and the 2020 Winter Meeting.  From 2004-2010, Dr. Levitt was a vice president of Taro Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc., a company founded by his grandfather.  Dr. Levitt holds one patent on a novel treatment for acne and another for the use of cantharidin in perforating collagenosis.  He was first to publish the use of teprotumumab for the treatment of pretibial myxedema.  He is past President of the Manhattan Metropolitan Dermatological Society (2011-2012) and past President of the New York Academy of Medicine Dermatology Section (2012-2013) and past President of the New York State Society of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery (2017-2019). He is formerly a member to the American Academy of Dermatology Scientific Assembly Committee (March 2015 – March 2020) and American Academy of Dermatology Council for Education.

2024 Speakers

Asad Ullah, MD
​​​​​Dr. Ullah is a graduate of King Edward Medical College in Pakistan where he completed his medical degree. He completed a research fellowship and a Pathology residency at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine. He followed that with a residency in Internal Medicine at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center. Dr. Ullah completed a gastroenterology fellowship at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Currently, Dr. Ullah is a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center, School of Medicine and Dentistry in Rochester, NY, and an Attending Physician at Strong Memorial Hospital. 

Christos Fountzilas, MD

​Dr. Fountzilas is a graduate of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine  and completed his Internal Medicine internship and residency at Lenox Hill Hospital, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine in New York, New York. He completed his Hematology and Medical Oncology Fellowship at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in San Antonio, Texas.

He currently works at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York as a staff physician in the Department of Medicine/Division of GI Medicine and Early Phase Clinical Trial Program. Dr. Fountzilas is also and Associate Professor of Oncology for the Department of Medicine/Division of GI Medicine and Early Phase Clinical Trial Program and an Associate Director of Solid Tumors, in the Early Phase Clinical Trial Program at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.  

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Past Speakers

David Cennimo, MD 

Dr. David Cennimo is a graduate of the New Jersey Medical School where he completed the combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency program and served as Medicine Chief Resident before completing fellowships in both adult and pediatric infectious diseases. Currently, Dr. Cennimo is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and an attending physician at the VA New Jersey Health Care System. 

Slocum-Dickson Educational Institute

Donnalin Richman, Esq.
Mrs. Richman has been practicing law since 1980. She has been counsel to the firm of Mercado May Skinner Law NY, since 1985. Her area of expertise is in health care law and risk management. She regularly provides legal research, verbal and written legal opinions to clients regarding state regulations, hospital and departmental policies and procedures and areas of potential malpractice liability for physicians, dental and hospitals.

Mrs. Richman received a B.S. in Nursing (BSN) Magna Cum Laude from Syracuse University and was a member of Phi Kappa Phi. She then obtained a Master of Nursing Degree (MN) in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing from the University of South Carolina. She practiced nursing for 10 years, specializing in Obstetrics and later Mental Health Nursing. She began law school at Vanderbilt University, but transferred and received her J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law. She is admitted to the New York State Bar and U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York.

She is on the editorial board of the MLMIC Dental Scope publication and has authored numerous articles for this and other publications. She has presented at educational seminars for medical societies including ACOG and NYSSOS and dental societies, hospitals, physician groups, nurses, as well as medical and dental residents regarding a variety of issues such as documentation, informed consent, use of social media, problems with the EHR, advertising and complying with the American with Disabilities Act (ADA). She is an original member of the New York State MOLST Committee, having been appointed by the New York State Commissioner of Health. She also participated as an original member of the New York State Bar Association Committee on HIV/AIDS and the law. She is a member of the American Society for Hospital Risk Management (ASHRM), New York State Bar Association and the Onondaga County Bar Association. She has published an article “The HIV Law: Still a Risk for Physicians and Staff” in the New York Bar Association Health Law Journal Spring/Summer 2013, Vol. 18, No. 2. In 2013, she wrote a chapter with Mr. James Robb, formerly of MLMIC, in the book Difficult Cases in Endourology, titled “Avoiding and Overcoming Medicolegal Difficulties in Endourology.”

• Ali Al-Mudamgha, MD (2017)
• Deborah Bradshaw, MD (2017)
• Stephan Carlson, MD (2019)
• David Cennimo, MD (2019)
• Sanjiv Chopra, MD (2018)
• Anthony Comerota, MD, FACS, FACC       (2015)
• Joseph DeAngelis, MD (2018)
• Jeremiah Depta, MD, MPHS, FACC            (2016)
• Marisa Desimone, MD (2017)
• David Dougherty, MD, MBA
• David Gilchrist, MD (2019)
• David Geier, MD (2019)
• Kenneth Greer, MD (2016)
• Kunal Grover, MD (2017)
• Jennifer Haley, MD (2018)
• John Huppertz, PhD (2017)
• Sohail Husain, MD (2015)
• Benjamin Kematick, Pharm D (2019)
• Ryan Kimmel, MD (2015)
• Neeraj Kohli, MD MBA (2015)
• Petros Levounis, MD (2017)
• David Madgy, DO (2016)
• Alberto Montero, MD (2017)
• Manpreet Mundi, MD (2015)
• Santiago Munoz, MD (2016)
• Neil Nagovski, MD (2016)
• Andrew Simonsen, DO (2015)
• Jennifer Sipos, MD (2019)
• Gary, Small, MD (2018)
• Mark Stephens, MD (2018)
• Jack Wazen, MD, FACS (2015)