GREAT NECK, NY – The North Shore-LIJ Health System has appointed Jeremy Boal, MD, the former medical director of Long Island Jewish Medical Center, as chief medical officer (CMO). As the CMO, Dr. Boal is responsible for the overall management of clinical, education, research and operational issues related to the medical and clinical affairs of the 15-hospital health system, which has more than 9,000 affiliated physicians throughout the New York metropolitan area, including 2,000 full-time faculty.

In a related announcement, North Shore-LIJ appointed Richard Schwarz, MD, to succeed Dr. Boal as medical director of LIJ Medical Center, a 452-bed adult tertiary care teaching hospital located on the Queens-Nassau border. At LIJ, he oversees medical affairs, quality management, patient safety issues and standards of care at the hospital, which has more than 3,000 affiliated physicians. Dr. Schwarz previously served as medical director of Mount Sinai Medical Center’s North Shore Medical Group in Huntington, NY.

Dr. Boal succeeds Lawrence Smith, MD, to whom he will report, and who will continue to serve as North Shore-LIJ’s executive vice president and newly appointed physician-in-chief, designating him as the health system’s senior physician on all clinical issues. Dr. Smith is also dean of the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, which will admit its first class of 40 students this August.

“Jeremy Boal brings a passion to medicine and patient care wherever he serves, whether it be in a hospital in New York City or in the suburbs or overseas on a medical mission,” said Dr. Smith. “His commitment to excellence and safety in healthcare and his ability to energize physicians and staff members is a major asset to the health system and the community.”

Before joining North Shore-LIJ in 2007, Dr. Boal served as vice chair for strategic planning and faculty practice services for the Department of Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, overseeing the care in all of the Department of Medicine’s faculty practices. He also was executive director of Mount Sinai’s Visiting Doctors Program which provides in-home primary care to more than 1,000 homebound people each year – a program he founded. Dr. Boal is an associate professor of geriatrics and adult development, and associate professor of medicine. A board-certified internist with additional certification in geriatrics, Dr. Boal began his career at Mount Sinai Medical Center as a medical resident in 1994. He has received numerous awards including Mount Sinai’s most prestigious award – the Alexander Richman Commemorative Award for Humanism in Medicine.

Dr. Boal received his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and a Bachelor of Science degree from McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Dr. Schwarz is board-certified in internal medicine and nephrology as well as gerontology. He has been in private practice in Huntington, NY, and held a full-time faculty position at State University of New York at Stony Brook in the Division of General Medicine. Dr. Schwarz became the chief of general medicine at Stony Brook as well as director of the Medical Consultation Service. While at North Shore Medical Group, he also served as chief of medicine at Huntington Hospital. He was also the founding medical director of both Carillon and Island Rehab Commack Dialysis Centers. Dr. Schwarz has received numerous awards including Outstanding Teaching Attending of the Year at Stony Brook and the National Medical Award in Nephrology by the Kidney and Urology Foundation of America. He is associate professor of clinical medicine at Stony Brook School of Medicine.

“We’re fortunate to recruit a seasoned physician like Richard Schwarz, who will be a strong clinical leader for LIJ and the 3,000 physicians who practice there,” said Dr. Smith. “Over the years, Dr. Schwarz has developed close working relationships with doctors and hospitals across the health system and helped strengthen our partnerships with community-based physicians and staff members across the region. With his clinical expertise and teaching background in internal medicine, nephrology and gerontology, he will play a major role in our graduate medical education programs.”

Dr. Schwarz earned his medical degree from New York University, his undergraduate degree from Ohio Wesleyan University and studied in Belgium and Mexico. Following medical school, he was a medical intern and resident at Los Angeles County-University Southern California (USC) Medical Center and was a fellow in nephrology at Kaiser Foundation Hospital.

About North Shore-LIJ Health System
The nation's second-largest, non-profit, secular healthcare system, North Shore-LIJ delivers world-class clinical care throughout the New York metropolitan area, pioneering research at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and a visionary approach to medical education, highlighted by the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine. The winner of the National Quality Forum’s 2010 National Quality Healthcare Award, North Shore-LIJ cares for people at every stage of life at 15 hospitals, long-term care facilities and more than 200 ambulatory care centers throughout the region. North Shore-LIJ’s owned hospitals and long-term care facilities house about 5,600 beds, employ more than 10,000 nurses and have affiliations with more than 9,000 physicians. Its workforce of about 42,000 is the largest on Long Island and the ninth-largest in New York City. For more information, go to www.northshorelij.com.

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