New Lenox hospital staff elects new officers

NEW LENOX – Silver Cross Hospital’s Medical Staff has elected new officers to serve from Oct. 1, 2017, to Sept. 30, 2019.

Dr. Abdul Sankari, interventional cardiologist, will serve as chief of staff. Over the next two years, Sankari will represent the Silver Cross medical staff – now more than 800 members strong – and work side by side with the hospital’s board of directors, leadership team, employees, volunteers and physician colleagues.

Sankari is the president of Heartland Cardiovascular Center – now part of DuPage Medical Group. Board certified in interventional cardiology, nuclear cardiology, critical care medicine, cardiovascular disease and internal medicine, he received his medical degree from the University of Aleppo, Syria, where he earned the first rank in the graduation exam at the University of Aleppo.

He completed his internship and residency at the University of Illinois, Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago, where he was the chief medical resident. In addition, Sankari completed a fellowship in cardiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, where he was the Chief Cardiology Fellow.

Sankari also completed a critical care fellowship at Emory University and a master’s in business administration from Loyola University’s Quinlan Business School. He is the recipient of the Maimonides Award for Humanism and the Teacher of the Year Award from Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Chest Physicians and an associate member of the American College of Physicians. He currently serves as the director of the cardiac catheterization Lab at Silver Cross Hospital and is the immediate past president of the Heartland Education and Research Foundation. Sankari’s research is published in numerous peer-reviewed journals.

Completing Silver Cross Hospital’s new panel of medical staff officers are as follows:

Medical staff officers

• Dr Abdul Sankari – chief of staff

• Dr. David Cziperle – chief of staff elect

• Dr. Amar Garapati – secretary/treasurer

• Dr. Corinne Nawrocki – immediate past chief of staff

The other members of the Silver Cross Medical Executive Committee are:

Department chairmen

• Dr. Husam Marsheh – chairman, department of OB/GYN

• Dr. Mark Danielson – member at large

• Dr. Julie Limon – chairman, department of family practice

• Dr. Samer Dola – chairman, department of pathology

• Dr. Christopher Joyce – chairman, department of surgery

• Dr. Darius Keblinskas – chairman, department of radiology

• Dr. Michael Meister – chairman, department of anesthesia

• Dr. Anne McCall – chairman, improving organizational performance committee

• Dr. David Mikolajczak – chairman, credentials committee

• Dr. Silvio Morales – chairman, department of emergency medicine

• Dr. Dan Co – chairman, department of medicine

• Dr. Jose Penaherrera – chairman, continuing medical education committee

• Dr. Brooke Phillips – member at large

• Dr. Joseph Stella – member at large

• Dr. Asta Astrauskas – department of pediatrics

For information, visit www.silvercross.org.