South Nassau and Hofstra NSLIJ School of Medicine have an academic affiliation agreement that combines the school’s academic and clinical resources with the hospital's clinical programs and physicians to provide world class medical training.

1. News From:
For Immediate Release October 17, 2012
Contact: Damian Becker, Manager of Media Relations
(516) 377-5370
Dr. Linda Efferen Appointed Clinical Professor of Medicine at
HofstraNorth Shore - LIJ School of Medicine
Oceanside, NY — Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine at Hofstra University recently promoted
Linda S. Efferen, MD, senior vice president and chief medical officer at South Nassau Communities Hospital,
to clinical professor of medicine.
Dr. Efferen is board-certified in hospice and palliative medicine, critical care medicine, pulmonary
medicine and internal medicine. She has been listed in the Best Doctors in America database, Becker’s
Hospital Review List of 56 Women Hospital and Healthcare Leaders to Know, Consumers Research Council of
America’s Guide to America’s Top Physicians and Castle Connolly’s Top Doctors: New York Metro Area (for
seven years). She has received a host of awards/honors, including a spot in the 2010 class of Long Island
Business News’ Long Island’s Top 50 Business Women. A resident of South Huntington, NY, She is a member
of a number of professional organizations, including the New York Academy of Science, American College of
Physicians, American College of Chest Physicians, American College of Critical Care Physicians, , American
Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
South Nassau and Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine have an academic affiliation agreement
that combines the School of Medicine’s academic and clinical resources with South Nassau’s clinical programs
and physicians to provide world class medical training opportunities and facilitate collaboration on leading-edge
medical education initiatives. Under the agreement, Hofstra North Shore-LIJ medical students are offered
clinical assignments and training opportunities with South Nassau’s community and hospital-based physicians
encompassing ambulatory, in-patient and emergency services.
South Nassau Communities Hospital is one of the region’s largest hospitals, with 435 beds, more than
900 physicians and 3,000 employees. Located in Oceanside, NY, the hospital is an acute-care, not-for-profit
teaching hospital that provides state-of-the-art care in cardiac, oncologic, orthopedic, bariatric, pain
management, mental health and emergency services. In addition to its extensive outpatient specialty centers,
South Nassau provides emergency and elective angioplasty and is the only hospital on Long Island with the
Novalis Tx™ and Gamma Knife® Perfexion radiosurgery technologies. South Nassau is a designated Stroke
Center by the New York State Department of Health and Comprehensive Community Cancer Center by the

2. American College of Surgeons and is recognized as a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence by the American
Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. For more information, visit www.southnassau.org.
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