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 Valhalla, NY - Westchester Medical Center (WMC) President and CEO Michael Israel announced that Roger Salisbury, M.D., will join the Medical Center leadership team in a position of trauma education and administration as Chief Emeritus of Plastic Surgery and Emeritus Director of the Burn Center.
“Dr. Salisbury has had a long and distinguished clinical career,” said Israel. “During his years of service to Westchester Medical Center and the people of New York, he has saved and significantly changed the lives of countless burn victims. We are extremely pleased that he has agreed to join our team and commit his talents and experience to further improving and impacting the lives of the people of the Hudson Valley.”
Israel said that, in his new position, Dr. Salisbury will be concentrating on developing burn outreach and educations programs for the community at large, as well as focus on disaster preparedness as part of the Medical Center’s role as a New York State-designated regional center for disaster.
An internationally known plastic surgeon and past-President of the American Burn Association, since 1981, Dr. Salisbury has been Chief of Plastic Surgery and Director of the Burn Center at Westchester Medical Center. While withdrawing from his clinical duties, he will continue to teach students and residents as a Professor of Surgery at New York Medical College.
Spanning every adult and pediatric medical specialty, Westchester Medical Center serves as a lifeline to the more than 3.5 million people in the Hudson Valley region and beyond. Well-known for its advanced medical care in trauma and burn, heart, cancer, transplant, neuroscience and pediatrics, community hospitals within a 5,000-square-mile range send their most difficult cases to this advanced-care, academic medical center. With more than 900 attending physicians and 3,300 healthcare professionals, Westchester Medical Center is the only facility capable of providing immediate lifesaving advanced care between New York City and Albany.
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