General Practice Dental Medicine

Program Overview

The New York Medical College School of Medicine (NYMC SOM) offers a training program in General Practice Dental Medicine. The primary training sites include Westchester Medical Center. For additional information, please see the NYMC website.

Training Curriculum

The program encompasses a holistic training approach and offers both didactic and clinical training. Patient care is comprehensive and is kept within the concepts of general dental practice in both hospital and ambulatory practice environments. The Program is designed for postdoctoral training and is not to be construed as an extension of doctoral training. The diverse disciplines covered in our program include:

• Restorative dentistry
• Prosthodontics
• Periodontics
• Endodontics
• Pediatric dentistry
• Oral and maxillofacial surgery
• Anesthesiology
• Inpatient care
• Medical assessments
• Pain/anxiety management
• Special needs patient care

Training takes place in a multitude of settings, including outpatient suites, inpatient floors, anesthesia, emergency medicine, and medicine departments, and operating room areas of our clinical consortium training sites. Didactics include lectures, conferences, and presentations via live videoconferencing, community activities, and hands-on training, including simulation.

Program Leadership

Ronnie Myers, D.D.S.
Chief Administration Dental Officer, VIce-Chancellor for Interprofessional Dental Education, New York Medical College
Professor and Dean, Touro College of Dental Medicine

Dawn Powell, D.D.S.
Assistant Clinical Professor, New York Medical College
Interim Program Director, General Dental Practice Residency 
Site Director, NYC Health+Hospitals/ Metropolitan     

Rosa Martinez, D.D.S., FACD
Assistant Clinical Professor, New York Medical College
Director of Service, Westchester Medical Center      
Site Director, Westchester Medical Center           

Naida Henriquez, D.M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor, New York Medical College
Director of Dental Services, Open Door Family Medical Centers
Site Director, Open Door Family Medical Centers

Keith Margulis, D.D.S., M.P.H.
Assistant Clinical Professor, New York Medical College
Chairperson, Department of Dental Medicine, NYC Health+Hospitals/Metropolitan

Eric Wachs, D.M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor, New York Medical College
Chief of Dentistry/Oral Surgery, Phelps Hospital | Northwell Health

Faculty

Anthony Alessi, D.M.D., M.D. – OMS
Komal Bhasin, D.D.S. – General Practice
Robert Bruskin, D.M.D. – General Practice
Steven Cho, D.D.S. – OMS
James Damascus, D.D.S. – General Practice
Maria Lucy Duff, D.D.S. – General Practice
Jennifer Fligr, D.D.S. – General Practice
Heather Fugazy, D.D.S. – OMS 
Ben Geisler, D.D.S. – General Practice
Stephen Gelfman, D.D.S. – OMS
Yuly Gertsberg, D.D.S. – OMS
Leslie Halpern, D.D.S., M.D., Ph.D. – OMS Residency Program Director
Paul Han, D.D.S. – OMS
Naida Henriquez, D.M.D – General Practice
Susan Holiday, D.D.S. – Pediatric Dentistry
Raha Iraj, D.D.S. – General Practice
Tauseel Khan, D.D.S. – General Practice
Kavita Kohli, D.D.S. – Pediatric Dentistry
Tzvi Krupka, D.D.S. – OMS
Timothy Levine, D.D.S. – Surgical Orthodontist
Hannah Liss, D.M.D. – Periodontics
Keith Margulis, D.D.S. – Pediatric Dentistry
Rosa Martinez, D.D.S. – General Practice
Michael Miller, D.D.S. – OMS
Rossarin Mitsumoto, D.D.S. – Pediatric Dentistry
Eduard Munarov, D.D.S. – OMS
Dino Moundroukas, D.D.S. – General Practice
Paulette Porteous-Cole, D.D.S. – General Practice
Dawn Powell, D.D.S. – General Practice
Nadav Praff, D.D.S. – General Practice
Neil Shah, D.D.S. – General Practice
Richard Sigona, D.D.S. – General Practice 
Sonia Sood, D.D.S. – General Practice
Sheida Takmil, D.D.S – General Practice 
John Tolli, D.D.S. – General Practice
John Tseng, D.D.S. – General Practice
Eric Wachs, D.M.D. – OMSA
Cherie Walsh, D.M.D. – Pediatric Dentistry
Frank Weber, D.D.S. – OMS
Thomas Yoo, D.M.D. – Periodontics/Prosthodontics

Our Clinical Locations

Westchester Medical Center

Westchester Medical Center shares its leafy campus with New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY, approximately 20 miles north of New York City. It is a Level 1 Trauma and Burn Center and a major hub for specialized care referrals. Here, we take care of patients from a very large catchment area stretching from the northern border of New York City to the Catskill Mountains.

WMC has a pediatric hospital (Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital) with eight dedicated pediatric operating rooms as well as many other non-operating room anesthetizing sites, including MRI, radiation and nuclear medicine, and endoscopy. The Ambulatory Care Pavilion, which opened in July 2019, added many anesthetizing locations, both OR and Non-OR. 

Construction is underway on the 128-bed state-of-the-art WMC Critical Care Tower, a $220 million project that when completed will span 162,000 square feet over five floors. Our caseload includes a full profile of cardiac, interventional pulmonary and thoracic, complex orthopedic, neurosurgical and solid organ transplant interventions, to name the busiest services. We have a large heart failure and ECMO referral program. Trauma orthopedics and surgery provide our residents a great variety of “open” cases. Residents participate in minimally invasive and robotic interventions in gynecologic-oncology, urology, colorectal, endocrine and thoracic surgery, as well as complex cardiac and neurological endovascular interventions, both pediatric and adult. The Acute and Chronic Pain Management care rotations cover both the pediatric and adult inpatients and outpatients, including complex consultations for patients in the Burn ICU.