Director of Physician Academy - CityMD Urgent Care

Dr. Choi is board certified in emergency medicine. He graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and trained in emergency medicine at Jacobi Medical Center. He is currently the Director of CityMD Physician Academy and a member of the medical education committee at CityMD where he heads education activities and onboarding of physicians and physician assistants. Dr. Choi has developed a unique provider orientation and performance improvement program on customer service in a retail medical setting with dramatic results.

Prior to medical school and residency, Dr. Choi earned his Master of Public Health from University of California at Berkeley and was a graduate of Cornell's Hospitality and Healthcare Management program. As an Emergency Physician practicing in Montefiore Medical Center, Dr. Choi was the Residency Site Director for six years and an Assistant Professor of the Albert Einstein college of Medicine for eleven years where he trained many Emergency Medicine resident physicians who are now practicing across the nation as attendings. He has won Montefiore's Emergency Department's Teaching Attending Award of the Year for 2004, 2009, 2011, and 2012.

SVP at CityMD, Head of Quality and Patient Safety

Dr. Pamela Arsove is a board certified medical physician, who puts her patients first. She attended New York University, graduating Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology. At NYU, she received many honors including University Dean’s List, Pre-med Honors Society and Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society. She went on to earn her medical degree from SUNY Health Science Center.

Dr. Arsove completed an internal medicine internship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx and an emergency medical residency at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park. In her professional career, she has served in various medical roles including, Attending Physician in the Emergency Department at Queens Hospital Center and Attending Physician and Associate Residency Director in Emergency Medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. At Long Island Jewish she was awarded the Izzy Segal Award for Excellence in Emergency Medicine.

When she is not dreaming of running away to the Galapagos Islands, she finds herself presenting at numerous medical conferences. When she was a child Dr. Arsove thought she would grow up to be a writer and has seen this dream come true. Her work has been published countless times making her widely respected in the medical field and she has also enjoyed lecturing internationally.

With a strong passion for education, Dr. Arsove has taught as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at both Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the American Medical Association. She currently serves as SVP at CityMD, head of Quality and Patient Safety where she loves working! Never feeling rushed, she enjoys the interactions she has with her patients and the ability to discuss and educate them on their healthcare needs.

Professor of Emergency Medicine - Hofstra | Northwell

Dr. Gino Farina is board certified in Emergency Medicine, and is currently a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Science Education, and the Assistant Dean for Clinical Preparation for Residency at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell in Long Island, New York. At Zucker he is core faculty in the communications, physical diagnosis, electrocardiography and clinical reasoning curriculum.
As core faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center at Northwell, Dr. Farina served as the Associate Residency Program Director for seven years and Program Director for sixteen years, helping to turn hundreds of emergency medicine residents into board-certified ER physicians now practicing across the nation.
Dr. Farina's academic Interests include medical education, research and assessment, medical Spanish, and global health in Latin American countries. He is actively involved in global health initiatives and in training sessions for medical providers in Mexico, Peru and now Ecuador, where, with a group of other physicians from Northwell, he will soon be teaching basic emergency medicine skills – including radiographic interpretation, electrocardiography, the approach to common conditions and clinical reasoning – to recent medical school graduates.
Dr. Farina will be sharing his art of electrocardiogram and X-ray interpretation during Master Clinicians courses.

Medical Director - Pediatric Emergency Services at Bronx Care Hospital Center

I am a board certified pediatrician, and board certified pediatric emergency medicine physician, with 30 years of experience. As the director of the pediatric emergency department, I worked collaboratively with various committees in the hospital. Those include the Resuscitation Committee, the Department of Pediatrics Quality Management Committee, E.D. Performance Improvement and Quality of Care Committees, ED Process Analysis Committee, Medical Records Committee, Credentials Committee, Sedation Task Force, and the Security Sub-Committee.

In addition to overseeing quality and improvement for the pediatric emergency department, I am actively involved in resident and medical student education. Mentoring residents for research projects and career advice is also an integral part of my position.

Physician area of Specialty "Clinical Focus": Children with respiratory conditions, dehydration, telemedicine, and sedation.