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Broward Health Medical Center Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute
Welcomes Transplant Hepatologist Names Joseph T. McGinn, Jr., M.D.,

John M. Rivas, MD, to the South Chief of Cardiac Surgery
Florida Transplant Center
Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute has named Joseph T.
McGinn, Jr., M.D., chief of Cardiac Surgery. Dr. McGinn
John M. Rivas, M.D., who is triple board certified in trans- specializes in the assessment and surgical treatment of
plant hepatology, gastroenterology and internal medicine, has patients with coronary artery, aortic and vascular disease. A
joined the South Florida Transplant Center at Broward Health pioneer in the field of cardiothoracic surgery, he developed
Medical Center. Rivas specializes in liver transplantation, Dr. John M. Rivas the minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting Dr. Joseph T. McGinn,
hereditary and auto-immune liver diseases, non-alcoholic method known internationally as the “McGinn Technique.” Jr.
fatty liver disease and liver tumors/cancers. Dr. McGinn comes to Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute
Rivas received his medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine and com- from Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute, part of Atrium HealthCare in Charlotte, NC,
pleted his internal medicine residency and gastroenterology fellowship at Cleveland where he served as endowed chair of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery and pro-
Clinic Florida. Rivas continued his training with a transplant hepatology fellowship at fessor of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. Prior to that appointment, he was a
Cleveland Clinic Ohio. He has participated as an active researcher and primary investi- leading cardiac surgeon in New York City and served as medical director of the Heart
gator for several large, multi-center, multi-nationals research studies. Institute at Staten Island University Hospital for 16 years.

Dr. McGinn earned his medical degree at the State University of New York (SUNY)
Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine. He completed an internship and res-
idency in general surgery at SUNY Downstate, serving as chief resident. He also
Appoints New Emergency served as chief resident during a cardiothoracic surgery residency at Long Island
Department Medical Director Jewish Medical Center. He is board certified by the American Board of Surgery,
American Board of Thoracic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery, Surgical
Critical Care.
Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center welcomes Ayesha
Hussein, M.D., as the new medical director of the emergency
department. Since 2014, Dr. Hussein has served as the emer-
gency medical director at Tenet sister hospital, Palmetto
General Hospital. Prior to her time at Palmetto General, Dr.
Hussein was the emergency medical director and department Dr. Ayesha Hussein
chair at Indian River Medical Center in Vero Beach, FL. E-mail Your Editorial Submissions to
Dr. Hussein earned her bachelor’s degree from City College of New York in New York,
NY. She then received her medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
at Yeshiva University in the Bronx, NY. Dr Hussein completed her residency at editorial@southfloridahospitalnews.com
Jacobi/Montefiore Medical Center and graduated as Chief Resident. Dr. Hussein also has
a master’s degree from the University of South Florida.

Allan Stewart, MD, Appointed

Medical Director for HCA East
Florida’s Miami-Dade Cardiovascular
Surgery Programs

HCA East Florida Division is excited to announce Allan
Stewart, M.D., F.A.C.S, F.A.C.C., has recently been appointed
to a leadership position over the cardiovascular surgery pro-
grams at Aventura Hospital and Medical Center, Kendall
Regional Medical Center and Mercy Hospital. Dr. Allan Stewart
Dr. Stewart completed medical school at Rutgers University
School of Medicine in Newark, NJ. He went on to complete his internship and residency
in general surgery at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Stewart completed a
research fellowship in human gene therapy at the University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine prior to completing his cardiac surgical training at Columbia University
Medical Center, where he remained on faculty for nine years.

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• Health insurance program to assist • Atlantis University Scholarship
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