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SALUTE TO PHYSICIANS

DELRAY MEDICAL CENTER PALMETTO GENERAL HOSPITAL

Erica Podolsky, MD Amit Sastry, MD

Dr. Erica Podolsky is a board certified Dr. Amit Sastry, MD, a fellowship-trained hepatopancreaticobiliary
bariatric and minimally invasive general sur- and oncological surgeon, is a member of the medical staff of Palmetto
geon who specializes in bariatric surgery, and General Hospital. Dr. Sastry specializes in robotic hepatobiliary sur-
currently is the medical director of the gery, acute and chronic pancreatitis, locally advanced pancreatic can-
Surgical Weight Loss Program at Delray cer and microwave ablation for heapatocellular carcinoma, adhesive
Medical Center. Dr. Podolsky received her small bowel obstruction and general as well as gastrointestinal (GI)
undergraduate degree from Tulane surgery. He is certified by the American Board of General Surgery.
University and then went to medical school Dr. Sastry completed his hepatopancreaticobiliary surgery fellow-
at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas ship at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC. In addition, Dr.
Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Sastry completed his general surgery internship and residency at
Podolsky did her residency at Drexel Mount Sinai Beth Israel, as Chief Resident in New York, NY. Dr. Sastry
University College of Medicine in graduated from medical school at Northeastern Ohio Medical
Philadelphia, and followed that up with a fellowship at Duke University University, Rootstown, OH.
Health System. While at Duke, Dr. Podolsky concentrated on minimally Dr. Sastry is a member of the American College of Surgeons and Americas Hepato-Pancreato-
invasive and bariatric surgery and also served as an assistant professor at Biliary Association. His leadership activity and service includes as Co-Chair of the House Staff
the school. Committee at Mount Sinai Beth Israel teaching hospital where he provided leadership for house
staff quality and improvement.
Leandro J. Feo Aguirre, MD
Ritesh Kaushal, MD
Dr. Leandro J. Feo Aguirre is a board certi-
fied colorectal surgeon, specializing in mini- Dr. Ritesh Kaushal, interventional neurologist, serves as the medical
mally invasive and robotic surgery with spe- director of Palmetto General Hospital’s Comprehensive Stroke Center.
cial interest in colorectal oncology. Dr. Feo In his role, he oversees a team of interventional neurologist, neurosur-
Aguirre is a graduate of Universidad geons, clinical neurologist and other medical staff who care for
Lisandro Alvarado School of Medicine in Palmetto’s stroke patients. Dr. Kaushal is also on the medical staff at
Barquismeto, Venezuela. He did his intern- Palmetto General Hospital’s sister hospital Florida Medical Center in
ship at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Broward County. Dr. Kaushal completed his internship in internal
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Feo Aguirre medicine at Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois and his res-
went on to do his residency at Hahneman idency in neurology at the University of Chicago Medical Center. He
University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania completed his fellowships in stroke-neurocritical care and endovascu-
before doing his fellowship at Ferguson Clinic/Michigan State University lar-interventional neurology at St. Louis University Hospital in St.
in Grand Rapids, MI and at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Louis, Missouri. Dr. Kaushal is a member of the American Heart/Stroke Association, American
New York, NY. Neurology Association, and Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology.

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