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Holy Cross Health Adds Cardiologist Specializing in

Pulmonologist Advanced Heart Failure and
T ransplant Cardiology Joins
Pulmonologist Hector Y. Vazquez Saad, M.D., has joined
Holy Cross Medical Group. the Palm Beach Health Network
At Holy Cross Health Dr. Saad specializes in pulmonolo-
gy and critical care. He has extensive experience with
Graduate Medical Education. He is a former Program Phillip Habib, M.D., a cardiologist specializing in
Director for Pulmonary and Critical Care, Pulmonary advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology, joins the
Fellowship training program in the state of Florida, over- Dr. Hector Y. Vazquez Palm Beach Health Network Physician Group – Dr. Phillip Habib
seeing the training of pulmonologists and intensivists. Saad Cardiovascular Care network in Delray Beach.
Prior to joining Holy Cross, he was a staff Dr. Habib specializes in cardiac care for advanced heart
physician/core faculty pulmonary and critical care fellow- failure, cardiomyopathies and pulmonary arterial hypertension. His expertise
ship at Aventura Hospital and Medical Center. He was also an assistant professor of includes a wide variety of cardiology care and treatments including mechanical circu-
medicine and program director, pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship, at latory support, cardio-oncology, cardiomyopathy, cardiogenic shock and cardiac amy-
Nova Southeastern University Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine. loidosis. In addition, Dr. Habib specializes in advanced cardiac imaging and echocar-
Dr. Saad earned his bachelor’s degree in general science from Pontificia Universidad diography, cardiopulmonary exercise testing and clinical research.
Catolica in Ponce, Puerto Rico and his medical and surgery degree from Universidad Dr. Habib completed an Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation Fellowship at
Autonoma de GDL in Guadalajara, Mexico. He completed his internal medicine resi- the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL, a Cardiovascular Diseases Fellowship at the
dency at Damas Hospital in Ponce, P .R. and Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship University of Florida, Department of Medicine, in Jacksonville, and an
at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, DC. Echocardiography Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Cardiovascular
Institute, Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Habib finished his internal medicine residency at The
Ohio State University located in Columbus, OH. He graduated medical school from
Mount Sinai Medical Center the Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, OH.
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Welcomes New Cancer Lee Health Welcomes Dr. Zsolt
Center Director
Kulcsar as the New Medical
Mount Sinai Medical Center welcomes Steven Director of Lee Virtual Health
Hochwald, M.D., MBA, FACS, as the inaugural director of
the new Irma and Norman Braman Cancer Center, set to
be completed in 2025. Dr. Hochwald will also serve as Lee Health is pleased to introduce Dr. Zsolt Kulcsar as
chief of surgical oncology and holds titles at Columbia the health system’s new medical director of Lee Virtual
University in New York, as part of Mount Sinai’s ongoing Dr. Steven Hochwald Health. Dr. Kulcsar joins Lee Health with almost 10 years
affiliation with the Ivy League institution. of medical management experience and will lead Lee
A leading pancreatic and gastrointestinal surgical oncologist, and an avid Health’s virtual care team. Dr. Zsolt Kulcsar
researcher, Dr. Hochwald was recruited from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer In his previous position as an associate medical director
Center in New York, an NCI-designated institution. of digital health and strategic ventures at White Plains
Dr. Hochwald brings over 30 years of clinical experience and research-focused Hospital Montefiore Health System, Dr. Kulcsar implemented a digital footprint for
expertise to Mount Sinai’s award-winning cancer program, which holds the only Ivy medical and surgical practices and expanded the telehealth services across the hospi-
League affiliation of its kind in South Florida, backed by Columbia University. tal. He also served as the section chief of rheumatology and was actively managing
A graduate of New York University School of Medicine, Dr. Hochwald received rheumatology patients. He was the physician lead of ambulatory quality for a two
postgraduate training in surgical oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center hundred physician multispecialty group and worked closely with the Montefiore
and completed an oncology research fellowship at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Medical Centers ACO program.
Cancer Center’s Surgical Metabolism Laboratory. He also earned an MBA at the Dr. Kulcsar earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from the New York College
University of Buffalo (SUNY) School of Management and an executive degree in man- of Osteopathic Medicine in Old Westbury, NY, Master of Business Administration
aging health care delivery at Harvard Business School Executive Education. from Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY and his Master of Public Health from
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice in Lebanon, NH.

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