Division Chief
Northwell Health
Manhasset, New York, United States
Dr. Maria Torroella Carney is a board-certified internist, geriatrician, and palliative care physician with clinical, research, administrative, and public health leadership experience. She has been at Northwell Health since 2012 and is currently Medical Director for Continuing Care and Chief of the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. She is Professor of Medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra / Northwell.
Dr. Carney received her medical degree at New York Medical College, carried out her residency training in Internal Medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill/Cornell Medical Center and completed a research-oriented fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. She served as commissioner of the Nassau County Department of Health on Long Island, New York serving a population of 1.3 million residents from 2008-2011.
She has dedicated most of her career to promoting longevity, healthy aging and high-quality care for older adults and those with serious illness. She has been selected into the 2022-2023 cohort of incoming Health and Aging Policy Fellows, a national leadership program.
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Policy Series: Health and Aging Policy Fellows: Linking Policy and Practice to Benefit Older People
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM ET
2 - Care Plan Inventory and Assessment—A Means to Learn More About CMS
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM ET