ASHIKARI BREAST CENTER JOINS NORTHWELL

Two of Westchester”™s leading breast surgeons, Andrew Ashikari, M.D., FACS, and Pond Kelemen, M.D., FACS of The Ashikari Breast Center in Dobbs Ferry and Cortlandt Manor have joined Northwell Health Physician Partners (NHPP). They will now be accepting patients at the Breast Care Center at Northern Westchester Hospital (NWH) in Mount Kisco and NHPP Breast Surgery at Phelps Hospital in Sleepy Hollow.

“Drs. Ashikari and Kelemen are leading experts in compassionate breast surgery and we are delighted they will be joining the multidisciplinary team at the NWH Breast Care Center to offer advanced treatments for breast cancer and other breast health issues,” said Marla Koroly, M.D., senior vice president for medical affairs and chief medical officer at NWH and associate ambulatory physician executive, Northwell Health Westchester region. 

Ashikari has been director of the Ashikari Breast Center since 1999. He is the former chair of surgery at Hudson Valley Hospital Center and former director of surgery at Dobbs Ferry Pavilion/St. John”™s Riverside Hospital. He was the assistant director of the surgical residency program at Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center from 2001-2003. In addition, he is an associate professor of surgery at New York Medical College and adjunct clinical associate professor at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed a surgical oncology fellowship at the University of Chicago, and an internship and general surgery residence at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Ashikari holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Wake Forest University.

Kelemen joined the Ashikari Breast Center in 2003 as research director and has served as the director of the Melanoma Program at Hudson Valley Hospital Center. Before that, he was director of clinical breast cancer research at Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center. Prior to that, he was associate director of clinical activities at the Saint Louis University Cancer Center and director of the Breast Center at St. Louis University Hospital. In addition, he serves as an associate professor of surgery at New York Medical College and adjunct associate professor of surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. 

He completed his surgical oncology fellowship at the John Wayne Cancer Institute, a general surgical residency and research fellowship at University of Chicago Hospitals and pathology residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his medical degree from the State University of New York at Stonybrook and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the City University of New York- City College of New York six-year medical program.

Northwell Health is New York state”™s largest health care provider and private employer, with 23 hospitals, nearly 800 outpatient facilities and more than 14,200 affiliated physicians, 17,000-plus nurses and 4,500 employed doctors.