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White Plains Hospital Welcomes Dr. Mukul Arya as Director of Advanced Gastroenterology
Specializes in Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Techniques
White Plains Hospital welcomes Dr. Mukul Arya as its new Director of Advanced Gastroenterology. Board-certified in Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine, Dr. Arya has been practicing for 16 years, most recently as Director of Advanced Endoscopy in the gastroenterology department at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital.
Dedicated to the advancement of gastrointestinal endoscopic technique and its application in therapeutic procedures, Dr. Arya has a strong interest in evolving endoscopic modalities for the treatment of complex pancreaticobiliary disease, luminal tumors, and interventional endosonography.
He earned his medical degree from the St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies, having served his residency in internal medicine at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He then completed an advanced therapeutic endoscopy fellowship at Lenox Hill Hospital, and a fellowship in gastroenterology at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh.
Dr. Arya is a member of such professional organizations as the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the American College of Gastroenterology, the Medical Society of the State of New York, and he founded the NYC Metro chapter of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin.
He also started and maintained the only advanced therapeutic endoscopy fellowship program in Brooklyn.
For an appointment, call (914) 948-1000.
About White Plains Hospital
White Plains Hospital is a proud member of the Montefiore Health System, serving as its tertiary hub of advanced care in the Hudson Valley. The Hospital is a 292-bed not-for-profit healthcare organization with the primary mission of providing exceptional acute and preventive medical care to all people who live in, work in or visit Westchester County and its surrounding areas. Centers of Excellence include the Center for Cancer Care, The William & Sylvia Silberstein Neonatal & Maternity Center and The Ruth and Jerome A. Siegel Stroke Center. The Hospital’s Flanzer Emergency Department is the busiest in Westchester County, with more than 64,000 patient visits a year. White Plains Hospital performs lifesaving emergency and elective angioplasty in its Joan and Alan Herfort, MD, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Marie Promuto Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory. White Plains Hospital has outpatient medical facilities across Westchester, including multispecialty practices in Armonk, New Rochelle, Somers and Yorktown Heights; and Scarsdale Medical Group locations in Harrison and Scarsdale.
The Hospital is fully accredited by the Joint Commission and earned its recognition as a Top Performer for Key Quality Measures® in 2015 and 2013. The Hospital received Magnet® designation in 2012, 2016 and 2021 from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). The Hospital earned a three-year accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer (NAPRC), one of 16 hospitals in the nation, and the Hospital's Bariatric Surgical Center is accredited as a Comprehensive Center under the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP). White Plains Hospital has also received full accreditation for its breast cancer program from the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC) and The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP®) recognized White Plains Hospital as a top 10% performing hospital for achieving meritorious outcomes for surgical patient care in 2019. In 2021, White Plains Hospital received the Outstanding Patient Experience Award from Healthgrades® for the sixth time and was the only Hospital in Westchester to be awarded with an “A” Safety Grade from the Leapfrog Group for the 7th consecutive time.
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