(January 26, 2007 -- Rockville Centre, NY) - In the latest strengthening its physician leadership, Mercy Medical Center has appointed John P. Reilly, MD as Director of Internal Medicine, Jeffrey Alan Brown, MD as Director of Neurosurgery, and Mark A. Xuereb, MD as Director of the Hospitalist Service.

Dr. Reilly, who resides in Long Beach, comes to Mercy from Victory Memorial Hospital in Brooklyn, where he was Medical Director. Previously, he was Associate Director of Medicine and Medical Management at Brooklyn’s Lutheran Medical Center, and Associate Program Director of Internal Medicine and Chief of Oncology at Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center in The Bronx. Dr. Riley is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology and Hematology, and is a Diplomat of the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians. He served as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at SUNY-Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, and as Assistant Professor of Medicine at New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York. In addition, Dr. Reilly has been a District Surgeon for the New York City Police Department for the past 12 year.

Dr. Brown has been on the medical staff at Mercy since 2004. His offices are in Great Neck , where he resides, and in Rockville Centre. He is certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery and the American Board of Pain Medicine and is Professor of Neurosurgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit. Dr. Brown has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, 20 book chapters and a book on the treatment of chronic pain, especially facial pain, as well as in the areas of spinal vascular, tumor and trauma neurosurgery. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Neurological Surgery, chairman of its joint section on pain and currently serves on the Neurosurgery Advisory Committee to the American College of Surgeons, the Board of Directors of the Long Island Chapter of the American Heart Association and the Medical Advisory Board of the Trigeminal Neuralgia Association. He has delivered more than two hundred lectures, seminars and workshops regionally, nationally and internationally. Since 2003, he has been included as either one of America’s Top Doctors (representing the top 1% of all physicians as nominated by their peers) or, more recently, New York Metro Area Top Doctors.

Dr. Xuereb, a resident of Astoria, Queens, joins Mercy from St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown, where he was Hospitalist Administrator/Director. Previously, he was on the medical staff at Goldwater Hospital in New York City. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, and has participated in research at Lenox Hill Hospital and The Rockefeller University in Manhattan.

About Mercy Medical Center
Mercy Medical Center in Rockville Centre is a 387-bed, not-for-profit hospital serving the healthcare needs of Nassau County and its surrounding area. Best known for services in maternal health, oncology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, orthopedics, and behavioral health, Mercy is a state-designated Level II Trauma and Stroke Center, site of a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, a Bariatric Center of Excellence designated by the American Society of Bariatric Surgery, and the regional home of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Mercy is the recipient of the 2007 Orthopedic Care Excellence Award from HealthGrades, marking the third year in a row that the nation’s leading healthcare ratings company has given Mercy’s program its top orthopedics honor.

Founded nearly a century ago by the Sisters of the Congregation of the Infant Jesus, Mercy today has a medical staff of over 800 physicians, more than 2,000 employees and one of Long Island’s newest acute-care hospital facilities, the $41 million, 160-bed North Pavilion housing state-of-the-art technology and the latest features in hospital design to promote patient safety and comfort.
Mercy Medical Center is a member of Catholic Health Services of Long Island.
For information and physician referrals call (516) 62-MERCY or visit Mercy on line at http://mercymedicalcenter.chsli.org

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