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ExpressCare can now help you get abortion care and options counseling. We are here daily to help you with your health needs.

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Our Team

Meet the ExpressCare Team

Leadership

Eric Wei

Eric Wei, MD, MBA
Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer

Eric Wei, MD, MBA is an emergency medicine physician, rotating through all 11 Eds in NYC Health + Hospitals. Eric serves as executive sponsor of the ExpressCare service line and is Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer, focused on fostering a culture of safety, building quality improvement capacity, and becoming a data driven, high reliability organization. Eric also leads care experience, staff wellness, high value care, arts in medicine, spiritual care, data governance and analytics, emergency management, hospital police and security, and the Helping Healers Heal (H3) program.

Erfan Karim, MPH

Erfan Karim, MPH
Executive Director

Erfan Karim, MPH serves as the Executive Director of the ExpressCare service line, leading a 300-member team. Erfan serves as an Assistant Vice President for Mobile Integrated Health (MIH) focusing on bringing care to homes and communities. Erfan has helped to transformed NYC’s public healthcare system, NYC Health + Hospitals’ system response to historical, structural access to care challenges by reimagining and creating a blended digital and in-person care experience through Virtual ExpressCare that is built around the patient experience. Erfan’s entrepreneurial spirit allowed to launch multiple successful startups.

Adrienne Birnbaum

Adrienne Birnbaum, MD, MS
Medical Director, Virtual ExpressCare

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Christopher Philippou, MPH

Christopher Philippou, MPH
Chief Operating Officer

Christopher Philippou, MPH serves as the Chief Operating Officer of the ExpressCare service line. Chris also serves as Assistant Vice President of Strategic Operations & Development, leading gun violence interruption programming systemwide and transformation efforts in the NYC 911/EMS as system liaison to FDNY EMS.

Kecia Blissett

Kecia-Ann Blissett, DO
Medical Director, Virtual ExpressCare BH

Felicia Hercules

Felicia Hercules, MD
Associate Medical Director, Urgent Care

Marisa Nadas, MD
Associate Medical Director

Dr. Shumaia Rahman

Shumaia Rahman, DO, MBA
Director of Quality Improvement, Behavioral Health

Minela Subasic, PA
Performance Improvement Lead, Urgent Care

Stasha O'Callaghan

Stasha O’Callaghan, MD
Project Implementation Lead

Jeremy Sperling

I am the Chair of Department of Emergency Medicine and a physician delivering care at NYC Health + Hospitals/ Jacobi, North Central Bronx. I specialize in emergency services and have 23 years delivering amazing care. I graduated from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University medical school.

Bonnie Barron

I am a physician delivering emergency department care at NYC Health + Hospitals/ Kings County. I have 30+ years delivering amazing care. I graduated from SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.

Phillip Fairweather

I am the Medical Director of ExpressCare and physician delivering emergency department care at NYC Health + Hospitals/ Elmhurst. I  have 20+ years delivering amazing care. I graduated from Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University.

Samrina Kahlon

I am a physician delivering emergency department care at NYC Health + Hospitals/ Metropolitan. I have 10+ years delivering amazing care. I graduated from Ross University School of Medicine.

Shahriar Zehtabchi

I am a physician delivering emergency department care at NYC Health + Hospitals/ Kings County. I have 30+ years experience in delivering amazing care. I graduated from SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.

Seth Nulman

I am a physician delivering emergency department care at NYC Health + Hospitals/ Jacobi. I  have over 5 years delivering amazing care. I graduated from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Avinash Viswanath

I am a physician delivering emergency department care at NYC Health + Hospitals/ Harlem. I  have over 7 years delivering amazing care. I graduated from Texas A & M University System, Hsc, College Of Medicine.

Richard Leno

I am a physician delivering emergency department care at NYC Health + Hospitals/ Kings County. I  have 15+ years delivering amazing care. I graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons.

Easy, convenient care when you need it
Easy, convenient care when you need it

At ExpressCare, we offer a more convenient and affordable way to get help – and without the wait or cost of an Emergency Room. Our experienced providers are equipped with the tools and technology needed to provide the highest quality care. Our providers can access your medical history, order lab testing, write prescriptions, and coordinate your follow-up with primary and specialty care and other services that you may need.

Qualified and trained providers
Qualified and trained providers

Our providers are highly experienced at delivering definitive care over telemedicine. ExpressCare doctors, psychiatrists, social workers, and addiction counselors are licensed to practice medicine and have the clinical training to understand your health history, provide a diagnosis and prescribe treatment.

Keeping you healthy and safe

Our care has helped over 50,000 patients get peace of mind in their moment of need, all from the comfort and safety of their home. ExpressCare helped them on the road to health and recovery. Now we are expanding to include mental health and substance use services to meet all of your needs.

High-quality care on-demand

ExpressCare providers offer high-quality urgent treatment for a wide array of common, non-emergency health issues.

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