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Lawrence G. Smith is executive vice president and physician-in-chief of Northwell Health and the founding dean of Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, in which the first class of students began its studies in August 2011.[1]
Smith is the first recipient of the Lawrence Scherr, MD, Professorship of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine. He was honored with the 2008 Dema C. Daly Founders Award[2] by the Association of Program Directors of Internal Medicine, of which he is a former president. He was also awarded the Solomon A. Berson Alumni Achievement Award in Health Science [3] by the New York University School of Medicine.