Michael Palese, MD, chief of urology at the North General Hospital from 2004 to 2008 Myron Ross Gershberg, MD (1934–2014), MD, head of psychiatry. Among other things, Gershberg designed and managed addiction and child abuse programs Gregory A. Miller, MD, served first as the residency program director, then as chair of psychiatry, and finally as the medical director and chief medical officer of NGH Stanley Reichman, MD (1926–2009), was named acting director of medicine at NGH in 1980 Nurses Carl Anthony Kirton (born 1962), MA, DNP, MBA, RN, ANP, had been senior vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer at NGH. He is currently chief nursing officer at University Hospital in Newark. Before his tenure at HGH, he had served as deputy executive director and chief nursing officer at Lincoln Hospital and Mental Health Center in the Bronx. He is an expert in the care of HIV/AIDS patients and is an AIDS Certified Registered Nurse (ACRN). He has been president of the national Association of Nurses in AIDS Care and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care. He has received numerous awards for his work in HIV/AIDS and has served nationally as a speaker on HIV/AIDS prevention, testing, treatment and patient care. Kirton has also published in several journals. Trustees (directors) Randolph Guggenheimer (1907–1999), founding trustee, and upon retirement, was named chairman emeritus Livingston Le Stanley Francis (born 1929), chairperson in 1998; among other things, Francis was vice chairman of the United Hospital Fund of New York Edward E. Davis, Jr. (died 2010), trustee Eugene A. Norman, trustee, who also served as chairperson Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, chairperson Eugene Giscombe (1940–2016), vice-chairperson; born in Harlem, he was a noted Harlem real estate developer; Giscombe was known as the "Mayor of 125th Street" Mark Jeziorski, trustee Janice Savin Williams, investment banker and community activist Bernard Aronson (1907–1980) Jewell Jackson McCabe, once married to NGH president and CEO Eugene Louis McCabe Antonio Pérez, EdD, served as a director until 2008. While a director, he had served as secretary of the board. He had been appointed president of Borough of Manhattan Community College in 1995. Natan Wekselbaum served as director until 2007. He was then the president and CEO of Gracious Home, a Manhattan hardware and home furnishing store that had been in his family from 1963 to 2010. Steven