Marc Adler, MD, MBA, FACP is the new senior vice president and chief of hospital operations at Long Island Community Hospital. He takes over the position from Richard Margulis, who retired from his role as president and CEO after 41 years with the hospital, formerly known as Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center.
Adler received his Medical Degree from the State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Winthrop-University Hospital. He received an MBA from the Mount-Sinai School of Medicine/Baruch College Executive Program in Healthcare Administration. He is a diplomate of both the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
As chief of hospital operations, he oversees the daily operations and future strategic planning for Long Island Community Hospital and its affiliation with NYU Langone Health. In his former role as chief medical officer for NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island, he directed the hospital’s clinical staff, ensuring the highest quality and most efficient care. Previously, as associate chief medical officer, senior physician advisor, and physician director of Value Based Purchasing, he has served as a liaison between clinicians and the Hospital in matters relating to length of stay and appropriate utilization and adjudicated commercial and government insurance appeals on behalf of the Hospital.

Adler has lectured nationally and locally and has been recognized in several publications on healthcare topics affecting hospitals and providers and is a co-author of the Vizient Operational Data Base Most Improved Organization for patient flow and length of stay reduction. 
As an internist, he served as chief of hospitalist services, successfully creating safety and quality safeguards to ensure uniformity and patient risk reduction. Devoted to medical care and education, he attended to local active and retired military service personnel and continues to serve as an associate professor of clinical medicine at the NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine.