Steven Saunders

Dr. Roca did all his training at busy city hospitals such as Kings County in Brooklyn, Bellevue Hospital in NYC and Boston City Hospital. As a result, there are few diseases that he has not seen. He has expertise in a number of related fields such as allergy, immunology, pulmonary, critical care and sleep. His training in pediatric allergy and sleep medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital provides him with expertise in the management of pediatric patients. A PhD in neuropharmacology provides him with the ability to analyze the latest research. All together, his training enables him to approach medical problems from different perspectives. He has won numerous teaching awards and has been selected by his peers as an exemplary physician. Dr. Roca has also been named a “Top Doctor” multiple times by Castle Connolly, New York Magazine and Connecticut Magazine. Despite all this, he still feels his patients continue to teach him, and he considers caring for them a tremendous honor.

Dr. Ebright joined Stamford Hospital and Columbia University Irving Medical Center after serving on the faculty at Boston University School of Medicine. There, he was Director of the Center for Thoracic Oncology. At Stamford Health, he currently serves as Director of Thoracic Surgery and Chair of the Department of Surgery. He is also Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery at Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Attending Surgeon at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He has numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals and has authored book chapters on a variety of topics related to thoracic surgery. He is a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons, and serves on the Executive Committee of the New York General Thoracic Surgical Club. In addition, he has been selected as a Castle Connolly Top Doctor as identified in Boston, New York, and Connecticut magazines.

Frantz C. Hastrup, MD, is a pulmonologist who provides expert care for patients with breathing issues and other conditions that affect the lungs and respiratory system. Dr. Hastrup specializes in pulmonary and critical care medicine and has a keen interest in asthma, ultrasound and bronchial thermoplasty – a procedure that delivers thermal energy to the airways of the lungs to decrease smooth muscle and reduce the frequency of asthma attacks. During his undergraduate years, Dr. Hastrup studied at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Afterward, he earned his medical degree from MCP Hahnemann School of Medicine in Philadelphia, now Drexel University College of Medicine. Dr. Hastrup completed a residency at Boston Medical Center and a fellowship at Harvard Medical School, where he focused on pulmonary and critical care medicine. As a pulmonary and critical care specialist, Dr. Hastrup offers advanced diagnostics and innovative treatments to help his patients feel better, breath more easily and sleep well. He performs pulmonary function testing to measure lung capacity and a patient’s ability to move air in and out of the lungs. He also helps patients find solutions to improve the sleep cycle and reverse sleep-related disruption, such as sleep apnea, severe snoring, narcolepsy and restless leg syndrome. During his free time, Dr. Hastrup loves to cook and considers himself an avid “foodie.”