Anthony Lechich, MD
Anthony J. Lechich, MD, is an internist and geriatrician in New York City. Earlier in his career, he was a senior attending physician in the Chelsea-Village Program of Home Health Care for the Elderly. For the past 17 years, he has been Medical Director of the 729-bed Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center. This role includes teaching medical students in neurology and geriatrics from Cornell and NY Medical College. He has focused on developing a special program and educational module for the long-term care of persons with Huntington's Disease. At TCC, he has promoted and lectured on the development of a nursing home palliative care program. He currently serves on the Boards of an Assisted Living facility, the CITI NY clinical informatics initiative, and served also on the NY State Hospital Review and Planning Council for six years. In 2009, he and a colleague edited a position paper on Assisted Living facilities for the American Medical Directors' Association.