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Do you have a medical question? Then just ask our own, Dr. Steve. Send us your question, along with your name and where you're from, and we will answer as many as we can each and every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8:15am. Use the form below. He will also appear on Monday, Wednesday and Friday in the 7am doing medical news.

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Dr. Steven Salvatore, CW11 Morning News Medical Reporter, joined WPIX in 2005, where he can be seen every weekday morning on "The CW11 Morning News" reporting on the latest medical developments and answering viewer's medical questions in the "Ask Dr. Steve" segments.

Dr. Steve is as board certified Emergency Medicine physician. He completed his Emergency Medicine residency at Long Island Jewish Hospital and was formerly an Attending Physician in the Emergency Department of St. Vincent's Midtown Hospital in Manhattan. Prior to his post at St. Vincent's Midtown Hospital, Dr. Steve was the Assistant Director and Attending Physician in the ER of St. John's Queens Hospital. He was also an Attending Physician at New York Hospital Queens and has been an Assistant Clinical Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Cornell Medical School.

Before joining "The CW11 Morning News," Dr. Steve was the medical correspondent for Fox 5 News in New York and hosted programs on Fox News Channel. Prior to his position at Fox, he was the medical correspondent for CNN. Dr. Steve has also hosted numerous specials for the Discovery Health Channel including "Birth Day Live" six-hour televised event from Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women in San Diego, CA. In addition, he has also been a medical correspondent and health expert for "Day and Date," a nationally syndicated program for CBS and hosted his own prime-time special on Fox 5, "5 Minutes to Live," which garnered him an Emmy nomination.

A graduate of Fordham University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology, Dr. Steve received his medical degree from New York College of Osteopathic Medicine with honors in Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy. Dr. Steve is a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
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AWARDS
2002 Gold World Medal, NY Film and Television Festival Host/Correspondent; Super Surgeries, Discovery Health Channel

TELEVISION EXPERIENCE
September 2002-Oct 2005 Medical Correspondent, WNYW Fox Channel 5, NYC Host/Narrator, Discovery Health
June 2000- November 2001 Host, WebMD tv Weekend; Fox News Channel
Host, Health Point; The Health Channel
August 1997-June 2000 Medical Correspondent, CNN
Host, Your Health; CNN
June 1996-November 1997 Medical Correspondent, Day and Date; CBS