Commissioner, Suffolk County Department of Health
Appointed February 28, 2020, Commissioner Pigott has been leading Suffolk’s health department response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He has served as director of the Office of Minority Health in the Suffolk County Department of Health Services, medical director for Suffolk County Emergency Medical Services and as a physician in the Huntington opioid treatment program. He holds a BA from Brown University, a MD from Brown University Medical School, and an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at the Cambridge Hospital in 1997. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, a clinical assistant professor in preventive medicine at Stony Brook University and a member of an advisory committee for a School of Public Health at Stony Brook. He worked as a primary care internist and attending physician in community health centers in Brownsville, Brooklyn and Cambridge, Massachusetts, caring mainly for the underserved. Dr. Pigott is fluent in Spanish and is passionate about improving the health of underserved residents.