Nan Hayworth

Dr. Nan Hayworth has lived in the 19th Congressional District since 1988 with her husband, Dr. Scott Hayworth. She served her community as an ophthalmologist for 16 years, both in her own solo practice—which she grew from scratch to become a thriving office--and as a partner in the Mount Kisco Medical Group. Along the way Nan also raised two sons, Will and Jack, both of whom have attended Bedford Central public schools. In 2007 Nan became a Vice President in Medical and Scientific Affairs at a large health-care communications agency, Cline, Davis and Mann, in New York City, serving as a scientific expert in Ophthalmology as well as an expert in private-practice medicine.

Throughout her years here, Nan has been active in community and civic endeavors in the Hudson Valley and beyond. A Mount Kisco Lion since 2001, she was honored with the Club’s Robert J. Uplinger Distinguished Service Award in 2006 for her sponsorship of the Leos Club at Fox Lane High School. Nan’s extensive involvement with Northern Westchester Hospital includes her having chaired the “Essentials” lecture series in 2006-2007, and participating on the physicians’ committees for numerous benefits, including serving as Physician co-chair of the Crystal Ball in 1994.

An enthusiastic supporter of the intellectual development of our youth, Nan has judged many a science fair, starting with several years working with the children at West Patent Elementary School, then judging the Westchester Science and Engineering Fair from 2003 through 2008. As an alumna of Princeton University, Nan has worked to provide opportunities to talented students as a member of the National Annual Giving Committee, which honored her with chairmanship of their Volunteer Diversity Subcommittee. Currently Class Agent for her alumni class, Nan was awarded for her fundraising in honor of their 25th Reunion in 2006. She has also performed alumni interviews with Hudson Valley students since 1988.

Nan’s public service includes evaluation of cases as an Expert Consultant for the New York State Department of Health’s Office of Professional Medical Conduct from 2002 through 2007. She is a member of the Hudson River Park Advisory Council, appointed by Senator Dean Skelos. Nan has also been selected to be a member of the Health Care Task Force of the United Way o ns/imagemanager/language/index.php?type=im&format=tinymce_3_x&group=tinymce&prefix=imagemanager_" type="text/javascript"> f Westchester and Putnam.

Recruited from her home town in Indiana, Nan entered Princeton University in 1977, graduating summa cum laude in 1981 with a major in Biology. She was elected there to Phi Beta Kappa. Upon receiving her degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1985, Nan was given multiple awards as one of the top three students in her graduating class. She was also elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honors Society.

Nan practiced Ophthalmology from 1989 through 2005, starting with hanging a shingle as a solo practitioner, then becoming a partner in the Mount Kisco Medical Group in 1996. Throughout this time, Dr. Hayworth was an attending physician at Northern Westchester Hospital; she also taught residents as an Instructor and Assistant Clinical Professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. She has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and a member of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and the New York State Ophthalmological Society. Between 2002 and 2009, Nan has been included on several top-doctors lists, including the Guide to Top Doctors, published by Consumers’ Checkbook; America's Top Ophthalmologists and the Guide to America's Top Physicians, published by Consumers’ Research Council of America; and Best Doctors in America.

Born in Chicago in 1959, Nan was raised in Munster, Indiana, by two veterans of World War II. Her father, a veteran of the American Army, was an executive at Inland Steel Company. Her mother, an immigrant from England—veteran of the British Auxiliary Territorial Service--and naturalized American, was a secretary and homemaker. As a sixth-grader, she placed 13th in the 1971 National Spelling Bee, held in Washington, D.C. A proud member of Munster High School’s Class of ’77, Nan was a National Merit Scholar, a Presidential Scholar finalist, salutatorian, Indiana State Champion in Original Oratory for her nationally-ranked speech and debate team (for which she was also a consistent top seller of tickets for their famous chicken barbeque), editor of the award-winning newspaper, a thespian honored with the title role in The Diary of Anne Frank, and a scholar of German selected for Indiana University’s Honors Program in Foreign Languages for High School Students.

At the tender age of five, a trip to New York City convinced Nan that she would someday live in that fascinating place. Once she was accepted at Princeton, she never left the East Coast, meeting Scott in college and marrying him in 1981.

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