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 of 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.
In addition to the charitable activities
noted above, Nan is a member or supporter of the following
organizations:
Alpha Omega Alpha medical honors
society
American Enterprise Institute
American Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals
