The Hospice & Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program's core faculty members have extensive professional background experience including family medicine, internal medicine, nursing, bioethics, and social work. Faculty members are active in clinical, teaching, and research arenas, and a number are nationally recognized experts in their fields.
Palliative Care Team
Leadership and Program Administration
Physician Faculty
Leah Herbst, D.O.
Assistant Professor, Family and Social Medicine
Palliative Medicine Program
Phone: 718.920.6378
Email: echuang@montefiore.org
Pouyan Namakydoust, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Family and Social Medicine
Phone: 718.920.6378
E-mail: pnamakydou@montefiore.org
Tina Wexler, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Family and Social Medicine Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care
Palliative Medicine Program
Phone: 718.920.6378
E-mail: twexler@montefiore.org
Phanthira Christina Tamsukhin, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Family and Social Medicine
Palliative Medicine Program
Phone: 718.920.6378
Email: ptamsukhin@montefiore.org
Non-Physician Faculty
Palliative Care Advanced Practice Nurses
Bernadette Huvane, MSN, FNP-BC, RNC-BC
Family Nurse Practitioner, Montefiore Medical Center Department of Family and Social Medicine, Palliative Medicine
Phone: 718.920.6378
E-mail: bhuvane@montefiore.org
Palliative Care Social Workers
Michelle Hendrick, LMSW
Social Worker
Family & Social Medicine
Palliative Medicine Program
Office: 718.920.6378
Email: mihendri@montefiore.org
Palliative Care Service Physician Assistants
Nicole Ferrara, Senior PA
Kimberly Bernstock, PA
Jong-Yi Chao, PA
Ada Izquierdo, PA
Felecia Slade, PA
Beverly Zabriskie, PA
Inpatient Palliative Care Unit, Northwest 7, Moses Campus
Montefiore Medical Center 111E 210 St. Bronx, NY, 10467
Tel. 718.920.4076 or x7441
Palliative Care Program Assistant
Gloria Negron
Program Assistant/Fellowship Coordinator
Department of Family and Social Medicine
Palliative Medicine
Tel: 718.920.6378
Fax: 718.881.6054
E-mail: gnegron@montefiore.org
