Education:

Dr. Cleven earned her medical degree from SUNY-Downstate College of Medicine. She later completed her Internal Medicine Residency training at the Northwell Health-North Shore/LIJ Hospital and her Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Training at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center.

Research and Clinical Interests:

Dr. Cleven has a strong research interest in the respiratory health of 9/11 FDNY first responders and has published her research on this topic. She specifically has an interest in post-9/11 sarcoidosis and other respiratory diseases such as asthma. Dr. Cleven is the pulmonary co-director of the Montefiore Asthma Center where she sees patients with severe asthma.

Clinical Interests:

1.     Respiratory health of 9/11 first responders

2.     Asthma     

3.     Environmental and Occupational Health

4.     Sarcoidosis 

Board Certification:

Dr. Cleven is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Cohen HW, Zeig-Owens R, Joe C, Hall CB, Webber MP, Weiden MD, Cleven KL, Jaber N, Skerker M, Yip J, Schwartz T, Prezant DJ. Long-term Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among Firefighters After the World Trade Center Disaster. JAMA Netw Open. 2019 Sep 4;2(9):e199775. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.9775.PMID: 31490535

Cleven KL, Ye K, Zeig-Owens R, Hena KM, Montagna C, Shan J, Hosgood HD 3rd, Jaber N, Weiden MD, Colbeth HL, Goldfarb DG, Spivack SD, Prezant DJ. Genetic Variants Associated with FDNY WTC-Related Sarcoidosis. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 May 23;16(10):1830. PMID: 31126090

Dicpinigaitis PV, Enilari O, Cleven KL. Prevalence of Arnold nerve reflex in subjects with and without chronic cough: Relevance to Cough Hypersensitivity Syndrome. Pulm Pharmacol Ther. 2019 Feb;54:22-24. doi: 10.1016/j.pupt.2018.11.003. Epub 2018 Nov 13.PMID: 30445192

Hena KM, Yip J, Jaber N, Goldfarb D, Fullam K, Cleven K, Moir W, Zeig-Owens R, Webber MP, Spevack DM, Judson MA, Maier L, Krumerman A, Aizer A, Spivack SD, Berman J, Aldrich TK, Prezant DJ, FDNY Sarcoidosis Clinical Research Group (Christodoulou V, Hena Z, Plotycia SM, Soghier I, Gritz D, Acuna DS, Weiden MD, Nolan A, Diaz K, Ortiz V, Kelly K). Clinical Course of Sarcoidosis in World Trade Center Exposed Firefighters. Chest. 2018 Jan;153(1):114-123. PMID: 29066387

Oks M, Cleven KL, Healy L, Wei M, Narasimhan M, Mayo PH, Kohn N, Koenig S. The Safety and Utility of Phenobarbital Use for the Treatment of Severe Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome in the Medical Intensive Care Unit. Journal of Intensive Care Medicine. 2018 Jan. PMID: 29925291

Chua A, Cleven KL, Appel D. Chylothorax and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension after Treatment with Dasatinib: A Case Report. Annals of Clinical Case Reports. 2017 Aug. 

Cleven KL, Webber MP, Zeig-Owens R, Hena KM, Prezant DJ. Airway Disease in Rescue/Recovery Workers: Recent Findings from the World Trade Center Collapse. Current Allergy and Asthma Reports. 2017 Jan;17(1):5. PMID: 28181152

Oks M, Cleven KL,Cardenas-Garcia J, Schaub JA, Koenig S, Cohen RI, Mayo PH, Narasimhan M. Chest. The effect of point-of-care ultrasonography on imaging studies in the medical ICU: a comparative study. 2014 Dec;146(6). PMID: 25144593

Mackiewicz KL, Sarinopoulos I, Cleven KL, Nitschke JB. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The effect of anticipation and the specificity of sex differences for amygdala and hippocampus function in emotional memory. 2006 Sep; 103(38): 14200-14205. PMID: 16963565

Poster Presentations

Simon Spivack, Krystal Cleven, Miao Shi, Cristina Montagna, Jidong Shan, Dhruv Patel, Aditi Desai, Jidong Shan, Qian Ye, Kerry Hena, David Goldfarb, Jenn Yip, Rachel Zeig-Owens, Kelly Fullam, Nadia Jabar, Thomas Aldrich, David Prezant.  WTC-Associated Sarcoidosis: A pilot genotypic survey. American Thoracic Society. May 2018.

Cleven KL, Shi M, Aldabagh M, Shan J, Ye Q, Hena K, Goldfarb D, Yip J, Zeig-Owens R, Fullam K, Jabar N, Aldrich T, Prezant D, Spivack S. WTC-Associated Sarcoidosis: A pilot genotypic survey. New York State Thoracic Society. April 2018.

Chua A, Cleven KL, Appel D. Chylothorax and PAH After Treatment with Dasatinib: A Case Report. Chest. 2016

Hena K, Yip J, Jaber N, Goldfarb D, Fullam K, Cleven KL, Christodoulou V, Moir W, Hena Z, Crosse T, Zeig-Owens R, Webber M, Plotycia S, Gritz D, Spevack D, Soghier I, Prezant D, Aldrich T. Clinical Characteristics of Sarcoidosis in World Trade Center (WTC) Exposed Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) Firefighters. Chest. 2016

Cleven KL, Healy L, Wei M, Koenig S, Mayo P, Narasimhan M, Oks M. Safety of Phenobarbital Use for Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome in the Medical Intensive Care Unit. Chest. 2015

Cleven KL, Myers AK. A rare case hypercalcemia: a PTH independent malignancy with a normal PTHrP, and low/normal 1-25 Vitamin D. Endocrine Society Conference. 2013.