Karen A. Becker, M.D.
- Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Social Medicine
Phone
Location
- Montefiore Medical Group 3011 Boston Road Bronx, NY 10469
Research Profiles
Professional Interests
Education
Medical School: School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University
Residency: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Interests
Nutrition, the microbiome, influence of industry on evidence, patient-centered EBM, medical decision making
Expertise
Evidence-based medicine, information mastery
Active Projects
Preparing grand rounds on statin guidelines and presentations on evidence and industry and patient-centered EBM for STFM
Course
Information Mastery for Social Medicine, half-day seminars on:
- Introduction to EBM & Course Overview; Medical Information Strategies
- Observational Studies: Case series, Ecological, Cross-sectional, Case-Control, Cohort
- Clinical Questions
- Introduction to Biostatistics
- Clinical Trials Part 1
- Systematic & other Reviews
- Guidelines
- Presentation of SMP Literature Searches
- Evidence and Industry: deciding what to believe
- Patient-Centered EBM
- Hunting and Foraging
Grand Rounds:
- Vitamin D: Just another supplement fad, or a key to reducing health disparities
- Tuesday morning teaching seminars:
- Constipation
- Anemia
- Drug treatment of Type 2diabetes
- Vitamin D update
Other teaching presentations:
- Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia
- Pharmacotherapy of depression