Sarah W. Baron
<p>Dr. Sarah W. Baron completed medical education and Primary Care/Internal Medicine residency at New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Baron served as Chief Resident of Quality and Safety at the Manhattan campus of the VA NY Harbor Health System, one of approximately 50 residents chosen in the country to participate in this program though the National Center for Patient Safety at the VA. </p>
<p>Dr. Baron joined Montefiore in the Department of Medicine’s Division of Hospital Medicine in 2014 where she now serves as the Director of Inpatient Quality, a teaching hospitalist, and an Assistant Professor of medicine. She regularly lecturers to the residents about systems-based improvement methodologies and error reporting. </p>
<p>Dr. Baron has been involved in multiple quality improvement efforts within the Department including her efforts improving rates of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis across the Montefiore hospital system. She also led the team that increased the speed with which Clostridium difficile testing results become available to providers in an effort to decrease rates of Hospital Onset Clostridium difficile. She is currently enrolled in the Clinical Research Training Program at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her capstone project is an attempt to understand the distribution of asymptomatic Clostridium difficile carriers within our hospital system. </p>
Quality Improvement
Bijal D. Amin
Dr. Amin’s clinical focus is on the study of tissue to diagnose inflammatory and neoplastic diseases of the skin.
Dr. Amin’s research focus follows her clinical interests in dermatopathology.
<p>Bijal Amin, MD, Associate Professor of Pathology and Internal Medicine, serves as the Director of the Dermatopathology and Program Director of the Dermatopathology Fellowship at Montefiore-Einstein. Dr. Amin’s clinical focus is on the study of tissue to diagnose inflammatory and neoplastic diseases of the skin.</p><p>Dr. Amin matriculated from the prestigious accelerated BA/MD program at the George Washington University School of Medicine. She started her postdoctoral training with an internship in internal medicine at University of Washington. She then went to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center for a residency in anatomic and clinical pathology from 2004 to 2008, acting as chief resident in pathology in her final year. In 2009, she completed a yearlong dermatopathology fellowship through a joint program with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell. In 2020, she completed the Healthcare Information Technology certificate program at Columbia University. </p><p>Dr. Amin’s research focus follows her clinical interests in dermatopathology. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, abstracts and presentations.</p>
<p>Dr. Amin is board certified and is a member of several professional societies including the College of American Pathologists and American Society of Dermatopathology. In 2015, she was awarded Teacher of the Year by Einstein’s Division of Dermatology. In addition to her work in dermatopathology, Dr. Amin has an interest in clinical informatics.</p>