Julie R. Kaplan
<span style="color:#4d4d4d;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, source-code-pro, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace;font-size:16px;background-color:#ffffff;">Dr. Kaplan has a special interest in prenatal care, contraception and colposcopy.</span>
<span style="color:#4d4d4d;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, source-code-pro, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace;font-size:16px;background-color:#ffffff;">Dr. Kaplan's research interests include simulation model research and researching the long-term outcome of estrogenized endometrium in postmenopausal women.</span>
<p>Julie Kaplan, MD is an attending physician, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health and Medical Student OBGYN Associate Clerkship Director at Montefiore Einstein. She has a special interest in prenatal care, contraception and colposcopy.</p><p>After obtaining her Bachelor of Science in 2008 from Cornell University, Dr. Kaplan earned her Doctor of Medicine in 2012 at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. She then came to Montefiore Einstein to complete an internship and residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2016.</p><p>Her research interests include simulation model research and researching the long-term outcome of estrogenized endometrium in postmenopausal women. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.</p><p>Dr. Kaplan is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and is a member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.</p>
Grace R. Kajita
<p>Dr. Kajita completed a bachelor's degree at Barnard College, Columbia University, a medical degree at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and a primary care medicine residency at NYU School of Medicine. Following residency she became an attending physician for the Department of Veterans' Affairs, New York Harbor Healthcare, where she also served as firm chief for the Department of Medicine and associate program director for the Internal Medicine Residency. In 2005, she was appointed clinical instructor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, where she also served as associate program director for the Internal Medicine Residency. Dr. Kajita's broad range of teaching, administrative, and clinical experience includes the development of a global health elective for internal medicine residents and service as a TB unit supervisor and medical referent for Médecins Sans Frontières in South Sudan. She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, MSF-USA Association, and the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine. Additionally, Dr. Kajita has received multiple teacher-of-the-year awards at NYU.</p>
Nicole A. Hayde
<p>Nicole Hayde, MD, MS, is a pediatric nephrologist at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein (CHAM), Medical Director, Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program, Associate Director, Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship Program and Associate Professor, Pediatrics at Montefiore-Einstein. Dr. Hayde’s clinical focus is pediatric renal transplantation, with a particular interest in the role of antibodies in allograft injury.</p><p>After earning her Doctor of Medicine from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica in 2003, Dr. Hayde completed her residency and chief residency in pediatrics at the University of Miami in 2009. She went on to complete her fellowship in pediatric nephrology at CHAM in 2012. During her fellowship, she was also enrolled in the clinical research training program at Einstein, earning her Master of Science in clinical research methods in 2012.</p><p>Dr. Hayde’s research focus is on the role of donor-specific antibodies in pediatric kidney transplantation and methods to decrease antibody mediated injury. Her findings have been published in several peer-reviewed journals, and have been shared through book chapters, posters and presentations. She is on the editorial board of Frontiers in Pediatrics and is a peer reviewer for several journals including Transplantation, Pediatric Transplantation and Human Immunology. She also serves as a research mentor for fellows interested in kidney transplant research.</p><p>Dr. Hayde is board certified in pediatrics and pediatric nephrology. She has several national roles including the associate councilor of region 9 of United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) and the executive committee of the pediatric community of practice of the American Society of Transplantation. She is also a member of several professional organizations including the ASPN and the American Society of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics.</p>
Elissa B. Gross
Boguslawa D. Gela
Benjamin T. Galen
<p>Dr. Galen graduated from Brown University with honors in the biological sciences and earned an M.D. from Tufts University School of Medicine. He trained in internal medicine at Yale University where he was elected to the Gold Humanism Honor Society and was the class speaker at residency graduation. He joined Montefiore and Einstein in 2013 as a teaching attending in Hospital Medicine</p>
<p>Dr. Galen is an Associate Program Director in The Einstein/Montefiore Internal Medicine Residency Program, the Director of Firm 3 and the Director of ultrasound and procedure training. In 2015 Dr. Galen received the Sharon R. Silbiger Faculty Teaching Award from the Einstein residents. He has led hundreds of resident teaching conferences and has worked to formalize curricula for point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and bedside procedures, such as lumbar puncture and paracentesis. Dr. Galen has taught in the EPHEM, Microbiology, and PDC classes at Einstein. He has led translational research on recurrent meningitis, collaborting with members of Betsy Herold's laboratory. He has co-authored over 20 original research studies. Dr. Galen is passionate about medical case reports and he has mentored residents and junior faculty in the process of publishing cases in a variety of venues. </p>
<p>Dr. Galen is the editor-in-chief of <em>POCUS Journal (</em><a href="https://pocusjournal.com/">https://pocusjournal.com/)</a>, the world's leading peer-reviewed, open-access publication for point-of-care ultrasound. He teaches POCUS nationally at a variety of workshops and conferences. </p>
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<li>Shankar, N., Kuo, L., Krugliak Cleveland, N., Galen, B., Samel, N. S., Perez-Sanchez, A., Nathanson, R., Coss, E., Echavarria, J., Rubin, D. T., & Soni, N. J. (2025). Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Gastroenterology and Hepatology. <em>Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol</em>. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2024.09.040" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2024.09.040</a></li>
<li>Cool, J. A., Galen, B. T., & Dancel, R. (2025). Point-counterpoint: Should hospitalists perform their own bedside procedures? <em>J Hosp Med</em>,<em> 20</em>(1), 89-93. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.13545" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.13545</a></li>
<li>Schechter, M. S., Baron, S. W., Gohari, A., Southern, W. N., & Galen, B. T. (2024). Midline Catheter-Associated Thrombosis (MCAT): Does Tip Location in the Axillary Vein Increase Risk? <em>J Infus Nurs</em>,<em> 47</em>(6), 363-368. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1097/nan.0000000000000558" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://doi.org/10.1097/nan.0000000000000558</a></li>
<li>Singh, J., Oliver-Krasinski, J., Tauras, J., & Galen, B. T. (2023). Systemic Amyloidosis: Is It ATTR or AL? <em>Am J Med</em>,<em> 136</em>(7), 652-654. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2023.03.009" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2023.03.009</a></li>
<li>Johri, A. M., Glass, C., Hill, B., Jensen, T., Puentes, W., Olusanya, O., Capizzano, J. N., Dancel, R., Reierson, K., Reisinger, N., Liblik, K., & Galen, B. T. (2023). The Evolution of Cardiovascular Ultrasound: A Review of Cardiac Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Across Specialties. <em>Am J Med</em>,<em> 136</em>(7), 621-628. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2023.02.020" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2023.02.020</a></li>
<li>Eman, G., Synn, S., Galen, B., Shah, R., Nauka, P., Hope, A. A., Congdon, S., & Islam, M. (2023). Thoracic Ultrasound in COVID-19: Use of Lung and Diaphragm Ultrasound in Evaluating Dyspnea in Survivors of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome from COVID-19 Pneumonia in a Post-ICU Clinic. <em>Lung</em>,<em> 201</em>(2), 149-157. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00408-023-00614-w" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://doi.org/10.1007/s00408-023-00614-w</a></li>
<li>Nauka, P. C., LeFrancois, D., & Galen, B. T. (2022). An Introductory Curriculum for Internal Medicine Interns in Point-of-Care Ultrasound to Detect Lower Extremity Deep Vein Thrombosis. <em>Pocus j</em>,<em> 7</em>(2), 185-186. <a href="https://doi.org/10.24908/pocus.v7i2.15937" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://doi.org/10.24908/pocus.v7i2.15937</a></li>
<li>Varrias, D., Palaiodimos, L., Balasubramanian, P., Barrera, C. A., Nauka, P., Melainis, A. A., Zamora, C., Zavras, P., Napolitano, M., Gulani, P., Ntaios, G., Faillace, R. T., & Galen, B. (2021). The Use of Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) in the Diagnosis of Deep Vein Thrombosis. <em>J Clin Med</em>,<em> 10</em>(17). <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10173903" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10173903</a></li>
<li>Shah, R., Zhang, L., & Galen, B. T. (2021). A 73-Year-Old Woman With Pulseless Electrical Activity Arrest. <em>Chest</em>,<em> 160</em>(6), e665-e667. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2021.03.075" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2021.03.075</a></li>
<li>Koleilat, I., Galen, B., Choinski, K., Hatch, A. N., Jones, D. B., Billett, H., Indes, J., & Lipsitz, E. (2021). Clinical characteristics of acute lower extremity deep venous thrombosis diagnosed by duplex in patients hospitalized for coronavirus disease 2019. <em>J Vasc Surg Venous Lymphat Disord</em>,<em> 9</em>(1), 36-46. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvsv.2020.06.012" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvsv.2020.06.012</a></li>
<li>Nauka, P. C., & Galen, B. T. (2020). The Focused Assessment with Sonography in Cancer (FASC) Examination. <em>Pocus j</em>,<em> 5</em>(2), 42-45. <a href="https://doi.org/10.24908/pocus.v5i2.14428" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://doi.org/10.24908/pocus.v5i2.14428</a></li>
<li>Merkin, R., Kruger, A., Bhardwaj, G., Kajita, G. R., Shapiro, L., & Galen, B. T. (2020). Internal Medicine Resident Work Absence During the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Large Academic Medical Center in New York City. <em>J Grad Med Educ</em>,<em> 12</em>(6), 682-685. <a href="https://doi.org/10.4300/jgme-d-20-00657.1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://doi.org/10.4300/jgme-d-20-00657.1</a></li>
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Antonio C. Fojas, Jr.
<p>Dr. Antonio Fojas obtained his MD from De La Salle University College of Medicine in the Philippines. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center in the Bronx and was a General Medicine Fellow and Chief Medical Resident at the same institution.</p><p>After completing his fellowship, Dr. Fojas was appointed Chief of General Medicine Ambulatory Clinic until 2003. Since December 2006 he has been an Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Program at Our lady of Mercy Medical Center and now Montefiore Medical Center-Wakefield Campus.</p><p>Dr. Fojas' major interest is Primary Care Medicine both in-patient and out-patient.</p>