Shiu M. Young

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Shiu

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Young

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Lucia R. Wolgast

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Lucia

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Wolgast

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Hematology and Coagulation<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>

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Antiphospholipid Syndrome<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>

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Jacqueline Weingarten-Arams

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Jacqueline

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Weingarten-Arams

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<p>Jacqueline Weingarten-Arams, MD, is an attending physician and Professor, Pediatrics at Montefiore Einstein. Dr. Weingarten-Arams&rsquo; pediatric critical care expertise focuses on cardiac critical care, acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, nutrition in critical illness and energy expenditure, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (quality CPR) and extracorporeal life support (ECMO).</p><p>After obtaining her Bachelor of Science in nutritional biochemistry at Cornell University in 1982, Dr. Weingarten-Arams earned her Doctor of Medicine at the same institution in 1986. She then completed her pediatric residency at Columbia University in 1990, where she was Chief Resident in her final year. Following this, Dr. Weingarten-Arams completed a fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine at New York Hospital Cornell University Medical College in 1996.</p><p>Dr. Weingarten-Arams research focus includes the use of deliberate simulated practice in improving outcomes in pediatric critical illness, pediatric resuscitation and pediatric airway management. Her other projects involve chronic critical illness, bioethics in pediatric critical care and oxidative injury in respiratory failure. She has been principal investigator and co-investigator on several research projects, and her work has been shared through numerous peer-reviewed publications and invited presentations.</p><p>Dr. Weingarten-Arams is a Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners and the American Board of Pediatrics. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Chest Physicians. She is also a member of several professional organizations, including the American Medical Association, the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society and the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Weingarten-Arams has been named in Castle Connolly&rsquo;s &ldquo;Top Doctors: New York Metro Area&rdquo; for multiple years. In 2006, she was inducted into the Leo M. Davidoff Society and in 2019, Dr. Weingarten-Arams won the William Obrinsky Award for Excellence in Medical Student Education.</p>

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Rubiahna L. Vaughn

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Rubiahna

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Vaughn

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Victoria Vapnyar

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Victoria

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Vapnyar

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Henry Michael Ushay

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Henry

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Ushay

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Pediatric critical care medicine with a special emphasis on respiratory failure; shock resuscitation; cardiac intensive care; intensive care of pediatric oncology patients; extracorporeal support for children with respiratory and cardiovascular failure

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Leadership and direction of the 16-bed Pediatric Critical Care Unit of The Children&rsquo;s Hospital at Montefiore; improving medication safety; respiratory physiology; advances in the management of respiratory failure in children; shock; medical ethics

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<p>Dr. Ushay is Professor of Clinical Pediatrics in the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics as well as a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine. </p><p>After obtaining a PhD in Chemistry from Columbia University, Dr. Ushay received his MD from UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School and completed a Pediatrics residency in the Montefiore-Jacobi-Einstein program. After serving as Chief Resident and a Fellow in Pediatric Pulmonology at Montefiore, he completed a Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship at New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center in 1993. He was a faculty member at NewYork-Presbyterian and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospitals from 1993 to 2005, and he served as Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program Director and Medical Director of the Pediatric Observation Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. </p><p>In 2005 Dr. Ushay became Director of the Pediatric Critical Care Unit in The Children&rsquo;s Hospital at Montefiore. Dr. Ushay is involved in increasing pediatric ICU surge capacity through the New York City Pediatric Disaster Coalition, serving on its Central Leadership Council and teaching the Pediatric Fundamental Critical Care Support Course. Through the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Dr. Ushay works on employing medical countermeasures safely for children in the event of chemical, biological or radiological disaster. Sponsored by Surgeons of Hope and Children&rsquo;s HeartLink, Dr. Ushay has worked as a cardiac intensivist in Cambodia, Africa, China and Nicaragua. </p>

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Kristine E. Torres-Lockhart

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Kristine

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Torres-Lockhart

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Kristine Torres-Lockhart, MD, FASAM is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, as well as the founding director of the Addiction Consult Service at Montefiore's Weiler Hospital. She is Program Director of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship and Co-Director of the Addiction Medicine rotation for medical trainees. An addiction medicine and internal medicine physician, she leads the development and implementation of health system interventions to improve substance use disorder (SUD) care in acute care settings and transitions of care to post-acute and ambulatory care settings.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br />Dr. Torres-Lockhart provides SUD treatment, HIV/AIDS care, hepatitis C treatment, and general internal medicine care at several sites across Montefiore Medical Center, including a community health care center. She also actively teaches and supervises medical students, residents, and fellows. She is double board certified in addiction medicine and internal medicine and credentialed as an HIV specialist by the American Academy of HIV Medicine.&nbsp;<br /><br />Dr. Torres-Lockhart completed her fellowship training in addiction medicine at Montefiore Medical Center. Prior to arriving at Montefiore, she completed her residency training in internal medicine and primary care at Brigham and Women&rsquo;s Hospital in Boston, MA, where she also served as primary care chief medicine resident at the West Roxbury and Jamaica Plain Veterans Affairs Medical Centers. She received her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and her medical degree from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She is the PI for a HRSA training grant and co-PI for an OASAS training grant to lead the development of educational opportunities in building the addiction medicine workforce. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the New York Society of Addiction Medicine previously as Communication Chair and now as Secretary.&nbsp;</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Singh-Tan, S., <strong>Torres-Lockhart, K.</strong>, Jakubowski, A., Lu, T., Starrels, J., De Lima, P., Arnsten, J., Nahvi, S., Southern, W. (2023). Addiction Consult Service and Inpatient Outcomes Among Patients with Alcohol Use Disorder. &nbsp;/J Gen Intern Med/, 1-8. doi:10.1007/s11606-023-08202-7</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Jakukowski, A., Singh-Tan, S., <strong>Torres-Lockhart, K</strong>., Nahvi, S., Stein, M., Fox, A. D., &amp; Lu, T. (2023). Hospital-based clinicians lack knowledge and comfort in initiating medications for opioid use disorder: opportunities for training innovation. /Addict Sci Clin Pract, 18/(1), 31. doi:10.1186/s13722-023-00386-x</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Calcaterra, S. L., Bottner, R., Martin, M., Englander, H., Weinstein, Z. M., Weimer, M. B., Lambert, E., Ronan, M., Huerta, S., Zaman, T., Ullal, M., Peterkin, A., <strong>Torres-Lockhart, K.</strong>, Buresh, M., O&rsquo;Brien, M., Synder, H., Herzig, S. J. (2022). Management of opioid use disorder, opioid withdrawal, and opioid overdose prevention in hospitalized adults: A systematic review of existing guidelines. /J Hosp Med, 17(9),/679-692/./doi:10.1002/jhm.12908</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong>Torres-Lockhart, K.</strong> E., Lu, T. Y., Weimer, M. B., Stein, M. R., &amp; Cunningham, C. O. (2022). Clinical Management of Opioid Withdrawal. /Addiction, 117/(9), 2540-2550. doi:10.1111/add.15818</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Cunningham, C. O., Khalid, L., Deng, Y., <strong>Torres-Lockhart, K.</strong>, Masyukova, M., Thomas, S., Zhang, C., Lu, T. (2022). A comparison of office-based buprenorphine treatment outcomes in Bronx community clinics before versus during the COVID-19 pandemic. /J Subst Abuse Treat, 135/, 108641. doi:10.1016/j.jsat.2021.108641</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Joseph, G., <strong>Torres-Lockhart, K.</strong>, Stein, M. R., Mund, P. A., &amp; Nahvi, S. (2021). Reimagining patient-centered care in opioid treatment programs: Lessons from the Bronx during COVID-19. /J Subst Abuse Treat, 122/, 108219. doi:10.1016/j.jsat.2020.108219</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">He, L., <strong>Torres-Lockhart, K.</strong>, Forster, N., Ramakrishnan, S., Greninger, P., Garnett, M. J., McDermott, U., Rothenberg, S.M., Benes, C.H., Ellisen, L. W. (2013). Mcl-1 and FBW7 control a dominant survival pathway underlying HDAC and Bcl-2 inhibitor synergy in squamous cell carcinoma. /Cancer Discov, 3/(3), 324-337. doi:10.1158/2159-8290.CD-12-0417</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Ibrahim, Y. H., Garcia-Garcia, C., Serra, V., He, L., <strong>Torres-Lockhart, K</strong>., Prat, A., Anton, P., Cozar, P., Guzman, M., Grueso, J., Rodriguez, O., Calvo, M.T., Aura, C., Diez, O., Rubio, I.T., Perez, J., Rodon, J., Cortes, J., Ellisen, L.W., Scaltriti, M., Baselga, J. (2012). PI3K inhibition impairs BRCA1/2 expression and sensitizes BRCA-proficient triple-negative breast cancer to PARP inhibition. /Cancer Discov, 2/(11), 1036-1047. doi:10.1158/2159-8290.CD-11-0348</p>

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<p>Kristine E. Torres-Lockhart, MD, FASAM, is Director, Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program at Montefiore Einstein, Founding Director, Addiction Consult Service at Weiler Hospital and Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Torres-Lockhart is a general internist, primary care provider and addiction medicine specialist. She focuses on caring for people who use substances and people with substance use disorders, providing care in hospital settings and in outpatient clinics.</p><p>After obtaining her Bachelor of Arts in neuroscience from Dartmouth College in 2010, Dr. Torres-Lockhart earned her Doctor of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in 2016. She completed an internship and residency in internal medicine and primary care at Brigham and Women&rsquo;s Hospital in 2019. Following this, Dr. Torres-Lockhart completed a fellowship in addiction medicine at Montefiore Einstein in 2020.</p><p>Dr. Torres-Lockhart's research focuses on evidence-based and harm-reduction-oriented strategies for addressing substance use disorder care in acute care settings, integration of addiction medicine into medical education and optimizing transitions of care for people who use drugs. She has been principal investigator and co-investigator on funded research projects and her work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Torres-Lockhart has also shared her work through numerous invited presentations, abstracts and poster presentations. She is a reviewer for scientific journals, including Addiction Science and Clinical Practice, the Journal of Addiction Medicine, the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment and the Journal of Hospital Medicine.</p><p>Dr. Torres-Lockhart is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Preventive Medicine with certification in Addiction Medicine. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, board member of the New York Society of Addiction Medicine and member of the Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance Use and Addiction. In 2022, Dr. Torres-Lockhart received the President&rsquo;s Award at the New York Society of Addiction Medicine&rsquo;s Annual Conference. In 2023, she received the Quality Improvement Champion honor at the United Hospital Fund's Tribute to Excellence in Health Care and was a Rising Star Nominee for the Department of Medicine&rsquo;s Physician Recognition Awards at Montefiore Einstein.</p>

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Mark A. Thomas

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Mark

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Thomas

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Peter L. Tenore

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Peter

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Tenore

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Dr. Tenore is a Medical Director in the Division of Substance Abuse and is a wekk known figure in this field, having published in several journals and providing education in substance abuse to local and state agencies. He is an advisor to the New York State Ofice of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services and the federal Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. He is certified in Internal Medicine and by examination in Addiction Medicine and a New York State HIV Provider. His particular interests are management of cocaine and other addictions as well as providing hepatitis C and HIV treatment in the methadone clinic setting.

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DINO-VAMP: A Helpful Acronym in Determining Optimal Methadone Dosing and Brief review of Dosing Literature, Journal of Maintenance in the Addictions, Vol.2(4).

Guidance On Optimal Methadone Dosing, Addiction Treatment Forum, Vol.12 (2).

Methadone:A Medical Model in "Innovations in Substance Abuse Treatment and Policy," Yale University Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Yale Publicatinos, New Haven, CT.

Three Oral Formulations of Methadone: A Clinical and Pharmacodynamic Comparison, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, Vol. 17(3), Gourevitch, Hartell, Tenore, et al.

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Lisa B. Teh

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Lisa

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Teh

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