Tihomir Stefanec

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Tihomir

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Stefanec

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<p>I am interested in Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine. &nbsp;My current interest is Critical Care Medicine. &nbsp;</p>

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Multidisciplinary Critical Care Medicine (Medical, Surgical, Neurologic, Cardiothoracic).<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>

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Role of the endothelium and its progenitors in the pathogenesis of disease.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>

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<p>Tihomir Stefanec, MD, is Attending Physician, Critical Care Medicine, Assistant Professor, Medicine and Neurology at Montefiore Einstein. His clinical focus is multidisciplinary critical care medicine including medical, surgical, neurologic and cardiothoracic critical care.</p><p>After earning his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Zagreb Medical School in Zagreb, Croatia in 1992, Dr. Stefanec completed an internal medicine internship and residency at Long Island College Hospital in 1997. He then completed a critical care medicine fellowship at Saint Vincent&rsquo;s Hospital and Medical Center in 1999. Following this, Dr. Stefanec completed a pulmonary medicine fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2001.</p><p>Dr. Stefanec&rsquo;s past research focuses on the role of the endothelium and its progenitors in the pathogenesis of disease. His work has been published in peer-reviewed original publications, reviews, editorials and abstracts, and he has presented nationally.</p><p>Dr. Stefanec is board certified in Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine, as well as in Neurocritical Care by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties. He has been a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians since 2003, and is a member of the American Thoracic Society, the American College of Chest Physicians and the European Respiratory Society.</p>

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Brian D. Spund

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Brian

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Spund

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Leandro N. Slipczuk Bustamante

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Leandro

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Slipczuk Bustamante

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Clinical focus is the treatment of coronary artery disease, familial hypercholesterolemia and lipid disorders in both prevention and established diseases, cardiometabolic disorders, hypertension, valvular heart disease and heart failure with a comprehensive clinical and multimodality imaging approach.

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Dr. Slipczuk&rsquo;s research focus is on the identification of high-risk patients and plaque features, lipid disorders, cardiovascular imaging and valvular heart disease.

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<p>Leandro Slipczuk Bustamante, MD, PhD, FACC is a board certified cardiologist,&nbsp; Director of the Advanced Cardiac Imaging Program and the Cardiovascular Atherosclerosis and Lipid Disorder Center at Montefiore Cardiology Division. Additionally, Dr. Slipczuk is an Assistant Professor at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. His clinical focus is the treatment of coronary artery disease, familial hypercholesterolemia and lipid disorders in both prevention and established diseases, cardiometabolic disorders, hypertension, valvular heart disease and heart failure with a comprehensive clinical and multimodality imaging approach.</p><p>In 2007, Dr. Slipczuk received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Buenos Aires. He continued studying at this institution, and in 2010 received his Doctor of Philosophy. Dr. Slipczuk began his postgraduate training with a residency in internal medicine at Einstein Medical Center, which he completed in 2013. He then completed a fellowship in cardiology and advanced cardiovascular imaging in 2016 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.</p><p>Dr. Slipczuk&rsquo;s research focus is on the identification of high-risk patients and plaque features, lipid disorders, cardiovascular imaging and valvular heart disease. His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and articles.</p><p>Dr. Slipczuk is board certified by the American Board of Clinical Lipidology and the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is also board certified in cardiovascular CT, comprehensive adult echocardiography and nuclear cardiology. He is an active member of the National Lipid Association where he is a member of the publications committee as well as the imaging and cardiometabolic working groups. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography and the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.</p>

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Jooyoung (Julia) Shin

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Jooyoung (Julia)

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Shin

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<p align="left" style=" word-break: normal; text-align: left;"><span style=" color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Clinical cardiology, specifically end-stage congestive heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, and cardiac transplantation.&#160;&#160;</span></p>

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Dr. Shin's clinical focus is on caring for patients with heart failure, particularly providing expertise in advanced heart failure, heart transplantation, and mechanical circulatory support.

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Heart failure treatment is the primary focus of Dr. Shin&rsquo;s research. She is the site principal investigator for the effectiveness of omecamtiv mecarbil/AMG 423 to treat chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (GALACTIC-HF) and multiple cardiac sensors for the management of heart failure (MANAGE-HF) trials.

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<p>Jooyoung Julia Shin, MD, is Fellowship Director, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Fellowship Program and Associate Professor, Medicine at Montefiore Einstein. Dr. Shin&rsquo;s clinical focus centers on heart failure, cardiac transplantation and mechanical circulatory support.</p><p>After obtaining her Bachelor of Science from the University of Michigan in 1994, Dr. Shin earned her Doctor of Medicine at George Washington University in 1999. She completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Maryland in 2002 before completing a cardiovascular disease fellowship at Emory University in 2005. Following this, Dr. Shin remained at Emory to complete an additional fellowship in advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology in 2006.</p><p>Dr. Shin&rsquo;s research focuses on fellow education. She has been principal investigator and co-principal investigator on several funded research projects, and she has presented at invited lectures nationwide. Her work has also been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, and she has been a reviewer for scientific publications, including the <em>Mayo Clinic Proceedings</em>, the <em>American Journal of Cardiology</em> and <em>Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology</em>, among others.</p><p>Dr. Shin is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Cardiovascular Disease, Internal Medicine and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology. She is a member of the American College of Cardiology and the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation.</p>

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Aldo L. Schenone

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Schenone

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Tamar Rubinstein

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Tamar

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Rubinstein

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<p>Tamar Rubinstein, MD, MS, is a Pediatric Rheumatologist at Children's Hospital at Montefiore and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her clinical focus is the treatment of children, adolescents and young adults with complex rheumatologic diseases, with a special interest in leading multidisciplinary care of patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE).</p>
<p>Dr. Rubinstein obtained her Medical Doctorate and Master of Science in Clinical Research Methods at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After completing her residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Dr. Rubinstein went on to complete her fellowship training in Pediatric Rheumatology at Children's Hospital at Montefiore in 2016.</p>
<p>Dr. Rubinstein has authored numerous publications and continues to actively propose new lines of research with hopes to improve the mental health and SLE disease outcomes in youth. She is an active member of the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA) and a leader of the CARRA Mental Health Workgroup. Dr. Rubinstein is a recipient of the Lupus Foundation of America Career Development Award, the Rheumatology Research Foundation K-Bridge Award, and has received additional funding from CARRA and the Arthritis Foundation for her research. She is currently a lead investigator in the Einstein Pediatric Lupus Cohort.</p>

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Dr. Rubenstein's clinical focus is the treatment of children, adolescents and young adults with complex rheumatologic diseases, with a special interest in leading multidisciplinary care of patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE).

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Dr. Rubinstein has authored numerous publications and continues to actively propose new lines of research with hopes to improve the mental health and SLE disease outcomes in youth.&nbsp;

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<p>Freilich B, Feirsen N, Welton E, Mowrey W, <strong>Rubinstein T</strong>. Validation of the Attention, Memory, and Frontal Abilities Screening Test (AMFAST). Assessment. 2019 Jan 9, doi: 10.1177/ 1073181118822734.</p>
<p>Smith EMD, Eleuteri A, Goilav B, Lewandowski L, Phuti A, <strong>Rubinstein T</strong>, Wahezi D, Jones CA, Marks SD, Corkhill R, Pilkington C, Tullus K, Putterman C, Scott C, Fisher AC, Beresford MW. A Markov Multi-State model of lupus nephritis urine biomarker panel dynamics in children: Predicting changes in disease activity. Clinical Immunology. 2019 Jan; 198:71-78.</p>
<p>Knight A, Vickery M, Faust L, Muscal E, Davis A, Harris J, Hersh A, Rodriguez M, Onel K,<strong> <strong>Rubinstein T</strong></strong>, Washington N, Weitzman ER, Conlon H, Woo JMP, Gerstbacher D, von Scheven E; CARRA Investigators. Gaps in mental health care for youth with rheumatologic conditions: a mixed methods study of perspectives from behavioral health providers [published online June 28, 2018]. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). doi: 10.1002/acr.23683</p>
<p><strong>Rubinstein T</strong>, Mowrey W, Ilowite N, Wahezi D; CARRA Investigators. Delays to care in pediatric lupus patients from the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Legacy Registry. Arthritis Care and Research. 2018; 70(3):420-427.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Rubinstein T</strong>, Davis A, Rodriguez M, Knight A. Addressing Mental Health in Pediatric Rheumatology. Current Treatment Options in Rheumatology. 2018; 4(1):55-72.</p>
<p>Davis A, <strong>Rubinstein T</strong>, Rodriguez M, Knight A. Mental Health Care for Youth with Rheumatologic Diseases - Bridging the Gap. <em>Pediatric Rheumatology</em>. 2017 Dec;15(1):85.</p>
<p>Knight AM, Vickery ME, Muscal E, Davis AM, Harris JG, Soybilgic A, Onel KB, Schanberg LE, <strong>Rubinstein T</strong>, Gottlieb BS, Mandell DS, von Scheven E. Identifying Targets for Improving Mental Healthcare of Adolescents with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Perspectives from Pediatric Rheumatology Clinicians in the United States and Canada. Journal of Rheumatology. 2016 Jun;43(6):1136-45.</p>
<p><strong>Rubinstein T</strong>, Putterman C, Goilav B. Biomarkers for CNS involvement in pediatric lupus. <em>Biomarkers in Medicine</em>. 2015;9(6):545-58.</p>
<p>Goilav B, Putterman C, <strong>Rubinstein T</strong>. Biomarkers for kidney involvement in pediatric lupus. <em>Biomarkers in Medicine.</em> 2015;9(6):529-43.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong><strong>Rubinstein T</strong></strong>,Pitashny M, Levine B, Schwartz N, Schwartzman J, Weinstein E, Pego-Reigosa JM, Lu TY, Isenberg D, Rahman A, Putterman C. Urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin as a novel biomarker for disease activity in lupus nephritis. Rheumatology. 2010 May;49(5):960-71.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Rubinstein T</strong>, Pitashny M, Putterman C. The novel role of neutrophil gelatinase-B associated lipocalin (NGAL)/Lipocalin-2 as a biomarker for lupus nephritis. Autoimmunity Reviews. 2008 Jan;7(3):229-34.</p>

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<p>Tamar Rubinstein, MD, MS, is a Pediatric Rheumatologist at Children's Hospital at Montefiore and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her clinical focus is the treatment of children, adolescents and young adults with complex rheumatologic diseases, with a special interest in leading multidisciplinary care of patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE).</p><p>Upon graduating with a Bachelor of Science from Yale University, Dr. Rubinstein obtained her Medical Doctorate and Master of Science in Clinical Research Methods at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After completing her residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Dr. Rubinstein then went on to complete her fellowship training in Pediatric Rheumatology at Children's Hospital at Montefiore in 2016</p><p>Dr. Rubinstein has authored numerous publications and continues to actively propose new lines of research with hopes to improve the mental health and SLE disease outcomes in youth. She is an active member of the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA) and a leader of the CARRA SLE Mental Health Workgroup. Dr. Rubinstein is a recipient of the Lupus Foundation of America Career Development Award and has received additional funding from CARRA for her research investigating mood disorder in pediatric lupus. She is currently a lead investigator in the Einstein Pediatric Lupus Cohort fostering collaborative studies in pediatric rheumatology.</p>

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Evelyn M. Rondinel

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Maria A. Rodriguez

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<p>My research interests are in the filed of internetional cardiology and include acute coronary care and stent restenosis. Other interests include gender differences in the management of cardiovascular disease. &nbsp;</p>

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Carlos J. Rodriguez

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Carlos

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Dr. Rodriguez&rsquo;s clinical focus is general cardiology, echocardiology, hypertension, heart failure and cholesterol management.

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Expanding on his clinical focus, Dr. Rodriguez&rsquo;s research investigates cardiovascular epidemiology and the impact of psychosocial and behavioral factors on cardiovascular health.

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<p>Carlos Jose Rodriguez, MD, MPH, FAHA, FACC, is Director, Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Director, Clinical Cardiovascular Research at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is also Vice-Chair, Academic Affairs and Attending Physician, Echocardiology and Cardiology at Montefiore. Dr. Rodriguez&rsquo;s clinical focus is general cardiology, echocardiology, hypertension, heart failure and cholesterol management.</p><p>In 1992, Dr. Rodriguez received his Bachelor of Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He then attended Columbia University College, receiving both his Doctor of Medicine and Master of Public Health degrees in 1996. In 1996, he began a three-year internship and residency in internal medicine at the New York Presbyterian Hospital. He continued training at this institution and completed a fellowship in cardiovascular diseases in 2002. Dr. Rodriguez then completed an advanced clinical and research fellowship in 2003 at Columbia University&rsquo;s College of Physicians and Surgeons.</p><p>Expanding on his clinical focus, Dr. Rodriguez&rsquo;s research investigates cardiovascular epidemiology and the impact of psychosocial and behavioral factors on cardiovascular health. He has shared his work at many of invited presentations and has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, abstracts and books.</p><p>From 1989 to 1996, Dr. Rodriguez worked with the United States National Guard as a combat medic. In 2007, he received the Columbia University Medical Center Diversity Faculty Research Award.</p><p>Dr. Rodriguez is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and a member of numerous professional societies, including the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology and the American Society of Echocardiography.</p>

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Yogita M. Rochlani

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Dr. Rochlani's clinical areas of focus include cardiac sarcoidosis, myocarditis, cardiac transplantation, and mechanical circulatory support.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>

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Dr. Rochlani's research interests include inflammatory cardiomyopathies, particularly cardiac sarcoidosis, donor selection for transplantation, and factors that impact post-transplant longevity, particularly cardiac allograft vasculopathy. She serves as a principal investigator for a study evaluating the phenotypic profiles and natural history of cardiac sarcoidosis, and as the site principal investigator for the Cardiac Sarcoidosis Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial evaluating immunosuppressive treatment strategies for the treatment of cardiac sarcoidosis.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>

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