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Joseph H. Stephens

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jossteph@montefiore.org
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718-579-2500
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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Montefiore Medical Center
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<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">Joseph Stephens is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a member of the Global Health and Clinical Skills Faculty at Montefiore Medical Center. He is a graduate of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Primary Care and Social Internal Medicine Residency Program at Montefiore. He enjoys practicing medicine in primary care and inpatient settings both in the Bronx and Kisoro, Uganda. His interests include helping learners to interpret and apply clinical research to patient care, teaching clinical reasoning, and promoting community oriented primary care. Sepp has worked with the NGO Doctor&rsquo;s for Global Health since 2016, supporting and strengthening their village health worker program and related community health initiatives in Kisoro. </span><span style="border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">His research has focused on hypertension and other chronic diseases in rural Uganda, from household level universal screening to community and hospital-based management.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>

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Tihomir Stefanec

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tstefane@montefiore.org
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718-920-4321
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The Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology
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Montefiore Medical Center
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University of Zagreb Medical School
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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St Vincents Hospital & Medical Center
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Long Island College Hospital
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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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5176
Biography

<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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Joanna L. Starrels

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Joanna L. Starrels
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Montefiore Medical Center
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Jefferson Medical College
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University of Pennsylvania
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New York and Presbyterian Hosp
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Dr. Starrels is Professor of Medicine (with tenure) at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Associate Chief of Research in the <a title="Division of General Internal Medicine" href="http://www.einstein.yu.edu/faculty/medicine/generalinternalmedicine"><s… style="color: #3b5b98; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Division of General Internal Medicine</span></a>, and Director of the IMPOWR-ME Research Center. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine.&nbsp;Dr. Starrels is nationally recognized for her expertise in research, clinical care, education, and health policy to address the opioid crisis. Her research focuses on&nbsp;opioid management for patients with chronic pain with or without opioid use disorder. In particular, she studies the benefits and harms of opioid tapering, treatment agreements,&nbsp;urine drug testing,&nbsp;prescription monitoring programs, and medical cannabis use. She also studies the impact of opioid use&nbsp;on HIV outcomes, collaborative care models for integrating behavioral health care and pain management, treatment of opioid use disorder in primary care, and integrated treatment for opioid use disorder and chronic pain.&nbsp;Her work has been funded by&nbsp;grants from&nbsp;the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the Society of General Internal Medicine,&nbsp;the New York Community Trust, and the Einstein-Montefiore Center for AIDS Research. Her expertise has been recognized </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">by invitations to serve as</span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> expert consultant to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the New York State Department of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for developing guidelines and initiatives to improve opioid prescribing.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Dr. Starrels joined the Einstein/Montefiore faculty in 2008. Her teaching and clinical care activities also focus on chronic pain and substance use. She is faculty in the Center on Comparative Effectiveness Research, leads a number of opioid and pain related initiatives, is teaching faculty in the Internal Medicine and Primary Care and Social Internal Medicine residency training programs, and is attending physician at the Montefiore Family Care Center where she focuses on caring for patients with chronic pain and who use opioids and/or medical cannabis.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Before joining Einstein/Montefiore, Dr. Starrels received her BA from Wesleyan University, where she majored in the Science in Society Program, and her MD from Jefferson Medical College. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center and fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a MS in Health Policy Research. </span></span></span></p>
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Research Areas
Opioid management for patients with chronic pain, opioid tapering, treatment agreements, urine drug testing, medical cannabis, collaborative care models, opioid use disorder, opioid use in HIV care.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.6pt;">Dr. Starrels is a physician, teacher and researcher who focuses on the safety and effectiveness of opioids for the management of chronic pain. Her research centers on&nbsp;defining best practices for&nbsp;managing chronic pain in&nbsp;primary care and HIV-treatment settings.&nbsp;She studies the benefits and harms of using treatment agreements,&nbsp;urine drug testing,&nbsp;and prescription monitoring programs in pain management; the effectiveness of&nbsp;collaborative care models for integrating behavioral health care and pain management; treatment of opioid use disorders in primary care settings; and the impact of opioid analgesic use,&nbsp;misuse and disorders&nbsp;on HIV outcomes.&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 15.6pt;">Her work has been funded by&nbsp;grants from&nbsp;the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the Society of General Internal Medicine,&nbsp;the New York Community Trust, and the Einstein-Montefiore Center for AIDS Research. Dr. Starrels also works to improve policies and guidelines to improve the safety of opioid prescribing. She serves as consultant to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on several initiatives to reduce prescription drug abuse, addiction and overdose in New York City. She was a field reviewer for the Federation of State Medical Board&rsquo;s 2013 Model Policy on the Use of Opioid Analgesics for the Treatment of Chronic Pain, and served as a core expert for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2016 opioid prescribing guidelines. She is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine.&nbsp;</span></p>

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<li><strong><strong>Starrels JL</strong>, </strong>Becker WC, Alford DP, Kapoor, A, Williams AR, Turner BJ. Treatment Agreements and Urine Drug Testing to Reduce Opioid Misuse in Patients with Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review. Annals of Internal Medicine.2010;152:712-720.</li>
<li><strong>Starrels JL</strong>, Becker WC, Weiner MG, Li X, Heo M, Turner, BJ. Low Use of Opioid Risk Reduction Strategies for Even High Risk Primary Care Patients with Chronic Pain. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2011;26(9);958-64.</li>
<li><strong>Starrels JL</strong>, Fox AD, Kunins HV, Cunningham CO. They Don&rsquo;t Know What They Don&rsquo;t Know: Internal Medicine Residents&rsquo; Knowledge and Confidence in Urine Drug Test Interpretation for Patients with Chronic Pain. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2012;27(11):1521-1527.</li>
<li>Bachhuber MA, Hennesy S, Cunningham CO, <strong>Starrels JL</strong>. Increasing benzodiazepine prescriptions and overdose mortality in the United States, 1996-2013. American Journal of Public Health. 2016;106(4):686-8.&nbsp;</li>
<li><strong>Starrels JL</strong>, Peyser D, Haughton L, Fox AD, Merlin J, Arnsten JH, Cunningham CO. When HIV treatment goals conflict with guideline-based opioid prescribing: A qualitative study of HIV treatment providers. Substance Abuse. 2016;37(1):148-53.</li>
<li>Buonora M, Perez H, Heo M, Ning Y, Cunningham CO, <strong>Starrels JL</strong>. Race and gender are associated with opioid dose reduction among patients receiving chronic opioid therapy. Pain Medicine. 2018.&nbsp;</li>
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Daniel J. Smuckler

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Daniel J. Smuckler
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daniel.smuckler@omh.ny.gov
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718-862-5156
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Bronx Psychiatric Center
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1500 Waters Place
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Bronx
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NY
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10461
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Bronx Psychiatric Center
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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Montefiore Medical Center
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Montefiore Medical Center
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Deepika E. Slawek

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Deepika E. Slawek
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dslawek@montefiore.org
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718-920-3786
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Montefiore Medical Center
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Medical Education
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Texas A&M University College of Medicine
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New York University Medical Center
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Residency
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State University of New York at Stony Brook
Professional Interests

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: #212121; color: #212121;">Deepika Slawek, MD, MPH, MS is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Montefiore Health Systems and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY in the Division of General Internal Medicine. She is board certified in Infectious Diseases, Addiction Medicine, and Internal Medicine and is the Co-Director of the Montefiore Medical Cannabis Program. Dr. Slawek &nbsp;studies how to reduce morbidity and mortality in people with HIV (PWH) and people who use drugs (PWUD) using a harm reduction framework. She aims to study solutions for PWH and PWUD informed by her clinical experiences and patient&rsquo;s experiences. Dr. Slawek is the recipient of a K23 award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to test how different formulations of medical cannabis effect neuropathic pain and inflammation in PLWH in an innovative quasi-experimental study. She is leading groundbreaking foundation-funded research to determine whether medical cannabis is effective in reducing opioid analgesic use in people with pain.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: #212121; color: #212121;">Prior to joining Montefiore-Einstein, Dr. Slawek completed her residency training in Primary Care Internal Medicine at Stony Brook University Hospital and her Infectious Diseases Fellowship at New York University/Bellevue Hospital Center. She holds a Masters of Science in Clinical Research Methods from Albert Einstein College of Medicine.</p>

Research Areas
I study how to reduce morbidity and mortality in people with HIV (PWH) and people who use drugs (PWUD) using a harm reduction framework. I aim to study solutions for PWH and PWUD informed by my experiences as a clinician and by my patient's experiences.
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Selected Publications

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-color: white;"><a name="_GoBack"></a>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Slawek DE</strong>, Arnsten J, Zhang C, Grossberg R, Stein M, Cunningham CO. Daily and near-daily cannabis use is associated with HIV viral load suppression in people living with HIV who use cocaine.&nbsp;AIDS Care.&nbsp;Vol 32, 2020.&nbsp;Doi:&nbsp;<a title="https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2020.1799922&quot; href="https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2020.1799922">10.1080/09540121.2020.17… />2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Slawek DE</strong>, Merlin JS, Owens MA, Long DM, Gonzalez CE, White DM, Lopez SA, Heath SL, Goodin BR. Increasing age is associated with elevated circulating interleukin-6 and enhanced temporal summation of mechanical pain in people living with HIV and chronic pain.&nbsp;Pain Reports. 2020; 5(6):p e859.&nbsp;doi: 10.1097/PR9.0000000000000859<br />3. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Slawek DE</strong>, Althouse AD, Feldman RF, &hellip; Merlin JS. Cannabis dispensary staff approaches to counseling on potential contraindications to cannabis use: Insights from a national self-report survey.&nbsp;BMC Primary Care. 2023 Jul 14;24(1):145. PMID: 37442944, PMCID: PMC10347704.<br /><!-- [if !supportLists]-->4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!--[endif]-->Ross J,&nbsp;<strong>Slawek DE</strong>, Yamada J, Starrels J, Arnsten JH. Increasing access to medical cannabis: establishment of a medical cannabis program in a safety-net academic medical center.&nbsp;NEJM Catalyst. 2022 January; 3(2):CAT.21.0373.doi:10.1056/CAT.21.0373&nbsp;<br />5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!--[endif]-->Zolotov Y, Lomba J, Ghiroli M, Masyukova M, Arnsten JH, Starrels JL, Ross J, Cunningham CO,&nbsp;<strong>Slawek DE</strong>. &ldquo;It doesn&rsquo;t make any sense to even try&rdquo;: the disruptive impact of COVID-19&rsquo;s first wave on people with chronic pain using medical cannabis in New York.&nbsp;Journal of Cannabis Research. 2023 March 29;5(1):10.&nbsp;doi: 10.1186/s42238-023-00180-1. PubMed PMID: 36978185; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10049907.<br />6.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!--[endif]--><strong>Slawek DE</strong>, Arnsten JH (2023). Medical use of cannabis and cannabinoids in adults.&nbsp;UpToDate. 2023 Jul 31.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.uptodate.com/contents/medical-use-of-cannabis-and-cannabino…;

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Biography

<p>Deepika E. Slawek, MD, MS, MPH, is an attending physician at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor, Medicine at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her clinical expertise lies in HIV care and addiction treatment. She provides primary care for HIV patients and management of subsequent chronic conditions, as well as consulting on the management of substance use disorders.</p><p>After completing her Bachelor of Science in human biology at the University of Texas at Austin in 2006, Dr. Slawek earned her Master of Public Health at George Washington University in 2008. She earned her Doctor of Medicine at Texas A&M School of Medicine in 2012, then pursued postdoctoral training in internal medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, completing an internship in 2013 and her internal medicine residency in 2015. She completed a fellowship in infectious diseases at New York University in 2017 before coming to Montefiore Einstein, where she pursued a fellowship in general internal medicine and a Master of Science in Clinical Research Methods, completing both in 2019.</p><p>Building on her clinical expertise, Dr. Slawek&rsquo;s research focuses on improving outcomes in people living with HIV (PLWH). She is currently studying how medical cannabis affects pain in PLWH and is receiving funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. She has been principal investigator on a number of funded research projects, and she has given national and international presentations. Dr. Slawek&rsquo;s work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and review articles, and she is a reviewer for scientific journals including <em>Annals of Internal Medicine</em>, the <em>Journal of General Internal Medicine</em>, <em>AIDS and Behaviour</em> and <em>AIDS Care</em>, among others.</p><p>Dr. Slawek is board certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Addiction Medicine. She is a member of the Society for General Internal Medicine, the American Society for Addiction Medicine and The Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance use and Addiction.</p>

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Scott H. Shaffer

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Scott H. Shaffer
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sshaffer@montefiore.org
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3340 Bainbridge Avenue
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Bronx
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NY
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10467-2404
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Montefiore at 3340 Bainbridge Avenue
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Montefiore Medical Center
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555 Taxter Road
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Elmsford
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NY
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10523
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Montefiore Medical Center
Education and Trainings
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Medical Education
Education Institution
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Education Type Label
Residency
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New York University Medical Center
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Residency
Education Institution
Brown University
Professional Interests

<p><span>Scott Shaffer, MD is assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Consult/Liaison Service at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore, and is the deputy training director of the child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed his residency in psychiatry at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and his fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p>Dr. Shaffer is a board member of the New York Council on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is also chair of the Advisory Council for the Gold Humanism Honor Society and is a member of the Arnold P Gold Foundation Board of Trustees.&nbsp;</p>

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Clinical Focus

Dr. Shaffer&rsquo;s clinical focus is around the evaluation and treatment of somatic symptom disorders, autism spectrum disorder, and medical education. His research focus is on somatic symptom disorders and medical education.

Selected Publications

<p>Samuels A, Tuvia T, Patterson D, Briklin O, <strong>Shaffer S</strong>, Walker A.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31267759/">Characteristics of Conversion Disorder in an Urban Academic Children's Medical Center.&nbsp;</a>Clin Pediatr (Phila).&nbsp;2019 Jul 3; [Epub ahead of print]&nbsp;PubMed PMID: 31267759.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Denysenko L, Sica N, Penders T, Philbrick K, Walker A, <strong>Shaffer S, </strong>Zimbrean P, Freudenreich O, Rex N, Carroll B, Francis A. Catatonia in the medically ill: Etiology, Diagnosis, and treatment. The Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Evidence-based Medicine Subcommittee Monograph. Annals of Clinical Psychiatry 2018:30(2), 140-155.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Shaffer S</strong>., Fuentes J. On or off the &ldquo;Spectrum&rdquo;? The complexity of screening and diagnosing autism &nbsp;spectrum disorder (ASD). JAACAP Connect. Volume 1 Issue 2, Fall 2014.</p>
<p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p>Philip NS, <strong>Shaffer S</strong>, Banik D, Johnson B: Supportive Psychotherapy- a Crash Course for Medical Students. Academic Psychiatry 2010: 34:1, 57-60.</p>

EMR ID
73017
Biography

<p>Scott Shaffer, MD, is Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Consult-Liaison Service and Deputy Director of Training, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is also an Assistant Professor at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
</p><p>After receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Sciences from Rutgers University in 2003, Dr. Shaffer continued his education at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School where he earned his Doctor of Medicine degree in 2006. He earned his first residency in General Psychiatry from Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in 2010 and his second residency in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry from the New York University School of Medicine in 2012.
</p><p>Dr. Shaffer&rsquo;s clinical focus is around the evaluation and treatment of somatic symptom disorders, autism spectrum disorder, and medical education. His research focus is on somatic symptom disorders and medical education.
</p><p>Dr. Shaffer is board certified and involved in a number of committees. He is Chair of the Nominating Committee and on the Advisory Council for the Gold Humanism Honor Society, a program of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation. Along with being a Board Member for the New York Council of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry he is also Co-Chair of their Medical Student Subcommittee. At the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Dr. Shaffer serves as a co-chair for the Committee on Admissions, and is a member of the Clinical Skills Assessment Subcommittee, and the Child Psychiatry Executive Training Committee.
</p><p>He is an active member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York Council of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Gold Humanism Honor Society.
</p>

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Peter A. Selwyn

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Peter A. Selwyn
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Male
Provider Type
Primary Care
Email
pselwyn@montefiore.org
Phone
718-920-8434
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Health Behavior Research & Implementation Science
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Director, Palliative Care Program at Montefiore Einstein
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1 Fordham Plaza, 5th Floor
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Bronx
State
NY
Zip
10458-5870
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Montefiore Medical Group-Family Health Center (FHC)
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Montefiore Medical Center
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3544 Jerome Avenue
City
Bronx
State
NY
Zip
10467
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Montefiore Medical Center
Education and Trainings
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Medical Education
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Harvard Medical School
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Residency
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Montefiore Medical Center
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M.D.
M.P.H.
Clinical Focus

Family Medicine

Selected Publications

<p><strong>Recent Publications (selected)</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Selwyn PA. Skin deep. JAMA. 2015;313(1):33.</li>
<li>Chambers E, Wong BC, Riley RW, Hollingsworth N, Blank AE, Myers C, Bedell J, Selwyn PA. Combining clinical and population&shy;level data to understand the health of neighborhoods. Am J Public Health, in press, 2015.</li>
<li>Pahuja M, Merlin JS, Selwyn PA. HIV/AIDS. In The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine, 5th Edition (Cherny N et al, editors). Oxford University Press, 2015.</li>
<li>Liggett A, Sharma M, Nakamura Y, Villar R, Selwyn PA. Results of a voter registration project at 2 family medicine residency clinics in the Bronx, New York. Ann Fam Med 2014&#894; 12: 466&shy;469.</li>
<li>Chu C, Umanski G, Blank A, Grossberg R, Selwyn PA. HIV&shy;infected patients and treatment outcomes: an equivalence study of community&shy;located, primary care&shy;based HIV treatment vs. hospital&shy;based specialty care in the Bronx, New York. AIDS Care, 2010 Dec&#894;22(12):1522&shy;9</li>
<li>Chu C, Selwyn PA. Complications of HIV Infection: A systems-based approach. Am Fam Physician. 2011;83(4):395-406.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Chu C, Selwyn PA. An epidemic in the evolution: the need for new models of HIV care in the chronic disease era. J Urban Health, 2011&#894; 88(3): 556&shy;566.</li>
<li>Selwyn PA. The Island. Ann Family Med 2008;6:78-9.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Selwyn PA. Palliative care for patients with HIV/AIDS. J Palliative Med 2005; 8:1248-68.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Selwyn PA, Forstein M. Comprehensive care for late-stage HIV/AIDS: Overcoming the false dichotomy of &ldquo;curative&rdquo; vs. &ldquo;palliative&rdquo; care. JAMA 2003;290:806-14.</li>
<li>Selwyn PA, Rivard M. Overview of clinical issues. In O&rsquo;Neill J, Selwyn PA, Schietinger, H, eds., A Clinical Guide To Supportive and Palliative Care for HIV/AIDS. Rockville, MD: Health Resources and Services Administration, 2003.</li>
<li>Selwyn PA, Arnold R. From fate to tragedy: the changing meanings of life, death, and AIDS. Annals of Internal Medicine 1998; 129:899-902</li>
<li>Selwyn PA, Pumerantz AS, Durante A, Alcabes PG, Gourevitch MN, Boiselle PM, Elmore J. Clinical predictors of pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, bacterial pneumonia, and tuberculosis in hospitalized patients with HIV infection. AIDS 1998;12:885-93.</li>
<li>Selwyn PA. Surviving the Fall: The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.</li>
<li>Frankel R, Selwyn PA, Mezger J, Andrews S. High prevalence of gynecologic disease among hospitalized women with HIV infection. Clinical Infect Dis 1997; 25:700-12</li>
<li>Selwyn PA, Alcabes PA, Hartel D, et al. Clinical manifestations and predictors of disease progression in a cohort of injecting drug users with human immunodeficiency virus infection, 1985-1990. N Engl J Med, 1992;327:1697-1703.</li>
<li>Selwyn PA, Feingold AR, Iezza A, et al. Primary care for human immunodeficiency virus infection in a methadone maintenance treatment program. Ann Intern Med 1989;111:761-63.</li>
<li>Schoenbaum EE, Hartel D, Selwyn PA, et al. Risk factors for human immunodeficiency virus infection in intravenous drug users. N Engl J Med 1989;321:874-79.</li>
<li>Selwyn PA, Hartel D, Lewis VA, et al. A prospective study of the risk of tuberculosis in intravenous drug users with human immunodeficiency virus infection. N Engl J Med 1989;320:1649-54.</li>
<li>Selwyn PA, Carter RJ, Schoenbaum EE, et al. Knowledge of HIV antibody status and decisions to continue or terminate pregnancies among intravenous drug users. JAMA 1989; 261:3567-71.</li>
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Shani R. Scott

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Female
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Primary Care
Email
shanscot@montefiore.org
Phone
718-920-5394
Titles
Type
Academic
Department
Department of Medicine
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Rank
Assistant Professor
Division
General Internal Medicine
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2532 Grand Concourse
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Bronx
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NY
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10458-4902
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Montefiore Medical Group-Grand Concourse
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2300 Westchester Avenue
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Bronx
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NY
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10462-5072
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Montefiore Urgent Care Center
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POINT (-73.84544 40.84518)
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1621 Eastchester Road
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Bronx
State
NY
Zip
10461-2301
Location Title
Montefiore Medical Group-Comprehensive Family Care Center (CFCC)
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Montefiore Medical Center
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3444 Kossuth Avenue
City
Bronx
State
NY
Zip
10467
Location Title
Montefiore Medical Center
Education and Trainings
Education Type Label
Medical Education
Education Institution
Howard University College of Medicine
Education Type Label
Residency
Education Institution
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Professional Interests

<p><span>Dr. Shani R. Scott received her medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine, and subsequently completed her residency training in Internal Medicine at Weill Cornell-New York Presbyterian Hospital. While training, she served as chair of the Minority House Staff Committee.</span></p>
<p><span>Dr. Scott was recruited to Montefiore Medical Center, Division of General Internal Medicine in 2018, and currently serves in several roles. As a clinical educator, she teaches medical students and medical house staff on chronic disease management in primary care. Dr. Scott also is the Firm 1 Assistant Program Director in the Internal Medicine Residency Program. In this role she&nbsp;leads medical resident teaching conferences and provides career guidance. Furthermore, Dr. Scott aids in spearheading program development on the Diversity and Inclusion Committee within the Department of Medicine.</span></p>
<p><span>Her clinical and educational interests center around utilizing motivational interviewing and evidence-based medicine to improve the health outcomes of chronic diseases such as Obesity, Diabetes Mellitus Type 2, and primary prevention of Cardiovascular Disease. </span></p>

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Sheira L. Schlair

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sschlair@montefiore.org
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111 East 210th Street
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Bronx
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NY
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10461-2401
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Montefiore Medical Center
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus ~ Ruth L. Gottesman Clinical Skills Ctr.
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1300 Morris Park Avenue
City
Bronx
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NY
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10461
Location Title
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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Medical Education
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Case Western Reserve University
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Fellowship
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New York University Medical Center
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Residency
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Montefiore Medical Center
Professional Interests

<p>Dr. Sheira Schlair is the Communication and Interpersonal Skills Theme and Faculty Development Leader for the inaugural BAP (Becoming a Physician) Program, the longitudinal clinical skills program for all Einstein medical students within the new ELCP (Einstein Learning Community Program). She is an experienced medical educator with special interest and expertise in teaching and remediating communication skills and professionalism. She also serves as the President of the Leo M. Davidoff Society, the Einstein teaching society.</p>
<p>Dr. Schlair previously served as a Course Co-Director for the Introduction to Clinical Skills (ICM) program. Prior to that, she served for close to a decade as an Associate Program Director, Firm 1 Director and Director of Clinical Skills Assessment for the Montefiore Moses/Weiler Internal Medicine Residency Program, overseeing the OSCE and miniCEX / Direct Clinical Observation programs. During her tenure she was the recipient of several teaching awards for her work with residents and medical students. She is a graduate of the eight-year combined BA/MD program at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine with concentrations in medical education scholarship and the Primary Care Track. She completed a BA in medical anthropology and also completed coursework and achieved a Certificate in European Social Sciences from University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is a graduate and former Chief Resident of the Montefiore Primary Care and Social Internal Medicine residency where she helped to initiate the residency's program in Kisoro, Uganda. Following residency training, she achieved an MS (Medical Education) and completed a General Internal Medicine fellowship at New York University School of Medicine where she also served as a teaching attending at Gouverneur and Bellevue Hospitals. She has also completed the Facilitator in Training faculty development program through the Academy on Communication in Healthcare (ACH) is now a senior faculty member and guide for their nationally recognized faculty development program.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Her research, curricular and program development focuses on doctor-patient and teacher-student communication in clinical skills education. She regularly leads faculty development efforts locally and nationally in promoting skills in patient centered and relationship centered care for clinicians and within teams, in the areas of feedback, communication, coaching and teaching praxis.&nbsp;</p>

Research Areas
Clinical skills assessment, professional identity formation, learning climate, behavior change theory and praxis, physician health, learning communities
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General adult medicine and primary care<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>

Research Focus

Medical education<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>

Selected Publications

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp; &nbsp; </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Jay M, Kalet A, Ark T, McMacken M, Messito MJ, Richter RA, <strong>Schlair S,</strong> Sherman S, Zabar S, Gillespie C. Physicians&rsquo; attitudes about obesity and their relation to competency and patient weight loss: A cross-sectional survey. <em>BMC Health Services Research</em> 2009; 9:106</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Jay M, <strong>Schlair S,</strong> Caldwell R, Kalet A, Sherman S, Gillespie CC. From the patients&rsquo; perspective: The impact of training on resident physicians&rsquo; obesity counseling. <em>Journal of General Internal Medicine</em> 2010; 25(5):415-22</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Jay M, Gillespie C, <strong>Schlair S,</strong> Sherman S, Kalet A. Physicians&rsquo; use of the 5As in counseling obese patients: Is the quality of counseling associated with patients&rsquo; motivation and intention to lose weight? <em>BMC Health Services Research </em>2010; 10:159-165</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Schlair S,</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> Hanley K, Gillespie C, Disney L, Kalet A, Darby P, Frank E, Spencer E, Harris J, Jay M. How medical students&rsquo; behaviors and attitudes affect the impact of a brief curriculum on nutrition counseling. <em>Journal of Nutrition Education Behavior </em>2012; 44(6):653-7.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Schlair S,</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> Moore S, McMacken M, Jay M. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">How to deliver high-quality obesity counseling in primary care using the 5As framework. </span><em><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management </span></em><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">2012; 19:221-9.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Frank E, <strong>Schlair S,</strong> Elon L, Saraiya M. Do U.S. medical students report more training on&nbsp;evidence-based prevention topics? <em>Health Education Research</em> 2013; 28(2): 265-75</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Jay M, Gillespie C, <strong>Schlair S,</strong> Savarimuthu S, Zabar S, Kalet A. The impact of primary care resident physician training on patient weight loss at 12 months. <em>Obesity</em> 2013; 21(1): 45-50</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Salamon J, Sherman D, <strong>Schlair S.</strong>&nbsp; The metamorphosis of a horse into a zebra: Case report of primary eosinophilic gastroenteritis. <em>Einstein Journal of Biology and Medicine</em> 2013; E1-E5.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">McEvoy M, <strong>Schlair S,</strong> Sidlo Z, Burton W, Milan F. Assessing third-year medical students&rsquo; ability to address a patient&rsquo;s spiritual distress during a medical crisis. <span class="jrnl"><em>Academic Medicine</em></span> 2014; 89(1):66-70.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Milburn S, Fried M, Risley M, <strong>Schlair S. </strong>Student-as-teacher: The creation of a medical student-driven education elective. <em>Medical Education </em>2016; 50(11): 1156<em>.</em></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Schlair</strong><strong> S, </strong></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Dyche L, Milan F. Longitudinal faculty development program to promote effective observation and feedback skills in direct clinical observation. <em>MedEdPORTAL</em> 2017;13:10648. </span><a style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: blue;" href="https://doi.org/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.10648"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.10648</span></a></p&gt;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Iyer S, Jay M, Southern W, <strong>Schlair S. </strong>Assessing and counseling the obese patient: Improving resident obesity counseling competence. <em>Obesity Research and Clinical Practice</em> 2018; 12 (2): 242</span>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Cowman K, Mittal J, Weston G, Harris E, Shapiro L, <strong>Schlair S</strong>, Park S, Nori P. Understanding drivers of influenza like illness presenteeism within training programs: A survey of trainees and their program directors. <em>American Journal of Infection Control</em>. 2019; 47(8):895-901.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Jagannath A, Nabors C, Southern W, <strong>Schlair S, </strong>Conigliaro R. Resident inbox task completion is improved with a single electronic health record (EHR) system. <em>Journal of General Internal Medicine. </em>March 5 2020; online ahead of print. doi: 10.1007/s11606-020-05751-z.</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">John J, Gowda D, <strong>Schlair S,&nbsp;</strong>Hojsak J, Milan F, Auerbach L. After the discontination of Step 2 CS: A Collaborative Statement from the DOCS (Directors of Clinical Skills).&nbsp;<em>Teaching and Learning in Medicine. </em>April 23-May 2023: 35(2): 218-223.&nbsp;</span></li>
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<p>Sheira Schlair, MD, is an attending physician and Professor, Medicine at Montefiore Einstein. Her clinical focus centers on general adult medicine and primary care.</p><p>After earning her Doctor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in 2003, Dr. Schlair completed an internship and residency in primary care/social internal medicine at Montefiore in 2006. She was invited to stay on as Chief Resident from 2006 to 2007. Following this, she completed a Master of Science in medical education at New York University and a fellowship in general internal medicine in 2009. Dr. Schlair completed the Facilitators in Training national faculty development fellowship through the Academy on Communication in Healthcare in 2014. She also completed the Harvard Macy Scholars&rsquo; Leading Innovations in Health Care &amp; Education at Harvard School of Medicine.</p><p>Dr. Schlair&rsquo;s research focuses on medical education. Her work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, review articles and abstracts, and she has presented at lectures, grand rounds and workshops nationally and internationally.</p><p>Dr. Schlair is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the National Board of Medical Examiners. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Academy on Communication in Healthcare. She is also a member of the Society of General Internal Medicine and the Association of American Medical Colleges. In 2016, Dr. Schlair was inducted into the Leo M. Davidoff Society and was elected President in 2018.</p>

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