Heyi Li
<p>Heyi Li, MD, is an attending physician and Assistant Professor, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Montefiore Einstein. Her clinical focus is on the management of acute and chronic disorders of the lung and breathing, such as chronic obstructive lung diseases, asthma, interstitial lung diseases, infectious lung diseases and lung nodules. She performs airway and chest procedures including bronchoscopies and thoracentesis, and also provides consultations on smoking cessation and respiratory rehabilitation.</p><p>After earning her Bachelor of Engineering degree at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China in 2011, she continued her education with the institution’s School of Medicine, earning her Doctor of Medicine in 2015. Dr Li’s postdoctoral training brought her to the United States, completing a three-year residency in internal medicine at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County in 2019 and a pulmonary and critical care fellowship at Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minnesota in 2022.</p><p>Dr. Li’s clinical research focuses on care delivery research and implementation science. Her goal is to develop a mature line of inquiry in implementation science, focused on both conceptual frameworks and pragmatic implementation strategies. She has shared her work through peer-reviewed journals and has presented it at regional and national conferences. Dr. Li has also been a periodic reviewer for <em>Critical Care Medicine</em> and the <em>American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine</em>.</p><p>Dr. Li is board certified in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine. She is a member of the American College of Chest Physicians, the American Thoracic Society and the Society of Critical Care Medicine.</p>
Lisa A. Marrero
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Margaret Levitt
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Janice F. Bistritz
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Richard L. Weiner
<p>Pediatrician, Montefiore Medical Group 2300 Westchester Avenue Bronx, NY 10462 718-829-1900</p>
Karen L. Warman
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<p class="MsoNormal">Karen Warman, MD, MSc, provides general pediatric care for children from infancy through adolescence and teaches medical students and residents.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Warman is the founder and director of the Pediatric Preventive Asthma Care Program at Montefiore’s Comprehensive Family Care Center. Regionally, she serves on the New York City Asthma Partnership (NYCAP) Steering Committee and co-chairs NYCAP’s Environment Group, which focuses on attaining habitable housing for children with asthma to reduce asthma morbidity. She also serves as a consultant for the American Lung Association-Northeast and the NYC Department of Health. In the latter capacity, she trains school nurses in New York City to manage asthma in the schools.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Warman has taken a leadership role in several asthma programs. These include: serving as site leader for a Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sponsored, multi-state replication of the National Cooperative Inner-City Asthma Study (NCICAS); conducting the Physician Asthma Care Education (PACE) training program; and creating, implementing and evaluating the Asthma Passport Program.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Warman graduated from SUNY Upstate Medical School and completed her residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, which is now part of New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.</p>
Bernice M. Vicil
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<p>Bernice M. Vicil, MD, FAAP, is an attending physician and Instructor, Pediatrics at Montefiore Einstein. Dr. Vicil’s clinical focus is in pediatric care.</p><p>After receiving her Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University in 2000, Dr. Vicil completed the Post Baccalaureate Program at State University of New York at Buffalo in 2001. She then pursued her medical education at Einstein, earning her Doctor of Medicine in 2005. In 2008, she completed her pediatric internship and residency at Einstein.</p><p>Dr. Vicil is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.</p>
Kristine E. Torres-Lockhart
<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. <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’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. </p>
<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. /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., & 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’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., & 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., & 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>
<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’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’s Award at the New York Society of Addiction Medicine’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’s Physician Recognition Awards at Montefiore Einstein.</p>
Michael J. Thorpy
<p>Dr. Michael Thorpy, board-certified in sleep disorders medicine, is Director of the Sleep-Wake Disorders Center at the Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York. Both a clinician and a well-published researcher, Dr. Thorpy serves as Professor of Clinical Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In addition, Dr. Thorpy served on the National Sleep Foundation (NSF) Board of Directors and founded and directed the NSF's National Narcolepsy Registry, which was located at Montefiore Medical Center. He is past Chairman of the Sleep Section of the American Academy of Neurology. He is President of the New York State Society of Sleep Medicine (NYSSSM).</p>
<p>Dr. Thorpy was born in New Zealand and earned his medical degree from the University of Otago in 1973. He has published extensively on narcolepsy, insomnia, and sleep disorders. His 14 print books include "The Encyclopedia of Sleep and Sleep Disorders". He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, including publications in journals such as <em>The New England Journal of Medicine.</em> Dr. Thorpy's computerized textbook on sleep medicine, SleepMultiMedia (available on DVD-ROM), is the only one of its kind.</p>
<p>In 1993, Dr. Thorpy was awarded one of the sleep field's highest honors: The Nathaniel Kleitman Award from the American Sleep Disorders Association, and in 2012 the National Sleep Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award.</p>
<p>Dr. Thorpy is frequently quoted in the media, including <em>The New York Time</em>s, <em>The Washington Post, and Good Housekeeping</em>. He has appeared on the "Today Show," "20/20," "Donahue," and given more than 100 television, radio, and print interviews.</p>
Obstructive sleep apnea research in adults
Other areas include: other sleep disorders in general.
Dr. Thorpy focuses on the diagnosis and management of patients with sleep disorders including sleep apnea, insomnia, and parasomnias. Circadian rhythm disorders, and hypersomnias such as narcolepsy.
Dr. Thorpy's research focuses on hypersomnias including narcolepsy, idiopathic hypersomnia, and Kleine-levin Syndrome, and their management, particularly with new therapeutic medications.
<p>Books:</p>
<p>1. The International Classification of Sleep Disorders: Diagnostic and coding manual. Diagnostic Classification Steering Committee; Thorpy MJ, Chairman. Rochester, Minnesota: American Sleep Disorders Association, 1990.</p>
<p>2. Thorpy MJ, (ed). Handbook of Sleep Disorders. In the series; Neurological Disease and Therapy, series ed, W. Koller. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1990.</p>
<p>3. Thorpy MJ, Yager J. The Encyclopedia of Sleep and Sleep Disorders. Facts on File Inc., New York, 1991.</p>
<p>4. Pocket Edition of the The International Classification of Sleep Disorders. Diagnostic Classification Committee; Thorpy MJ, Chairman. Rochester, Minnesota: American Sleep Disorders Association, 1991.</p>
<p>5. Goswami M, Thorpy MJ. A Primer of Narcolepsy. New York: Montefiore Medical Center, 1991.</p>
<p>6. Goswami M, Pollak CP, Cohen FL, Thorpy MJ, Kavey NB, Kutscher AH, (eds). Psychosocial aspects of narcolepsy. New York: Haworth press, 1993.</p>
<p>7. Thorpy MJ, Yager J. The Encyclopedia of Sleep and Sleep Disorders. 2<sup>nd</sup> Edition Facts on File Inc., New York, 2001.</p>
<p>8. Thorpy MJ, Yager J. Sleeping Well. Facts on File Inc., New York, 2001.</p>
<p>9. Goswami M, Perumal. P, Thorpy M. Narcolepsy: A clinical guide. Springer-Verlag 2010</p>
<p>10.Thorpy M, Plazzi G. Parasomnias and other sleep-related movement disorders. Cambridge University Press , 2010</p>
<p><br />11. Thorpy MJ., Billiard M. Sleepiness: Causes, Consequences, Disorders and Treatment. Cambridge University Press, 2011</p>
<p><br />12. Nofzinger E, Maquet P, Thorpy MJ, Neuroimaging of Sleep and Sleep Disorders. Cambridge University Press, 2013.</p>
<p><br />13. Shaw P, Tafti, M, Thorpy M. Genetics of Sleep and Sleep Disorders. Cambridge University Press, 2013</p>
<p><br />14. Goswami M, Perumal. P, Thorpy M. Narcolepsy: A clinical guide. Springer-Verlag; 2015 .<br /><br /></p>
<p>15. Thorpy MJ. SleepMultiMedia: A Computerized Textbook of Sleep Medicine. Sleep Multimedia Inc. New York (2005- 2016)</p>
<p>Michael J. Thorpy, MD, is Director, Sleep-Wake Disorders Center at Montefiore and Professor of Neurology at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. His clinical focus is on the clinical diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of all sleep disorders, including sleep apnea, narcolepsy, insomnia and restless legs syndrome, among others.</p><p>In 1968, Dr. Thorpy received his Bachelor of Medicine at the University of Otago in New Zealand. He continued studying at this institution, and in 1973 received his Doctor of Medicine. Dr. Thorpy’s postgraduate training spans over nine years. From 1974 to 1976, Dr. Thorpy trained as a rotating house physician and medical registrar at Dunedin Public Hospital, New Zealand. He continued his training in Bombay, India as a Neurology Clinical Assistant at Sir J.J. Group Hospitals in 1977. That same year, he travelled to London, U.K and spent time training at National Hospital as a Clinical Assistant, Edgware General Hospital as a Locum Respiratory Physician, and Kings College Hospital as an Endocrinology Registrar. Following this, in 1978, Dr. Thorpy completed a two-year neurology residency at the State University of New York, becoming Chief Neurology Resident in his final year. In 1982, Dr. Thorpy completed a fellowship in neuroendocrinology at Montefiore.</p><p>Expanding on his clinical specialties, Dr. Thorpy’s research focuses on the medications used in the treatment of sleep disturbance and excessive daytime sleepiness. His work has been published in a large number of peer-reviewed journals, medical articles and books.</p><p>In 1993 Dr Thorpy received the Nathaniel Kleitman Award of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and in 2012, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Sleep Foundation. He is President of the New York State Society of Sleep Medicine, and a member of numerous other professional societies including the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the European Sleep Research Society and the New York State Medical Society.</p><p>Dr. Thorpy is board certified by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine in Sleep Disorders Medicine. </p>