Jeffrey M. Weiss

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<p>Jeffrey Weiss, MD is a senior clinician-executive who has taken on progressive leadership positions at Montefiore Health System. Dr. Weiss earned a bachelor of science in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University, a medical degree from Stony Brook School of Medicine, and the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Montefiore, where he was chief resident.</p>
<p>In 2007, Dr. Weiss was named Institutional Medical Director for Montefiore Health System. His role is to help optimize the performance of the Montefiore health delivery network by ensuring a smooth interface between its various components - the doctors, hospital, medical group, home health agency, nursing homes, and the CMO. Dr. Weiss's responsibilities included leadership of nationally recognized patient safety, quality and peer review programs, management of a medical staff with 3,500 employed and voluntary physicians, supervision of GME activities for 1,200 residents in the second largest house staff program in the country, all under the coordinated umbrella of the "Office of the Medical Director" (OMD). As part of a restructuring of organizational clinical leadership in 2012, Dr. Weiss was named Vice President for Medical Affairs. In this role, he has retained many of his previous responsibilities, and is now leading a team of five newly appointed hospital medical directors in driving physician alignment and creating a horizontally integrated approach to quality and clinical performance across the system.</p>
<p>Dr. Weiss is an active clinician, teacher and researcher. He lectures nationally on topics including leadership, physician alignment, and patient safety in several forums, including as a faculty member for the AAMC and National Patient Safety Foundation.</p>

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Richard L. Weiner

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Richard

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<p>Pediatrician, Montefiore Medical Group 2300 Westchester Avenue Bronx, NY 10462 718-829-1900</p>

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Karen L. Warman

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Karen

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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&rsquo;s Comprehensive Family Care Center. Regionally, she serves on the New York City Asthma Partnership (NYCAP) Steering Committee and co-chairs NYCAP&rsquo;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>

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Ryna Villar

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Ryna

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<p>Medical School: Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University<br />Residency: New York Presbyterian Hospital</p>
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<p>Resident advising, medical student supervision, CQI, HIV CQI and care coordination resident teaching, inpatient medicine/resident supervision.</p>

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Bernice M. Vicil

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Bernice

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<p>Bernice M. Vicil, MD, FAAP, is an attending physician and Instructor, Pediatrics at Montefiore Einstein. Dr. Vicil&rsquo;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>

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Victoria Vapnyar

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Kristine E. 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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Vlad A. Tomuta

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Peter L. 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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Andrew H. Telzak

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<p>Andrew Telzak, MD, MSc, is an attending physician and Director, New York City Research and Improvement Networking Group (NYC RING) at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor, Family and Social Medicine and Pediatrics at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Telzak&rsquo;s clinical focus is on providing comprehensive, high-quality primary care to families and communities. He has expertise in providing complex care coordination for patients with both medical and social needs.</p><p>After receiving his Bachelor of Arts in public health studies from The Johns Hopkins University in 2008, Dr. Telzak earned his Doctor of Medicine at Montefiore Einstein in 2016. He remained at this institution to complete his family medicine residency in 2019, where he was a Chief Resident in his final year. Following this, Dr. Telzak earned his Master of Science in clinical research methods at Montefiore Einstein in 2021 and completed a population health fellowship the same year.</p><p>Dr. Telzak&rsquo;s research focuses on the intersection of social determinants of health and clinical outcomes for patients with chronic illnesses. He has been principal investigator and co-investigator on several grant-supported research projects and has shared his work through numerous peer-reviewed journals, abstracts, posters, book chapters and invited presentations. Dr. Telzak is also a reviewer for scientific journals, including <em>Circulation</em>, the <em>Journal of the American Heart Association</em>, <em>BMC Primary Care</em> and the <em>American Journal of Preventive Medicine</em>.</p><p>Dr. Telzak is board certified in Family Medicine. He is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG).</p>

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