Luke R. Sponholz

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Deepika E. Slawek

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Deepika

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Slawek

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<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>

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<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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<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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Sumeet Singh-Tan

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Sumeet

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Matthew D. Shaines

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Matthew

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<p>Dr. Matthew Shaines completed a medical degree at SUNY Downstate Medical Center - Brooklyn and an internal medicine residency at Montefiore/Einstein. He was then recruited to the Einstein faculty at Montefiore and became one of the initial group of hospitalists who founded the Teaching Hospitalist Program at Montefiore in 2004.</p>
<p>Dr. Shaines has served as Assistant Director of the Hospitalist Service, managing the Moses Teaching Hospitalist Program; founding Director of the Medicine Consult Service, creating a dedicated medicine consult rotation for the housestaff, with a mission of high quality service and education on topics pertaining to consultative and perioperative medicine; Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program, serving as a liaison between the program and the Division of Hospital Medicine. In 2018 he was appointed as the Associate Chief of Hospital Medicine for Education.</p>
<p>His teaching and academic interests are in clinical reasoning, quality improvement and faculty development. He serves as the lead vignette reviewer for Montefiore&rsquo;s annual Division of General Internal Medicine/Division of Hospital Medicine SGIM/SHM scholarly review process, which helps to review and critique abstracts, posters and oral presentations prior to submission.</p>

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Peter A. Selwyn

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Peter

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<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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Adarsha Selvachandran

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Adarsha

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Selvachandran

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Shani R. Scott

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Shani

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Scott

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<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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Sheira

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<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>

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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;">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;">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;"><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>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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Scott J. Schafler

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<p>Dr. Kenneth Schaefle in an Eagle Scout and a graduate of Evanston Township High School and Northwestern University. After graduating, he and two friends founded the Boom Chicago theater company in Amsterdam, creating the first English-language improvisation comedy theater in the Netherlands. Boom Chicago became the largest and longest-running theater show in the country&rsquo;s history and launched the careers of many well-known comedians.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ken entered medical school at the age of 40 and participated in a global health trip to Uganda where he developed his love for working in low-resource settings. After completion of residency, Ken joined the global health faculty at Montefiore to work with the Uganda program in which he participated as a student.</p>
<p>Now in his 6th year in the PCSM/Global Health faculty group, Dr. Schaefle is the editor of Reasoning Without Resources, a 1500-page global health textbook. He spends many months each year in Uganda, teaching medical students, residents, and Ugandan medical officers how to provide medical care in a low-resource setting.</p>

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<p>Reasoning Without Resources &ndash; Editor 2021. Served as editor for two years to create two volume, 1500-page global health textbook that case studies from 129 admissions at a rural Uganda hospital. Author: Gerald Pacione. San Francisco: Global Health Collaborations Press</p>
<p>PLOS ONE 15(6): e0234049 2020: Managing Hypertension in Rural Uganda: Realities and Strategies 10 Years of Experience at a District Hospital Chronic Disease Clinic Joseph H Stephens 1 2 3, Faraz Alizadeh 1 2 4 5, John Bosco Bamwine 1 2, Michael Baganizi 1, Gloria Fung Chaw 1 2 3, Morgen Yao Cohen 1 2 3, Amit Patel 1 2 3, K J Schaefle 1 2 3, Jasdeep Singh Mangat 1 2, Joel Mukiza 1 2, Gerald A Paccione</p>
<p>Journal of Heart and Lung Transplant 2012: Hepatic dysfunction and survival after orthotopic heart transplantation: application of the MELD scoring system for outcome prediction. Chokshi A, Cheema FH, Schaefle KJ, Jiang J, Collado E, Shahzad K, Khawaja T, Farr M, Takayama H, Naka Y, Mancini DM, Schulze PC. PMID: 22458996</p>
<p>American Journal of Cardiology 2011: Epicardial fat volume in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction. Khawaja T, Greer C, Chokshi A, Chavarria N, Thadani S, Jones M, Schaefle K, Bhatia K, Collado J, Einstein AJ, Schulze PC. PMID: 21565323</p>
<p>Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery 2011: Incidence and predictors of infection in patients undergoing primary isolated coronary artery bypass grafting: a report from a tertiary care hospital in a developing country. Ahmed D, Cheema FH, Ahmed YI, Schaefle KJ, Azam SI, Sami SA, Sharif HM. PMID: 21224817</p>

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