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>
Michael Yee
Natalia Vasquez-Canizares
<p>Natalia Vasquez Canizares, MD, MS, is an Attending Physician of Pediatric Rheumatology at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM) and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine.</p>Dr. Vasquez Canizares received her Doctor of Medicine at Universidad de La Sabana in Chia, Colombia, then completed medical internships at Hospital Universitario de La Samaritana in Bogota, Colombia, and Hospital Universitario Austral in Pilar, Argentina. She completed a residency in Pediatrics at Cooper University Hospital and did her Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship at CHAM. She also completed a Master of Science in Clinical Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.<br /><br />Dr. Vasquez Canizares’s clinical focus is on pediatric rheumatic diseases, with a particular interest in children with juvenile scleroderma. She is an active member of the scleroderma work group within the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA), a collaborator with the Pediatric Rheumatology European Society (PReS) in scleroderma-related research and a recipient of two grants from CARRA and the Arthritis Foundation to study treatment therapies and outcome measures in juvenile scleroderma. She is board certified and a member of the American College of Rheumatology, the American Medical Association and the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance.<p> </p>
Victoria Vapnyar
Dr. Anne R. Van Arsdale
Clinical focus on a specialized colposcopy clinic for the diagnosis and treatment of cervical dysplasias.
Dr. Van Arsdale’s research follows her clinical focus on gynecologic malignancies. Her focus is translational research of HPV integration as a biomarker for progressive cervical dysplasia and cervical carcinoma.
<p>Anne Van Arsdale, MD, MSc, is an attending physician and Associate Professor, Genetics and Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women’s Health at Montefiore Einstein. She treats all gynecologic malignancies, with a focus on a specialized colposcopy clinic for the diagnosis and treatment of cervical dysplasias.</p><p>After receiving her Bachelor of Science at Georgetown University in 2001, Dr. Van Arsdale attended Columbia University, earning her Doctor of Medicine in 2005. She came to Montefiore Einstein to begin her postdoctoral training with a four-year residency in obstetrics and gynecology. After completing her residency in 2009, she attended the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in London, England, earning her Master of Science in medical statistics. Dr. Van Arsdale then returned to Montefiore Einstein to pursue a three-year fellowship in gynecologic oncology, which she completed in 2016.</p><p>Dr. Van Arsdale’s research follows her clinical focus on gynecologic malignancies. Her focus is translational research of HPV integration as a biomarker for progressive cervical dysplasia and cervical carcinoma. She is the current institutional principal investigator (PI) of the gynecologic tissue biorepository and the lead institutional PI for phase 2 and phase 3 trials for Inovio pharmaceuticals evaluating HPV therapeutic vaccination for the treatment of high grade cervical and vulvar dysplasia. Her research has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, abstracts and posters, and she is an ad hoc reviewer for several publications including <em>Frontiers Oncology, Gynecologic Oncology</em> and the <em>Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease</em>.</p><p>Dr. Van Arsdale is board certified and a member of several professional organizations including the Society of Gynecologic Oncology, the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Association of Cancer Research. She has been the recipient of multiple internal and external award mechanisms, including the ME Strong Award from the Foundation of Women’s Cancer, a Dew Point Scholar (Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women’s Health), an American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Foundation (AAOGF) Scholar, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Early Surgeon Scientist Program (ESSP) Award and an NCI K08 award.</p>