Kathleen D. Whitney
Victoria Vapnyar
Vlad A. Tomuta
Aaron Zev Tokayer
<p>Dr. Tokayer received his B.A. in from Yeshiva College and his M.D. from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. He completed an internship and residency at the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center and GI and Hepatology fellowship at Johns Hopkins Medical Center. He received an MHS degree in Clinical Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Dr. Tokayer then joined the Montefiore GI Faculty in 1992. He has been involved in the spectrum of clinical patient care, endoscopic interventions and teaching in the GI fellowship program. His areas of interest include clinical practice, patient care and education, endoscopic procedures and interventions, functional GI and motility disorders. He is Director of the GI Motility Lab where studies such as Esophageal Manometry, Esophageal Acid Monitoring and Impedance Testing, Ano-rectal Manometry and Defecatory Testing, Hydrogen Breath Testing for Bacterial overgrowth and Carbohydrate Maldigestion , and studies of gastric and intestinal transit. He works closely with colleagues of the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine as well as the Department of Surgery in diagnosing and treating GI motility disorders.</p>
Tihomir Stefanec
<p>I am interested in Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine. My current interest is Critical Care Medicine. </p>
Multidisciplinary Critical Care Medicine (Medical, Surgical, Neurologic, Cardiothoracic).<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
Role of the endothelium and its progenitors in the pathogenesis of disease.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
<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’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’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>
Brian D. Spund
Olena Slinchenkova
Yang Shi
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<li>Jui Choudhuri, <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Yang Shi</span></strong> (2019). Skin Nodules in a 40-year-old Caribbean Man: What Can We Learn about Adult T-cell Leukemia/Lymphoma in the United States? <strong>American Society for Clinical Pathology Case Reports. </strong>April 2019.</li>
<li>Etan Marks, <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Yang Shi</span></strong>(2018). Duodenal-type Follicular Lymphoma: A Clinicopathologic Review. <strong>Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine </strong>142 (4): 542-547.</li>
<li><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Yang Shi</span></strong>, Evan Kulbacki, Endi Wang (2018). Delayed diagnosis of Type B Niemann-Pick Disease in a 31-year-old Caucasian woman. <strong>Hematopathology.</strong>1-4</li>
<li>Evan Himchak, Etan Marks, <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Yang Shi</span></strong>, Yanhua Wang (2018). Did I miss it? Discovering Hidden Co-existing Hematological Neoplasms: A Single Institutional Review of 100 Collision Tumors. <strong>International Journal of Surgical Pathology.</strong> 26(4):296-305</li>
<li><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Yang Shi</span></strong> (2018). Chronic myeloid leukemia blast phase with erythroid differentiation in a twenty-year-old male patient presented with hematemesis. <strong>American Society for Clinical Pathology Case Reports. </strong>April 2018.</li>
<li>Etan Marks, Yanhua Wang, <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Yang Shi</span></strong>, Joseph Susa, Mark Jacobson, D. Yitzchak Goldstein (2018). Specific TCR Gene Rearrangements in Mycosis Fungoides: Does Advanced Clinical Stage Show A Preference? <strong>Journal of Clinical Pathology.</strong> 2018;71:1072-1077</li>
<li>Urvi Shah, Sengotuvel Viswanathan, Beamon Agarwal, Aditi Shastri, Ioannis Mantzaris, Murali Janakiram, Noah Kornblum, Ira Braunschweig, Amit K. Verma, <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Yang Shi</span></strong>, John F. Reinus, Olga Derman (2018). Sinusoidal-Obstruction Syndrome (SOS) in Multiple Myeloma with Renal Failure. <strong>Case Reports in Oncological Medicine, </strong>Published online Dec 3, 2018 </li>
<li>Etan Marks, <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Yang Shi</span></strong>, Yanhua Wang (2017). CD117 (KIT) is a Useful Marker in The Diagnosis of Plasmablastic Plasma Cell Myeloma. <strong>Histopathology.</strong> 71(1):81-88.</li>
<li>Zhonghua Li, <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Yang Shi</span></strong>, John G. Pizzolo, and Yanhua Wang (2017). Utilization of Cytospin Slides in Flow Cytometry Laboratory: A Tool for Correlation of Morphology and Immunophenotype. <strong>Journal of Hematopathology.</strong> 10(2): 55-63.</li>
<li><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Yang Shi</span></strong>, Xiaoxian Zhao, Lisa Durkin, Heesun Joyce Rogers, Eric D Hsi (2016). Aberrant activation-induced cytidine deaminase expression in Philadelphia chromosome-positive B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. <strong>Human Pathology.</strong> 52:173-8</li>
<li><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Yang Shi</span></strong>, Andrew J Rand, Jennifer H Crow, Joseph O Moore, Anand S Lagoo (2015). Blast phase in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is skewed towards unusual blast types in patients treated with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs): a comparative study of 67 cases. <strong>American Journal of Clinical Pathology. </strong>143(1):105-19. </li>
<li><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Yang Shi</span></strong>, Endi Wang (2014). Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm: a clinicopathologic review. <strong>Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine</strong>. 138(4):564-9.</li>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Yang Shi</strong></span>, Endi Wang (2015). Hepatosplenic T-Cell Lymphoma: A Clinicopathologic Review with an Emphasis on Diagnostic Differentiation from Other T-Cell/Natural Killer-Cell Neoplasms. Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. 139(9):1173-80. </li>
<li>Miglena Komforti, <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Yang Shi</span></strong>, Maggie Stocker, Endi Wang (2014). Suspicious mammographic masses in the breast of a 65-year-old female: Splenosis in an unusual body site due to a remote ballistic trauma. <strong>British Journal of Haematology</strong>. 167(2):148</li>
<li><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Yang Shi</span></strong>, Evan Kulbacki, David H.K. Chui, Endi Wang (2013). Gigantic splenomegaly in a 27-year-old male of South-East Asian descent with concurrent diagnosis of myeloproliferative neoplasm and hemoglobin H disease. <strong>European Journal of Haematology.</strong> 91(3):284-5.</li>
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