Rubina A. Malik
<div><br />Rubina Malik, MD, MS completed her medical education at SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine, her Internal Medicine residency at University Hospital at Stony Brook, fellowships in Ambulatory Medicine at Stony Brook and Geriatrics Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center. She also completed a Masters Degree in Clinical Research Methods at AECOM under the mentorship of Dr Eran Bellin. She joined the faculty of Geriatrics at Montefiore in 1997 and is currently Associate Professor of Medicine. </div>
<div><br />Dr Malik is a clinician educator who has interests in functional and cognitive assessments, and osteoporosis. She has extensive clinical experience in the long term care setting. Currently, she is the co-director at the Center for the Aging Brain and core faculty for our newly funded NY State Center of Excellence for Alzheimer’s’ disease in Hudson Valley. She continues to see patients both in the ambulatory and LTC setting, and teaches and supervises trainees in Geriatrics Medicine.</div>
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geriatric assessment in dementia care
long term care and rehospitalizations
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<p style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">1. Vitamin D and secondary hyperparathyroidism in the institutionalized elderly: A literature review. <strong>Malik R</strong>. J Nutr Elder. 2007; 26(3-4): 119-38. PMID: 18285295</span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">2. Systematic review and meta analysis of the association between alcohol consumption and both osteoporotic fracture and bone density. Berg KM, Kunins HV, Jackson JL, Nahvi S, Chaudhry A, Harris KA, <strong>Malik R</strong>, Arnsten JH. Am J Med. 2008 May; 121 (5): 406-18. PMID 18456037 </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">3. Older adults with heel ulcers in the acute care setting: frequency of noninvasive vascular assessment, surgical intervention, and 1-year mortality. <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Malik R</strong>, Pinto P, Bogaisky M, Ehrlich AR. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2013 Dec;14 (12):916-9 PMID 24427807.</span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">4. Montefiore-Einstein Center for the Aging Brain: preliminary data. Verghese J, <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Malik R</strong>, Zwerling J. JAGS, 2016 Nov; 64 (11): 2374 – 2377. PMID: 27774584.</span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">5. <span style="background: white;">Picture based Memory Impairment Screen (PMIS): a rapid and effective cognitive screening tool. </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Malik R</strong>, Weiss EF, Gottesman R, Zwerling J, Verghese J. JAGS 2018 Aug; 66 (8): 1598 -1602. PMID: 29808583.</span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">6. Cryptococcal meningitis in a patient with Cognitive Impairment and Giant Cell Arteritis treated with Steriods: A Case Report. Oster BA, Bogaisky M, <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Malik R</strong>. ALTC, 2019 Dec; 27 (11): 11-15 </span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">7. Comprehensive Care of the Older Adult. City Health Information NYC. Feb 2020. Malik R.</span></p>
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<p>Rubina A. Malik, MD, MS, is Program Director, Geriatrics Fellowship, Co-Director, Center for Aging Brain and Associate Professor, Medicine at Montefiore Einstein. Her clinical interests center on dementia, geriatric assessments and geriatric syndromes.</p><p>After obtaining her Bachelor of Science from the City University of New York at City College in 1990, Dr. Malik earned her Doctor of Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1992. She remained there to complete her internship and residency in internal medicine in 1995 before completing an ambulatory medicine and geriatric medicine fellowship in 1996. Dr. Malik then came to Einstein to complete an additional geriatric fellowship in 1999, followed by her Master of Science in Clinical Research Training in 2003.</p><p>Building on her clinical focus, Dr. Malik’s research interests include dementia, dementia care, cognitive screens and geriatric syndromes. She contributes to several funded research projects and her work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and review articles.</p><p>Dr. Malik is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and is board certified in Geriatric Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She is a member of the American Geriatrics Society, the American Medical Association and the American Medical Directors Association. Dr. Malik has been named in Castle Connolly’s “Top Doctors: New York Metro Area” several times, and in New York Magazine’s Top Doctors.</p>
Sharon S. Leung
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Dr. Leung graduated from SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn in 2005 and completed her internal medicine residency and critical-care medicine fellowship training at Monfefiore Medical Center. In 2009, house staff selected her as Fellow of the Year. In 2010, she was recruited to join the faculty and was supported by her division for the AECOM master’s program in clinical research methods because of her interest in comparative effectiveness, cost, and outcome research. She further pursued her Executive MHA at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, graduated in 2014.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Dr. Leung became the associate director of critical care medicine for clinical operations and the medical director of the critical care physician assistant program in 2016. Her focus was to employ Lean Six Sigma methodology for process improvement, to evaluate the effectiveness of treatment strategies, to study health-care utilization and costs, and to evaluate physician compensation and productivity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In 2019, Dr. Leung became the medical director for strategic initiatives for the medical center, managing the Triple Aim program and other operational projects. Seeing the bigger picture in health care and within the health system, she realized that relentless focus on value creation and delivery is the prerequisite of achieving the quadruple aim of health care. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Dr. Leung was born in Hong Kong and moved to Bronx, New York, when she was 19.</span></p>
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Wayne Lee
Manoj Lal Karwa
Wanda Horn
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<p>Dr. Horn completed her medical education at Carol Davila Medical School in Bucharest, Romania. She moved to the United States in 2003 to complete an internal medicine residency at Jacobi Medical Center, followed by a one-year fellowship in Geriatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.</p>
<p>She was then recruited as faculty in the Division of Geriatrics at Montefiore Medical Center and is currently an assistant professor of medicine and Director of the Geriatrics Inpatient Service at Moses.</p>
<p>Dr. Wanda Horn's interest in care of geriatrics hip fracture patients started in 2010 with the introduction of the geriatrics- orthopedics co-management of these patients. She presented her data at the 2013 American Geriatrics Society Meeting in Dallas. Her other clinical interests are related to the Geriatrics Hospitalist Service and include transition of care, safe hospital discharge, and improvement of inpatient care for elderly adults.</p>
<p>In 2015 Dr Horn started comanaging all trauma patients admitted under orthopedics service at Wakefield campus. She is providing preoperative assessment and postoperative evaluation with a goal towards improving medical care for elderly fracture patients. </p>
<p>In 2017 she undertook the role of comanaging the elective joint replacement patients at Wakefield campus. She is directing a service that provides outpatient preoperative assessments for joint replacement patients and then comanages the same patients postoperatively in an effort to reduce complications and provide more satisfactory care for patients admitted to the Joint Replacement Center. </p>
The clinical focus has been on comanaging orthopedic trauma patients and elective joint replacement patients at our Wakefield campus.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal><quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
Dr. Horn was an investigator in a research project that aimed to strengthen physicians, training in geriatrics. She is also interested in delirium diagnosis and prevention in geriatric patients undergoing orthopedic surgery. Her work has been presented at regional and national meetings and published in several online medical journals.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
<p>Wanda Horn, MD, is Director, Geriatrics Inpatient Service, Geriatrics Hip Fracture Service at Montefiore and an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Orthopedic Surgery at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Since joining the Montefiore team in 2005, her clinical focus has been comanaging orthopedic trauma patients and elective joint replacement patients at our Wakefield campus. She also directs a service that provides outpatient preoperative assessments and postoperative comanagement to reduce complications and provide excellence in care for patients admitted to our Joint Replacement Center. </p><p>In 1989, Dr. Horn began studying at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, Romania. There, she received her Doctor of Medicine in 1995. She stayed in Bucharest and began her postgraduate training in 1996 with a 3-year residency in Pediatrics at the University Hospital. From there, she relocated and began a year-long internship in Internal Medicine at Jacobi Medical Center in 2000. Following this, she remained at this institution and completed a residency in Internal Medicine in 2003. Dr. Horn then began a fellowship in Geriatrics at Montefiore, which she completed in 2004. </p><p>With an interest in teaching geriatric principles to orthopedic residents, Dr. Horn was an investigator on a research project that aimed to strengthen physicians? training in geriatrics. She is also interested in delirium diagnosis and prevention in geriatric patients undergoing orthopedic surgery. Her work has been presented in both regional and national meetings, as well as published in a number of online medical journals. </p><p>Dr. Horn is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Palliative Care. In 2015, she received a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Geriatrics. She is a member of the American Geriatrics Society and the International Geriatric Fracture Society. </p><!--<p>Wanda Horn, MD, is Director, Geriatrics Inpatient Service, Geriatrics Hip Fracture Service at Montefiore and an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Orthopedic Surgery at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Since joining the Montefiore team in 2005, her clinical focus has been comanaging orthopedic trauma patients and elective joint replacement patients at our Wakefield campus. She also directs a service that provides outpatient preoperative assessments and postoperative comanagement to reduce complications and provide excellence in care for patients admitted to our Joint Replacement Center. </p><p>In 1989, Dr. Horn began studying at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, Romania. There, she received her Doctor of Medicine in 1995. She stayed in Bucharest and began her postgraduate training in 1996 with a 3-year residency in Pediatrics at the University Hospital. From there, she relocated and began a year-long internship in Internal Medicine at Jacobi Medical Center in 2000. Following this, she remained at this institution and completed a residency in Internal Medicine in 2003. Dr. Horn then began a fellowship in Geriatrics at Montefiore, which she completed in 2004. </p><p>With an interest in teaching geriatric principles to orthopedic residents, Dr. Horn was an investigator on a research project that aimed to strengthen physicians? training in geriatrics. She is also interested in delirium diagnosis and prevention in geriatric patients undergoing orthopedic surgery. Her work has been presented in both regional and national meetings, as well as published in a number of online medical journals. </p><p>Dr. Horn is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Palliative Care. In 2015, she received a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Geriatrics. She is a member of the American Geriatrics Society and the International Geriatric Fracture Society. </p>-->
Shikta Gupta
<p><strong>Education</strong></p>
<p>Medical School: King George's Medical College, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, UP, India<br />Residency: Mclennan County Medical Education and Research Foundation (Family Medicine)<br />Fellowship: Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Geriatric Medicine)</p>
<p><strong>Professional Activity</strong></p>
<p>Clinical geriatrics, education, falls assessment. </p>
Karina Gritsenko
<p><strong>Education</strong></p>
<p>Medical School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai <br />Residency and Fellowship: New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center, Hospital of Special Surgery, and Memorial Sloan Kettering (Anesthesiology and Interventional Pain Medicine)</p>
<p><strong>Professional Activity</strong></p>
<p>Dr. Gritsenko is board certified in Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine, and Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine. She is a member of several professional societies including the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, American Society of Pain and Neuroscience, and the American Society of Regional Anesthesia. Dr. Gritsenko was a national ASIPP Legislative Awareness, Healthy Policy, and Advocacy Fellow, where she worked in Congress on pain medicine affairs following her pain medicine fellowship year. Internationally, she has explored different approaches to healthcare at Oxford University, England; Valladolid, Spain; and as part of a World Health Organization (WHO) partnership in Russia. Dr. Gritsenko has won numerous awards including the ASIPP Rising Star Award, Outstanding Pain Physician of the Year, and has been listed several times in the New York Times Magazine list of Super Doctors.</p>
<p><strong>Clinical Activity</strong><br /><br />Dr. Gritsenko strongly believes in treating her patients like she would want her family treated. She is an interventional pain physician with an outpatient chronic pain practice and also as anesthesiologist with an interest in regional anesthesia techniques and the acute pain service. She is particularly passionate about the development of systems of care, cancer pain, acute pain, chronic pain, neuropathic pain, sympathetic mediated pain, spinal cord stimulation, spinal pain, compassion, substance abuse, and professionalism. She is board certified in anesthesiology, pain medicine, and hospice and palliative care medicine. <br /><br /><strong>Teaching</strong></p>
<p>Dr. Gritsenko is Professor of Anesthesiology, Family & Social Medicine, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; She is Program Director for the ACGME-accredited Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship and Educational Director for the Acute Pain and Regional Anesthesiology residency rotations. She has a passion for teaching and spends a significant portion of her clinical time training residents and fellows.</p>
<p>Regionally and nationally, Dr. Gritsenko speaks and teaches at meetings and is involved in the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP), New York Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (NYSIPP), American Society of Anesthesiologists (AMA), Post-graduate Assembly of Anesthesia (PGA), American Society of Pain and Neuroscience (ASPN) , and the American Society of Regional Anesthesia (ASRA) , and various other academic organizations. Internationally, Dr. Gritsenko has been a part of the World Institute of Pain (WIP) and the International Neuromodulation Society (INS) and enjoys working with colleagues around the world towards the innovation of pain medicine.</p>
<p><strong>Research</strong></p>
<p>Dr. Gritsenko has authored multiple textbooks and articles on topics related to chronic pain topics, regional anesthesiology, and acute pain medicine.</p>
Dr. Gritsenko strongly believes in treating her patients like she would want her family treated. She is an interventional pain physician with an outpatient chronic pain practice and also as anesthesiologist with an interest in regional anesthesia techniques and acute pain service. She is particularly passionate about the development of systems of care, cancer pain, acute pain, chronic pain, neuropathic pain, sympathetic mediated pain, spinal cord stimulation, spinal pain, compassion, substance abuse, and professionalism. She is passionate about teaching and mentorship. She is board certified in anesthesiology, pain medicine, and hospice and palliative care medicine.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
Dr Gritsenko is very interested in acute pain, perioperative pain, regional anesthesia and chronic pain topics. She is passionate about medical education, mentorship, and organization of care.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
<p>Karina Gritsenko, MD, is Program Director, Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship and Professor, Anesthesiology, Family & Social Medicine and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Montefiore Einstein. Dr. Gritsenko is an interventional pain physician with an outpatient chronic pain practice and also an anesthesiologist with an interest in regional anesthesia techniques and acute pain service. She is particularly passionate about the development of systems of care, cancer pain, acute pain, chronic pain, neuropathic pain, sympathetic mediated pain, spinal cord stimulation, spinal pain and substance abuse. She strongly believes in treating her patients as she would want her family treated, with compassion and professionalism.</p><p>After earning her Bachelor of Arts at Brandeis University in 2002, Dr. Gritsenko attended the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, earning her Doctor of Medicine in 2006. She began her postgraduate training with a transitional medicine, surgery and anesthesiology internship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, followed by an anesthesiology residency at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, which she completed in 2010. She continued her training with a tri-institutional fellowship in acute and chronic pain medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, Hospital of Special Surgery, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, completing it in 2011.</p><p>Dr. Gritsenko’s research focuses on acute pain, perioperative pain, regional anesthesia and chronic pain topics. She also has particular interest in medical education, mentorship, and the organization of care. Dr. Gritsenko has shared her work through many peer-reviewed journals, textbooks, and international, national and regional presentations. She is also a reviewer for several journals including <em>Neuromodulation, Pain Practice</em>, and <em>Pain Medicine Case Reports</em>.</p><p>Dr. Gritsenko is board certified in Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine, and Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine. She is a member of several professional societies including the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, American Society of Pain and Neuroscience, and the American Society of Regional Anesthesia. Dr. Gritsenko has won numerous awards including the ASIPP Rising Star Award, Outstanding Pain Physician of the Year, and has been listed several times in the <em>New York Times Magazine</em> list of <em>Super Doctors</em>.</p>
Claudene J. George
<p>Dr. Claudene George began her career by obtaining a degree in pharmacy at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. She worked as a pharmacist for about 2 years before she entered medical school at Temple University in Philadelphia. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Boston University Medical Center, and then did a two-year Geriatrics Fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. She is board certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, and Hospice and Palliative Care. </p>
<p>Dr. George came to Einstein/Montefiore as a Geriatric Hospitalist and Clinician Educator. She was awarded a grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services for the development of curriculum in the area of geriatric pharmacology and medication management. With this Geriatric Academic Career Award (GACA), she developed several core lectures, seminars, and publications on such topics as polypharmacy, the use of psychotropic drugs, medication management in older adults, and pain management. She served as the Geriatrics Fellowship Program Director and the Geriatrics Clerkship Director for many years, and received a master's degree with distinction in clinical research methods through the Clinical Research Training Program at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. </p>
<p>Dr. George's primary interest is in clinical care, education in geriatrics and medication related research. She has a special interest in polypharmacy and drug interactions and serves on several committees at Einstein/Montefiore, including the Pharmacy and Therapeutics committee.</p>