Robert W. Morrow
Sindhu Mittadoddi
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
<div><strong>Peer Reviewed Publications</strong></div>
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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>
Wayne Lee
Carol B. Kelly
Teaching the next generation of internal medicine residents how to be skilled and compassionate primary care physicians.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal><quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
Teaching about advance Directives and discussing goals of care with patients.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
<p>Carol B. Kelly, MD, is an attending internal medicine physician and Assistant Professor, Medicine at Montefiore Einstein. Her clinical focus centers on teaching the next generation of internal medicine residents how to be skilled and compassionate primary care physicians.</p><p>After obtaining her Bachelor’s degree in biology from Brown University in 1976, Dr. Kelly completed her Doctor of Medicine at the same institution in 1979. She then completed an internship at Duke University in 1980, followed by her internal medicine residency in 1982.</p><p>Dr. Kelly’s research aligns with her clinical interests and focuses on teaching about advance directives and discussing goals of care with patients.</p><p>Dr. Kelly is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, and she is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. In 2019, she won the Leo M. Davidoff Education Award for Outstanding Teaching for Medical Students. In 2021, Dr. Kelly won the Montefiore Einstein Department of Medicine Award for selfless, courageous, and exemplary contributions to patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic, and in 2022 she won the Sharon Silbiger Faculty Teaching Award for Outstanding General Internist/Primary Care Physician chosen by Montefiore internal medicine residents.</p>
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>
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<p>Clinical geriatrics, education, falls assessment. </p>
Alice Q. Guo
<p>Dr. Alice Guo started her medical career after graduating from the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai St. Luke's/Mount Sinai West. Afterwards, she completed a fellowship in geriatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (<span>Moses & Weiler Division)</span>. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics. </p>
<p>Dr. Guo is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center. Her main role is as a geriatric hospitalist on the geriatrics-orthopedic co-management service at the Montefiore Wakefield campus. In 2017, this program has expanded to include the preoperative assessments of the elective orthopedic joint replacement patients. </p>
<p>Dr. Guo has an interest in the comprehensive management and care of dementia patients. She began as part of the interdisciplinary team at Montefiore's Center of the Aging Brain in Yonkers and has since started her own geriatrics consultative service for patients with dementia in the Bronx. This consultative service aims to assist the Montefiore primary care groups with care of these complex patients. . </p>
<p>Dr. Guo also has an interest in clinical education. She currently serves as the Assistant Geriatric Student Clerkship Site Director for the Moses Hospital site. </p>