Andrew H. Telzak

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Andrew

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Telzak

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<p>Andrew Telzak, MD, MSc, is an attending physician and Director, New York City Research and Improvement Networking Group (NYC RING) at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor, Family and Social Medicine and Pediatrics at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Telzak&rsquo;s clinical focus is on providing comprehensive, high-quality primary care to families and communities. He has expertise in providing complex care coordination for patients with both medical and social needs.</p><p>After receiving his Bachelor of Arts in public health studies from The Johns Hopkins University in 2008, Dr. Telzak earned his Doctor of Medicine at Montefiore Einstein in 2016. He remained at this institution to complete his family medicine residency in 2019, where he was a Chief Resident in his final year. Following this, Dr. Telzak earned his Master of Science in clinical research methods at Montefiore Einstein in 2021 and completed a population health fellowship the same year.</p><p>Dr. Telzak&rsquo;s research focuses on the intersection of social determinants of health and clinical outcomes for patients with chronic illnesses. He has been principal investigator and co-investigator on several grant-supported research projects and has shared his work through numerous peer-reviewed journals, abstracts, posters, book chapters and invited presentations. Dr. Telzak is also a reviewer for scientific journals, including <em>Circulation</em>, the <em>Journal of the American Heart Association</em>, <em>BMC Primary Care</em> and the <em>American Journal of Preventive Medicine</em>.</p><p>Dr. Telzak is board certified in Family Medicine. He is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG).</p>

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Ellen P. Tattelman

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Ellen

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Tattelman

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1912082066

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<p><strong>Education</strong></p>
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<li>Medical School: Yale University School of Medicine</li>
<li>Residency: Residency Program in Social Medicine/Family Medicine, Montefiore</li>
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<p><strong>Interests</strong></p>
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<li>Educational quality</li>
<li>Integrative medicine (complementary and alternative medicine)</li>
<li>Care of HIV + patients</li>
<li>Women&rsquo;s health</li>
<li>Comfort with uncertainty</li>
<li>Maintaining our humanism in medicine</li>
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<p><strong>Expertise</strong></p>
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<li>Educational innovation</li>
<li>HIV and Hepatitis C primary care and QI</li>
<li>Integrative medicine</li>
<li>Healer's Art</li>
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<p><strong>Active Project</strong></p>
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<li>Ongoing HIV continuous quality improvement</li>
<li>Comfort with uncertainty</li>
<li>Teaching in the patient&rsquo;s presence</li>
<li>The Healer&rsquo;s Art</li>
<li>Healing Loss</li>
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<li>Fallek R, <strong>Tattelman E</strong>, Browne T, Kaplan R, Selwyn P. Helping Providers and Staff Process Grief through a Hospital-Based Support Program. <a title="The American journal of nursing." href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=fallek+tattelman">Am J Nurs.</a>&nbsp;2019 Jul;119(7):24-33.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Appelbaum, D, Kliger B, Barrett B, Frenkel M, Guerrera MP, Kondwani KA, Lee BB, <strong>Tattelman E</strong>. Natural and traditional medicine in Cuba: Lessons for U.S. medical education. Acad Med, 2006;81:1098-103.</li>
<li>Morrow R, <strong>Tattelman E</strong>, Purcell J, King J, Fordis, M. Academic Peer Detailing&mdash;The Preparation and Experience of Detailers Involved in a Project to Disseminate a Comparative Effectiveness Module. J Contin Educ Health Prof. 2016 Spring;36(2):123-6.</li>
<li><strong>Tattelman E</strong>, Purcell J, Morrow R. Academic Detailing: Train-the-Detailer Session. MedEdPORTAL Publications; 2015. Available from: <a href="https://www.mededportal.org/publication/10052&quot; target="_blank">https://www.mededportal.org/publication/10052</a></li&gt;
<li><strong>Tattelman E</strong>, Karnik A, Fornari A. Questioning as a Tool in Teaching. MedEdPORTAL; 2011. Available from: <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.mededportal.org/publication/8419">www.mededportal.org/publi…;
<li><strong>RCT Comparing Patient, Intern and Faculty Experience with Teaching in the Patients&rsquo; Presence vs. in the Precepting Room.&nbsp;</strong>Oral Presentation on Completed Research, 47th North American Primary Care Research Group&nbsp;Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, November 2019</li>
<li><strong>Teaching in the Patients&rsquo; Presence (TIPP): Intern, Faculty and Patient Experiences. </strong>Lecture-Discussion, Family Medicine Education Consortium, Northeast Regional Meeting, Lancaster Pennsylvania, November 2019 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</li>
<li><strong>Empowering Family Medicine Residents to Deliver HIV Care in their Communities. </strong>Lecture-Discussion, Family Medicine Education Consortium, Northeast Regional Meeting, Lancaster Pennsylvania, November 2019 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
<li><strong>Dealing with Patients Whose Behavior is Racist. </strong>Workshop, Family Medicine Education Consortium, Northeast Regional Meeting, Lancaster Pennsylvania, November 2019 &nbsp;Seminar, Society of Teachers in Family Medicine, National Conference, Toronto, Ontario, April 2019</li>
<li><strong>Family Doctors as Specialist Consultants: What Does This Mean for Teaching Comprehensive Care of Our Patients.&nbsp;</strong>Seminar, Family Medicine Education Consortium, Northeast Regional Meeting, Rye Brook, NY, November 2018&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
<li><strong>Co-Location of Team Members in the Medical Home. </strong>Lecture-Discussion, Family Medicine Education Consortium, Northeast Regional Meeting, Rye Brook, NY, November 2018&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
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Eloy Dario Tabeayo Alvarez

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Eloy Dario

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Tabeayo Alvarez

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Dr. Tabeayo Alvarez&rsquo;s clinical focus is on the treatment of hand, wrist, elbow and shoulder injuries.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>

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Dr. Tabeayo Alvarez&rsquo;s research focuses on rotator cuff pathology and outcomes of shoulder arthroplasty and arthroscopy.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>

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<p>Eloy Dario Tabeayo Alvarez, MD, is an attending physician in orthopedic surgery at Montefiore-Einstein. Dr. Tabeayo Alvarez&rsquo;s clinical focus is on the treatment of hand, wrist, elbow and shoulder injuries.</p><p>He began his medical education in Spain. After earning his Bachelor degree from Instituto Rosal&iacute;a de Castro, Dr. Tabeayo Alvarez attended Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, earning his Doctor of Medicine in 2011. He continued with medical training in Spain, completing a six-year residency in orthopedic surgery at Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, in 2017. He then came to the United States for further postdoctoral training, completing a fellowship in hand and microvascular surgery at The Hand Center in 2018, a shoulder and elbow fellowship at Montefiore in 2019 and an orthopedic sports medicine fellowship at Kaiser Permanente in 2020.</p><p>Dr. Tabeayo Alvarez&rsquo;s research focuses on rotator cuff pathology and outcomes of shoulder arthroplasty and arthroscopy. His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, books, book chapters, and poster presentations. He is also a peer reviewer for the <em>Journal of Hand Surgery</em> and the <em>American Journal of Sports Medicine</em>.</p><p>Dr. Tabeayo Alvarez is a member of several professional organizations including the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Society, the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine and the American Society of Surgery of the Hand.</p>

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Deborah M. Swiderski

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Deborah

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Swiderski

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1992894299

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<p>Medical School: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons <br />Residency: Montefiore Health System (Internal Medicine)</p>
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<p>Dr. Deborah Swiderski co-leads the psychosocial curriculum for residents in the Social Medicine Program (with Dr. Jennifer Egert of the Psychosocial Unit).&nbsp;</p>
<p>Dr. Swiderski has been a clinician-educator for over twenty-five years with a teaching and research focus on the patient-physician relationship, bioethics and the professional development of physicians. Her other areas of interest include spirituality in medicine and the role of women in medicine. She is a member of the Ethics Committee for the Montefiore Medical Center, and an active member of the Society of General Internal Medicine, The American Academy of Communication in Health Care, and American Society of Bioethics and Humanities.</p>
<p>In addition to leading the psychosocial curriculum for Social Medicine residents, Dr. Swiderski precepts Primary Care and Social Internal Medicine residents and sees patients in her continuity practice at the Comprehensive Health Care Center (CHCC).</p>

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<p>Deborah M. Swiderski, MD, is an attending physician and Professor, Medicine and Family and Social Medicine at Montefiore Einstein. Her clinical focus centers on primary care internal medicine.</p><p>After obtaining her Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College, Dr. Swiderski attended Columbia University, earning her Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Pre-Medical Studies followed by her Doctor of Medicine. Dr. Swiderski came to Einstein to complete her internship and residency in internal medicine. She continued her medical education, completing a certificate in Bioethics at New York University/Montefiore Medical Center, as well as a certificate as a Palliative and End-of-Life Care (EPEC) Trainer from Northwestern University.</p><p>Building on her clinical focus, Dr. Swiderski&rsquo;s research interests include communication skills, end-of-life care, health disparities and Bioethics. These are synthesized in her work leading the Serious Illness Conversation Project at Montefiore. She has been Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator on a number of funded research projects, and she has given invited presentations nationally and internationally. Dr. Swiderski&rsquo;s work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, books, chapters, review articles and abstracts. She has been a peer reviewer for scientific journals, including the <em>Journal of General Internal Medicine</em> and <em>Annals of Internal Medicine</em>.</p><p>Dr. Swiderski is a Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners and the American Board of Internal Medicine. She is a member of the Society of General Internal Medicine, the American Academy of Physician and Patient, the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. In 2007, Dr. Swiderski won the Leo M. Davidoff Society Award for Teaching Excellence.</p>

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Joseph H. Stephens

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Joseph

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Stephens

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1104321660

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<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">Joseph Stephens is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a member of the Global Health and Clinical Skills Faculty at Montefiore Medical Center. He is a graduate of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Primary Care and Social Internal Medicine Residency Program at Montefiore. He enjoys practicing medicine in primary care and inpatient settings both in the Bronx and Kisoro, Uganda. His interests include helping learners to interpret and apply clinical research to patient care, teaching clinical reasoning, and promoting community oriented primary care. Sepp has worked with the NGO Doctor&rsquo;s for Global Health since 2016, supporting and strengthening their village health worker program and related community health initiatives in Kisoro. </span><span style="border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">His research has focused on hypertension and other chronic diseases in rural Uganda, from household level universal screening to community and hospital-based management.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>

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Joanna L. Starrels

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Joanna

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Starrels

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1124031729

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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Dr. Starrels is Professor of Medicine (with tenure) at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Associate Chief of Research in the <a title="Division of General Internal Medicine" href="http://www.einstein.yu.edu/faculty/medicine/generalinternalmedicine"><s… style="color: #3b5b98; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Division of General Internal Medicine</span></a>, and Director of the IMPOWR-ME Research Center. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine.&nbsp;Dr. Starrels is nationally recognized for her expertise in research, clinical care, education, and health policy to address the opioid crisis. Her research focuses on&nbsp;opioid management for patients with chronic pain with or without opioid use disorder. In particular, she studies the benefits and harms of opioid tapering, treatment agreements,&nbsp;urine drug testing,&nbsp;prescription monitoring programs, and medical cannabis use. She also studies the impact of opioid use&nbsp;on HIV outcomes, collaborative care models for integrating behavioral health care and pain management, treatment of opioid use disorder in primary care, and integrated treatment for opioid use disorder and chronic pain.&nbsp;Her work has been funded by&nbsp;grants from&nbsp;the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the Society of General Internal Medicine,&nbsp;the New York Community Trust, and the Einstein-Montefiore Center for AIDS Research. Her expertise has been recognized </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">by invitations to serve as</span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> expert consultant to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the New York State Department of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for developing guidelines and initiatives to improve opioid prescribing.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Dr. Starrels joined the Einstein/Montefiore faculty in 2008. Her teaching and clinical care activities also focus on chronic pain and substance use. She is faculty in the Center on Comparative Effectiveness Research, leads a number of opioid and pain related initiatives, is teaching faculty in the Internal Medicine and Primary Care and Social Internal Medicine residency training programs, and is attending physician at the Montefiore Family Care Center where she focuses on caring for patients with chronic pain and who use opioids and/or medical cannabis.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Before joining Einstein/Montefiore, Dr. Starrels received her BA from Wesleyan University, where she majored in the Science in Society Program, and her MD from Jefferson Medical College. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center and fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a MS in Health Policy Research. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.6pt;">Dr. Starrels is a physician, teacher and researcher who focuses on the safety and effectiveness of opioids for the management of chronic pain. Her research centers on&nbsp;defining best practices for&nbsp;managing chronic pain in&nbsp;primary care and HIV-treatment settings.&nbsp;She studies the benefits and harms of using treatment agreements,&nbsp;urine drug testing,&nbsp;and prescription monitoring programs in pain management; the effectiveness of&nbsp;collaborative care models for integrating behavioral health care and pain management; treatment of opioid use disorders in primary care settings; and the impact of opioid analgesic use,&nbsp;misuse and disorders&nbsp;on HIV outcomes.&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 15.6pt;">Her work has been funded by&nbsp;grants from&nbsp;the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the Society of General Internal Medicine,&nbsp;the New York Community Trust, and the Einstein-Montefiore Center for AIDS Research. Dr. Starrels also works to improve policies and guidelines to improve the safety of opioid prescribing. She serves as consultant to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on several initiatives to reduce prescription drug abuse, addiction and overdose in New York City. She was a field reviewer for the Federation of State Medical Board&rsquo;s 2013 Model Policy on the Use of Opioid Analgesics for the Treatment of Chronic Pain, and served as a core expert for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2016 opioid prescribing guidelines. She is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine.&nbsp;</span></p>

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<li><strong><strong>Starrels JL</strong>, </strong>Becker WC, Alford DP, Kapoor, A, Williams AR, Turner BJ. Treatment Agreements and Urine Drug Testing to Reduce Opioid Misuse in Patients with Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review. Annals of Internal Medicine.2010;152:712-720.</li>
<li><strong>Starrels JL</strong>, Becker WC, Weiner MG, Li X, Heo M, Turner, BJ. Low Use of Opioid Risk Reduction Strategies for Even High Risk Primary Care Patients with Chronic Pain. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2011;26(9);958-64.</li>
<li><strong>Starrels JL</strong>, Fox AD, Kunins HV, Cunningham CO. They Don&rsquo;t Know What They Don&rsquo;t Know: Internal Medicine Residents&rsquo; Knowledge and Confidence in Urine Drug Test Interpretation for Patients with Chronic Pain. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2012;27(11):1521-1527.</li>
<li>Bachhuber MA, Hennesy S, Cunningham CO, <strong>Starrels JL</strong>. Increasing benzodiazepine prescriptions and overdose mortality in the United States, 1996-2013. American Journal of Public Health. 2016;106(4):686-8.&nbsp;</li>
<li><strong>Starrels JL</strong>, Peyser D, Haughton L, Fox AD, Merlin J, Arnsten JH, Cunningham CO. When HIV treatment goals conflict with guideline-based opioid prescribing: A qualitative study of HIV treatment providers. Substance Abuse. 2016;37(1):148-53.</li>
<li>Buonora M, Perez H, Heo M, Ning Y, Cunningham CO, <strong>Starrels JL</strong>. Race and gender are associated with opioid dose reduction among patients receiving chronic opioid therapy. Pain Medicine. 2018.&nbsp;</li>
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Deepika E. Slawek

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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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Melinda S. Sharkey

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Melinda

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Sharkey

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She specializes in the operative and nonoperative treatment of general pediatric and adolescent musculoskeletal problems, including traumatic injuries, as well as congenital and developmental disorders.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>

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Dr. Sharkey&rsquo;s research focuses on orthopedic surgery and the practice of academic medicine.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>

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Biography

<p>Melinda S. Sharkey, MD, is an Attending Orthopedic Surgeon at Montefiore. She specializes in the operative and nonoperative treatment of general pediatric and adolescent musculoskeletal problems, including traumatic injuries, as well as congenital and developmental disorders. Her practice particularly focuses on the surgical treatment of bone deformities, foot deformities, limb length discrepancies, and metabolic bone diseases. </p><p>Dr. Sharkey received her Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry in 1999 at Wellesley College. In 2004, she received her Doctor of Medicine at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. Dr. Sharkey completed an internship in General Surgery and a residency in Orthopedic Surgery at the University of California San Francisco from 2004 to 2009. She then completed a fellowship in Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery at the Children&rsquo;s Hospital of Philadelphia.</p><p>Dr. Sharkey&rsquo;s research focuses on orthopedic surgery, and the practice of academic medicine. Her work has been published in a number of reviewed journals and abstracts, and also presented nationally. </p><p>Dr. Sharkey is board certified by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery. She is a member of numerous professional societies, including the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery and the American Orthopedic Association.</p>

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Peter A. Selwyn

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Peter

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Selwyn

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967

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<p><strong>Recent Publications (selected)</strong></p>
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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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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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