Sandhya L. Kumar

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Sandhya

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Kumar

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<p>Dr. Sandhya Kumar is an Assistant Professor, Director of Homeless Healthcare Curriculum, and Assistant Program Director for Curriculum Development for the family medicine residency in the Montefiore-Einstein Department of Family &amp; Social Medicine. She created and continues to direct the family medicine homeless healthcare track and the NYC Homeless Healthcare Fellowship. Dr. Kumar spends her clinical time providing primary care at domestic violence, family, and adult shelters through the Bronx Health Collective and Care for the Homeless.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Dr. Kumar graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine (UABSOM), completed dual-training in family &amp; social medicine and preventive medicine at Montefiore Medical Center, and earned her master's degree in public health from CUNY Graduate School of Public Health &amp; Health Policy.</p>
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<p><strong>Selected Awards and Honors</strong></p>
<p>CUNY Community Health &amp; Social Sciences Outstanding Community-Clinical Scholar Award (2019)</p>
<p>Montefiore Residency in Social Medicine Dain Leicht Award (2019)</p>
<p>Montefiore Alumni &amp; Staff, Outstanding House Officer Award<span style="font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica Neue, Fira Sans, Ubuntu, Oxygen, Oxygen Sans, Cantarell, Droid Sans, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol, Lucida Grande, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> (2019)</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica Neue, Fira Sans, Ubuntu, Oxygen, Oxygen Sans, Cantarell, Droid Sans, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol, Lucida Grande, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Fulbright Grantee (2010)</span></span></p>

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<li class="pv-accomplishment-entity pv-accomplishment-entity--with-separator pv-accomplishment-entity--first pv-accomplishment-entity--expanded ember-view" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 16px 60px 24px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center; min-height: 72px; animation: 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 1, 1) 0s 1 normal none running fade-in;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Fira Sans', 'Droid Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Herringshaw AJ, Kumar SL, Rody KN, Kana RK. Neural Correlates of Social Perception in Children with Autism: Local versus Global Preferences. Neuroscience. 2018 Dec 15;395:49-59. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.10.044. Epub 2018 Nov 10. PMID: 30419259.</span></li>
<li class="pv-accomplishment-entity pv-accomplishment-entity--with-separator pv-accomplishment-entity--first pv-accomplishment-entity--expanded ember-view" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 16px 60px 24px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center; min-height: 72px; animation: 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 1, 1) 0s 1 normal none running fade-in;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Fira Sans', 'Droid Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Kumar SL. Examining the characteristics of visuospatial information processing in individuals with high-functioning autism. Yale J Biol Med. 2013 Jun 13;86(2):147-56. PMID: 23766736; PMCID: PMC3670435.</span></li>
<li class="pv-accomplishment-entity pv-accomplishment-entity--with-separator pv-accomplishment-entity--first pv-accomplishment-entity--expanded ember-view" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 16px 60px 24px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center; min-height: 72px; animation: 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 1, 1) 0s 1 normal none running fade-in;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Fira Sans', 'Droid Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Kana RK, Murdaugh DL, Wolfe KR, Kumar SL. Brain responses mediating idiom comprehension: gender and hemispheric differences. Brain Res. 2012 Jul 27;1467:18-26. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.05.031. Epub 2012 May 22. PMID: 22634066.</span></li>
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Justin J. Kopa

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Justin

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Kopa

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Iyad Kejo

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Iyad

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Kejo

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Ross I. Kaye

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Ross

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Mahsa Kanzali

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Mahsa

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Kanzali

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Grace R. Kajita

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Grace

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Kajita

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<p>Dr. Kajita completed a bachelor's degree at Barnard College, Columbia University, a medical degree at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and a primary care medicine residency at NYU School of Medicine. Following residency she became an attending physician for the Department of Veterans' Affairs, New York Harbor Healthcare, where she also served as firm chief for the Department of Medicine and associate program director for the Internal Medicine Residency. In 2005, she was appointed clinical instructor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, where she also served as associate program director for the Internal Medicine Residency. Dr. Kajita's broad range of teaching, administrative, and clinical experience includes the development of a global health elective for internal medicine residents and service as a TB unit supervisor and medical referent for M&eacute;decins Sans Fronti&egrave;res in South Sudan. She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, MSF-USA Association, and the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine. Additionally, Dr. Kajita has received multiple teacher-of-the-year awards at NYU.</p>

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Giliane Joseph

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Giliane

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Joseph

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Elina Jerschow

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Elina

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Jerschow

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<p><a href="http://www.superdoctors.com/new-york-metro/doctor/Elina-Jerschow/cc8605…; target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="imgNoBorderRightTop" src="/uploadedImages/departments/medicine/Faculty/jerschow-superdoctors.jpg" alt="Dr. Elina Jershow at SuperDoctors" /></a>Dr. Elina Jerschow is a Professor of Medicine (<a href="/departments/medicine/divisions/allergy-immunology/">Allergy and Immunology</a>) and an attending physician for pediatric and adult allergy and immunology at Einstein/Montefiore.&nbsp;</p>
<p>After completing her fellowship, Dr. Jerschow joined Merck &amp; Co., Inc. as an associate director in the Department of Clinical Immunology. During the work at Merck, her main research focused on the evaluation of adverse drug reactions in study participants and on developing new therapeutic targets in the area of immunology.</p>
<p>After returning to the Einstein/Montefiore Department of Medicine, Dr. Jerschow established a Center for <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.einstein.yu.edu/departments/medicine/divisions/allergy-immu…; target="_blank" rel="noopener">AERD and Drug Allergy</a></span>. She is providing continuous care to patients with AERD and allergies to medications. She has also been selected as New York Times Super Doctor and NY Top Doctor for several years.</p>
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<li>"Dr. Jerschow&rsquo;s current research goals are directed at the understanding of&nbsp;the role of&nbsp;nasal polyps and the&nbsp;impact&nbsp;of the&nbsp;immune cell subsets in polyp tissue on AERD severity.</li>
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<h3>Media Coverage</h3>
<p><a title="Diagnosis: A Runner Suddenly Developed Asthma" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/12/magazine/aspirin-exacerbated-respira…: A Runner Suddenly Developed Asthma. It Was Stranger Than It Seemed</a>&nbsp;New York Times, Dec. 12, 2019</p>
<p><a href="https://www.aaaai.org/global/latest-research-summaries/New-Research-fro…; target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nasal Polypectomy Is Associated With Reduction In Aspirin Sensitivity In AERD</a>&nbsp;2019</p>
<p><a href="https://www.aaaai.org/professional-education-and-training/podcasts">Del… Penicillin Allergies Through Oral Challenges</a>&nbsp;2019&nbsp;</p>
<p><a href="https://static.nytimes.com/email-content/RU_sample.html&quot; target="_blank" rel="noopener">Explaining Your Running Habit on Vacation. Comments on running during allergy season</a>&nbsp;New York Times, 2018&nbsp;</p>
<p><a href="https://medicalresearch.com/author-interviews/asthma-risk-varies-among-…; target="_blank" rel="noopener">Asthma Risk Varies Among Hispanic Groups After Relocation to the US</a>&nbsp;2017</p>
<p><a href="https://consumer.healthday.com/respiratory-and-allergy-information-2/as…; target="_blank" rel="noopener">Poor Asthma Sufferers Often Stuck in Homes That Worsen Their Disease</a>&nbsp;2017</p>
<p><a href="http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/AAAAI/56643&quot; target="_blank" rel="noopener">Treatment of Aspirin Exacerbated Respiratory Disease in Minorities</a>&nbsp;2017</p>
<p><strong>Fatal anaphylaxis in the U.S. 2014</strong></p>
<p>Editor&rsquo;s pick for featuring in The Editor&rsquo;s Choice of the J Allergy Clin Immunology. Also featured in the New Research section of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology <a href="https://www.aaaai.org/global/latest-research-summaries/Current-JACI-Res…; target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a></p>
<p>Also cited by major media companies, including The New York Times, US News, Medscape, etc.</p>
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<li><a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/drugs-cause-most-fatal-allergi…; target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a></li>
<li><a href="http://health.usnews.com/health-news/patient-advice/articles/2014/11/19…; target="_blank" rel="noopener">US News</a></li>
<li><a href="http://consumer.healthday.com/respiratory-and-allergy-information-2/mis…; target="_blank" rel="noopener">HealthDay</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/832749">http://www.medscape.com/vie…;
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<p><strong>Dichlorophenols and allergies 2012</strong></p>
<p>Editor&rsquo;s pick for press release</p>
<p>Also cited by major media companies, including CNN, Time, Telegraph, Discovery, Voice of America</p>
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<li><a href="http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/03/study-links-food-allergies-to-pes…; target="_blank" rel="noopener">Time</a></li>
<li><a href="http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/04/pesticides-in-tap-water-produc…; target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN.com</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/9717546/Water-purifier-chem…; target="_blank" rel="noopener">Telegraph</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pesticides-in-tap-water-linked-to-food-alle…; target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS News</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/pesticide-suspected-in-rising-food-aller…; target="_blank" rel="noopener">VOA News</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/12/04/are-pesticides-and-food-allerg…; target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a></li>
<li><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/12/03/pesticides-in-tap-water-l…; target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC News</a></li>
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<li><strong>Jerschow E.,&nbsp;</strong>Edin M.L., Chi Y., Hurst B., Abuzeid W.M., Akbar N.A., Gibber M., Fried M., Han W., Pelletier T., Z. Ren, Keskin T., Roizen Gottlieb G., Lih F.B., Gruzdev A., Bradbury J.A., Schuster V., Spivack S., RosenstreichD, Zeldin D.C. Sinus surgery is associated with a decrease in aspirin-induced reaction severity in AERD patients. J Allergy Clin Immunol: In Practice, 2019. PMID: 30580047&nbsp;<em>Editor&rsquo;s pick for featuring in the New Research section of the AAAAI website and for Practice Matters section of JACI in Practice. This study was also featured in an <a href="https://www.jaci-inpractice.org/article/S2213-2198(19)30310-1/fulltext&…; target="_blank" rel="noopener">Editorial</a>.</em></li>
<li>Pelletier T., Roizen G., Ren Z., Hudes G., Rosenstreich D.,&nbsp;<strong>Jerschow E.</strong>&nbsp;Comparable safety of two aspirin desensitization protocols for aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD). The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, 2018, PMID: 30144584</li>
<li>Feldman JM, Zeigler AE, Nelson K, Morales E, Pelletier T, Roizen Gottlieb G, Ren Z.,&nbsp;<strong>Jerschow E.</strong>&nbsp;Depression symptoms and quality of life among individuals with Aspirin-Exacerbated Respiratory Disease. J Asthma, 2018, PMID: 29972652</li>
<li>Iammatteo M., Alvarez-Arango, S., Ferastraoaru D., Akbar N., Lee A.Y., Cohen H.W.,&nbsp;<strong>Jerschow E.</strong>&nbsp;Safety and Outcomes of Oral Graded Challenges to Amoxicillin without Prior Skin Testing. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, 2018. PMID: 29802906.&nbsp;<em>Editor&rsquo;s pick for featuring in the New Research section of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology website</em></li>
<li><strong>Jerschow E.,&nbsp;</strong>Edin M.L., Pelletier T., Abuzeid W.M., Akbar N.A., Gibber M., Fried M., Lih F.B., Gruzdev A., Bradbury J.A., Han W., Hudes G., Keskin T., Schuster V., Spivack S., Zeldin D.C., RosenstreichD. Plasma 15-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid predicts treatment outcomes in aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease. J Allergy Clin Immunol: In Practice. 2017 PMID: 28159558</li>
<li>Scaperotti M., Gil N., Downs I., Jeyakuma A., Liu A., MD, Chan J., Bonner J., Kelly M.S., Nosanchuk J.D., Cohen H.W.,<strong>&nbsp;Jerschow E.&nbsp;</strong>Development and evaluation of a web-based dermatology teaching tool for preclinical medical students. MedEdPortal for Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) 2017&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mededportal.org/publication/10619/">https://www.mededportal… Editor&rsquo;s Choice for Exemplary Educational Resource</em></li>
<li><strong>Jerschow E.</strong>, Lin R.Y., Scaperotti M., McGinn A.P. Fatal anaphylaxis in the United States 1999-2010: temporal patterns and demographic associations. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2014, 134(6):1318-1328. PMID: 25280385.&nbsp;<em>Editor&rsquo;s pick for featuring in The Editor&rsquo;s Choice of the J Allergy Clin Immunology and in the New Research section of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology website</em></li>
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Marleine F. Ishak

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Marleine

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<p>Marleine Ishak, MD, is an attending physician, Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM) and Assistant Professor, Pediatrics at Montefiore Einstein. Dr Ishak brings unique specialized medical skills, experience and commitment to the care of your child with respiratory disease. She has a particular interest in pediatric asthma and bronchopulmonary dysplasia.</p>

<p>In 2005, Dr. Ishak received her medical degree from the Lebanese University Faculty of Medical Sciences in Beirut, Lebanon. After completing her pediatric residency in 2008 at Saint George Hospital/Balamand in Beirut, she came to the United States and completed her postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric pulmonology at Yale Children’s Hospital in 2011 and her residency in pediatrics at New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital (CHONY) in 2013.</p>

<p>Dr. Ishak’s research focuses on hypoxia. She has shared her work through publication in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and national presentations.</p>

<p>Dr. Ishak is board certified in both General Pediatrics and Pediatric Pulmonology by the American Board of Pediatrics. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Chest Physicians and the American Thoracic Society.</p>

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Tannaz Iranpour Boroujeni

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Iranpour Boroujeni

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