Sheira L. Schlair

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Sheira

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Schlair

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<p>Dr. Sheira Schlair is the Communication and Interpersonal Skills Theme and Faculty Development Leader for the inaugural BAP (Becoming a Physician) Program, the longitudinal clinical skills program for all Einstein medical students within the new ELCP (Einstein Learning Community Program). She is an experienced medical educator with special interest and expertise in teaching and remediating communication skills and professionalism. She also serves as the President of the Leo M. Davidoff Society, the Einstein teaching society.</p>
<p>Dr. Schlair previously served as a Course Co-Director for the Introduction to Clinical Skills (ICM) program. Prior to that, she served for close to a decade as an Associate Program Director, Firm 1 Director and Director of Clinical Skills Assessment for the Montefiore Moses/Weiler Internal Medicine Residency Program, overseeing the OSCE and miniCEX / Direct Clinical Observation programs. During her tenure she was the recipient of several teaching awards for her work with residents and medical students. She is a graduate of the eight-year combined BA/MD program at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine with concentrations in medical education scholarship and the Primary Care Track. She completed a BA in medical anthropology and also completed coursework and achieved a Certificate in European Social Sciences from University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is a graduate and former Chief Resident of the Montefiore Primary Care and Social Internal Medicine residency where she helped to initiate the residency's program in Kisoro, Uganda. Following residency training, she achieved an MS (Medical Education) and completed a General Internal Medicine fellowship at New York University School of Medicine where she also served as a teaching attending at Gouverneur and Bellevue Hospitals. She has also completed the Facilitator in Training faculty development program through the Academy on Communication in Healthcare (ACH) is now a senior faculty member and guide for their nationally recognized faculty development program.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Her research, curricular and program development focuses on doctor-patient and teacher-student communication in clinical skills education. She regularly leads faculty development efforts locally and nationally in promoting skills in patient centered and relationship centered care for clinicians and within teams, in the areas of feedback, communication, coaching and teaching praxis.&nbsp;</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp; &nbsp; </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Jay M, Kalet A, Ark T, McMacken M, Messito MJ, Richter RA, <strong>Schlair S,</strong> Sherman S, Zabar S, Gillespie C. Physicians&rsquo; attitudes about obesity and their relation to competency and patient weight loss: A cross-sectional survey. <em>BMC Health Services Research</em> 2009; 9:106</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Jay M, <strong>Schlair S,</strong> Caldwell R, Kalet A, Sherman S, Gillespie CC. From the patients&rsquo; perspective: The impact of training on resident physicians&rsquo; obesity counseling. <em>Journal of General Internal Medicine</em> 2010; 25(5):415-22</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Jay M, Gillespie C, <strong>Schlair S,</strong> Sherman S, Kalet A. Physicians&rsquo; use of the 5As in counseling obese patients: Is the quality of counseling associated with patients&rsquo; motivation and intention to lose weight? <em>BMC Health Services Research </em>2010; 10:159-165</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Schlair S,</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> Hanley K, Gillespie C, Disney L, Kalet A, Darby P, Frank E, Spencer E, Harris J, Jay M. How medical students&rsquo; behaviors and attitudes affect the impact of a brief curriculum on nutrition counseling. <em>Journal of Nutrition Education Behavior </em>2012; 44(6):653-7.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Schlair S,</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> Moore S, McMacken M, Jay M. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">How to deliver high-quality obesity counseling in primary care using the 5As framework. </span><em><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management </span></em><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">2012; 19:221-9.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Frank E, <strong>Schlair S,</strong> Elon L, Saraiya M. Do U.S. medical students report more training on&nbsp;evidence-based prevention topics? <em>Health Education Research</em> 2013; 28(2): 265-75</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Jay M, Gillespie C, <strong>Schlair S,</strong> Savarimuthu S, Zabar S, Kalet A. The impact of primary care resident physician training on patient weight loss at 12 months. <em>Obesity</em> 2013; 21(1): 45-50</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Salamon J, Sherman D, <strong>Schlair S.</strong>&nbsp; The metamorphosis of a horse into a zebra: Case report of primary eosinophilic gastroenteritis. <em>Einstein Journal of Biology and Medicine</em> 2013; E1-E5.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">McEvoy M, <strong>Schlair S,</strong> Sidlo Z, Burton W, Milan F. Assessing third-year medical students&rsquo; ability to address a patient&rsquo;s spiritual distress during a medical crisis. <span class="jrnl"><em>Academic Medicine</em></span> 2014; 89(1):66-70.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Milburn S, Fried M, Risley M, <strong>Schlair S. </strong>Student-as-teacher: The creation of a medical student-driven education elective. <em>Medical Education </em>2016; 50(11): 1156<em>.</em></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Schlair</strong><strong> S, </strong></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Dyche L, Milan F. Longitudinal faculty development program to promote effective observation and feedback skills in direct clinical observation. <em>MedEdPORTAL</em> 2017;13:10648. </span><a style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: blue;" href="https://doi.org/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.10648"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.10648</span></a></p&gt;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Iyer S, Jay M, Southern W, <strong>Schlair S. </strong>Assessing and counseling the obese patient: Improving resident obesity counseling competence. <em>Obesity Research and Clinical Practice</em> 2018; 12 (2): 242</span>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Cowman K, Mittal J, Weston G, Harris E, Shapiro L, <strong>Schlair S</strong>, Park S, Nori P. Understanding drivers of influenza like illness presenteeism within training programs: A survey of trainees and their program directors. <em>American Journal of Infection Control</em>. 2019; 47(8):895-901.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Jagannath A, Nabors C, Southern W, <strong>Schlair S, </strong>Conigliaro R. Resident inbox task completion is improved with a single electronic health record (EHR) system. <em>Journal of General Internal Medicine. </em>March 5 2020; online ahead of print. doi: 10.1007/s11606-020-05751-z.</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">John J, Gowda D, <strong>Schlair S,&nbsp;</strong>Hojsak J, Milan F, Auerbach L. After the discontination of Step 2 CS: A Collaborative Statement from the DOCS (Directors of Clinical Skills).&nbsp;<em>Teaching and Learning in Medicine. </em>April 23-May 2023: 35(2): 218-223.&nbsp;</span></li>
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Biography

<p>Sheira Schlair, MD, is an attending physician and Professor, Medicine at Montefiore Einstein. Her clinical focus centers on general adult medicine and primary care.</p><p>After earning her Doctor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in 2003, Dr. Schlair completed an internship and residency in primary care/social internal medicine at Montefiore in 2006. She was invited to stay on as Chief Resident from 2006 to 2007. Following this, she completed a Master of Science in medical education at New York University and a fellowship in general internal medicine in 2009. Dr. Schlair completed the Facilitators in Training national faculty development fellowship through the Academy on Communication in Healthcare in 2014. She also completed the Harvard Macy Scholars&rsquo; Leading Innovations in Health Care &amp; Education at Harvard School of Medicine.</p><p>Dr. Schlair&rsquo;s research focuses on medical education. Her work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, review articles and abstracts, and she has presented at lectures, grand rounds and workshops nationally and internationally.</p><p>Dr. Schlair is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the National Board of Medical Examiners. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Academy on Communication in Healthcare. She is also a member of the Society of General Internal Medicine and the Association of American Medical Colleges. In 2016, Dr. Schlair was inducted into the Leo M. Davidoff Society and was elected President in 2018.</p>

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Kenneth J. Schaefle

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Kenneth

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Schaefle

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<p>Dr. Kenneth Schaefle in an Eagle Scout and a graduate of Evanston Township High School and Northwestern University. After graduating, he and two friends founded the Boom Chicago theater company in Amsterdam, creating the first English-language improvisation comedy theater in the Netherlands. Boom Chicago became the largest and longest-running theater show in the country&rsquo;s history and launched the careers of many well-known comedians.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ken entered medical school at the age of 40 and participated in a global health trip to Uganda where he developed his love for working in low-resource settings. After completion of residency, Ken joined the global health faculty at Montefiore to work with the Uganda program in which he participated as a student.</p>
<p>Now in his 6th year in the PCSM/Global Health faculty group, Dr. Schaefle is the editor of Reasoning Without Resources, a 1500-page global health textbook. He spends many months each year in Uganda, teaching medical students, residents, and Ugandan medical officers how to provide medical care in a low-resource setting.</p>

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<p>Reasoning Without Resources &ndash; Editor 2021. Served as editor for two years to create two volume, 1500-page global health textbook that case studies from 129 admissions at a rural Uganda hospital. Author: Gerald Pacione. San Francisco: Global Health Collaborations Press</p>
<p>PLOS ONE 15(6): e0234049 2020: Managing Hypertension in Rural Uganda: Realities and Strategies 10 Years of Experience at a District Hospital Chronic Disease Clinic Joseph H Stephens 1 2 3, Faraz Alizadeh 1 2 4 5, John Bosco Bamwine 1 2, Michael Baganizi 1, Gloria Fung Chaw 1 2 3, Morgen Yao Cohen 1 2 3, Amit Patel 1 2 3, K J Schaefle 1 2 3, Jasdeep Singh Mangat 1 2, Joel Mukiza 1 2, Gerald A Paccione</p>
<p>Journal of Heart and Lung Transplant 2012: Hepatic dysfunction and survival after orthotopic heart transplantation: application of the MELD scoring system for outcome prediction. Chokshi A, Cheema FH, Schaefle KJ, Jiang J, Collado E, Shahzad K, Khawaja T, Farr M, Takayama H, Naka Y, Mancini DM, Schulze PC. PMID: 22458996</p>
<p>American Journal of Cardiology 2011: Epicardial fat volume in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction. Khawaja T, Greer C, Chokshi A, Chavarria N, Thadani S, Jones M, Schaefle K, Bhatia K, Collado J, Einstein AJ, Schulze PC. PMID: 21565323</p>
<p>Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery 2011: Incidence and predictors of infection in patients undergoing primary isolated coronary artery bypass grafting: a report from a tertiary care hospital in a developing country. Ahmed D, Cheema FH, Ahmed YI, Schaefle KJ, Azam SI, Sami SA, Sharif HM. PMID: 21224817</p>

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Saachi Sachdev

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Saachi

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<p>Saachi Sachdev, MD, is Director, Dr. Martin Surks FCC Endocrinology Clinic at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor, Medicine at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Sachdev practices general endocrinology and sees patients for conditions including primary hyperparathyroidism, osteoporosis, pituitary disorders, hypo/hyperthyroidism, adrenal gland disorders, Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), and type 2 diabetes. She has established a pediatric-to-adult endocrinology care transition pathway to support young adult patients with non-type 1 diabetes diagnoses navigating the vulnerable transition to adult care.</p><p>After obtaining her Bachelor of Arts at Harvard University in 2009, Dr. Sachdev earned her Doctor of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in 2013. She then completed an internship in medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University Medical Center in 2014, followed by her residency in medicine at the same institution in 2016. In 2020, Dr. Sachdev completed an endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.</p><p>Dr. Sachdev helps lead the Division of Endocrinology's quality improvement initiatives and has established a quality improvement curriculum for the endocrinology fellowship program. Her research aligns with her clinical focus and has been published in several peer-reviewed journals and abstracts.</p><p>Dr. Sachdev is board certified in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism by the American Board of Internal Medicine. She is a member of the Endocrine Society and the American Diabetes Association.</p>

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Brian D. Rubin

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Serena L. Roth

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Serena

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Roth

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1689877920

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<p>Dr. Serena Roth is a general internist with a special interest in the management of patients with chronic pain. She completed a medical degree at NYU School of Medicine and a Primary Care/Internal Medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania. Following residency, she conducted tuberculosis research in Bangkok, Thailand at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).&nbsp;<br /><br />Dr. Roth joined the Montefiore Einstein Division of General Internal Medicine in 2011 as a clinician educator. She is active in medical student and resident education, especially regarding chronic pain and opioids. She was a site director for the Ambulatory and Internal Medicine clerkships from 2014-2018 and is now an Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Guideline adherence and reasons for recommending dose reduction in a primary care-based opioid management clinic. Khalid L, Roth S, Zhang C, Burkenroad A, Carrozzi G, Starrels J. J Opioid Manag. Nov-Dec 2021;17(6):481-488. doi: 10.5055/jom.2021.0682.</p>
<p>New normal: caring for hospitalised patients in the Bronx, New York, during COVID-19. Akiyama M, Arnsten J, Roth S. Intern Med J. 2021 Feb;51(2):288-290. doi: 10.1111/imj.15040.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22817684&quot; target="_blank" rel="noopener">Concurrent influenza virus infection and tuberculosis in patients hospitalized with respiratory illness in Thailand.</a> Roth S, Whitehead S, Thamthitiwat S, Chittaganpitch M, Maloney SA, Baggett HC, Olsen SJ. Influenza Other Respi Viruses. 2012 Jul 21. doi: 10.1111/j.1750-2659.2012.00413.x.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?linkname=pubmed_pubmed&amp;from_uid=…; target="_blank" rel="noopener">Unintended consequences of a quality measure for acute bronchitis.</a> Roth S, Gonzales R, Harding-Anderer T, Bloom FJ Jr, Graf T, Stahl MS, Maselli JH, Metlay JP.<span class="jrnl" title="The American journal of managed care"> Am J Manag Care</span>. 2012 Jun 1;18(6):e217-24.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18551887&quot; target="_blank" rel="noopener">Music therapy: a novel motivational approach for dually diagnosed patients.</a> Ross S, Cidambi I, Dermatis H, Weinstein J, Ziedonis D, Roth S, Galanter M. J Addict Dis. 2008;27(1):41-53.</p>

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Margaret S. Rosenberg

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Margaret

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<p><strong>Education</strong></p>
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<li>University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health</li>
<li>Residency: Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center (Chief Resident)</li>
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<p><strong>Professional Background</strong></p>
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<li>Faculty member, Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency</li>
<li>Faculty member,&nbsp;Montefiore Medical Center School Health Program</li>
<li>Medical director and medical provider, Bronx Regional High School Clinic</li>
<li>Team leader and attending physician, Montefiore Family Medicine Residency (current)</li>
<li>Assistant professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine</li>
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<li>Family medicine practice and precepting</li>
<li>Clinical precepting of medical students</li>
<li>Facilitating small-group teaching for ICM and 3rd-year clerkship at Einstein</li>
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<li>Facilitating training and seeing students and residents grow and contribute to family medicine.</li>
<li>Interests: Family medicine education and training, adolescent medicine</li>
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Juan C. Robles

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Juan

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Robles

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Mark J. Polisar

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Mark

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<p>Dr. Polisar completed a medical degree at Albert Einstein College of Meidcine and residency in Brown University's family practice program.</p>
<p><strong>Professional Background</strong></p>
<p>Dr. Polisar was a staff physician from 1991 to 1999 at Blackstone Valley Community Health Care in Central Falls, RI, a one-mile square community of mostly Latino immigrants. There, he helped coordinate a newly established outpatient training site for one quarter of Brown's family medicine residents, and served as part-time clinical faculty and preceptor for the department. Additionally he served as medical director of the health center, a federally Section 330-funded organization, which included a school-based health center at a local high school. He joined Montefiore Einstein as a faculty member in 1999.</p>
<p><strong>Clinical Practice</strong></p>
<p>Dr. Mark Polisar is currently based at the Williamsbridge site, where he sees family medicine patients. He coordinates the Williamsbridge Task Force (an interdisciplinary group that helps with the oversight of processes and workflows at the health center).</p>
<p><strong>Teaching Activity</strong></p>
<p>Dr. Polisar precepts residents and serves as the site coordinator for the 3rd-year family medicine medical student clerkship and 4th-year medical student family medicine ambulatory elective.</p>
<p>Dr. Polisar's teaching interests include:</p>
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<li>Primary Care</li>
<li>Clinical administration of community health centers</li>
<li>Integration of residency education into community health centers</li>
<li>Optimal use of the EMR for use in patient care in the outpatient setting</li>
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<p><strong>Community Health</strong></p>
<p>Dr. Polisar coordinates the Williamsbridge CATCH Initiative (Collective Action to Transform Community Health), a community intervention in the Williamsbridge area with the intent to improve the health and nutritional options for patients at high risk for sequelae of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia.</p>
<p><strong>Adminstrative Activity</strong></p>
<p>Dr. Polisar is the chair of the Montefiore Medical Group Peer Review Committee, participates in related quality improvement for Montefiore Medical Group, and participates on several committees to help with the transition from cEMR to EPIC.</p>
<p><strong>Research Interests</strong></p>
<p>Dr. Polisar is interested in community intervention for patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease.</p>

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Oversee medical students whom that have an ongoing Quality Improvement project that is handed from group to group every six weeks, resulting in abstracts that can be presented at academic meetings. Most of the focus has been on practice changes related to COVID, including telehealth impacts and COVID vaccines.

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Viraj V. Patel

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Viraj

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Patel

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Jing-Yu Pan

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Jing-Yu

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Pan

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<p>Jing-Yu Pan was born in Shanghai, China and moved at the age of 4 to Nutley, NJ, where she lived until she graduated from high school.&nbsp; She attended Wellesley College, graduated with a BA in neuroscience, and worked in Alzheimer&rsquo;s research between college and medical school.&nbsp; Jing went to UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (now Rutgers Medical School) in Piscataway, NJ for medical school.&nbsp; She went on to Internal Medicine Residency at Montefiore Medical Center where her ambulatory clinic was based at the Family Care Center. After residency, Jing was hired as an Attending Hospitalist at San Francisco General Hospital, where in additional to doing direct clinical care, she also taught medical students and residents from UCSF.&nbsp; After working there for approximately 4 years, she returned to Montefiore Medical Center to work as a Clinician-Educator in PAC.&nbsp; Since returning to Montefiore, she has done both medical student and resident teaching.&nbsp; During the 2018-2019 academic year, she was the 3^rd year Medicine Clerkship site director at Moses.&nbsp; Her major academic interests including:&nbsp; teaching clinical reasoning and the medical treatment of obesity.&nbsp; Outside of medicine, she enjoys eating/cooking, travel, reading with her book club, socializing, and skiing.&nbsp;</p>

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