Jamie L. Osman-Wager

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Osman-Wager

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<p>Jamie Osman-Wager, MD, MPH, is an attending physician and Assistant Professor, Medicine at Montefiore Einstein. Her clinical focus centers on adult medicine.</p><p>After obtaining her Bachelor of Science from Cornell University in 2005, Dr. Osman-Wager completed a dietetic internship at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in 2006. She continued her medical education, earning her Master of Public Health at Harvard in 2010 and her Doctor of Medicine at Montefiore Einstein in 2011. She completed her internal medicine residency at New York University Langone Medical Center in 2014.</p><p>Dr. Osman-Wager&rsquo;s research has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and presented at national conferences. She currently serves as site leader at Montefiore Einstein&rsquo;s Moses campus for the third year medical student internal medicine clerkship. Most of her time focuses on educating and training residents and medical students.</p><p>Dr. Osman-Wager is board certified in Internal Medicine and is a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the Medical Society of the State of New York. In 2021, she won the Leo M. Davidoff Society Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Medical Students.</p>

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Hauchie Pang

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Kristen Welch

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Kristen

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Welch

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Jeffrey M. Weiss

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<p>Jeffrey Weiss, MD is a senior clinician-executive who has taken on progressive leadership positions at Montefiore Health System. Dr. Weiss earned a bachelor of science in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University, a medical degree from Stony Brook School of Medicine, and the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Montefiore, where he was chief resident.</p>
<p>In 2007, Dr. Weiss was named Institutional Medical Director for Montefiore Health System. His role is to help optimize the performance of the Montefiore health delivery network by ensuring a smooth interface between its various components - the doctors, hospital, medical group, home health agency, nursing homes, and the CMO. Dr. Weiss's responsibilities included leadership of nationally recognized patient safety, quality and peer review programs, management of a medical staff with 3,500 employed and voluntary physicians, supervision of GME activities for 1,200 residents in the second largest house staff program in the country, all under the coordinated umbrella of the "Office of the Medical Director" (OMD). As part of a restructuring of organizational clinical leadership in 2012, Dr. Weiss was named Vice President for Medical Affairs. In this role, he has retained many of his previous responsibilities, and is now leading a team of five newly appointed hospital medical directors in driving physician alignment and creating a horizontally integrated approach to quality and clinical performance across the system.</p>
<p>Dr. Weiss is an active clinician, teacher and researcher. He lectures nationally on topics including leadership, physician alignment, and patient safety in several forums, including as a faculty member for the AAMC and National Patient Safety Foundation.</p>

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Deborah M. Swiderski

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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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<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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<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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<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>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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Shani R. 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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Sheira L. 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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<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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