A5074873416- Innovations in Medical Education
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
- Medical Education and Admissions
- Human Rights and Development
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Language Development and Disorders
- Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
- Tracheal and airway disorders
- Health and Conflict Studies
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Veterinary Practice and Education Studies
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Reflective Practices in Education
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Heart Failure Treatment and Management
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Iron Metabolism and Disorders
- Cultural Competency in Health Care
- Workplace Violence and Bullying
- Surgical Simulation and Training
- Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
Columbia University
2008-2025
ORCID
2017-2024
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
2017-2024
New York Hospital Queens
2024
Presbyterian Hospital
2024
NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital
2024
Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
2023
The day-to-day rigors of medical education often preclude learners from gaining a longitudinal perspective on who they are becoming. Furthermore, the current focus competencies, coupled with concerning rates trainee burnout and decline in empathy, have fueled search for pedagogic tools to foster students' reflective capacity. In response, many scholars looked tradition narrative medicine "reflective spaces" wherein holistic professional identity construction can be supported. This article...
Systemic racism perpetuates health disparities and negatively impacts care delivery patient outcomes. Racism bias can affect every aspect of clinical care, including history-taking, physical examination, laboratory interpretation, note-writing, oral presentation, decision-making. Medical students must learn racism- bias-mitigation skills early in their professional development to provide high-quality, equitable care.In November 2021, senior medical faculty with expertise promoting equity...
To investigate students' experience (over time) with meta-reflection writing exercises, called Signature Reflections. These exercises were used to strengthen reflective capacity, as part of a 4-year portfolio curriculum that builds on recognized strategy for reflection (narrative medicine) and employs longitudinal faculty-mentors.In 2018, the authors conducted 5 focus groups 18 third-year students from Columbia University Vagelos College Physicians Surgeons class 2019 examine Using an...
Due to generational exposure the Black Lives Matter movement, other antibias social movements, and diverse peer advocacy groups, health professions students are often more knowledgeable than their teachers about ways in which systemic racism bias have led scientific inaccuracies that contribute inequities. However, traditional hierarchies concerns retaliation may limit educational communities from benefiting maximally students' contributions.
Background Screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment for adolescents (SBIRT-A) is widely recommended promote detection early intervention alcohol other drug (AOD) use in pediatric primary care. Existing SBIRT-A procedures rely almost exclusively on alone, despite the recognition of caregivers as critical protective factors adolescent development AOD use. Moreover, controlled studies conducted care have yielded inconsistent findings about implementation feasibility effects...
In 2024 in the United States there is an attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within education. Politics notwithstanding, medical school curricula that are current structured to train next generation of physicians adhere our profession's highest values fairness, humanity, scientific excellence utmost importance health care quality innovation worldwide. Whereas number anti-racism, (ARDEI) curricular innovations have increased, a dearth published longitudinal equity...
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment for adolescents (SBIRT-A) is widely recommended promote detection early intervention alcohol other drug (AOD) use in pediatric primary care. Existing SBIRT-A procedures rely almost exclusively on alone, despite the recognition of caregivers as critical protective factors adolescent development AOD use. Moreover, controlled studies conducted care have yielded inconsistent findings about implementation...