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The Department enjoys
its own free-standing
residency. Under the supervision of program director,
Terence Brady,MD, the program trains young physicians in
internal medicine and in subspecialty fellowships in gastroenterology,
infectious diseases, nephrology and pulmonary disease. In
addition, it trains Cornell University medical students
during their third and fourth year rotations in internal
medicine and ambulatory care, the latter under the supervision
of Natalie Schwartz, MD.
The Department of Medicine is also
umbrella to 11 subspecialty services, each with its own
director:
Subspecialties
- Allergy/Immunology - Stanley Fine,
MD, Director - (718) 358-5565
- Cardiology - Frank Messineo, MD,
Director - (718) 670-1234
- Critical Care Medicine - Melvin
Hochman, MD, Director - (718) 670-1072
- Dermatology - David Arluk, MD,
Director - (718) 263-6200
- Endocrinology - Daniel Lorber,
MD, Director - (718) 670-1407
- Gastroenterology - Roger Mendis,
MD, Director - (718) 670-1070
- Infectious Disease - James Rahal,
MD, Director - (718) 670-1525
- Nephrology - Chaim Charytan, MD,
Director - (718) 679-1151
- Neurology - Emilio Oribe, MD, Director
- (718) 670-1511
- Oncology/Hematology - Barry Kaplan,
MD, Director - (718) 460-2300
- Pulmonary Medicine - Stephen Karbowitz,
MD Director - (718) 670-1405
Highlights
A state-of-the-art cardiac catheterization
suite is part of the Under the direction of Stylianos
Papadakos, MD, the unit equips interventional cardiologists
to perform the most advanced cardiac procedures in the world,
such as coronary artery stenting and laser procedures.
An excellent gastrointestinal motility
laboratory functions under the direction of Arthur Harris,
MD. Here experts employ the most advanced technology to
evaluate patients who have non-cardiac chest pains or problems
in swallowing.
A center for speech and swallowing
disorders is run by Marta Kazandjian, MA, and Karen Dikeman,
MA, who are recognized experts in the field.
A unit has been designed especially
for patients with lung disease and a pulmonary exercise
rehabilitation program under the supervision of Stephen
Karbowitz, MD.
Chemotherapy patients can receive
comfortable and sensitive outpatient care in an ambulatory
chemotherapy and infusion unit which is under the direction
of Barry Kaplan, MD.
at NYHQ provides comprehensive
care for patients with a variety of neurological consitions.
Multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and developmental disabilities
are treated in dedicated centers while special provisions
are also made for patients with sleep disorders, memory
problems and CNS cancers.
, under the direction of David Rubin, MD,
serves patients infected with the HIV virus who receive
care on an outpatient basis. The Center is the only one
of its kind in Queens. AIDS is only one of many specialty
areas in which members of the division of infectious diseases
hold expertise. The division's director, James Rahal, MD,
is a nationally renowned expert in the field of infection
control and antibiotic drug resistance and is president
of the New York Society of Infectious Diseases.
and
the division of nephrology, under the direction of Chaim
Charytan, MD, annually cares for over 280 patients with
chronic kidney diseases and is in the forefront of research
in this area. Dr. Charytan is president of the Renal Physicians
Association. |
