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Developing systems and quality metrics to safeguard patient access to excellent, time-sensitive and convenient endoscopy services in a large health system.

- set up an open-access program for upper endoscopy and colonoscopy in collaboration with the bariatric surgery group, medical and gynecology clinics.- doubled the year-over-year census of endoscopic cases. - maximized the capacity of the endoscopy suite, by mediating between the hospital leadership, gastroenterology and operating room groups. - attracted new patients, from non-affiliated neighborhood primary care practices, by developing new professional relationships with referring physicians. - decreased waiting time to new or established patient appointments by 60%. - worked with the hospitalist group and ICU director to implement a policy of managing upper GI bleeding. - teaching surgical residents, international and local medical students.- providing lectures to the house staff and faculty of Medicine and Surgery departments.

Compassionate multilingual gastroenterologist and hepatologist with twelve years of academic practice and research experience, with an interest in nutrition and metabolism and dedicated to exemplary patient outcomes. My commitment is to design systems to efficiently transfer knowledge from the clinical and research teams to our patients, while consolidating an open and personalized connection with the community.ACADEMIC POSITIONSIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York City Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine 2006 - present-Experienced in high-volume diagnostic and therapeutic esogastroduodenoscopy and colonoscopy. -Treating hepatitis, inflammatory and functional bowel disease, screening for gastrointestinal and liver cancer, by supervising the liver, general gastroenterology and HIV clinics at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospitals. -improved inpatient flow by offering early endoscopy and by communicating discharge plans to the admitting teams, while providing a high quality educational experience to the fellows and medical students. -Delivering personalized health maintenance, screening and nutritional advice to the underserved population, such as immigrant population. Saint Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital CenterProgram Director, Division of Gastroenterology 2011- 2014-Established the fellows’ curriculum.-Supervised teaching conferences and provided clinical and endoscopic training. -Led performance improvement meetings. Housingworks, Inc Hepatology consultant 2011- presentAchieved high sustained viral response rates, by implementing directly observed therapy in treating hepatitis C virus infection in people who inject drugs.

Effect of substituting tenofovir for zidovudine vs continuing zidovudine on physiologic correlates of mitochondrial function in HIV-infected subjects on nucleoside-reverse transcriptase inhibitor therapy. Improvements were noted in subcutaneous adiposity and in myocardial mitochondrial function. Glucose and fatty acid metabolism remained unchanged.

Effect of salicylate therapy upon body fat distribution, lipid metabolism, and insulin resistance in HIV-infected individuals with lipodystrophy. Clinical trial: a longitudinal study of the effects of trilisate on HIV-associated lipoatrophy and on lipid and glucose metabolism. Established an association between anti-inflammatory therapy and HOMA-IR improvement, in the absence of body composition changes, in HIV-infected individuals with lipodystrophy, suggestive of an anti-inflammatory effect on the liver.