Why Choose Mount Sinai?
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Morningside-West Hospital Center Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program is a joint Mount Sinai Beth Israel – Mount Sinai Morningside – Mount Sinai West training program in Infectious Diseases designed to provide comprehensive training to produce a specialist in the field of Infectious Diseases. It is part of the Mount Sinai Health System which is an outstanding institution with a rich clinical tradition with faculty committed to training in all aspects of Infectious Diseases. Our two-year training program is designed to offer our fellows comprehensive clinical training that covers all infectious diseases, in addition to training in antimicrobial stewardship and infection control. Research opportunities within the Mount Sinai Health System continue to evolve and expand with increasing collaborations with other Departments and Divisions and the Infectious Diseases Clinical Translational Research Center (CTRC), COVID Clinical Trial Unit, and the Institute of Advanced Medicine (IAM).
A Storied History & Reputation
Historically, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai Morningside, and Mount Sinai West have led in the field of Infectious Diseases in the last 200 years: 1859 Mount Sinai Morningside (formerly St. Luke’s) established a policy of accepting tuberculosis patients 1910 Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West (formerly Roosevelt) bacteriologist and pathologist Dr. Hans Zinsser developed a medium and simple method to plate anaerobic organisms, developed a vaccine of killed rickettsias that would protect against typhus (1934), and was co-writer of 6 editions of the Textbook of Bacteriology (1910-1928) with Dr. Philip Hanson Hiss 1939 Mount Sinai Beth Israel organized the National Salmonella Center 1945 Mount Sinai West physician, Dr. Thomas Mackie, was a founding member and later Director of the American Foundation for Tropical Medicine and co-authored A Manual of Tropical Medicine (published nearly 30 years after his death as the classic Hunter’s Tropical Medicine) 1981 Mount Sinai Beth Israel doctors are among the first to recognize that AIDS is a new disease and is an early leader in the care of this patient population. 1982 Mount Sinai Morningside doctors, Dr. Michael Grieco and Dr. Michael Lange, published the first recognition of an unexplained immunological deficit in homosexual men, later discovered to be HIV. 1987, as part of the AZT Collaborative Working Group, Mount Sinai Beth Israel and Mount Sinai Morningside/Mount Sinai West doctors, Dr. Michael Grieco, Dr. Donna Mildvan, and Dr. Michael Lange, published results on “The Efficacy of Azidothymidine (AZT) in the Treatment of Patients with AIDS and AIDS-Related Complex” (NEJM, 1987. PMID: 3299089)
1994-1997 Mount Sinai Beth Israel physicians, Dr. Nadim Salomon and Dr. David Perlman are among the first to identify an outbreak of multi-drug resistant TB in NYC. PMID 7969228, PMID: 8589151, PMID: 8589150, PMID: 9441092 1996, as part of the Roche Cooperative Ganciclovir Study Group, Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West doctors, Dr. Michael Grieco and Dr. George F. McKinley, publish results on “Oral Ganciclovir for the Prevention of Cytomegalovirus Disease in Persons with AIDS” (NEJM, 1996. PMID: 8618603) 2003 Mount Sinai Beth Israel physicians identified and treated the first cases of Plague in NYC in 100 years. PMID:16084958 2013 Mount Sinai Beth Israel physicians in collaboration with a multicenter study team developed an efficacious behavioral Care Coordination intervention to engage HCV infected people who use drug into HCV which was published in the American Journal of Public Health, was shown to be cost effective (PMID: 23947319) and was selected for inclusion in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality New Innovations Exchange. 2020 Mount Sinai Beth Israel designated an Antimicrobial Stewardship Center of Excellence by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
Today, the Mount Sinai Health System continues to be known nationally and internationally for its innovations and the quality of care provided to our patients.
Location
Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai Morningside, and Mount Sinai West, three campuses of the Mount Sinai Health System, are unique because they are located throughout Manhattan allowing for access to an amazingly diverse patient population. This offers you a unique opportunity for your training—one that most physicians do not experience in their entire careers. It also provides training, education, and supervision by a large faculty with a broad and diverse experience and interests. And of course, as a fellow at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai Morningside, and Mount Sinai West, you can live in New York City-one of the greatest, most diverse and exciting cities in the world.
Fellows are provided the opportunity to qualify for subsidized housing near Mount Sinai West Hospital on the West side through the Mount Sinai Real Estate Services Department. Our fellows are eligible to apply for and are guaranteed housing near Mount Sinai West Hospital if they choose to do so. But not everyone wants to live around their workplace and we make sure that our work and training schedule allows for fellows to commute and reside anywhere in New York City and surrounding area. For more information, please go to our Graduate Medical Education Office's housing website or link directly to the housing policy.
Highlights of Our Training Program
Clinical
- Opportunity to care for an amazingly diverse patient population throughout the Mount Sinai Health System
- Dedicated formal curriculum focused on infection prevention and control training
- Large outpatient intravenous antibiotic therapy (OPAT) program
- Elective opportunities in solid organ and bone marrow transplant infectious diseases, travel medicine, transgender medicine, and integrative medicine. And for those interested in Critical Care, simulation lab and point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) are available
- Each Fellow manages their own panel of outpatients (with attending supervision), at Morningside, Peter Krueger, and Samuels Clinic, both part of the Institute for Advanced Medicine
Research
- A number of graduates over past 20 years now hold full-time academic faculty appointments
- ID Fellowship Research Committee for review and provide faculty feedback on scholarly projects, works in progress
- Opportunities for participation in Mount Sinai’s Clinical and Translational Science Award program
Conferences & Environment
- Board Review sessions with key faculty
- Weekly Tuesday Scholarly Day (Academic Half-Day, Fellow's Case Conference, Core Curriculum, and Mandell Table Rounds) and Clinical Case Conference
- Monthly Journal Club
Clinical Excellence
Our program has a number of unique training avenues that provide you a breadth and depth of training that you can't get at other institutions.
Institute for Advanced Medicine
The creation of the Institute for Advanced Medicine (IAM) throughout the Mount Sinai Health System was a top priority for the Division of Infectious Diseases. The Institute for Advanced Medicine has combined six HIV primary care centers coordinated to treat and care for more than 10,000 persons infected with HIV throughout the New York metropolitan area. The IAM unites the Mount Sinai Health System’s outstanding physicians and staff from multiple disciplines into one integrated program that provides accessible, affordable, and expert primary and specialty care to HIV patients as well as their friends and families. Specialty services include mental health, case management, social services, and coordinated clinical care in areas such as cardiology, dermatology, and nephrology.
Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Program (OPAT)
The outpatient parenteral antibiotic program at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai Morningside, and Mount Sinai West is one of the largest in the country. Our fellows work closely with their attendings to follow up with patients who are discharged with IV antibiotics. Fellows are taught to closely monitor and coordinate care for patients in this program.
The Strength of Our System
As a fellow of the Mount Sinai Health System, Icahn School of Medicine, you have the opportunity to leverage the expertise and resources of the largest health care provider in the New York City area. As part of the Mount Sinai Health System, our fellows have access to world-class educational, research and clinical resources at our seven hospitals across the system.
These hospitals vary from our main campus institution, The Mount Sinai Hospital, to Mount Sinai Beth Israel which serves the community on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, to Mount Sinai West and Morningside which serve a diverse group of patients on the west side of Manhattan. Additionally, we have other community-based hospitals in Queens, Brooklyn and on Long Island and at the James J. Peters Bronx VA.
“Fellowship was busy but still fun. It provided me with the tools and experience needed for my career after training.”
Michelle Ordoveza, MD Infectious Diseases Private Practice Montefiore Weiler Hospital 2019 Graduate
“I truly enjoyed my fellowship at Beth Israel, Morningside & West. It taught me everything I know as a clinician and as an ID specialist. You get exposed to a complete array of diseases including general ID, travel medicine, tropical medicine, HIV and Transplant. You get the opportunity to truly hone in your skills and are able to get extra experience in the area of your choice. The faculty was truly amazing. During the job application process, I had mentors who guided me and helped me review my CV, applications and job offers. If I had to choose again, I would definitely do my fellowship at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai Morningside, and Mount Sinai West.”
Bryan Tolentino, MD Medical Director of Infectious Diseases and LGBTQ+ Health, Community Healthcare Network 2018 Graduate
Contact Us
Geraldine Vargas Fellowship Coordinator Division of Infectious Diseases geraldine.vargas@mountsinai.org
Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital 1111 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10025 (212) 523-3610
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