Our Faculty
As a medicine resident at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, you will have the opportunity to work with and be mentored by a group of physicians who are dedicated to your education and training. We have numerous faculty that interact daily with our housestaff, guiding clinical and professional development as well as mentoring scholarly work.
The following is just a sampling of the leadership across the fields of medicine at Mount Sinai Beth Israel:
Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Cardiology
John Fox, MD
is Director of the Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Catheterization Lab at Mount Sinai Beth Israel and Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology). He is a member of the Cardiac Steering Committee, and Chairman of both the Cath Lab Leadership Committee and the Cath Lab Quality Improvement Committee.
Samuel Hanon, MD
is the Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology at Mount Sinai Beth Israel and Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiology. He graduated from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed Medicine residency, Chief residency and Cardiology fellowship at Beth Israel Med Center. He went on to Cardiac Electrophysiology fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Hanon currently serves as Director of Cardiac Arrhythmia Services at Mount Sinai Beth Israel.
Deepika Misra MD
is the Cardiology Fellowship Program Director for Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West and Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiology. She has been guiding residents applying for cardiology fellowship for many years and mentors many projects annually with both residents and fellows. She is committed to helping all residents develop a solid foundation in cardiac care regardless of their career plans
Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Bone Disease
Zijian Chen, MD
is Medical Director for the Endocrinology Division, Director for Ambulatory Subspecialties at Mount Sinai Downtown at Union Square, and Assistant Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology). Dr. Chen is also the Director of the Mount Sinai Post-COVID Care Center located at Mount Sinai Beth Israel
Michael Via, MD
is the Endocrinology Fellowship Program Director for Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West as well as Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease) and Medical Education. Dr. Via does research about diabetes, metabolism and nutrition and has a busy clinical panel in which he cares for patients with varying endocrine disorders.
Gastroenterology
Brett Bernstein, MD, MBA
is the Division Chief for Gastroenterology at Mount Sinai Beth Israel and Associate Professor of Medicine, Gastroenterology. He also serves as the Director of Clinical Integration for gastroenterology and endoscopy for the Digestive Disease Institute of the Mount Sinai Health System.
General Internal Medicine
Matthew A. Weissman, MD, MBA
is the Site Chair of the Department of Medicine and Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine) and Pediatrics. He is an experienced physician executive, serving most recently as the Chief Medical Officer at a leading Federally Qualified Health Center in New York. In addition to maintaining a robust primary care practice, he has served on multiple hospital, city-wide, state, and national committees. His primary interests are leveraging technology to streamline delivery and improve access to and quality of care and training the next generation of physicians and medical leaders.
Leonard D. Amoruso, DO
is the Medical Director for General Medical Associates in addition to the Division Chief for General Internal Medicine. At MSBI, he established a high risk/high utilizer clinic known as the PACT clinic (Preventable Admissions Care Team) at General Medical Associates. He previously served as the Clinical Director of the PACT clinic as well as the Associate Medical Director for General Medical Associates.
Christina M. Cruz, MD
is Associate Program Director for Ambulatory Care and Associate Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine). She oversees the residency's Ambulatory and Wellness Curricula. Dr. Cruz regularly reviews clinical vignettes and medical education workshops for the Society of General Internal Medicine's annual and regional conferences. She participates in medical education research around end-of-year transfers of care for high-risk patients and more recently a multi-center study of prevalence and potential contributors to burnout among resident physicians. Dr. Cruz's primary area of interest is the intersection between medical education and social accountability.
Geriatric and Palliative Medicine
Joyce F. Fogel, MD
is Associate Professor and Chief of Geriatrics. Dr. Fogel has developed a consolidated approach to caring for the geriatric patient, which includes ambulatory, hospital and home-based care. Dr. Fogel oversees the residency program’s geriatrics rotation, which has been a popular experience for our housestaff.
Nathan Goldstein, MD
is Professor in the Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is a clinician investigator whose work examines patient-physician communication in patients with advanced heart failure – work that is funded by an R01 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. He is also the Site Chair for the Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai Beth Israel.
Hematology & Oncology
Bobby Liaw, MD
specializes in the care and management of patient's with genitourinary and sarcoma cancers. He serves as the Clinical Director of Genitourinary Oncology for the Mount Sinai Health System, as well as the Medical Director for the Blavatnik Family Chelsea Medical Center at Mount Sinai. A close personal interest of his is to help bridge cultural gaps in order to improve quality and access to healthcare to the Asian American community. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology.
Hospital Medicine
Dahlia Rizk, DO
is Professor and Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine. Dr. Rizk has built the hospitalist program into one of the major inpatient clinical and teaching services in the hospital. She leads and is involved in numerous systems-based initiatives for the Department of Medicine and throughout the institution. She belongs to numerous professional organizations including the Society of Hospital Medicine and has received a variety of awards and grants. She has had multiple national presentations and abstracts as well as publications. Her primary interests are patient safety and quality improvement, as well as public and global health.
Alfred P. Burger, MD
is Senior Associate Program Director, Professor of Medicine and Medical Education and an attending in the Division of Hospital Medicine. Dr. Burger has specific interests in clinical reasoning, quality improvement and in mentoring of trainees in the development of clinical vignettes and case write-ups as early academic projects. Dr. Burger maintains involvement in several national society workgroups, focusing on hospital medicine, hospital systems and quality improvement. He has taught numerous sessions and precourses on quality improvement at national society meetings. He was a member of the Society of General Internal Medicine’s Choosing Wisely Recommendations Work Group and was a past President of the New York State Chapter of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine.
Matthew Harrington, MD
is Associate Program Director for Inpatient Medicine, Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Education, and an attending in the Division of Hospital Medicine. Dr. Harrington’s interests include medical education and mentorship of trainees and medical students. He has mentored trainees in presentation of clinical vignettes at regional and national conferences including the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) and the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), and in publication of case reports in journals including American Journal of Medicine and BMJ Case Reports. He leads workshops regarding critique of clinical documentation for assessment of trainees’ medical knowledge and clinical reasoning.
Daniel I. Steinberg, MD
is Chief Patient Safety Officer for Mount Sinai Downtown and Associate Dean for Quality and Patient Safety in Graduate Medical Education for the Mount Sinai Health System. He is also Professor of Medicine and Medical Education, and an attending in the Division of Hospital Medicine. Dr. Steinberg’s academic interests include medical education, mentorship of trainees, faculty development and evidence-based medicine. He is actively involved in the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) and the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine. He is past president of the New York State Chapter of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine. He presents regularly at national meetings and serves on multiple national society committees. He serves on the 2018 Annual Meeting Committee for SHM and is an associate editor of the American College of Physician’s Journal Club, which appears in Annals of Internal Medicine.
Infectious Diseases
David Perlman, MD
is Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases. He is an active investigator at the Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institution at MSBI and also serves as the Director of the Infectious Diseases Core at the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research.
Sanjana Koshy, MD
is Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), and the Director of the Antibiotic Stewardship Program at Mount Sinai Downtown and Mount Sinai Brooklyn. She follows a large cohort of patients at the Peter Krueger Clinic, participates in the ID Faculty Practice at Mount Sinai Downtown Union Square and supervises the ID fellows during the ID inpatient consultative rotations at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. Her special interests include: HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, travel medicine and the treatment of multidrug resistant bacterial infections.
Tessa Gomez, MD
is Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a full time faculty attending in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. Dr. Gomez is an ID teaching attending for the Internal Medicine Residency program at Mount Sinai Beth Israel and oversees and supervises the ID Fellows during ID inpatient consultative rotations and HIV/AIDS clinic rotations at the Institute for Advanced Medicine, Peter Krueger Clinic for Immunologic Disorders. She follows a large cohort of patients at the Peter Krueger Clinic and at PACC Ambulatory Care Center, and has a particular interest in the fields of HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C treatment.
Stan Yancovitz, MD
is Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases. He has served as the Director of the Infectious Diseases fellowship at Beth Israel Mount Sinai for many years. He has won awards for his dedication to patient care and the teaching of infectious diseases to fellows residents and students.
Nephrology
Elliot Charen, MD
is the Director of Quality Improvement for the Division of Nephrology at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. He provides oversight for hemodialysis operations and conducts quality improvement research. He also serves as a member of the Clinical Competency Committee for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Mount Sinai Beth Israel and the Program Evaluation Committee for the Nephrology Fellowship within the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension. He is also the instructor for Nephrology Simulation Laboratory Training. Dr. Charen is a consultant nephrologist as well as a preceptor for nephrology fellows. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Nephrology.
Chiarra Ornillo, MD
is Assistant Professor of Medicine (Nephrology), and serves as the Director of Inpatient Hemodialysis at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, where she oversees the inpatient dialysis unit and ensures that ESRD patients are treated with the highest safety and quality standards. Her academic interests include critical care nephrology, glomerular diseases, electrolyte derangements, and hemodialysis. She has always been an invaluable educational resource for internal medicine residents.
Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
Rheumatology
Latoya Freeman-Beman, MD
is Assistant Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology). She has completed a wide range of research and quality improvement projects with special focus on rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus, and health care disparities. Her clinical interests also include inflammatory myopathies, gout and musculoskeletal pain.
