Theresa A Soriano, MD
- PROFESSOR | Medicine, General Internal Medicine
- PROFESSOR | Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Specialties:
Internal Medicine, Primary Care
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Dr. Theresa Soriano is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at ISSMS. She currently serves as Senior Vice President for Care Transitions and Population Health at Mount Sinai St. Luke's, with previous roles as Deputy CMO for Population Health in Mount Sinai Health Partners, Acting Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, and Director of the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program, the nation’s largest academic home-based primary and palliative care program. Dr. Soriano received her MD and Masters in Public Health at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at University of Miami – Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, FL. She joined the faculty of Mount Sinai’s Division of General Medicine in 2004.
Dr. Soriano’s career interests include care models for underserved and/or complex populations, clinical quality, interdisciplinary care teams, workforce development and advocacy in home-based primary and palliative care. She has presented and been recognized for her work in home-based primary and palliative care and in community-oriented care models at the regional and national levels, and has published in major medical and healthcare professional journals.
Certifications
Hospice & Palliative Medicine
Clinical Focus
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Blood Pressure Testing And Measurement
- Cholesterol Tests
- Dementia
- Depression
- Electrocardiogram
- Failure-To-Thrive
- Falls
- Frailty
- Glycosylated Hemoglobin Test
- Gout
- High Blood Pressure
- High Cholesterol
- Pneumococcal Vaccine
- Pressure Ulcers
- Primary Care
- Seasonal Influenza Vaccine
- Tetanus Vaccine
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Vascular Dementia
Education
MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
BS, Cornell University
MPH, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Jackson Memorial Hospital University of Miami
Residency, Internal Medicine, Jackson Memorial Hospital
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2014
Board of Directors -
2012
Alumni Achievement Award -
2012
Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Early Career Physician Award -
2010
Ruth Abramson Award -
2009
Housecall Doctor of the Year
Home-based primary and palliative care; Care coordination and care management; Care models for underserved populations
Federman AD, Soriano T. More Promise for Home-Based Primary Care. JAMA internal medicine 2014 Sep;.
Reckrey JM, Gettenberg G, Ross H, Kopke V, Soriano T, Ornstein K. The critical role of social workers in home-based primary care. Social work in health care 2014; 53(4).
Ornstein K, Wajnberg A, Kaye-Kauderer H, Winkel G, DeCherrie L, Zhang M, Soriano T. Reduction in symptoms for homebound patients receiving home-based primary and palliative care. Journal of palliative medicine 2013 Sep; 16(9).
Wajnberg A, Ornstein K, Zhang M, Smith KL, Soriano T. Symptom burden in chronically ill homebound individuals. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2013 Jan; 61(1).
DeCherrie LV, Soriano T, Hayashi J. Home-based primary care: a needed primary-care model for vulnerable populations. The Mount Sinai journal of medicine, New York; 79(4).
Foer D, Ornstein K, Soriano TA, Kathuria N, Dunn A. Nonmedical factors associated with prolonged hospital length of stay in an urban homebound population. Journal of hospital medicine : an official publication of the Society of Hospital Medicine 2012 Feb; 7(2).
Kao H, Conant R, Soriano T, McCormick W. The past, present, and future of house calls. Clinics in geriatric medicine 2009 Feb; 25(1).
Smith KL, Soriano TA, Boal J. Brief communication: National quality-of-care standards in home-based primary care. Annals of internal medicine 2007 Feb; 146(3).
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Dr. Soriano did not report having any of the following types of financial relationships with industry during 2017 and/or 2018: consulting, scientific advisory board, industry-sponsored lectures, service on Board of Directors, participation on industry-sponsored committees, equity ownership valued at greater than 5% of a publicly traded company or any value in a privately held company. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.
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