Endocrinology Fellowship at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West

First-Year Fellows

First-year fellows are responsible for inpatient consultations and participate in Endocrinology Clinic and Diabetes Clinic. The inpatient experience consists of consultations at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai Morningside, and Mount Sinai West.  Fellows are exposed to a full range of endocrine and metabolic disorders, including: 

• Type 1 and type 2 diabetes
• Gestational diabetes
• Thyroid dysfunction and tumors
• Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
• Lipid Disorders
• Obesity
• Osteoporosis
• Pituitary Disease
• Parathyroid dysfunction
• Adrenal gland hypo/hyper activity
• Diseases of ovaries and testes
• Fluid/Electrolyte abnormalities
• Nutrition Support / Parenteral Nutrition

During the first year of training, fellows work with a specialized Diabetes Team of physicians, nurses and nutritionists learning to provide rapid, optimal and comprehensive care to diabetic inpatients and clinic patients.  In doing so, they become familiar with the various modalities of diabetes treatment, including multiple injection therapy, insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitoring. 

Second-Year Fellows

In the second year, fellows participate in a variety of additional experiences including the following possible rotations:

• High Risk Obstetrics
• Pituitary Surgery
• Pediatric Endocrinology
• Lipid Elective
• Pituitary/Neuroendocrine (MSKCC)
• Reproductive Endocrinology (Male)
• Reproductive Endocrinology (Female)
• Thyroid Fine Needle Aspiration
• Thyroid Cytology
• Transgender Medicine
• Vascular Surgery
• Diabetes Pumps/CGMs:
• Obesity
• Adrenal

The remainder of the second year is devoted to a research project chosen by the fellow in partnership with a large number of potential mentors throughout the Mount Sinai Health System. This choice is best made during the first year so that a full year’s experience can be gained resulting in a useful body of work.

Academic and Educational Resources

All fellows attend various conferences throughout the academic year at MSBI, MSM, MSW, and on the main uptown Mount Sinai campus. These include Clinical Case Discussions, Endocrine Curriculum Conferences, Journal Clubs, multidisciplinary Endocrine and Head and Neck Surgery Thyroid/Parathyroid Conferences, Adrenal Conferences, and Pituitary Conferences.  Fellows meet with the Division Chief weekly to discuss patient cases and ongoing projects and to assess progress.

The overall goal for our Fellowship Training Program is to produce independently functioning and continuously improving Endocrinologists with an understanding of the science and art of medicine; to measure how trainees meet these expectations we have set our specific goals for each rotation and our evaluation system around the ACGME fundamental goals and outcomes which stretch across all specialties.

The program fulfills all of the requirements of the American Board of Internal Medicine for sub- specialty training. Fellows are “board-eligible” after the second year of training.

 
Fellows participating in a simulation session for ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration technique of thyroid nodules.

First Year Fellows:

Hajira Amir, MBBS - Ayub Medical College, Pakistan;  Northwell Health / Lenox Hill Hospital Internal Medicine
Dushyanthy Arasaratnam, MD - University of Newcastle Faculty of Health and Medicine, Austrailia
Kaveeta Marwaha, MD - St. George’s University School of Medicine, Grenada;  Dell Seton Medical Center University of Texas at Austin Internal Medicine

Second Year Fellows:

Tania Al Shamy, MD- Seton Hall University School of Health and Medical Sciences Program (Internal Medicine - General) - Seton Hall University School of Health and Medical Sciences
Yasmine Elamir, MD- Newark Beth Israel Medical Center (Jersey City) Program (Internal Medicine - General) - Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
Kruti Patel, MD - Saint Josephs - Internal Medicine - Mount Sinai Medical Center

The Fellowship Program in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease is staffed by dedicated and enthusiastic clinicians and seasoned researchers who are committed to training specialists in the field. 

Andrea Dunaif, MD
Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease for the Mount Sinai Health System 
Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease) 

Michael Via, MD
Director, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Fellowship Program
Associate Professor of Medicine

Deena Adimoolam, MD
Associate Director, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Fellowship Program
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Peter Goulden, MD
Medical Director, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Diseases
Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount SInai West

Zijian Chen, MD
Medical Director, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Diseases
Mount Sinai Beth Israel
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)

Rahul Agarwal, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)

Jeanine Albu, MD
Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology

Stephanie Behringer-Massera, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)

Robert Berstein, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)

Maria Brito, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)

Terry F. Davies, MD 
Florence and Theodore Baumritter Professor of Medicine 

Daniel Donovan, MD
Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)

Se-Min Kim, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)

Carmen Pal, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)

Tamar Reisman, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)

Jerome Tolbert, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)

Research opportunities for fellows are available in:

• Diabetes
• Obesity
• Thyroid disease
• Adrenal disease
• General Endocrinology
• Public Health

The Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Fellowship participates in the National Residency Match Program (NRMP) and accepts only online applications submitted thru the Electronic Residency Application System (ERAS) found here.

All applicants must have satisfactorily completed an ACGME-accredited internal medicine residency and have been declared board-eligible in Internal Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

All applicants must have either US citizenship or a valid visa.