Yasmin S Meah, MD
- PROFESSOR | Medicine, General Internal Medicine
Specialties:
Primary Care, Geriatrics, Palliative Care, Internal MedicineDr. Yasmin Meah received her BA from Johns Hopkins University in 1993 and her MD from Harvard Medical School in 1998. She completed her residency in internal medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2001 and completed her Chief Residency in Medicine in 2002. Since 2003 she has served the home-bound of Manhattan as an attending physician of the Visiting Doctors Program. In addition, she co-founded and directs the East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership, the student-run attending-directed free clinic for the uninsured. In 2007, she became the youngest recipient of the AAMC Humanism in Medicine Award. She has received several accolades for her work with the home-bound and the uninsured of New York. She holds a dual appointment in the Icahn School of Medicine Department of Medical Education, where she trains medical and nursing students to care for the chronically ill and most marginalized adults of Manhattan. Her expertise is in care for vulnerable persons, care for the uninsured, home-based palliative care and wound care.
Certifications
Hospice & Palliative Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine
Education
MD, Harvard Medical School
BA, Johns Hopkins University
Residency, Internal Medicine, The Mount Sinai Hospital
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2016
Jan Paneth Community Service Award -
2013
Ruth Abramson MD Idealism in Medicine Award -
2007
Humanism in Medicine
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Below are financial relationships with industry reported by Dr. Meah during 2022 and/or 2023. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.
Consulting:
- David Tepper Charitable Foundation
Industry-Sponsored Lectures: MSSM faculty occasionally give lectures at events sponsored by industry, but only if the events are free of any marketing purpose.
- Nationswell
Other Activities: Examples include, but are not limited to, committee participation, data safety monitoring board (DSMB) membership.
- Clarkson University; Nationswell
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