ReseaRch opportunities
Department of Medicine faculty members have expertise in a wide range of research, with special emphasis on evidence-based medicine, health care delivery, and outcomes research. With more than 800 scientists, Northwell Health’s Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research is among the top 5% of institutions that receive funding from National Institutes of Health. It provides unique opportunities for interaction with elite researchers and offers courses free of charge to house staff.
Educational initiatives around resident research include:
A structured curriculum that includes didactic courses focused on developing a unique research question, navigating the IRB process, data collection, creating a poster presentation, and writing a manuscript.
Research electives to provide dedicated time for house staff to work on their own projects
Check-in sessions with research faculty and program leadership to assist with project development
Financial support for conference attendance for residents to present abstracts, posters
Formal mentorship program with faculty to assist with research development
Annual research competition (Academic Day, Scherr Awards, see below) for residents to present their work
Research Track
The Research Track is designed to make the process of conducting research during residency easier, more educational and more productive. Key components of the Research Track are protected elective time for research and core research faculty support. The program is ideal for residents who would like to gain a more in-depth research experience. The track is designed to support residents to (1) maintain a productive mentoring relationship, (2) track research project progress, and (3) complete abstract and manuscript submissions. Residents participating in the Research Track are expected to submit at least one manuscript for publication and one presentation to a professional meeting.
Lawrence Scherr Scholarly Activity Awards
The Department of Medicine prides itself on training tomorrow’s scholars in research and education, and the Lawrence Scherr, MD, Scholarly Activity Awards are our public celebration of this. Dr. Scherr, who died in 2012, established the North Shore University Hospital Department of Medicine and went on to chair it for many years. He created the internal medicine residency, and most of its fellowships, touching the lives of countless trainees and patients. An outstanding leader, educator and colleague, he set a tone of academic, clinical, and ethical rigor in the department that persists today.
The awards are presented to residents and fellows who developed, presented or published the most outstanding outstanding scholarly work in the preceding 12 months, in the categories of original research (educational, clinical, basic, translational or outcomes), quality improvement studies or case reports.
View our trainees’ scholarly activity in the Lawrence Scherr Scholarly Activity Award book.
In addition to the Scherr Awards, Northwell Health hosts an Annual Academic Competition and Research Symposium, affording house staff another opportunity to present their scholarly work.
Faculty Spotlight
Dr. Laurence M. Epstein
Dr. Epstein joined Northwell in 2017 after serving 17 years at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, where he was chief of cardiac arrhythmia service and a professor of medicine, helping them publish more than 100 peer-reviewed scholarly articles, as well as hundreds of book chapters and review articles.
Here at Northwell he is a mentor to several of our residents, and continues to publish with them in high-impact journals. Check out a few of these recently published articles co-authored by some of our recent graduates including: Beom Soo Kim '21, Amtul Mansoor '21 and Aushim Kokroo '22
Faculty Spotlight
Dr. janice wang
Dr. Wang is the Director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Clinical Program in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center of Northwell Health and serves as the Center’s Adult Therapeutic Development Network Center Director. She has experience in the design and performance of investigator-initiated studies and serves as site-investigator for many industry-sponsored clinical trials to facilitate the performance of cutting-edge Phase 2 and 3 drug trials from the CF pipeline as well as innovative observational trials analyzing understudied CF-related complications. Dr. Wang demonstrates mentoring, teaching and educational leadership to physicians-in-training. She educates medical students, physicians and her patients with CF and their caregivers through local seminars, town halls and national conferences. She has received multiple grants as Principal Investigator from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Dr. Wang has been actively involved in COVID-19 clinical trials, both industry-sponsored and investigator initiated, with a focus on anticoagulation in critically ill patients, and the impact of the pandemic on people with CF. Her interests include CF, bronchiectasis, nontuberculous mycobacterial disease, sleep medicine, and critical care.
Here at Northwell, she is a mentor to several of our residents, and continues to publish with them in high-impact journals. Check out a few of these recently published articles co-authored by some of our residents including: Alexander Smith '23, Wei (Vincent) Huang '24 and Javier Ticona '24
Faculty Spotlight
Dr. Sanjaya Satapathy
Dr. Satapathy is a Professor of Medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at the Hofstra/Northwell, and he serves as the Medical Director of Liver Transplantation at the North Shore University Hospital/Northwell Health. Prior to joining Northwell Health, he was a Transplant Hepatologist at the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, and served as a Tenured Associate Professor until 2018. Dr. Satapathy’s research focuses on post-transplant outcomes, particularly in patients with NASH, and hepatitis C. He has published more than100 peer reviewed publications.
Here at Northwell he is a mentor to several of our residents, and continues to publish with them regularly in a variety of high-impact journals. Check out a few of these recently published articles co-authored by some of our residents and recent graduates including: Edgewood Warner '22, Alexa Giammarino '23, Maham Ghani '24, and Salima Makhani '24.
Dr. Nagashree Seetharamu
Dr. Nagashree Seetharamu, MBBS, MD did her residency in Internal Medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York and subsequently completed hematology and oncology fellowship at New York University School of Medicine in 2009. She is currently associate professor in the Division of Hematology/Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine at Northwell Health School of Medicine. Prior to this, she was a faculty member at New York University School of Medicine for more than five years. She has been actively involved in clinical research since her graduation and is the principal investigator for several clinical trials at her institution. She is also the associate program director for the hematology and oncology fellowship program at Northwell health.
Check out some of these articles co-authored by some of our residents and recent graduates: Margaret Locke '24, Wint Yan (Arthur) Aung '24, Melissa Neumann '23, Kevin Wang '22
Dr. Alex C Spyropoulos
Dr. Spyropoulous is the Director of Northwell's Anticoagulation and Clinical Thrombosis Services as well as professor for the Center for Heart and Lung Research as part of the Feinstein Institutes of Medical Research and professor of medicine. He is internationally respected for his work in the field of anticoagulation and thrombosis, well known for his work on the landmark BRIDGE trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2015. Dr. Spyropoulos’ articles, letters, and editorials have been published in over 160 peer-reviewed journals.
Check out some of these articles co-authored by some of our recent graduates: Sarah Flint '21, Richa Thakur '21, David Garrett '21, Austin Schnitzer '21
Dr. Kenar Jhaveri
Dr. Jhaveri is a Professor of Medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and Associate Chief of the Division of Kidney Disease and Hypertension. He has published numerous high-impact research papers, most recently the largest study to date linking the rate of acute kidney injury (AKI) in hospitalized COVID-19 patients which was published in Kidney International, the official journal of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN).
Check out some of these articles co-authored by some of our recent graduates: Sylvia Wu ‘21, Daniel Stalbow ‘21, Yuriy Khanin ‘19
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