Jul 19, 2024
An often unrecognized and completely preventable chemical injury is alkali burn from wet cement. I recently published a case report and discussion on cement burns in Advances in Skin and Wound Care. Serious morbidity can occur from unrecognized cement burns, and...
Mar 18, 2024
Whenever I ask a group of doctors, “How many of you have had any training in care and treatment of chronic wounds?” it is the rare person who raises their hand. Despite the urgent need for medical doctors to know how to assess and treat pressure injuries and chronic...
Jan 25, 2024
I am delighted to announce my promotion to Clinical Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. I am honored and grateful to be part of the Mount Sinai Health System – one of the largest academic medical systems in...
Nov 12, 2023
This video presentation was delivered in March 2023 in the Winter Talk series sponsored by NYC Urban Sketchers, hosted by Mark Leibowitz. Here I discuss how I have integrated medicine with art, and art with medicine, in the course of my career as a medical...
Nov 5, 2023
I am thrilled that my chapter entitled Pressure Injury and Chronic Wounds was just published in a major new reference work. The textbook is entitled Geriatric Medicine: A Person Centered Evidence Based Approach and is available on Springerlink. My chapter is...
