About Us
At the heart of our mission is a deep commitment to delivering exceptional inpatient care—rooted in clinical excellence, collaboration, continuous learning, and innovation. We strive to provide equitable, compassionate, and patient-centered care to every individual, every day.
Our distinguished team of approximately 100 academic faculty members provides expert inpatient care across two premier campuses— NYP Weill Cornell Medical Center and NYP Lower Manhattan Hospital.
Together, we care for approximately 350 inpatients daily, working alongside internal medicine residents, physician assistants, and consult services for general medicine and surgical subspecialty co-management.
Our hospitalists are highly trained internal medicine physicians dedicated to treating acutely ill patients in the hospital setting. Many of our faculty have pursued advanced fellowship training in specialties such as: infectious diseases, oncology, nephrology, addiction medicine, geriatrics & palliative care, and medical ethics.
Additionally, several of our faculty have served as chief residents, reflecting their leadership and expertise in academic medicine.
Beyond clinical care, our hospitalists are pioneers in medical education, healthcare quality, and research. Many have pursued advanced degrees, including:
Master of Public Health (MPH)
Master of Science (MSc)
Master of Health Professions Education (MHPE)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Sociology & Health Professions Education
We take pride in shaping the future of medicine, serving as course directors and mentors in undergraduate and graduate medical education, as well as holding key institutional leadership roles. Our faculty’s research contributions are widely recognized, with multiple NIH K and R01 awards, foundation grants, and over 659 publications since 1996.
At the forefront of innovation, education, and compassionate care, we are dedicated to making a lasting impact on our patients, our trainees, and the field of medicine.
Hospital Medicine Leadership
Chief of Hospital Medicine
Associate Chief
Assistant Chief
Assistant Chief
Assistant Chief for Education
Site Director at Lower Manhattan Hospital
Assistant Chief of Hospital Medicine
Site Director at Lower Manhattan Hospital
Assistant Chief of Hospital Medicine
Incoming Site Director at Lower Manhattan Hospital
Assistant Chief of Hospital Medicine
Incoming Assistant Site Director at Lower Manhattan Hospital
Clinical Care
Clinical care services at the NYP Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Clinical care services at the Lower Manhattan location.
Every day, 365 days per year, 24 hours per day, our faculty provides care for approximately 350 patients per day across two hospitals. Since several of our hospitalists have specialty training (17 with specialty boards), some hospitalists are also providing consultation in medical ethics, nephrology, infectious diseases, addiction medicine, geriatrics, diagnostic ultrasound, and bedside procedures.
The majority of our service is comprised of patients on the general medicine service, where we either supervise internal medicine residents or collaborate with physician assistants (PAs). Our night hospitalists work with PAs caring for patients admitted to the General Medicine and Leukemia, Lymphoma, and Bone Marrow Transplant services. We consult and co-manage patients on the Medical Orthopedics Co-Management service at Weill Cornell Medicine, the Surgical Co-Management service at LMH, and medical consultation for behavioral health inpatients at the Westchester Behavioral Health Center. Our hospitalists run a Diagnostic Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) with Bedside Procedure service and addiction medicine consult service. Several hospitalists also work on subspecialty consultative services such as clinical ethics, infectious disease, and nephrology.
Career Opportunities
We are recruiting academic hospitalists—those just finishing residency or fellowship, as well as early-career and mid-career hospitalists— for both full-time or part-time positions. Traditionally, our recruitment season begins in the late summer and early fall of each academic year (August/September). Detailed information about our program, expectations, along with specifics on the application process is available here.
We expect our academic hospitalist faculty to not only provide exceptional patient care but engage in leadership and scholarship in their areas of interests spanning medical education, quality improvement, research, informatics, ethics, addiction medicine, health equity, health services, among other topics. We pride ourselves on faculty members’ robust participation in Hospital Medicine’s culture of collegial support and professionalism.
We offer the following faculty development and training programs:
Clinical Scholars Program
Dr. Arthur Evans
Co-Director
Dr. Alice Tang
Co-Director
One-year professional development program for new and early faculty, to develop essential academic skills and jumpstart a successful career as an academic hospitalist. This program provides intensive mentorship and skills training in medical education, bedside teaching, POCUS, medical ethics, quality improvement methodology, evidence-based decision making, and leadership. It also provides academic mentorship for development of scholarship. A detailed description is available here.
POCUS Fellowship
Dr. Tanping Wong
Fellowship Director
One-year program to gain expertise in diagnostic point of care ultrasound (POCUS), ultrasound-guided bedside procedures, teaching, and program management. Approximately 50% of time spent as hospitalist attending and 50% spent as a fellow for POCUS training and mentorship of academic project. The goal is to prepare for a POCUS-related leadership role in academic medical centers. More information and a link to the application available here.
Addiction Medicine Fellowship
Dr. Amanda Ramsdell
Fellowship Director
One-year program, usually spread over two years, with approximately 50% of time spent as hospitalist attending and 50% in fellowship training (in partnership with Department of Psychiatry), with the goal to join a successful group of our faculty who combine a career in hospital medicine with inpatient consultation and outpatient addiction medicine clinical care. Most appropriate for faculty with a few years of experience as an academic hospitalist.
Hospital Medicine Medical Ethics
Dr. Ezra Gabbay
Director
The Hospital Medicine Section faculty has longstanding, robust collaboration with the Weill Cornell Division of Medical Ethics. Several hospital medicine faculty have trained and served as clinical ethics consultants, drawing upon their unique perspectives on clinical care, medical education and the psycho-social determinants of health. Hospital medicine faculty also serve as site directors for Ethics at NYP- LMH and Brooklyn Methodist Hospital.
Hospitalists at Weill Cornell are also involved in ethics education, serving as faculty in several ethics courses including the Essential Principles of Medicine, Health, Illness and Disease, and Advanced Clinical Ethics courses.
The collaboration between hospital medicine and ethics has produced an extraordinary body of scholarship, with peer reviewed publications encompassing clinical ethics, medical humanities, religion and medicine, history of medicine, and other disciplines.
Simulation in Medical Education
Faculty: Dr. Sydney Katz
22 week program, usually spread over two years, most appropriate for experienced faculty, who seek skill development in medical education research and aspire to leadership roles in medical education. More information available here.
Research Fellowships
Director: Drs. Margaret (Molly) McNairy and Monika Safford
The Division of General Internal Medicine provides hospitalists with mutliple opportunities for research mentorship and training. Our two most common pathways are the Cornell Hunter Health Equity Research Fellowship and the Cornell Global Health Research Fellowship. Each fellowship is two to three year post-doctoral training for researchers in primary care, inpatient care, and global health designed for physicians to become independently research funded. Themes of the fellowship are research in health services, health equity, and global health. Typically, physicians spend around 20% with clinical time 80% research.
Additional Faculty Development Programs
Training programs to be expert coaches or expert group peer-mentoring. Available to faculty with at least 2 years of experience.
- Master Coach Program: a one-year faculty development program aimed to train faculty as coaches: to champion growth mindset and deliberate practice in Academic Medicine through coaching. Participants hone their coaching skills through engaging with the coaching community during a longitudinal skills development curriculum and peer coaching in the clinical environment.
- Group Peer Mentoring Program: a novel faculty development strategy. Small groups of 8-12 faculty meet four times a year for full day long workshops with trained facilitators, and complete assignments with peer mentors on topics between each session. Topics include: reflection on values, strengths, career vision, and legacy, design thinking, long and short-term goal-setting and planning, personal-professional integration, mentoring frameworks and skills, and leadership training.
We have 14 hospitalists with extramural funding for research, with research activities that include NIH career development awards (K awards), clinical trials, epidemiologic cohorts, and implementation science studies. Our faculty also lead domestic and international research training and capacity grants. Please learn more about our recent publications.
Education
Our hospitalists teach 400 medical students each year and lead many of the foundational courses in medical school (Patient Care and Physicianship, Transition to Clerkships, Medicine Clerkship, Transition to Residency; Medicine Sub-Internship; Epidemiology/Biostatistics/EBM; Healthcare Policy; and several clinical and academic electives). Hospitalists also occupy administrative leadership roles in the medical school, including associate dean, assistant dean, director of clinical skills lab, and co-director of The Office of International Medical Student Education Program.
Our hospitalists teach 120 medicine residents each year and serve in the following leadership roles: four hospitalists are APDs, seven other hospitalists are advisors or core faculty who lead curriculum for PGY1, PGY2, and PGY3 classes; compassionate care curriculum; QI curriculum; EBM curriculum; medical education curriculum; POCUS curriculum. All residents spend at least three months on a General Medicine Inpatient Medicine team with a hospitalist attending.
Our hospitalists also lead and teach over 8 faculty development or fellowship programs, such as Clinical Informatics and Quality and Patient Safety focused on advanced academic skills, POCUS, addiction medicine, medical ethics, quality improvement, simulation, and research. Additionally, we have Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion program to promote cultural diversity among the faculty, fellows, and house staff. There are 24 hospitalists who have additional advanced degrees—Masters, PhD, or MBA—and 21 (including four CMR from incoming cohort) who were chief medical residents.