Dr. Aina Mahmood

Julio Ramirez is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Bronx, New York. Dr. Ramirez is highly rated in 16 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Pneumonia, Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), and Strep Throat.

Paul Park is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Englewood, New Jersey. Dr. Park is highly rated in 10 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Kyphosis, Lordosis, Scoliosis, Spinal Fusion, and Laminectomy. Dr. Park is currently accepting new patients.

Kathryn Anastos, MD is a physician executive, clinician and medical researcher who for more than 20 years has provided both clinical care and operational and clinical leadership in the South Bronx.  She has extensive experience in innovative development of large programs designed to increase access to high quality, culturally sensitive care by poor communities of color, while meeting both a clinical and financial bottom line. She has served as executive director of several large systems of ambulatory care in the Bronx, and has provided leadership during design, construction and opening of new primary care clinics.  Clinically Dr. Anastos trained and actively practices as a primary care internist with expertise in the comprehensive care of HIV infected individuals and HIV infection in women. Dr. Anastos is highly rated in 5 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses HIV/AIDS, Atherosclerosis, Sepsis, Menopause, and Endoscopy.

John Bilezikian is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in New York, New York. Dr. Bilezikian is highly rated in 14 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Hypoparathyroidism, Milk-Alkali Syndrome, Hypercalcemia, Parathyroidectomy, and Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). Dr. Bilezikian is currently accepting new patients.

My research focuses on metabolic complications of HIV infection associated with aging, particularly among women. My current NIH K23 funded research investigates underlying mechanisms of bone loss and the relationship between disorders of bone and fat metabolism in HIV infection, in an effort to explain the high prevalence of premature bone disease in HIV-infected women in the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS), the largest and longest-running cohort study of HIV infection in women in the United States. I joined the Einstein faculty in 2013 to build on existing collaborations with expert HIV researchers, and more importantly, to develop new collaborations with scientific experts investigating aging, and conditions associated with aging that are prevalent in HIV-infected populations. I recently found that HIV-infected women had greater fracture incidence than uninfected women in WIHS, prompting an investigation into the prevalence and risks for falls in the WIHS. We found that 18% of HIV+ women reported at least one fall within 6 months, and that factors affecting cognition (such as subjective cognitive complaints and CNS active medications) were associated with greater falls risk. Among HIV-infected women age 50 or older, 1/3 reported having a fall annually, similar to the falls incidence in persons age 65 years in the general U.S. population. Additionally, I am conducting research on  visceral adiposity and age-related metabolic disorders among HIV-infected women, in  a project that utilizes two novel imaging techniques to quantify visceral adiposity and skeletal microarchitecture in aging HIV-infected and uninfected women, to assess the relationships between visceral adiposity and metabolic disorders associated with aging (osteoporosis, sarcopenia, and subclinical atherosclerosis) in HIV-infected women. Prior to joining Einstein faculty, I was awarded a grant to study factors associated with bone loss among women and men with and at-risk for HIV infection, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Physician Faculty Scholars Program, as well as an AIDS-Science Track Award for Research Transition (R03) by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, to study the role of insulin-like growth factor in the development of reduced bone mineral density in two large cohorts of drug using men and women with and at-risk for HIV infection. Additional areas of research interest includethe effects of regional adiposity and obesity on health in HIV-infected populations. Dr. Sharma is highly rated in 9 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses HIV/AIDS, Rett Syndrome, Menopause, Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), and Splenectomy. Dr. Sharma is currently accepting new patients.

Chang Lee is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Dr. Lee is highly rated in 60 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), High Cholesterol, Folate Deficiency, and Multiple Carboxylase Deficiency. Dr. Lee is currently accepting new patients.