Overview

Fahmida Islam, MD, MS, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center and cares for hospitalized children and adolescents in the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian. Her research focus is on health equity and family centered care. She received her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine before completing her Pediatrics residency at NYP-Columbia, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital. She completed her fellowship in Pediatric Hospital Medicine at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore, during which time she also completed her master's degree in clinical research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr Islam is both a board-certified pediatrician and a board-certified hospital medicine physician. She is passionate about providing excellent evidence-based clinical care, educating students and physicians in training, and using quality improvement research to improve the lives of hospitalized children and their families.

Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 10 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years.

Graduate Institution

Albert Einstein College Of Medicine, 2016

Residency

NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Specialties

Pediatrics

Licenses

Pediatrics in NJ

Board Certifications

Pediatrics
Pediatric Hospital Medicine

Fellowships

Montefiore Medical Center

Languages Spoken

English

Gender

Female

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Locations

CUIMC/NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
3959 Broadway, New York, NY 10032

Clinical Research

Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.


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