Geriatric Medicine Fellowship

This Geriatric Medicine Fellowship training program is conducted jointly by New York Hospital Queens (NYHQ) and The Silvercrest Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation . The Medical Center is affiliated with Weill Medical College of Cornell University of New York.  This one-year program accommodates three (3) fellows each year starting in July and ending in June.

Clinical training and didactic sessions are integrated into a cohesive schedule that rotates monthly among “inpatient”, “ambulatory”, and “skilled nursing” schedules. In addition to clinical education, is didactic teaching in the form of conferences, lectures, and case presentations.  Each fellow spends a significant amount of time reading and presenting at conferences and meetings.  Fellows participate in the education of medical residents and students.

The most outstanding attribute of the NYHQ-Silvercrest Geriatrics training program is the breadth and diversity of it's educational experiences, training sites, and faculty.  The program will offer substantial experiences with dedicated preceptors in multiple clinical settings that span the continuum of care for the elderly:  acute hospital, skilled nursing facility, outpatient practice, adult day health and the patient’s home, as well as hospice care, (true "systems-based" practice).  All settings are geographically convenient, yet set in ethnically distinct communities.  The principal teaching hospital is one of the largest (439 bed) voluntary health care institutions in an ethnically diverse borough of over 2 million people.  It is a level-1 trauma center with a staff of over 1200 full-time and voluntary physicians, dentists and podiatrists. 

Supported by full-time faculty and offering a strong administrative medicine component, the skilled nursing experience distinguishes this Geriatrics fellowship from most.  The particularly strong nursing home experience will include:  rehabilitation; multiple geriatric teams; ventilator-dependent care (across the continuum of acute and long-term care); ethics; palliative/end-of-life care; and performance improvement (quality assurance).

Key Faculty

Program Director:	Zheng-Bo Huang, MD
In-patient, NYHQ	Zheng-Bo Huang, MD
Nursing Home Care (Silvercrest)	Aung Ze Ya, MD Daniel Russo, MD Lev Yagudayev, MD
Out-patient	Ion Oltean, MD (Primary Care & Geriatric Assessment) Gregory Shattenfeld, MD (Primary Care & Geriatric Assessment) Gary Zagon, MD (Rheumatology)
Hospice	Cynthia Pan, MD