Medicine Grand Rounds: Pharmacotherapeutic Approaches to Smoking Cessation - How Can We Help the Remaining Smokers Quit?
Einstein/Montefiore Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
Thursday, September 15, 2011
8:00 AM: 8:00 AM: Forchheimer 3rd Floor Lecture Hall, Einstein
Repeated @ 12:15 PM: Cherhasky Auditorium, Montefiore Medical Center
Speaker & Info
Shadi Nahvi, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
Division of Substance Abuse
Division of General Internal Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center
Dr. Shadi Nahvi is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine
and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Albert Einstein College of
Medicine. Her research focus is on tobacco control interventions among
vulnerable populations. Dr. Nahvi graduated from the Brown University
School of Medicine in 2001 and completed residency training in Primary Care
Internal Medicine at Bellevue Hospital and New York University Medical
Center in 2004. She then joined the faculty in the Albert Einstein College
of Medicine Division of Substance Abuse as the Medical Director of a
substance abuse treatment clinic. From 2006-2008, Dr. Nahvi completed a
faculty fellowship supported by the Bronx Center to Reduce and Eliminate
Ethnic and Racial Health Disparities, a NIH-funded health disparities
Center of Excellence. Through this fellowship, she completed the Einstein
Clinical Research Training Program and received a MS in Clinical Research
Methods.
Dr. Nahvi's research focuses on interventions to treat tobacco use, and
to optimize use of tobacco cessation treatment, among opiate dependent
patients in methadone maintenance treatment. Her work has been recognized
with a National Institutes of Health Disparities Research Loan Repayment
Award (2007-2010), an American Legacy Foundation Travel Scholarship to
Increase Diversity in Nicotine and Tobacco Research (2008), a Career
Development (KL2) Award from the Einstein-Montefiore Institute for Clinical
and Translational Research (2008-2010), and a Mentored Patient-Oriented
Research Career Development (K23) Award (2010-2015) and an Einstein Center
for AIDS Research Pilot Award (2011-2012). She is also co-investigator of
a New York State Department of Health-funded program to promote provider
smoking cessation training and smoking cessation program development
throughout the Bronx.
Accreditation: Albert Einstein College of Medicine designates this
educational activity for a maximum of 1 credit towards the AMA Physician's
Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that
he/she actually spent in the educational activity.