Albert Siu

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Albert Siu
Born
Havana, Cuba
Citizenship American
Alma mater University of California at Berkeley, Yale, University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine
Scientific career
Fields internal medicine, geriatrics palliative care
Institutions Mount Sinai Hospital, James J. Peters VA Medical Center

Albert Siu is a Cuban American internist and geriatrician and the Ellen and Howard C. Katz Chairman and Professor of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. He is also the director of the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center in The Bronx, a senior associate editor of Health Services Research, a senior fellow of the Brookdale Foundation and a former trustee of the Nathan Cummings Foundation. [1] [2]

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Siu is the author of 9 book chapters and more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. He has co-authored 50 publications for the United States Preventive Services Task Force. [3] His department at Mount Sinai treats nearly 5,000 elderly patients a year [4] and houses a number of programs including the Martha Stewart Center for Living, [5] the Hertszberg Palliative Care Institute, [6] the National Palliative Care Research Center, the Medicare Innovations Collaborative and the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors. The department partnerships include the James J. Peters VA Medical Center in the Bronx and the Long Island Jewish Home.

Biography

Siu was born in Havana, Cuba, of Chinese Cuban descent. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in biochemistry in 1976. He earned his medical degree from Yale School of Medicine in 1980 and completed a master's degree in public health at UCLA School of Medicine in 1986.

After completing a residency in internal medicine at UCLA in 1983, Siu remained there as assistant professor of medicine, with a joint appointment as health services researcher for the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, where he was the author of 20 monographs. [7] [8]

Siu served as chief of the Division of Geriatric Medicine at UCLA from 1989 until 1993, when he was named deputy commissioner in the New York State Department of Health. Concurrently, from 1994 to 1995, Siu was associate professor of health policy and management at the University of Albany School of Public Health. In 1995 Siu was named professor of health policy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. In 1998 he was named Mount Sinai's Clifford Spingarn, MD Professor of Medicine and chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and medical director of the Primary Care and Medical Services Care Center. In 2003 he was named the Ellen and Howard Katz Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. [9] [10]

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References

  1. ↑ Mount Sinai Hospital – Doctor profile
  2. ↑ "Alumni Notes". Yale Medicine. Yale University. Spring 2003. Archived from the original on July 24, 2010. Retrieved January 20, 2010.
  3. ↑ Modern Healthcare
  4. ↑ Katie Charles (May 28, 2009). "For baby boomers, geriatric medicine can help put a glow in those golden years". New York Daily News. Retrieved January 20, 2010.
  5. ↑ Gordon, Amanda (8 October 2007). "Martha Stewart Center for Living Does a Mother Proud". The New York Sun. New York. Retrieved January 20, 2010.
  6. ↑ "About the National Palliative Care Research Center". Archived from the original on 19 January 2010. Retrieved 20 January 2010.
  7. ↑ RAND Corporation
  8. ↑ "Study of U.S. Hospitals Calls 40% of Admissions Avoidable". The New York Times. November 14, 1986. Retrieved January 20, 2010.
  9. ↑ "NIH Announces New Members of the Aging Institute's Advisory Panel". National Institutes of Health. February 17, 2005. Archived from the original on June 14, 2009. Retrieved January 20, 2010.
  10. ↑ The Brookdale Foundation Group
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