Montefiore | Strategic Alliance Partners

Findings from the aV1ation trial highlight the challenges of modern autism clinical research and outcomes of care.

A Montefiore residency director explains the impact of engaging with communities to improve mental health care capability.

Montefiore's Carol A. Bernstein, MD, discusses the role of psychiatry specialists in discerning their colleagues' need for mental health care or resolutions to burnout.

Amid significant psychotherapy innovation and consideration to broader aspects of mental illness definition, Jonathan Alpert, MD, PhD, emphasizes the need for improved clinical trial standards.

Montefiore psychiatry chair Jonathan Alpert, MD, PhD, discusses suggested updates to the DSM-5—with consideration to social determinants and patient-reported functioning.

Linda Chokroverty, MD, discusses the significance of timing, communication and care coordination when children are affected by disasters or trauma.

Linda Chokroverty, MD, discusses the role psychiatrists play in managing the mental health effects of disasters, and how children specifically may be impacted.

After conducting and extensive literary review on all eligible data regarding COVID-19 in patients with sickle cell disease or trait, experts discuss what is known and what needs to be better understood about the pandemic's effect on this population.

Investigators conducted an extensive literature review on clinical COVID-19 outcomes in patients with SCD or SCT to better navigate treatment during the pandemic.

Montefiore experts discuss the emphasis on education at their MFM-Cardiology care program.

An obstetrician-gynecologist and a cardiologist discuss the inception of their joint cardiovascular care program for expecting mothers.

For World Breastfeeding Week, a lactation consultant explains Montefiore's care team strategies and guidance to expecting and new mothers.

Since 2016, the health system has practiced a heart failure readmission reduction program that's improving patient quality of life.

About 21% to 74% of patients with AF will also have obstructive sleep apnea. What is one medical center doing to find these patients in their cardiology department?

A popularizing procedure among stroke centers was the basis of clinical research for the medical center, and is now improving in practice.

How surgeons' duties surround the entire invasive process, and therefore make them something closer to specialists.

The medical group’s primary care offices managed to reduce wasted patient minutes by 7.6% through efforts to streamline and shore up patient throughput.

Montefiore has made it a point to seek to improve the health of its patients in the classroom, the doctor’s office, and the community itself.

Between 3 and 9 months post-discharge, 36.9% of those aged 76+ years were prescribed an opioid, with a 5.0% incidence of long-term opioid use.

An assessment of the burden felt by caregivers of patients with cognitive impairment sought to identify a relationship between the level of burden and the level of impairment.

It sounds like a difficult conversation but it's well worth having. Tips from an MD.

As part of their overall health management, patients with diabetes are encouraged to undergo annual eye exams. While not all patients follow this direction, research is being done to better improve their eye health by working with their general practitioners.

Like many other areas of medicine cardiology is becoming a more specialized field. How to do that to provide better care for doctors is a common goal across medicine.

In a collaborative effort not seen in many other places and with only one year under their belts the staff at Montefiore Medical Center is looking to measure their success so far and see what they can do for the future.

Located in the Bronx, Montefiore Medical Center faces challenges different from many places, including other boroughs in New York City when it comes to heart disease in pregnancy.

When treating a woman for cardiac issues in pregnancy there can be potential risks to the fetus. As more is learned about these conditions doctors are better able to help deliver as healthy a baby as possible.

When treating a woman during pregnancy there are many factors that need to be considered, not the least of them being her cardiovascular health. At Montefiore Medical Center a team approach aims to help prevent fatal events during this delicate time in a patient's life.

Congenital heart disease may have the same name in adult and pediatric care but the two conditions can often require vastly different approaches in care. Despite that work in the field is being done to help patients of all age maintain a high quality of life.

As congenital heart patients transition from pediatric care to adult care there is a world of new challenges awaiting them. How they approach those challenges and how their doctors help them in that time can determine how they manage the condition in the future.

Treatment of adult congenital heart disease has improved by leaps and bounds in the past few decades but there is still much more work to be done. Areas of research like stem cells could be part of the future of treating this condition in the future.