Research

Faculty and Residents engage in a variety of scholarly activities and special projects to improve health care delivery and contribute to the evidence base on family medicine approaches to better health outcomes and reduced health disparities. Examples of current projects are highlighted below.

To view our faculty and staff publications, visit our publications page.

• Community Health Needs Assessment, East and Central Harlem – A mixed methods cross sectional study exploring the knowledge, attitudes and practices related to health, health care, and health-related resources among the Institute’s Harlem patients and East and Central Harlem community members in order to develop a health profile, identify unmet health needs, and prioritize areas for intervention.
• Achieving Blood Pressure Control in ED Patients with Uncontrolled Hypertension – A pilot study to implement and evaluate strategies to connect patients who are treated in the Mount Sinai Emergency Department and are identified as having undiagnosed or poorly controlled hypertension, with an ongoing source of primary care.
• Impact of Establishing a Family Medicine Department and 3rd Year Clerkship on Medical Students’ Interest and Decision to Enter Family Medicine Residencies: A Longitudinal Assessment – A study to evaluate the impact of the new Family Medicine Department and third-year clerkship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai on medical students’ perceptions of and decisions to pursue family medicine. This is a mixed method study consisting of focus groups and a survey conducted annually.
• Creating and Evaluating a Primary Care EHR-based Model for Best Practices in Pain Management for an Underserved Population – The goal of this study is to create and evaluate an electronic health record (EHR)-based strategy that promotes best practices in pain management. The study will create a novel and generalizable EHR-based solution that will expand therapeutic options for pain management and promote the safe and effective use of opioid therapy when this approach is indicated.
• Genomic Medicine Pilot for Hypertension and Kidney Disease – A cluster randomized trial to examine whether genome-informed clinical decision support for chronic kidney disease (CKD) risk improves adherence to treatment and self-management guidelines in hypertensive patients of African ancestry, and whether it prevents or slows progression of CKD.
• Clinic-based vs. Home-based Support to Improve Care and Outcomes for High Risk Adult Asthmatics – This study compares the effectiveness of home-based vs. clinic-based care coordination and self-management support in improving asthma treatment and outcomes for older adult asthmatics from Latino and African-American communities. The two self-management support strategies are coupled with EHR-based clinician decision support to complete a 360 approach to improving asthma care and outcomes for older adults.