Silvia Amesty
Silvia Amesty is a research fellow at the Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies (CUES) at the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM). Concurrently, she is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Population and Family Health at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Center for Family and Community Medicine and Mailman School of Public Health, and an attending physician at the New York Presbyterian Hospital. She was educated at the University of Pennsylvania (BA, MSEd), Temple University (MD), and Columbia University (MPH). She is a board certified Family Medicine physician, and received residency training at Beth Israel Medical Center/The Institute for Urban Family Health in New York City.
Dr. Amesty has been working as a clinician in the Latino community for several years; after recently completing her fellowship training in academic family medicine and working on a number of small privately funded projects at the Columbia University Center for Family Medicine, she became part of the NIH/NCMHD funded Columbia University Center for the Health of Urban Minorities (CHUM) as one of the co-investigators of the CHUM Community Core. She has gained extensive experience assisting community based organizations in conducting research activities, and has developed close ties with community organizations in New York City (Northern Manhattan) and Costa Rica. She recently received a NIH/NIDA diversity supplement to work as a research fellow at CUES, where she is designing and evaluating a program for hepatitis B prevention and vaccination at the storefront/mobile van recruitment sites for drug users participating in a research project, and studying vaccine acceptability in these settings.
Dr. Amesty has a special interest in health disparities as a human rights issue, and has received training in health and human rights at Harvard School of Public Health/Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights. She has worked on topics such as providing HIV services to difficult to reach populations (in the U.S. and Central America) in primary care settings. She was the recipient of a 2005 Fulbright Lecture-Research Award to the University of Costa Rica, School of Public Health, where she was Visiting Professor and taught special graduate and faculty development courses at the Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health.
Dr. Amesty also teaches family medicine residents and medical students at Columbia University Medical Center and provides clinical services at the Young Men’s Clinic, New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Contact information: (212) 822-7383, samesty@nyam.org
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