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Sanjai Sinha, MD Clinical Review Board and Medical Contributor

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Highlights

  • Board-certified physician specializing in internal medicine

  • Associate professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian Hospital

  • Trainer of young doctors to help them communicate effectively, be empathic, and practice shared decision-making with their patients

Experience

Sanjai Sinha, MD, is a board-certified physician with over 20 years of experience. He specializes in internal medicine. Dr. Sinha is an associate professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. He has taught medical students and residents from Cornell, Mount Sinai, and Columbia in internal medicine, which encompasses preventive care, acute care, and chronic disease management. Previously, Dr. Sinha served as the director of the care management program at Weill Cornell as well as the primary care chief at the Hudson Valley Department of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Sinha has published many peer-reviewed articles, and he has authored and edited hundreds of easy-to-understand online patient education materials on hypertension, high cholesterol, and diabetes at Cornell.He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the Society of General Internal Medicine.

Education

Dr. Sinha completed his undergraduate training at the University of California, Berkeley and earned his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. He completed his internal medicine residency at the New York University School of Medicine.