Join our experts for a Women’s Wellness Webinar as they discuss forms, treatment choices, and lifestyle choices for Diabetes.
This webinar was originally recorded on November 9, 2023. For more information or additional questions please email womenshealth@northwell.edu.
Featured Speakers:
Tobi Harris, MD, PhD
Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Long Island Jewish Medical Center and North Shore University Hospital, Northwell Health, Associate Professor, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
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Dr. Yael Tobi Harris serves as the Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism in the Department of Medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra-Northwell.
Dr. Harris received her medical degree from New York University School of Medicine and completed her residency training in Internal Medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. During her fellowship training in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at Northwell, she also obtained a PhD in Molecular Medicine investigating the nervous system control of insulin resistance with the goal of discovering novel ways to treat obesity and diabetes.
Dr. Harris is an investigator on grants funded by the NIH and PCORI. She is interested in finding ways to improve diabetes self-care. Two recent areas of research include examining the relationship between disease-beliefs and adherence to diabetes self-care activities in Breast cancer survivors with type 2 diabetes; and studying the impact of Telehealth on diabetes self-care and outcomes in Latinx patients with type 2 diabetes.
She also focuses on improving diabetes care in the hospital setting. She is the Co-Chair of Northwell’s Inpatient Diabetes Clinical Guidelines & Best Practices Workgroup, and works with colleagues to maintain Joint Commission Advanced Disease-Specific Care certification for Inpatient Diabetes.
Rifka Shulman-Rosenbaum, MD, FACE, FACP
Director of Inpatient Diabetes, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Division of Endocrinology, Northwell Health, Professor of Medicine, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
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Rifka Schulman-Rosenbaum, MD, FACE, FACP is the Director of Inpatient Diabetes at Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center, Northwell Health in New Hyde Park, NY, and a Professor of Medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.
Dr. Schulman-Rosenbaum received her medical degree from the SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, summa cum laude. She trained in internal medicine residency and chief resident at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, and with fellowship training in Endocrinology and Metabolism at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Dr. Schulman-Rosenbaum specializes in management of inpatient diabetes and inpatient endocrinology. For more than a decade she has run a busy inpatient endocrine service full time, including supervision of a multidisciplinary diabetes team as well as endocrine fellows and other trainees. Under her leadership LIJ Medical Center has maintained certification with the Joint Commission for Advanced Inpatient Diabetes since 2014. Dr. Schulman-Rosenbaum participates in or leads numerous hospital committees and workgroups. Her research focuses on areas relating to inpatient diabetes, including hyperglycemia due to COVID-19 and Diabetes screening in the emergency department. She was the recipient of The Salzman Award for Excellence in Quality for Northwell Health in 2019 and has been awarded Northwell Health Teacher of the Year for 2023.
Dr. Schulman-Rosenbaum is currently serving as the Chair of the Diabetes Disease State Network for the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE) and is the Vice Chair for the 2024 AACE annual meeting. She is the editor of a book in progress entitled “Diabetes Management in Hospitalized Patients: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide.” Dr. Schulman-Rosenbaum is also the Adult sub-group leader on an international work group sponsored by JDRF to formalize guidelines on monitoring of antibody positive, pre-stage 3 type 1 diabetes.