Mount Sinai Recruits HIV/AIDS Expert to be Director of Clinical Research for Infectious Disease

Newswise - Robert S. Klein, MD a HIV/AIDS expert has joined the faculty at Mount Sinai School of Medicine as Professor of Medicine and member of the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Disease Prevention Institute. Dr. Klein will be Director of Clinical Research of Infectious Disease in the Division of Infectious Disease at Mount Sinai. He will develop his own research program while mentoring junior clinical investigators within the Division of Infectious Disease.

"Dr. Klein is an outstanding clinician and will continue to practice HIV Medicine and general infectious diseases at Mount Sinai," said Dr. Mary E. Klotman, Chief of the Division of Infectious Disease at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. "We are very excited about the recruitment of Dr. Klein."

Dr. Klein joins Mount Sinai from Montefiore Medical Center, where he was an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Disease in the Department of Medicine. He was also a Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Epidemiology & Population Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Dr. Klein is a graduate of Columbia University and attended Harvard Medical School. He started his medical career as an intern in the Department of Medicine at The Mount Sinai Medical Center along with completing his residency as Senior and Chief Resident. Dr. Klein also completed a research and clinical Infectious Disease fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein of Medicine.

"It is great to be home at Mount Sinai where I started my medical career," said Dr. Klein. "I look forward to getting reacquainted with the institution and being a part of its future."

About The Mount Sinai Medical Center
The Mount Sinai Medical Center encompasses The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The Mount Sinai Hospital is one of the nation's oldest, largest and most-respected voluntary hospitals. Founded in 1852, Mount Sinai today is a 1,171-bed tertiary-care teaching facility that is internationally acclaimed for excellence in clinical care. Last year, nearly 50,000 people were treated at Mount Sinai as inpatients, and there were nearly 450,000 outpatient visits to the Medical Center.

Mount Sinai School of Medicine is internationally recognized as a leader in groundbreaking clinical and basic-science research, as well as having an innovative approach to medical education. With a faculty of more than 3,400 in 38 clinical and basic science departments and centers, Mount Sinai ranks among the top 20 medical schools in receipt of National Institute of Health (NIH) grants.

 

Source: Mount Sinai Medical Center

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