Divisions
Medical subspecialties include:
- Allergy & Immunology
David Rosenstreich, MD, Division Head, Professor of Medicine
Research Interests: Genetic control and cellular basis of susceptibility to immunological and inflammatory disease. - Dermatology
Steven Cohen, MD, Division Head, Professor of Medicine
Research Interests: Psoriasis; occupational skin diseases.
- Endocrinology & Metabolism
Norman Fleischer MD, Division Head, Professor of Medicine
Research Interests: Biochemistry of polypeptide hormone secretion; autoimmune mechanisms in the etiology of diabetes; hypothalamic hormone action.
- Gastroenterology-Liver Disease-Nutrition
David Greenwald, MD, Interim Division Head, Professor of Medicine
- Geriatric Medicine
Amy Ehrlich, MD, Interim Division Head, Professor of Clinical Medicine
Research Interests: Urinary tract infections in the elderly.
- Hematology
Michael Stemerman, MD, Interim Division Head, Professor of Medicine - Hepatology
Alan Wolkoff, MD, Division Head, Professor of Medicine
- Infectious Disease
Liise-anne Pirofski, MD,Division Head, Professor of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interests: Mechanisms of virulence in fungal infections and development of antibody-based therapies.
- Nephrology
Thomas Hostetter, MD, Division Head, Professor of Medicine
Research Interests: Chronic Kidney Disease; Dialysis therapies.
- Oncology
Roman Perez-Soler, MD, Division Head, Professor of Medicine and Molecular Pharmacology
Research Interests: Lung cancer; Experimental cancer therapies.
- Pulmonary Disease
Simon D. Spivack, MD, MPH, Division Head, Associate Professor of Medicine
Research Interests: Early lung cancer detection; lung nodule evaluation; lung cancer prevention; interstitial lung disease; environmental lung disease; phytoprevention; gene expression and regulation; epigenetics.
- Rheumatology
Chaim Putterman, MD, Division Head, Professor of Medicine
Research Interests: Mechanisms of immunologic self-tolerance and autoimmune disease.
Clinical Expertise
In addition to high competence in all sub-specialties of Internal Medicine, the Department has special clinical expertise in the following areas:
- Gene therapy for arteriosclerotic coronary and peripheral vascular disease;
- Cardiac arrhythmias and prevention of sudden cardiac death;
- Novel approaches to the treatment of congestive heart failure;
- Diabetes education for patients;
- Care of the difficult diabetes patient;
- Special team approaches to the geriatric patient;
- Hospice end of life care;
- Care of sickle cell crisis and sickle cell chest syndrome;
- Care of patients with refractory asthma;
- Inflammatory bowel disease;
- Disorders of gastrointestinal motility;
- Special treatment for hepatitis c disease;
- Bowel disorders of the aged;
- Treatment of HIV disease;
- Treatment of tropical and parasitic diseases;
- Treatment of fungal diseases;
- Treatment of lupus erythematosis;
- Care of patients with end stage renal disease and patient with renal transplants.







