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Betty Kolod
Elizabeth "Betty" Kolod, MD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai - Resident Physician in General Preventive Medicine
James J. Peters VA Medical Center - Resident Physician in General Preventive Medicine
Email: Betty.Kolod@mssm.edu
Education
MD, State University of New York Downstate College of Medicine
MA, Chemistry, Wesleyan University
BA, Chemistry, Wesleyan University
Research Interests
Patient and community engagement, Accessible substance use disorder and HCV treatment, Tobacco control in primary care
BIO
Betty Kolod is an internist and preventive medicine resident at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS). She trained in the Primary Care and Social Internal Medicine Residency Program at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She provides primary care and HCV treatment for people with substance use disorders at the REACH program at Mount Sinai, in addition to smoking cessation care at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center in the Bronx. She has collaborated on studies of peer outreach worker-mediated engagement of women living with HIV, and HCV risk and treatment in people who inject drugs. Dr. Kolod is active in physician advocacy and organizing, with an emphasis on community-leadership and collaboration.
Publications

Recent

Dunham K, Giardina M, Kolod B, McBratney E, Medina Blanco P, Riazi F, Tineo-Komatsu K, Toribio W, Wang L, Woods E, Weiss J (2021).
Transitioning clinical care for people who use drugs to telemedicine: Lessons learned one year into the COVID-19 pandemic
Telemedicine and e-Health, 27 (8), 929-933. doi: 10.1089/tmj.2021.0130.

Pawloski KR, Kolod B, Khan RF, Midya V, Chen T, Oduwole A, Camins B, Colicino E, Leitman IM, Nabeel I, Oliver K, Valvi D (2021).
Factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection in physician trainees in New York City during the first COVID-19 wave
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 (10), 5274. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18105274. PMCID: PMC8156350.

Selected Press