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Education & Training
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Mount Sinai HospitalFellowship, Internal Medicine, 2014 - 2016- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiResidency, Public Health and General Preventive Medicine, 2012 - 2014
NYU Grossman School of MedicineResidency, Internal Medicine, 2009 - 2012
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple UniversityClass of 2009
Certifications & Licensure
CA State Medical License 2022 - 2026
NY State Medical License 2011 - 2023
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
American Board of Preventive Medicine Public Health & General Preventive Medicine
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Clinician perspectives on electronic health record behavioral alerts and hospital workplace violence prevention: A mixed methods study at 20 organizations.Himali Weerahandi, Marisha Burden, Zoë Kopp, Catherine Callister, Jamie Burke
Journal of Hospital Medicine. 2025-02-20 - 2 citationsIncorporating Anti-racist Principles Throughout the Research Lifecycle: A Position Statement from the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM).Christopher J Gonzalez, Sudarshan Krishnamurthy, Francois G Rollin, Sarah Siddiqui, Tracey L Henry
Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2024-08-01 - Measuring Equity in Readmission as an Assessment of Hospital Performance-Reply.Himali Weerahandi, Katherine A Nash, Susannah M Bernheim
JAMA. 2024-05-21
Journal Articles
- Hospitalizations for Chronic Disease and Acute Conditions in the Time of COVID-19Saul Blecker, Christopher M Petrilli, Himali Weerahandi, Fritz Francois, Leora I Horwitz, JAMA Internal Medicine
Abstracts/Posters
- Effect of an Electronic Alert on Treatment of Soft Tissue Skin Infections.• Weerahandi, H; Wang, J; Weiss, D; Lurio, J., ACPM Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA., 2/1/2014
- Developing and Implementing Resident-Run Prevention Clinic at the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center.Pena, J; Rajasekhar K; Weerahandi, H; Senay, E; Garland, E; Bordowitz, R., ACPM Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA., 2014
- Predictors of weight loss in an urban weight management programWeerahandi, H; Patterson, E; Ahn, A; Deza, C; Parikh, L; Pierre, G.C.; Gillespie, C; McMacken., SGIM Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 5/2012
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Press Mentions
- Coping with the “Long-Haul” of COVID-19: More Research, Treatments NeededMarch 2nd, 2021
Hospital Readmissions High for Heart Patients Hastily Sent Home from Skilled NursingApril 4th, 2019
Shorter Stays in a Skilled Nursing Facility Tied to Higher Risk for ReadmissionApril 3rd, 2019
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