Juan Wisnivesky
Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System
Juan Pablo Wisnivesky, MD, DrPH, is the Drs. Richard and Mortimer Bader Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Wisnivesky is a health services
investigator with a research interest in chronic pulmonary disease self-management, lung cancer outcomes, and disparities in care. He received his MPH and DrPH in Biostatistics at The Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and his MD at the University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine in Argentina.
Dr. Wisnivesky has received multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health to support his research and he directs a federally funded Cancer Prevention and Control Training Program focused on underserved priority populations. He has published several manuscripts addressing issues related to lung cancer epidemiology, asthma, COPD, and more recently regarding the post-acute complications of COVID-19 infection. More recently, he has been directly involved in the institutional efforts to understand the long-term consequences of COVID-19 infection and is leading the Mount Sinai COVID-19 Registry. He is also one of the principal investigators for the Mount Sinai site of RECOVER, a NIH-funded initiative to learn about the long-term effects of COVID-19.
Dr. Wisnivesky is an active faculty in the American Thoracic Society’s MECOR Program and was appointed to the Coordinating Committee for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute National Asthma Education and Prevention Program. He is also Chair of the Health Equality Committee of the American Thoracic Society and a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
