Overview
| Specialty | Internal Medicine |
|---|---|
| Clinical Interests | Adult Diabetes |
| Adult Medicine | |
| Ambulatory Care | |
| Hypertension | |
| Languages | English |
| Spanish | |
| Gender | Female |
| carol.horowitz@mountsinai.org | |
| Education and Training | MD, Cornell University Medical College |
| Residency, Internal Medicine, Albert Einstein College Hospital | |
| Residency, Internal Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine | |
| Awards | Dean's Award merit in independent research Cornell University |
| Mayoral Award Outstanding Community Service Ithaca, New York |
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| Haas Fellowship Independent Research Cornell University Medical College |
Carol R. Horowitz, M.D., M.P.H., is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Health Policy and Medicine. Dr. Horowitz's research interests include: cross-cultural health care, quality of care for underserved and ethnically diverse populations, patient-physician communication, changing physician behavior, and improving health outcomes through patient education and patient self-management, medical anthropology and multi-method (qualitative and quantitative) research. Specific clinical research topics of interest include general internal medicine, primary care, congestive heart failure, adult-onset diabetes, community-acquired pneumonia, and prostate cancer. Dr. Horowitz is the Principal Investigator of the East Harlem Diabetes Center of Excellence funded by the New York State Department of Health. The Center aims to develop simple, sustainable interventions to improve diabetes care and patient-centered outcomes in East Harlem. She is also principal investigator of a study assessing patient knowledge, attitudes and behaviors about congestive heart failure, and of a study to improve quality of care for hospitalized pneumonia patients while educating them about how to care for their illness after discharge. She is funded by the Health Care Financing Administration to work with the Medicare Policy Institute to explore interventions that aim to decrease racial and ethnic disparities in health care. She is a practicing general internist/primary care provider in the Mount Sinai Internal Medicine Associates clinic. She received her M.D. from Cornell University in New York City, completed a primary care internal medicine residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, and a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Fellowship, receiving an M.P.H as well, at the University of Washington in Seattle.
