Overview
| Specialty | Internal Medicine |
|---|---|
| Clinical Interests | Women's Health |
| Internal Medicine | |
| Preventive Health Care | |
| Languages | English |
| Spanish | |
| Hebrew | |
| Gender | Female |
| nina.bickell@mountsinai.org | |
| Education and Training | MD, New York Medical College |
| Residency, Internal Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center | |
| Fellowship, Internal Medicine, North Carolina Memorial Hospital | |
| Awards | NYC Mayor's Certificate of Appreciation |
Nina A. Bickell, M.D., M.P.H. is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Health Policy and Medicine.
Dr. Bickell is a practicing primary care general internist in the Mount Sinai Division of General Medicine. She completed a primary care internal medicine residency at Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center in the Bronx, NY, a preventive medicine residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she received her M.P.H. in epidemiology, and a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars fellowship at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to academic appointments, Dr. Bickell served as a senior clinical research scientist at the NYS Department of Health in the Office of Quality Improvement.
Dr. Bickell's research focuses on the effect of patient characteristics including race, gender, insurance, experiences, attitudes and beliefs, on access to care and clinical outcomes, as well as the influence of physicians' practice styles, attitudes, beliefs, and organizational characteristics on the quality and timeliness of care. Additional research interests include: assessing and improving the quality of care; reducing racial and ethnic disparities in care; community based participatory research; women's health and gender-related issues; access to care for vulnerable populations; determinants and effects of continuity and coordination of care.
Dr. Bickell is the Principal Investigator of studies funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Cancer Institute to reduce racial disparities in and underuse of effective treatments for breast cancer using a physician-centered registry and tracking intervention, and a community-based patient-centered intervention. She is also involved in a regional American Cancer Society funded study to determine factors affecting vulnerable patients' receipt of effective treatment for colorectal cancer.
Dr. Bickell is the PI of AHRQ-funded studies assessing variability in time to surgery for time-sensitive conditions as well as an assessment of the impact of emergency department staffing on time to care for patients with time-sensitive conditions. Her past research has included studies of causes of therapeutic underuse; determining the ways in which care is coordinated for breast cancer, a condition treated by multiple specialists in the outpatient setting; studies of volume-outcome relationships and the effect of barriers (e.g., language, incarceration) on patient care.
Nina A. Bickell, MD, MPH is an associate professor in the Departments of Health Policy and Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She is a board-certified internist and practices primary care medicine in East Harlem. She received her undergraduate degree from the 6 year biomedical program at City College of New York and her MD from New York Medical College. After completing a Primary Care Residency program, Dr. Bickell attended the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received a masters in public health. Her research interests focus on access to care for vulnerable populations, racial & ethnic disparities in health care, understanding the causes of poor quality care and designing approaches to improve the quality of care. Since her tenure as a senior research scientist at the New York State Department of Health, Dr. Bickell has been studying the quality of breast cancer care. She is currently directing interventions to reduce underuse of early-stage breast cancer treatments in minority communities.
