PROFESSOR | Population Health Science and Policy, PROFESSOR | Medicine, General Internal Medicine

Dr. Bickell is Director of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s NIMHD-funded Center to Achieve and Sustain Improved Health in Harlem designed to improve care in minority communities and Co-Director of the Center for Health Equity & Community Engaged Research. She currently is Principal Investigator of NCI and DoD-funded studies to assess and reduce disparities in breast, ovarian and prostate cancer treatment. A practicing primary care general internist in the Mount Sinai Diagnostic & Treatment Center, 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 MPH 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 includes: assessing causes of and creating interventions to reduce racial & ethnic disparities in care; improving the quality of care; implementation research; continuity and coordination of care; community engaged research, comparative effectiveness research and social determinants of health.