Division of General Internal
Medicine

Scott Sherman, MD, MPH; Associate Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry

Phone: 212-686-7500 x7386
E-mail: Scott.Sherman@med.nyu.edu

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After receiving his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine, Dr. Sherman completed a 3-year residency in Primary Care Internal Medicine at Bellevue Hospital Center/New York University Medical Center. He then completed a 2-year general internal medicine fellowship at Boston University, during which time he also received his Master of Public Health degree. Dr. Sherman is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and in Geriatric Medicine and is currently a Fellow of both the American College of Physicians and the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare.

Dr. Sherman began working for the Veterans Health Administration (VA) in Los Angeles in 1991. He joined the faculty at UCLA at the same time, rising to the rank of Professor of Medicine. In September, 2005, he transferred to the VA New York Harbor Healthcare System in Manhattan and is currently Associate Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine.

Dr. Sherman has been Principal Investigator on 7 smoking cessation grants in the last 5 years, with funding from the Veterans Health Administration, the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, and the American Legacy Foundation. His current studies examine how to get providers and medical centers to adopt tobacco control practices that have been shown to be efficacious. From 2002-2006, he was Chair of the VA’s Smoking and Tobacco Use Cessation Technical Advisory Group, which is charged with helping the VA to set national policies and practices for smoking cessation. In this role, he helped the VA take an evidence-based approach to policy decisions and was Co-Chair of the Panel that wrote the 2003 VA/Department of Defense Clinical Practice Guidelines on Management of Tobacco Use.

Since February 2008, Dr. Sherman has been Interim Chief of the Section of Geriatric Medicine. His geriatric interest focuses on healthy aging, examining what interventions keep elderly individuals healthy from a medical and psychiatric perspective. He is also interested in linking geriatric training to improved clinical outcomes such as better functioning or a reduction in falls.

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