Meet our team.
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Ms. Benjamin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New York City with over 10 years of experience at Mount Sinai Medical Center working with families and children. She received her B.A. and B.S. summa cum laude from Northwestern University and her Master’s Degree in Social Work from New York University. In addition to serving as the Program Director at the Mount Sinai Parenting Center, she is on faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health. She is certified in parent management training from the Yale Parenting Center and is a trained facilitator of Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs.
Dr. Escalera is a Program and Operations manager with 10 years of experience designing and running large scale clinical research programs within academic, medical, and non-profit settings. Dr. Escalera received her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from Pace University and PhD in Pharmacology from Yale University. Dr. Escalera has a deep commitment to supporting the daily operations and designing programs for organizations that use research to promote the quality of life and healthcare for populations in need.
Dr. Blair Hammond is a board certified pediatrician who is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Mount Sinai. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Dartmouth College where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She also completed her medical training at Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center and was elected into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Society. She pursued a residency training in Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and received the Clinician-Educator Award. Dr. Hammond completed a medical education fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and was the Pediatric Clerkship and Sub-Internship Course Director from 2006-2017. In 2008, Dr. Hammond founded the General Pediatrics Faculty Practice where she still practices today. In 2010, she was awarded the Mount Sinai Excellence in Teaching Award. Dr. Hammond is now the Co-Founding Director and Director of Medical Education for the Mount Sinai Parenting Center. Dr. Hammond continues to be involved in medical student and resident education in addition to her general pediatric practice. She lives with her husband and 3 children in Westchester.
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Dr. Mogilner is a pediatrician in the Division of General Pediatrics at Mount Sinai. She started Reach Out and Read at Mount Sinai, an early childhood literacy program based in the pediatric outpatient department, in 1998. She is the director of ROR at Mount Sinai and oversees the program, which distributes over 12,000 books per year to patients, teaches parents about the importance of early childhood literacy, and provides volunteer readers in the waiting room. She has conducted research looking at the impact of literacy programs on early childhood language development. She is also involved in the Family Friends Program, an intergenerational program providing senior citizen volunteers to families at risk. She has been on the Board of Directors of the Reach Out and Read Coalition of New York since 1999 and is on the Board of the Mount Sinai Children's Center Foundation.
Dr. Myint serves on the American Academy of Child and Adolescent (AACAP) Training and Education Committee and co-leads the AACAP Alliance for Learning and Innovation (AALI). His clinical work includes working with sexual and gender minorities, and supervising fellows, residents, and medical students in various clinical settings including Children’s Hospital New Orleans, CrescentCare Community Health Center, and Veterans Health Care System. He is active in advocacy efforts through multiple local and national professional organizations including Louisiana State Medical Society, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Psychiatric Association, and American Medical Association.
Dr. Nguyen received her bachelors in History and Science from Harvard University, medical degree from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, and completed her Pediatric Residency at the Tufts Floating Hospital for Children in Boston, MA. She stayed on as Chief Resident of her class. Afterwards she served in private practice for a large multi-specialty group in the Seattle area before joining the University. She is board-certified in General Pediatrics and currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Utah, Department of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics. She is currently working at the University Pediatric Clinic and in the Child Development Program the University Developmental Clinics. Her specific clinical interests are in developmental disorders as well as child development, healthy families, lifestyles, diversity and access, obesity, medical education, and safety in medical systems.
Dr. Quinn received her undergraduate degree in Science-Business from the University of Notre Dame and her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Quinn completed her residency in Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center in the Boston Combined Residency Program in 2004. She is a board certified pediatrician and worked in private practice for six years prior to joining the Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2012.
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Dr. Sharif's research has focused on reducing disparities in care for under-served children and families. Specific areas of inquiry have included child literacy promotion, child and parental health literacy, effects of child media exposure, childhood asthma and obesity, and testing models to improve access to care. Nationally, She serves as Network Director for CORNET, The Continuity Research Network of the Academic Pediatric Association - a 143+ national practice based research network of pediatric primary care practices that train residents.
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