 Jeffrey I. Mechanick, MD
Clinical Professor,
Department of Medicine
The Mount Sinai Medical Center
New York, NY 10029
212-831-2100Dr. Jeffrey I. Mechanick is Director of Metabolic Support, Clinical Professor of Medicine, and on the voluntary attending staff of the Mount Sinai Medical Center in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease.
Dr. Mechanick is frequently consulted by the cardiac surgeons and intensivists of the Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center at The Mount Sinai Hospital to optimize control of blood sugar. Recent scientific studies have demonstrated that in diabetic, and even nondiabetic patients, optimal control of blood sugar, especially after heart surgery in the intensive care unit, is associated with improved outcome. At Mount Sinai, heart surgery patients are routinely managed with a safe, state-of-the-art protocol to optimally control blood sugar and nutritional status. In addition, Dr. Mechanick may be consulted when there are specific endocrine (hormonal), metabolic, or nutritional problems with heart surgery patients. Nutritional support is a very important component of the routine postoperative care of heart surgery patients at Mount Sinai.
Dr. Mechanick is board-certified in endocrinology, metabolism and diabetes as well as nutrition. He received his M.D. degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1985. He then completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas in 1988. He then returned to Mount Sinai to complete his fellowship training in Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition in 1990. Dr. Mechanick continues to care for many patients with endocrine, diabetes, and nutritional disorders as inpatients in Mount Sinai as well as outpatients in his private office at 1192 Park Avenue.
Dr. Mechanick trains physicians in endocrinology, nutrition, and metabolic support and has authored over 180 scientific publications and written or edited 5 books. His research interests are in the fields of nutrition and metabolic support, critical illness, and stress hyperglycemia, as well as other general endocrinology topics. He is section editor for “Nutrition and the ICU” in Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care and “Obesity and Nutrition” in Current Opinion in Endocrinology and Diabetes. Dr. Mechanick is an Officer on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) and in 2011, was appointed to the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition – Science Board. Dr. Mechanick is a Past President of the American Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists and the 2011 recipient of the University of Maryland “Health Industry Impact Award.” Dr. Mechanick lectures nationally and internationally in endocrinology, nutrition, and metabolic support.
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