Rubina A. Malik, MD | Montefiore Einstein

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Rubina A. Malik, MD, MS, is Program Director, Geriatrics Fellowship, Co-Director, Center for Aging Brain and Associate Professor, Medicine at Montefiore Einstein. Her clinical interests center on dementia, geriatric assessments and geriatric syndromes.

After obtaining her Bachelor of Science from the City University of New York at City College in 1990, Dr. Malik earned her Doctor of Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1992. She remained there to complete her internship and residency in internal medicine in 1995 before completing an ambulatory medicine and geriatric medicine fellowship in 1996. Dr. Malik then came to Einstein to complete an additional geriatric fellowship in 1999, followed by her Master of Science in Clinical Research Training in 2003.

Building on her clinical focus, Dr. Malik’s research interests include dementia, dementia care, cognitive screens and geriatric syndromes. She contributes to several funded research projects and her work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and review articles.

Dr. Malik is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and is board certified in Geriatric Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She is a member of the American Geriatrics Society, the American Medical Association and the American Medical Directors Association. Dr. Malik has been named in Castle Connolly’s “Top Doctors: New York Metro Area” and “Exceptional Women In Medicine” several times, and in New York Magazine’s Top Doctors.

Gender: Female