Candace Tannis
Accepting New Patients
Mount Sinai Verified Doctors IconMount Sinai Doctors

Candace Tannis, MD, MPH

Public Health and General Preventive Medicine, Occupational Medicine

White Phone Icon888-702-0630
Calender Icon
Book an Appointment
White Right Arrow

About Me

Candace Tannis, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine and Climate Science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she completed her residencies in Occupational Medicine and Preventive Medicine. She is dual-board certified in Preventive Medicine/Public Health and Occupational Medicine and serves as the Residency Program Director for the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program at Mount Sinai.

Dr. Tannis holds a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, with a focus on community-based research methods and strategies, and is a graduate of Brown University. She has conducted research on risk factors and birth outcomes for mothers receiving home visit services, the impact of active design on health behaviors, and recently completed an analysis of health risk behaviors using NYC HANES data. In addition to her research, she practices clinically at the Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health.

Dr. Tannis teaches in the MPH program at Icahn Mount Sinai and was a 2019 NY/NJ ERC pilot project grant recipient. Her current research interests include occupational and environmental disparities and their impact on chronic health conditions.

Language
English
Position
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Environmental Medicine & Public Health
Hospital Affiliations
  • The Mount Sinai Hospital