David C Ferris, MD

My clinical expertise is in the care of underserved persons living with HIV and AIDS, in both the outpatient and inpatient settings.  As Medical Director of the Morningside Clinic, I supervise a team of five infectious diseases physicians and two nurse practitioners who provide primary care to over 3000 active patients with multiple chronic illnesses and psychosocial issues.

 

As Medical Director of the HIV inpatient teaching service at Mt. Sinai St. Luke’s, I lead a team of attending physicians who teach internal medicine residents and provide care to patients with complications of HIV/AIDS and other chronic conditions.  In 2014, our service was responsible for 758 discharges, with an average length of stay of 5.2 days and a strong emphasis on linkage to the outpatient setting and preventing readmissions.

 

As Chair of the Morningside Leadership Committee, I work closely with administration, social work, nursing, and behavioral health to optimize our model of efficient, high quality, patient-centered care. I serve as Chair of the Institute for Advanced Medicine’s Continuous Quality Improvement Committee, where I am responsible for overseeing clinical quality improvement projects. In 2012, I helped establish the Spencer Cox Data Mall, a computer-based quality improvement tool that allows clinicians to compare their performance on a variety of quality measures with both internal and external benchmarks.

 

I hope my work as a clinician, teacher, investigator, and physician leader has positively impacted my patients, students, and colleagues.