About Me
Francesca Cossarini, MD is an Assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Disease at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She graduated from medical school at the Universita’ degli Studi di Trieste, Italy and worked as a clinical research investigator at the Universita’ Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan, Italy where she focused on antiretroviral treatment and clinical outcomes of HIV-infected patients. She spent a research year working on HIV reservoir in the Frank Maldarelli Lab at the NIH and then completed her medicine residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine – Jacobi Hospital in New York where she worked on a project to improve HIV screening strategies in patients accessing medical care. She has completing her Infectious Disease Fellowship at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and is currently working on the interplay of the gastrointestinal microbiome and mucosal immunity in HIV infected patients.
She serves as primary care provider for HIV-infected patient at the Jack martin Fund Clinic and as Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine Attending for inpatients at the Mount Sinai hospital.
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Medicine, Infectious DiseasesHospital Affiliations
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
- Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West
About Me
Francesca Cossarini, MD is an Assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Disease at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She graduated from medical school at the Universita’ degli Studi di Trieste, Italy and worked as a clinical research investigator at the Universita’ Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan, Italy where she focused on antiretroviral treatment and clinical outcomes of HIV-infected patients. She spent a research year working on HIV reservoir in the Frank Maldarelli Lab at the NIH and then completed her medicine residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine – Jacobi Hospital in New York where she worked on a project to improve HIV screening strategies in patients accessing medical care. She has completing her Infectious Disease Fellowship at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and is currently working on the interplay of the gastrointestinal microbiome and mucosal immunity in HIV infected patients.
She serves as primary care provider for HIV-infected patient at the Jack martin Fund Clinic and as Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine Attending for inpatients at the Mount Sinai hospital.
Language
Position
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Medicine, Infectious DiseasesHospital Affiliations
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
- Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West
About Me
Francesca Cossarini, MD is an Assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Disease at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She graduated from medical school at the Universita’ degli Studi di Trieste, Italy and worked as a clinical research investigator at the Universita’ Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan, Italy where she focused on antiretroviral treatment and clinical outcomes of HIV-infected patients. She spent a research year working on HIV reservoir in the Frank Maldarelli Lab at the NIH and then completed her medicine residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine – Jacobi Hospital in New York where she worked on a project to improve HIV screening strategies in patients accessing medical care. She has completing her Infectious Disease Fellowship at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and is currently working on the interplay of the gastrointestinal microbiome and mucosal immunity in HIV infected patients.
She serves as primary care provider for HIV-infected patient at the Jack martin Fund Clinic and as Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine Attending for inpatients at the Mount Sinai hospital.
Language
Position
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Medicine, Infectious DiseasesHospital Affiliations
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
- Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West
Education
MD, Universita Di Trieste
Residency, Internal Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Fellowship, Infectious Diseases
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Certifications
Infectious Disease
American Board of Internal Medicine
Awards
Young Investigator award at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
Young Investigator award at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
Best Overall Resident PGY-2
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