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
English
Position
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Medicine, Infectious Diseases
Hospital Affiliations
Mount Sinai Morningside
Mount Sinai Queens
The Mount Sinai Hospital
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
English
Position
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Medicine, Infectious Diseases
Hospital Affiliations
Mount Sinai Morningside
Mount Sinai Queens
The Mount Sinai Hospital
Mount Sinai West
Education
MD, Universita Degli Studi di Trieste
Residency, Internal Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Yeshiva University
Fellowship, Infectious Disease
Icahn School of Medicine At Mount Sinai
Certifications
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
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Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology companies, and other outside entities to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their outside financial relationships.
Dr. Cossarini has not yet completed reporting of Industry relationships.
Mount Sinai's faculty policies relating to faculty collaboration with industry are posted on our website. Patients may wish to ask their physician about the activities they perform for companies.
Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology companies, and other outside entities to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their outside financial relationships.
Dr. Cossarini has not yet completed reporting of Industry relationships.
Mount Sinai's faculty policies relating to faculty collaboration with industry are posted on our website. Patients may wish to ask their physician about the activities they perform for companies.
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