Rita C Crooms, MD, MPH

Clinical Focus

• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
• Brain Tumor And Brain Cancer
• Brain Tumor And Brain Cancer-Adult
• Brain Tumors
• Cognitive or Memory Impairment / Dementia
• Demyelinating Disease
• Frontal Lobe Dementia
• Glioblastoma Multiforme
• Huntington's Disease

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• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
• Brain Tumor And Brain Cancer
• Brain Tumor And Brain Cancer-Adult
• Brain Tumors
• Cognitive or Memory Impairment / Dementia
• Demyelinating Disease
• Frontal Lobe Dementia
• Glioblastoma Multiforme
• Huntington's Disease
• Lewy Body Disease
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Multiple System Atrophy
• Neurodegenerative Disorder
• Palliative Care
• Vascular Dementia

Locations

Mount Sinai Doctors Faculty Practice

5 East 98th Street, First floor, New York, NY, 10029

212-241-7076

Insurance Information

Accepted insurance may vary by the doctor’s office location. Please contact the office directly to obtain the most up-to-date insurance information.

Patients with Healthfirst Medicare Advantage insurance: Effective 9/1/2024, Mount Sinai’s primary care providers (internal medicine, family practice, and geriatrics) are not accepting new Healthfirst Medicare patients. Please contact Healthfirst for help finding a primary care provider. Healthfirst Medicare members who have a relationship with a Mount Sinai primary care provider can continue to book appointments with them.

Physicians who provide services at hospitals and facilities in the Mount Sinai Health System might not participate in the same health plans as those Mount Sinai hospitals and facilities (even if the physicians are employed or contracted by those hospitals or facilities).

Information regarding insurance participation and billing by this physician may be found on this page, and can also be obtained by contacting this provider directly. Because physicians insurance participation can change, the insurance information on this page may not always be up-to-date. Please contact this physician directly to obtain the most up-to-date insurance information.

Insurance and health plan networks that the various Mount Sinai Health System hospitals and facilities participate in can be found on the Mount Sinai Health System website.

Publications

Selected Publications

• Pathways to Neuropalliative Care Practice. Eileen Harrigan, Hannah L. Kirsch, Kwame Adjepong, Rita Caroline Crooms. Seminars in Neurology
• “Life…Gets Turned Upside-Down…” Opportunities to Improve Palliative Care for High-Grade Glioma. Rita C. Crooms, Jeannys F. Nnemnbeng, Jennie W. Taylor, Nathan E. Goldstein, Barbara G. Vickrey, Ksenia Gorbenko. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
• Clinician perspectives on integrating neuro-oncology and palliative care for patients with high-grade glioma. Rita C. Crooms, Jeannys F. Nnemnbeng, Jennie W. Taylor, Nathan E. Goldstein, Ksenia Gorbenko, Barbara G. Vickrey. Neuro-Oncology Practice

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