Sabrina Felson, MD
Specialty: Internal Medicine
Sabrina Felson, M.D., is a physician educator board-certified in Internal Medicine. Her medical practice is at the VA New York Harbor, where she provides primary care to our nation’s veterans. Like any true generalist, Dr. Felson is interested in many facets of medicine and healthcare. She is passionate about diagnosis, the more complicated the better. Dr. Felson also loves to work on clinically informed systems redesign and clinically driven efficiency projects to improve the patient interface with the healthcare system. She developed a navigational tool called the Follow-up Plan for patients to use between face-to-face visits, and spear-headed a project writing life bios to accompany terminally ill veterans throughout their hospitalizations. Dr. Felson is currently preoccupied with reinvigorating the role of the general internist in outpatient medicine. To further this goal, Dr. Felson recently stepped down as Assistant Chief of Primary Care to become the Director of Clinical Innovations in Primary Care at the Manhattan VA.
Dr. Felson is also Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine in the NYU Department of General Medicine. As an educator, Dr. Felson serves as an NYU Firm Chief, a senior faculty mentor for medical students during the medicine clerkship. She continues to professionally guide students choosing to pursue residency in Internal Medicine through the match process. Dr. Felson also supervises a cohort of NYU residents assigned to the VA for their 3-year continuity clinic experience.
Before entering medical school, Dr. Felson lived in Bolivia, where she helped to develop training materials and run workshops for indigenous Aymaran women interested in becoming midwives. She earned a Master’s Degree in History of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before starting medical school at Case Western Reserve University Medical School. Dr. Felson completed her residency training at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and had the honor of serving as senior chief resident before joining the faculty.