Karen F Brudney, MD

Infectious Disease
Internal Medicine
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Overview

Dr. Brudney is currently the Senior Expert Adviser to the Centers for Disease Control Division of HIV and Tuberculosis. She spends a significant amount of time working in the southern cone of Africa—Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Zambia—on HIV and Tuberculosis. She has also worked on TB Infection Control issues in Mumbai and is currently involved in a new project on MDRTB there.

Dr. Brudney was the program director for the Treatment Adherence Demonstration Project in the Comprehensive HIV Program Outpatient HIV clinic. In order to improve antiretroviral adherence in difficult populations, an interdisciplinary program called Jumpstart was initiated in 1998 in the Infectious Disease/AIDS Clinic at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital.

Dr. Brudney obtained a 5 year NIH Fogarty grant for research training in 2002 and trained several teams of Dominican health professionals in the HIV care and delivery program in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Areas of Expertise / Conditions Treated

  • HIV/AIDS
  • HIV Infection
  • Tuberculosis

Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine at CUMC

Hospital Affiliations

  • NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Languages

  • Spanish

Gender

  • Female

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Location(s)

180 Fort Washington Avenue
HP6 Clinic
New York, NY 10032
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Affinity Health Plan

  • Essential Plan
  • Medicaid Managed Care

AgeWell

  • Medicare Managed Care
  • Special Needs

Amida Care

  • Special Needs

Cigna

  • EPO
  • Great West (National)
  • HMO
  • POS
  • PPO

Emblem/GHI

  • Medicare Managed Care
  • PPO

Emblem/HIP

  • ConnectiCare
  • EPO
  • Essential Plan
  • HMO
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • POS
  • PPO
  • Select Care (Exchange)
  • Vytra

Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield HealthPlus

  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Essential Plan
  • Medicaid Managed Care

Fidelis Care

  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Essential Plan
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Medicare Managed Care

Healthfirst

  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Leaf (Exchange)
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Medicare Managed Care

Local 1199

  • Local 1199

MagnaCare (National)

  • MagnaCare

Medicare

  • Railroad
  • Traditional Medicare

Multiplan

  • Multiplan

MVP Health Care

  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Essential Plan
  • HMO
  • Medicaid Managed Care

Quality Health Management

  • Quality Health Management

RiverSpring

  • Special Needs

UnitedHealthcare

  • Columbia University Employee Plan
  • Compass (Exchange)
  • Empire Plan
  • HMO
  • Medicaid (Community Plan)
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • POS
  • PPO

WellCare

  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Medicare Managed Care

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Credentials & Experience

Education & Training

  • Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
  • Residency: Harlem Hospital Center
  • Fellowship: 1988 Harlem Hospital Center

Board Certifications

  • Internal Medicine

Research

Selected Publications

Gomes A, Reyes EV, Garduno LS, Rojas R, Mir Mesejo G, Del Rosario E, Jose L, Javier C, Vaughan C, Donastorg Y, Hammer S, Brudney K, Taylor BS. Incidence of Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity and the Overlap of Comorbidities in HIV+ Hispanics Initiating Antiretroviral Therapy. PLoS One. 2016 Aug 10;11(8):e0160797. eCollection 2016.

Frieden TR, Brudney KF, Harries AD. "Global Tuberculosis: Perspectives, Prospects and Priorities.: JAMA 312: 1393-4; 2014

Taylor B, Reyes E, Levie EA, Khan L, Garduno LS, Donastorg Y, Hammer, Brudney K, Hirsch JS. "Patterns of Geographic Mobility Predict Barriers to Engagement in HIV Care and Antiretroviral Treatment Adherence." AIDS Patient Care and STDs 28:1-12; 2014

Bassett MT, Brudney K. Treating our way out of AIDS? Am J Public Health. 2014 Feb;104(2):200-3. Epub 2013 Dec 12.

Bassett MT, Brudney K. WHO's new guidelines for antiretroviral treatment. Lancet. 2013 Nov 30;382(9907):1777-8.

Myers JE, Taylor BS, Rojas Fermín RA, Reyes EV, Vaughan C, José L, Javier C, Franco Estévez R, Donastorg Cabral Y, Batista A, Lie Y, Coakley E, Hammer SM, Brudney K. "Transmitted Drug Resistance Among Antiretroviral-Naive Patients with Established HIV Type 1 Infection in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and Review of the Latin American and Caribbean Literature." AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 28:667-74, 2012.

Taylor BS, Garduño LS, Reyes EV, Valiño R, Rojas R, Donastorg Y, Brudney K, Hirsch J. HIV care for geographically mobile populations. Mt Sinai J Med. 2011 May-Jun;78(3):342-51. Review.

Furuya EY, Paez A, Srinivasan A, Cooksey R, Augunbraun M, Baron M, Brudney K, Della-Latta P, Concepcion E, Fischer S, Flood M, Kellner P, Roman C, Yakrus M, Weiss D, Granowitz EV. "Outbreak of Mycobacterium abscessus wound infections among 'Lipotourists' from the United States who underwent abdominoplasty in the Dominican Republic." Clinical Infectious Diseases 46:1181-8; 2008.

Yin M, Dobkin JF, Brudney KF, Becker C, Zadel JL, Manandhar M, Addesso-Dodd V, Shane E. Bone mass and mineral metabolism in HIV-infected postmenopausal women. Osteoporos Int. 2005;16:1345-1352.

Wilkin TJ, Palmer S, Brudney KF, Chiasson MA, Wright TC. Anal intraepithelial neoplasia in heterosexual and homosexual HIV-positive men with access to anti-retroviral therapy. J Infect Dis. 2004;190:1685-1691.