Welcome back! We continue our new series #CovidReflections- One Year Later. Difficult yet necessary conversations. Conversations that are real, transparent and completely vulnerable. This series has transformed into a space and time of its on. This week, we continue with Dr. Alyson Meyers, Medical Director of North Shore University Hospital. Listen in now. Be informed and transformed. Reimagining humanity.

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Dr. Alyson’s bio…

Dr. Alyson Myers is the Medical Director of Inpatient Diabetes at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York. She also is an Associate Professor at the David and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Dr. Myers attended the University of Virginia where she majored in French and minored in Chemistry. She attended SUNY Downstate for medical school, where she was the four-year recipient of the President’s Award Scholarship. After medical school, she completed a five year combined Internal Medicine/Psychiatry Residency at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL. During her fourth year, she served as chief resident. After residency, she completed an endocrinology fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern. During fellowship she received a T32 training grant in the area of mood disorders under the mentorship of Dr. Madhukar Trivedi.

In 2012, Dr. Myers returned to New York, to serve as a clinical educator at North Shore University Hospital. For the past three years, she has been a member of the Internal Medicine Residency Committee. From 2015-2017, Dr. Myers was accepted as an Empire Clinical Research InvestigatorsProgram (ECRIP) fellow. As an ECRIP fellow she was conducting a feasibility study exploring the use of telehealth for lifestyle modification and improved glycemic control in Black and Hispanic patients withuncontrolled type 2 diabetes. She is currently a co-investigator for the 3 year PCORI grant entitled: Patient and Caregiver-Centered Diabetes Telemanagement Program for Hispanic/Latino Patients.She has several publications about diabetes and hypertriglyceridemia. She has been a reviewer for numerous journals including Minerva Endocrinologica, Journal of Affective Disorders and Diabetes Care.Also, she is an active member of the Endocrine Society and the American Diabetes Association. In 2018, she was selected as a three-year member of the member of the Endocrinology, Diabetes & MetabolismBoard In 2019.

In 2019 she was awarded as Doctor of the Year by the Professional Organization of Women in Excellence Recognized (POWER) and with the Salzman Award for Quality from the Department of Medicine, Northwell Health. In September 2020, she was recognized by the Department of Medicine for Women in Medicine Month.

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