Masha Slavin, MD

My scholarly work focuses on the health of immigrants and asylum seekers. The overarching goal of this work is to improve quality of care for immigrants, including recently-arrived immigrants, asylum seekers, and torture survivors. My particular interests are in medical education on immigrant health, with the goal of improving clinicians’ comfort level in caring for this patient population, and in improving workflows that facilitate care.

In my role as the director of primary care for Bellevue’s Program for Survivors of Torture, I work with a multidisciplinary team of behavioral health, legal, and social work colleagues in caring for people who have experienced human rights violations. My work as the clinical faculty advisor for the NYU Grossman School of Medicine Asylum Clinic enables me to support medical students who are passionate about asylum medicine and help to develop the group’s capacity to provide high-quality forensic medical evaluations.

I am grateful for the support of the Merrin Master Clinician fellowship and the Society of General Internal Medicine’s Mary O’Flaherty Horn Scholars in General Internal Medicine program grant.