Suzanne A. Elshafey, MD, MPH

About Suzanne A. Elshafey, MD, MPH:

Dr. Suzanne Elshafey earned her BA at Rutgers University prior to attending Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School as a Dean's Scholar. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.
She earned a Master of Public Health in Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
She then completed her Gastroenterology fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP)/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where she served as Chief Fellow. She completed her advanced fellowship training in Transplant Hepatology at NYP Columbia University Irving Medical Center/ Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Dr. Elshafey's clinical practice is focused on the care and management of patients with liver disease, including viral hepatitis, autoimmune liver diseases, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, alcohol-associated liver disease and end-stage liver disease. As a transplant hepatologist, she specializes in the care of patients before and after liver transplantation.

New Patients:

YES

Locations

Primary Locations:

CUIMC/Presbyterian Hospital and Vanderbilt Clinic

622 West 168th Street
New York, NY 10032

For new and current patient appointments, call:: 212-305-0914

Other Locations:

ColumbiaDoctors - 136-20 38th Avenue

136-20 38th Avenue
Suite 8E
Flushing, NY 11354

For new and current patient appointments, call:: 212-305-0914

Insurances:

Please contact the doctor's office directly to verify that your particular insurance is accepted.

AETNA [Aetna Signature Administrators, Medicare Managed Care, HMO, PPO, POS, EPO, NY Signature, Student Health]

Affinity Health Plan [Essential Plan, Medicaid Managed Care]

Amida Care [Special Needs]

CIGNA [Medicare Managed Care, PPO, HMO, Great West (National), EPO, POS]

Emblem/GHI [PPO, Medicare Managed Care]

Emblem/HIP [Select Care (Exchange), Vytra, EPO, Medicare Managed Care, HMO, PPO, POS, ConnectiCare, Essential Plan, Medicaid Managed Care]

Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield HealthPlus [Medicaid Managed Care, Child/Family Health Plus, Essential Plan]

Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield [PPO, Medicare Managed Care, HMO, EPO]

Fidelis Care [Essential Plan, Medicaid Managed Care, Medicare Managed Care, Child/Family Health Plus]

Healthfirst [Leaf (Exchange), Medicaid Managed Care, Child/Family Health Plus, Medicare Managed Care]

Local 1199 [Local 1199]

MVP Health Care [HMO, Essential Plan, Child/Family Health Plus, Medicaid Managed Care]

MagnaCare (National) [MagnaCare]

Medicare [Traditional Medicare]

Multiplan [Multiplan]

RiverSpring [Special Needs]

UnitedHealthcare [HMO, POS, PPO, Empire Plan, Compass (Exchange), Oxford Liberty, Oxford Freedom, Oxford HMO, Medicare Managed Care, Medicaid (Community Plan)]

VNSNY CHOICE [SelectHealth, Medicare Managed Care, Special Needs]

WellCare [Medicaid Managed Care, Medicare Managed Care]

World Trade Center Health Plan [World Trade Center Health Plan]

Publications:

Elshafey SA, Brown RS Jr. Nonviral or Drug-Induced Etiologies of Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure (Autoimmune, Vascular, and Malignant). Clin Liver Dis. 2023;27(3):649-657. doi:10.1016/j.cld.2023.03.008

Elshafey SA, Khungar V, Fox AN, Brown RS Jr. Chapter 8: current indications, contraindications, delisting criteria, and timing for transplantation. In Busuttil RW, Klintmalm GBG, ed. Transplantation of the Liver. 4th ed. (Fourth Edition). In press.

Miranda M, Deen D, Elshafey S, Herrera M, Gold M. "response to Patient Activation Intervention Among Spanish- Speaking Patients at a Community Health Center in New York City." Journal of health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 2014, 25, 591-604.

Benjamin LN, Elshafey S, Kistler EA. Et al. "Recommendations for QTc monitoring: rational or Arbitrary?" Prim Care Companion CNS Discord. 2018; 20(0): 18f02327.