Penny Stern, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACOEM DiplABLM

Dr Stern is the Chief, Preventive & Lifestyle Medicine at the Katz Institute for Women’s Health and the Department of Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology, and Prevention. She leads Northwell’s Continuing Medical Education (CME) group as the AVP of Medical Education. Her Lifestyle Medicine practice is located at the Northwell Center for Wellness and Integrative Medicine. Deeply involved in public health education, she routinely presents to dozens of community and workplace groups each year, as well as at various Northwell sites. She has participated in clinical screening activities, influenza vaccination, as well as in health education programs for TeamWell (the employee wellness team). She is a facilitator and speaker for Unconscious Bias training as part of the Northwell Center for Equity of Care’s efforts throughout the system and has presented dozens of Unconscious Bias workshops. She is an active member of many Northwell Health committees and is also involved with the Zucker School of Medicine as faculty member for various courses. and as a member of the Admissions Committee.

Dr. Stern earned her MD with special distinction for research in neuropathology from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Medical Society. As part of her residency training in Preventive Medicine at Cornell, she earned her MPH at the Columbia (now Mailman) School of Public Health. She completed an additional residency in Occupational Medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center and maintains appointments as a Clinical Assistant Professor at both Mount Sinai and Weill-Cornell, where she taught medical students for two decades. Dr. Stern is board-certified and is a fellow of both the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) and the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM). She is also board-certified in Lifestyle Medicine and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine. She is New York State-certified in medical acupuncture. Prior to coming to Northwell in 2010, Dr. Stern was the Associate Medical Director and later the Deputy Medical Director at the World Trade Center Health Program at Mount Sinai and served as Medical Director/Plant Physician at the Pfizer manufacturing facility in Brooklyn NY until its closure. Dr. Stern is also an experienced medical editor and journalist, having worked in television (Lifetime Medical Television), on-line (ReutersHealth.com), and print (multiple outlets). In those capacities, she published dozens of medical news articles for both consumer and professional audiences.

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