Dr. Kanevsky is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Program Director of the Mount Sinai/NYC H+H Elmhurst Internal Medicine Residency Program. She studied Film at Northwestern University before coming to New York to attend the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. After graduating, she stayed at Mount Sinai to complete Internal Medicine Residency. Since then, she has been a teaching hospitalist, initially at Montefiore in the Bronx and then at Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, before moving back to Montefiore to serve as an Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program for seven years.

 

She was recruited to become the Program Director at Mount Sinai/Elmhurst in June 2021.  Her academic interests are in Curriculum Development, Palliative Care, and Quality Improvement.

 

Dr. Kanevsky has lectured nationally on topics such as pre-internship curriculum and bedside rounding. She has received Teaching Hospitalist of the Year Awards at both Lutheran and Montefiore. She was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and was the recipient of Physician of Excellence Award at Elmhurst.

 

When not at the hospital, she can usually be found picnicking in Prospect Park or hiking in the Hudson Valley with her husband, three kids, and their pedigreed mutt Sasha.