Jennifer Heinen, MD
Hospitalist
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Areas of Expertise
My Specialties
- Inpatient Diagnosis, Work-Up, and Treatment of Oncologic and Internal Medicine Issues
About Me
- Assistant Attending Physician
I am a hospitalist focused on providing high-quality medical care, with an emphasis on quality of life and relief from pain. During my seven-plus years as an attending hospitalist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), I have developed a profound appreciation not only for the complex medical problems that can develop in people with cancer, but also for the distinctive psychosocial aspects of cancer care.
Humanism and a patient-centered approach are essential to the doctor-patient relationship and have become tenets of my clinical practice. Equitable patient care regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation is extremely important to me.
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My main priorities at MSK are clinical care, medical education, and physician well-being. My principal role as an attending hospitalist entails admitting patients to the hospital; providing diagnosis, work-up, and treatment for a wide range of medical and oncologic ailments; supervising advance practice providers (APPs) and medical residents during their clinical work; and collaborating with oncologists to support patients’ seamless transition to an outpatient setting upon discharge. In my practice of inpatient medicine, I emphasize evidence-based care and participate in continuing medical education activities and conferences to update my medical knowledge. To that end, I have completed specialized training, including point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), to advance my diagnostic skills. As a member of the Nursing and Pharmacy Quality Assurance Committees, I engage in many quality improvement activities to reduce medical error and improve the safety of patient care.
Education of our transitional-year (TY) interns and rotating residents is also a high priority for the Hospital Medicine Service at MSK. I serve as a supervisor and educator for these new physicians on the wards and emphasize a holistic approach to cancer care. I direct the Quality Improvement course for the TY interns, give several didactic sessions about common clinical issues (i.e., tachyarrhythmias, hypoxemic respiratory failure), and serve as a member of the TY Program Evaluation and Clinical Competency Committees. I am also very involved in education for the Weill Cornell medical students, having served as preceptor for OSCE and communications workshops, Physical Diagnosis course instructor, and most recently, Director of a Thrombocytopenia course for major clinical-year students. I am deeply involved in educational initiatives institution-wide, including creating and organizing a weekly lecture series for the Department of Hospital Medicine and serving as a member of the Grand Rounds Committee (organizing Medicine Grand Rounds for the entirety of MSK).
Physician well-being has become a recent focus of my practice; I am a member of the Graduate Medical Education Wellness Committee and lead/organize psychosocial debriefing sessions for the interns, residents, fellows, and attendings at MSK. I was also recently elected as a Well-being Champion for the American College of Physicians and will be pursuing further physician wellness initiatives on a larger scale.
A hospitalist is a doctor with special training in caring for people in the hospital.
My Specialties
- Inpatient Diagnosis, Work-Up, and Treatment of Oncologic and Internal Medicine Issues
Education
- MD, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Residencies
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center
Board Certifications
- Internal Medicine
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Contact and Location
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Colleagues
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Clinical Trials
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Disclosures
Doctors and faculty members often work with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology, and life sciences companies, and other organizations outside of MSK, to find safe and effective cancer treatments, to improve patient care, and to educate the health care community.
MSK requires doctors and faculty members to report (“disclose”) the relationships and financial interests they have with external entities. As a commitment to transparency with our community, we make that information available to the public.
Jennifer Heinen discloses the following relationships and financial interests:
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