Scott Sherman, MD, MPH

Scott Sherman, MD, MPH; Associate Professor of Medicine

Phone: 212-686-7500
E-mail: Scott.Sherman@med.nyu.edu

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After receiving his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine, Dr. Sherman completed a 3-year residency in Primary Care Internal Medicine at Bellevue Hospital Center/New York University Medical Center. He then completed a 2-year general internal medicine fellowship at Boston University, during which time he also received his Master of Public Health degree. Dr. Sherman is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and in Geriatric Medicine and is currently a Fellow of both the American College of Physicians and the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare.

Dr. Sherman began working for the Veterans Health Administration (VA) in Los Angeles in 1991. He joined the faculty at UCLA at the same time, rising to the rank of Professor of Medicine. In September, 2005, he transferred to the VA New York Harbor Healthcare System in Manhattan and is currently Associate Professor of Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine.

Dr. Sherman has been Principal Investigator on 7 smoking cessation grants in the last 5 years, with funding from the Veterans Health Administration, the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, and the American Legacy Foundation. His current studies examine how to get providers and medical centers to adopt tobacco control practices that have been shown to be efficacious. From 2002-2006, he was Chair of the VA’s Smoking and Tobacco Use Cessation Technical Advisory Group, which is charged with helping the VA to set national policies and practices for smoking cessation. In this role, he helped the VA take an evidence-based approach to policy decisions and was Co-Chair of the Panel that wrote the 2003 VA/Department of Defense Clinical Practice Guidelines on Management of Tobacco Use.

Education/Training:

Medical Education	New York University School of Medicine 1986
Residency Training	Bellevue Hospital Center 1989
Internships	Bellevue Hospital Center 1987
Clinical Fellowships	Boston University School of Public Health 1991

Selected Publications:

1.	Sherman, Scott E; Fotiades, John; Rubenstein, Lisa V; Gilman, Stuart C; Vivell, Susan; Chaney, Edmund; Yano, Elizabeth M; Felker, Bradford. "Teaching systems-based practice to primary care physicians to foster routine implementation of evidence-based depression care". Academic medicine. 2007; 82: 168 (#J0125087)
2.	Felker BL; Chaney E; Rubenstein LV; Bonner LM; Yano EM; Parker LE; Worley LL; Sherman SE; Ober S. "Developing Effective Collaboration Between Primary Care and Mental Health Providers". Primary care companion to the Journal of clinical psychiatry. 2006; 8: 12 (#J0118933)
3.	Sherman SE; Joseph AM; Yano EM; Simon BF; Arikian N; Rubenstein LV; Parkerton P; Mittman BS. "Assessing the institutional approach to implementing smoking cessation practice guidelines in veterans health administration facilities". Military medicine. 2006; 171: 80 (#J0114992)
4.	Sherman SE; Yano EM; York LS; Lanto AB; Chernof BA; Mittman BS. "Assessing the structure of smoking cessation care in the Veterans Health Administration". American journal of health promotion. 2006; 20: 313 (#J0114991)
5.	Fu SS; Sherman SE; Yano EM; van Ryn M; Lanto AB; Joseph AM. "Ethnic disparities in the use of nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation in an equal access health care system". American journal of health promotion. 2005; 20: 108 (#J0114993)
6.	Jonk YC; Sherman SE; Fu SS; Hamlett-Berry KW; Geraci MC; Joseph AM. "National trends in the provision of smoking cessation aids within the Veterans Health Administration". American journal of managed healthcare. 2005; 11: 77 (#J0114997)
7.	Meredith LS; Yano EM; Hickey SC; Sherman SE. "Primary care provider attitudes are associated with smoking cessation counseling and referral". Medical care. 2005; 43: 929 (#J0114994)
8.	Sherman SE; Fu SS; Joseph AM; Lanto AB; Yano EM. "Gender differences in smoking cessation services received among veterans". Women's health issues. 2005; 15: 126 (#J0114995)
9.	Sherman SE; Yano EM; Lanto AB; Simon BF; Rubenstein LV. "Smokers' interest in quitting and services received: using practice information to plan quality improvement and policy for smoking cessation". American journal of medical quality. 2005; 20: 33 (#J0114996)
10.	Mojica WA; Suttorp MJ; Sherman SE; Morton SC; Roth EA; Maglione MA; Rhodes SL; Shekelle PG. "Smoking-cessation interventions by type of provider: a meta-analysis". American journal of preventive medicine. 2004; 26: 391 (#J0114998)
11.	Sherman SE; Chapman A; Garcia D; Braslow JT. "Improving recognition of depression in primary care: a study of evidence-based quality improvement". Joint Commission journal on quality & safety. 2004; 30: 80 (#J0115000)
12.	Sherman SE; Lanto AB; Nield M; Yano EM. "Smoking cessation care received by veterans with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease". Journal of rehabilitation research & development. 2003; 40: 1 (#J0114999)
13.	Rogers LQ; Bailey JE; Gutin B; Johnson KC; Levine MA; Milan F; Seelig CB; Sherman SE. "Teaching resident physicians to provide exercise counseling: a needs assessment". Academic medicine. 2002; 77: 841 (#J0115002)
14.	Sherman SE. "Review: screening for depression reduces persistent depression [comment]". ACP journal club. 2002; 137: 100 (#J0115001)
15.	Chernof BA; Sherman SE; Lanto AB; Lee ML; Yano EM; Rubenstein LV. "Health habit counseling amidst competing demands: effects of patient health habits and visit characteristics". Medical care. 1999; 37: 738 (#J0115004)
16.	Sherman SE; D'Agostino RB; Silbershatz H; Kannel WB. "Comparison of past versus recent physical activity in the prevention of premature death and coronary artery disease". American heart journal. 1999; 138: 900 (#J0115003)
17.	Sherman SE; Reuben D. "Measures of functional status in community-dwelling elders". Journal of general internal medicine. 1998; 13: 817 (#J0115005)
18.	Joseph AM; Norman SM; Ferry LH; Prochazka AV; Westman EC; Steele BG; Sherman SE; Cleveland M; Antonnucio DO; Hartman N; McGovern PG. "The safety of transdermal nicotine as an aid to smoking cessation in patients with cardiac disease". New England journal of medicine. 1996; 335: 1792 (#J0115009)
19.	Sherman SE; Wang MM; Nguyen B. "Predictors of success in a smoking cessation clinic". Journal of general internal medicine. 1996; 11: 702 (#J0115006)
20.	Sherman SE; D'Agostino RB; Cobb JL; Kannel WB. "Does exercise reduce mortality rates in the elderly? Experience from the Framingham Heart Study". American heart journal. 1994; 128: 965 (#J0115014)
21.	Sherman SE; D'Agostino RB; Cobb JL; Kannel WB. "Physical activity and mortality in women in the Framingham Heart Study". American heart journal. 1994; 128: 879 (#J0115015)
22.	Sherman SE; Hershman WY. "Exercise counseling: how do general internists do?". Journal of general internal medicine. 1993; 8: 243 (#J0115017)

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