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Rachel Katz, MD
718-918-7960
 rachel.katz@nbhn.net

Dr. Rachel Katz is an Attending Physician in the Division of Ambulatory Care and she is the Site Leader for the Third-year Medical Student Clerkship at Jacobi. Dr. Katz has been cited three times for her remarkable teaching skills: in 2004 she was voted the teaching award by our house staff, in 2004 she was elected to the Leo M. Davidoff Society, and in 2008 she won the Samuel M. Rosen award given by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine to the outstanding clinical teacher of the year. Dr. Katz is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Undergraduate:
Columbia College, Columbia University
Graduate:
Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, M.A. in English and Comparative Literature
Medical School:
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Training:
  • Internship and Residency: Jacobi/Montefiore combined residency program
  • Chief Residency: Jacobi Medical Center
Awards and Honors:
  • Samuel M. Rosen Teaching Award
  • Leo M. Davidoff Society
  • House Staff Teaching Award, Jacobi Medical Center
Research and/or Clinical Interests:
  • Students’ and residents’ teaching abilities
  • Humanism in medicine
  • Pediatrician as parent
  • Issues in medical education
  • Medical informatics
Bibliography:
  • Katz-Sidlow RJ, Rowberry JP and Ho, M: Fever determination in young infants: prevalence and accuracy of parental palpation. Pediatric Emergency Care, in press.
  • Sidlow R, Katz-Sidlow RJ: Using a computerized sign-out system to improve physician-nurse communication. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 2006;32:32-6.
  • Katz-Sidlow RJ, Sidlow R: A look at the pediatrician as parent: pediatricians’ adherence to varicella vaccine guidelines. Clinical Pediatrics 2003;42:635-640.
  • Gershel J, Katz-Sidlow RJ, Small E and Zandieh S: Hazing of suburban middle school and high school athletes. Journal of Adolescent Health 2003;32:333-335.
  • Katz-Sidlow R: The sick visit: A model for medical humanism. The Torah-u-Madda Journal (Yeshiva University) 2003;11:224-237.
  • Katz-Sidlow RJ: Right upper quadrant abdominal pain in an adolescent girl: the Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome. Office Emerg Pediatr 2000;13:162-165.
  • Katz-Sidlow R: Index of suspicion: Campylobacter infection. Pediatr Rev 1998;19:101,103-104.
  • Katz-Sidlow RJ, assistant editor, in Crain EF, Gershel, JC (eds.): Clinical Manual of Emergency Pediatrics (4th ed), McGraw-Hill, New York, 2003.
  • Katz-Sidlow RJ: How technology has changed pediatrics training,” in Dedicated to the Health of All Children, in Baker JP, Pearson HA (eds), American Academy of Pediatrics, Elk Grove, 2005.

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