Dr. Carla Christine Keirns MD, PHD
Hospitalist
205 N Belle Mead Rd East Setauket NY, 11733About
Dr. Carla Keirns is a hospitalist practicing in East Setauket, NY. Dr. Keirns specializes in the comprehensive medical care of hospitalized patients. As a hospitalist, Dr. Keirns manages the clinical problems of hospitalized patients and the acutely ill, while working to improve the performance of the hospital. Dr. Keirns works in collaboration with all of the different doctors that are working with the patient. Hospitalists are involved in the diagnosis, treatment and medical procedures of patients.
Education and Training
Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania 2003
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- What if it were your father?
- Perspective: the unintended consequences of training residents in dysfunctional outpatient settings.
- Doctors and divination.
- Does money make bioethics go 'round?
- Case study. Dirty blood. Commentary.
- Patient-centered care and preference-sensitive decision making.
- Dying of a treatable disease.
- Asthma mitigation strategies: professional, charitable, and community coalitions.
- July first.
- Physician, researcher, neighbor--conflicting roles in community-based participatory research.
- A life course perspective on stress and health among caregivers of children with asthma in Detroit.
- "I wouldn't look at it as stress": conceptualizations of caregiver stress among low-income families of children with asthma.
- Nightwatch: Sleep Disruption of Caregivers of Children With Asthma in Detroit.
- Everyday ethics and Ebola: planning for the unlikely.
- Illusions of Certainty.
Dr. Carla Christine Keirns MD, PHD's Practice location
Practice At 205 N Belle Mead Rd
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