David Alfandre, MSPH MD: IntegratedEthics Manager for Ethics Consultation

David Alfandre MSPH MD is a general internist and a clinician-educator. His special interests in clinical ethics include ethics consultation, doctor-patient communication, and residency ethics education.

Dr. Alfandre completed his public health training at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (1995) followed by 2 years of service as a health educator in the Peace Corps. He graduated from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 2001 and then competed his Internal Medicine training at the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York. From residency, he joined the faculty at Mount Sinai where he served as a clinician-educator in the Division of General Internal Medicine. There he developed and ran the ethics consultation service for medical house officers.

In 2008, he joined the staff of the National Center for Ethics. He also has direct patient care responsibilities in the medicine outpatient clinic and as a teaching attending at the NY Campus of the VA New York Harbor Health Care System.