Suzanne A. Elshafey, MD, MPH

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Overview

Dr. Suzanne Elshafey earned her BA at Rutgers University prior to attending Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School as a Dean's Scholar. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. She earned a Master of Public Health in Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She then completed her Gastroenterology fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP)/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where she served as Chief Fellow. She completed her advanced fellowship training in Transplant Hepatology at NYP Columbia University Irving Medical Center/ Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Dr. Elshafey's clinical practice is focused on the care and management of patients with liver disease, including viral hepatitis, autoimmune liver diseases, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, alcohol-associated liver disease and end-stage liver disease. As a transplant hepatologist, she specializes in the care of patients before and after liver transplantation.

Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine (in Surgery) at CUMC

Hospital Affiliations

  • NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center
  • NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Gender

  • Female

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Location(s)

622 West 168th Street
New York, NY 10032
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136-20 38th Avenue
Suite 8E
Flushing, NY 11354
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Insurance Accepted

Aetna

  • Aetna Signature Administrators
  • EPO
  • HMO
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • NY Signature
  • POS
  • PPO
  • Student Health

Affinity Health Plan

  • Essential Plan
  • Medicaid Managed Care

Amida Care

  • Special Needs

Cigna

  • EPO
  • Great West (National)
  • HMO
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • POS
  • PPO

Emblem/GHI

  • Medicare Managed Care
  • PPO

Emblem/HIP

  • ConnectiCare
  • EPO
  • Essential Plan
  • HMO
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • POS
  • PPO
  • Select Care (Exchange)
  • Vytra

Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield

  • EPO
  • HMO
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • PPO

Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield HealthPlus

  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Essential Plan
  • Medicaid Managed Care

Fidelis Care

  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Essential Plan
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Medicare Managed Care

Healthfirst

  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Leaf (Exchange)
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Medicare Managed Care

Healthspring (Cigna Medicare)

  • Medicare Managed Care

Local 1199

  • Local 1199

MagnaCare (National)

  • MagnaCare

Medicare

  • Traditional Medicare

Multiplan

  • Multiplan

MVP Health Care

  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Essential Plan
  • HMO
  • Medicaid Managed Care

RiverSpring

  • Special Needs

UnitedHealthcare

  • Compass (Exchange)
  • Empire Plan
  • HMO
  • Medicaid (Community Plan)
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • Oxford Freedom
  • Oxford HMO
  • Oxford Liberty
  • POS
  • PPO

VNSNY CHOICE

  • Medicare Managed Care
  • SelectHealth
  • Special Needs

WellCare

  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Medicare Managed Care

World Trade Center Health Plan

  • World Trade Center Health Plan

*Before your appointment, please contact the doctor’s office or your insurance provider to verify that your insurance is accepted. This list of insurances can change, and the insurance plans listed may not be accepted at all office locations for this provider.

Credentials & Experience

Education & Training

  • MD, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  • Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital - Harvard Universit
  • Fellowship: NewYork-Presbyterian / CUIMC

Research

Selected Publications

  1. Elshafey SA, Brown RS Jr. Nonviral or Drug-Induced Etiologies of Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure (Autoimmune, Vascular, and Malignant). Clin Liver Dis. 2023;27(3):649-657. doi:10.1016/j.cld.2023.03.008
  2. Elshafey SA, Khungar V, Fox AN, Brown RS Jr. Chapter 8: current indications, contraindications, delisting criteria, and timing for transplantation. In Busuttil RW, Klintmalm GBG, ed. Transplantation of the Liver. 4th ed. (Fourth Edition). In press.
  3. Miranda M, Deen D, Elshafey S, Herrera M, Gold M. "response to Patient Activation Intervention Among Spanish- Speaking Patients at a Community Health Center in New York City." Journal of health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 2014, 25, 591-604.
  4. Benjamin LN, Elshafey S, Kistler EA. Et al. "Recommendations for QTc monitoring: rational or Arbitrary?" Prim Care Companion CNS Discord. 2018; 20(0): 18f02327.