EDUCATION:
1961 –
1995
Jersey Academy, Jersey City, NJ
1965 –
1969
Clark University, Worchester, MA
- AB in Chemistry
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Magna Cum Laude
- Honors in Chemistry
1969 –
1973
Tufts University School of Medicine
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING:
1973 –1974
INTERNSHIP
Cornell-Cooperating Hospitals
The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center
Department of Medicine
1974 – 1975
RESIDENCY
Junior Assistant Resident
Cornell-Cooperating Hospitals
The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center
Department of Medicine
1975 – 1976
Senior Assistant Resident
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Intramural Senior Assistant Resident
Assistant Physician, Department of Medicine
The New York Hospital
1976 – 1977
FELLOWSHIP
Clinical Fellow, Hematology-Oncology
The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center
Division of Hematology-Oncology
R. Nachman, MD, ChiefEmergency Room Fellow
The New York Hospital
1977- 1978
Clinical Fellow, Hematology-Oncology
The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical CenterVisiting Research Fellow
Department of Developmental Hematopoiesis
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
M.A.S. Moore, PhD., DirectorEmergency Room Fellow
The New York Hospital
1978 – 1979
Clinical Fellow, Infectious Diseases
Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center
Division of Infectious Diseases
D. Armstrong, MD, ChiefClinical Fellow, Hematology-Oncology
The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical CenterVisiting Research Fellow
Department of Developmental Hematopoiesis
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer CenterPhysician, Employee Health Service
Jane W. Magill, MD, Director
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS:
1974 –
1978
Fellow in Medicine
Cornell University Medical College
1978 –
1979
Instructor in Medicine
Cornell University Medical College
1979 –
Present
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
New York Medical College
HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS:
1979 –
Present
Attending Physician
White Plains Hospital Center
Assistant Attending
Physician
Westchester County Medical Center
1980 –
1986
Assistant Attending Physician
Saint Agnes Hospital
1981 –
Present
Attending Hematologist
White Plains Hospital Center
1990 –
1992
Chief of Hematology
White Plains Hospital Center
LICENSURE:
Current New York State #120660
CERTIFICATIONS:
1974
Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners
1975
Diplomate, Interrnal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine
1976
Diplomate, Medical Oncology
American Board of Internal Medicine
1977
Diplomate, Hematology
American Board of Internal Medicine
HOSPITAL POSITIONS:
1983 –
1984
Chairman, Medical Records
White Plains Hospital Center
1983 –
1984
Acting Chairman, Infection Control
White Plains Hospital Center
1986 –
1991
Medical Director, Ronald M.Alpert Hospice
White Plains Hospital Center
1990 –
1995
Chairman, Utilization Review
White Plains Hospital Center
MEDICAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIIPS:
Fellow, American
College of Physicians
Member, American Society of Clinical Oncology
Member, American Society of Hematology
Member, Westchester County Medical Society
Member, Academy of Hospice Physicians
Member, American Society of Preventative Oncology
MEDICAL POSITIONS:
1979 – Present
Partner
Scarsdale Medical Group
1983 – 1990
Medical Director
Westchester Association of Retarded Children
Scarsdale Division
1991 – Present
Medical Director
Hospice of Westchester
1998 – Present
Medical Director
Dickstein Cancer Treatment Center
White Plains Hospital Center
ACTIVE RESEARCH:
May 1998 –
Present
Principle Investigator
The New York Breast Cancer Study
“A Study of Genetic and Environmental Influences on Breast Cancer
Among Jewish Women”,
King Laboratory, University of Washington, Division of Medical Genetics;
Sarah Lawrence College, Department of Human Genetics; And White Plains
Hospital Center
April 1999– Principle Co-Investigator
April 2000
Phase III Study of RFS 2000 (9-Nitro-camptothecin, 9-NC) Versus Most Appropriate
Chemotherapy in Refractory Pancreatic Patients
SuperGen
September 2000- Present
Principle Co-Investigator
The John and Maxime Bendheim Enhanced Screening Program
The Lowenstein Foundation
Dickstein Cancer Treatment Center
White Plains Hospital Center
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS:
1983 Board of Directors
United Way of Scarsdale – Edgemont
1984 – 1986
Board of Directors
Westchester Figure Skating Club
1989 Board of Directors
Rye Rangers Hockey Club
1985 – Present
Police Physician
Scarsdale Police Department
Scarsdale, New York 10583
PUBLICATIONS:
1. Fialk, M.A., Romankiewicz, J., Perrone, F., et al. Allergic Interstitial Nephritis With Diuretics. Ann. Int. Med. 81:403, 1974
2. Fialk, M.A., Murray, H.W. Cardiac Munchausen Syndrome. Ann. Int. Med. 81:562, 1974
3. Murray, H.W., Fialk, M.A., Roberts, R.B. Candida Arthritis. A Manifestation of Disseminated Candidiasis. Am. J. Med. 60:587-595, 1976
4. Fialk, M.A., Coleman, M., Grant, M.D. et al. Splenectomy in Patients With Hodgkin’s Disease and Marrow Hypoplasia. Am. J. Med. Sci. 274:87-91
5. Brogadir, S., Fialk, M.A., Coleman, M. et al. Morbidity of Staging Laparotomy in Hodgkin’s Disease. Am. J. Med. 64: 249-433, 1978
6. Jarowski, C.I., Fialk, M.A., Murray, H.W., et al. Fever, Rash, and Muscle Tenderness. A Distintive Presentaation of Disseminated Candidiasis. Archiv. Int. Med. 138:544-546, 1978
7. Cibull, M.L., Seligson, G.R., Mouradian, J.A., Fialk, M.A., et al. Immunoblastic Lymphadenopathy and Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas: A Report of a Cancer. Cancer. 42:1883-1885, 1978
8. Kagan W., Ascensaw, J., Fialk, M.A., et al. Studies On the Pathogenesis of Aplastic Anemia. Am. J. Med. 66:444-449, 1979
9. Fialk, M.A., Jarowski, C.I., Coleman, M. Hepatic Hodgkin’s Disease Without Involvement of The Spleen. Cancer. 43:1146-1147, 1979
10. Wolf, D.J., Fialk, M.A., Mouradian, J.A., et al. Unusual Intracytoplasmic Inclusion In acute Myeloblastic Leukemia. Am. J. Hem. 9:413-420, 1980
11. Fialk, M.A., Marcove, R., Armstrong, D. Cryptococcal Bone Disease: A Manifestation of Disseminated Cryptococcosis. Clin. Orthopedics & Related Research No. 158 July/August, 1981
12. Weister, B., Lnage, M., Fialk, M.A., Singer, C., Armstrong, D. Inefficacy of Prophylactic Trimenthoprim-sulfamethoxazole in Preventing Infection During Consolidation Chemotherapy for Acute Leukemia. Ann. Int. Med. 95:436-439, 1981
13. Stein, A., Fialk, M.A., Belvins, A., Armstrong, D. Pasteurella Multocida Septicemia, Experience at a Cencer Hospital. JAMA, January 28, 1983, Vol. 249, No. 4, 508-509