Dr. Suzanne Phillips M.D.
Mount Sinai Hospital
Suzanne Phillips, M.D. obtained her B.A. with Honors in Political Science from Columbia University, NYC (1980), where she completed her premedical studies with a New York State Regents scholarship. A professional singer and musician from youth, she had previously attended Manhattan School of Music, NYC (1971-1974), where she pursued scholarship studies in oboe, piano and voice while performing as an oboist in the Doctors Orchestral Society of New York and singer in the New York All-City Concert Choir. Her postgraduate medical education was completed at St. George's University School of Medicine in Grenada, and she received her M.D. in 1989.
Originally dedicated to a career in medical research, Dr. Phillips pursued residency training in Clinical Pathology at Brooklyn Hospital Center (1990-1993). However, her extensive work with AIDS patients both as a student and resident during the height of the epidemic inspired her toward clinical practice and, declining the honor of Chief Resident at Brooklyn Hospital, she accepted a Fellowship position in HIV Primary Care at the Mt. Sinai AIDS Center, through the NYS AIDS Institute, where she was given the academic appointment of Instructor of Internal Medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital/School of Medicine (1993-1994).
Again called to serve in the epidemic, Dr. Phillips became a Staff Physician at the Manhattan Detention Center through an appointment by St. Vincent's Hospital Correctional Health, NYC (1994-1995), where she returned in 1999-2000 with St. Barnabas Hospital Correctional Health. Her work in correctional health focused on instituting or continuing primary care for inmates with HIV and counseling those with undisclosed status to accept testing and treatment. Dr. Phillips was also an Attending Physician at Rivington House, NYC (LTC and hospice for people living with HIV/AIDS), 1995-1996, and St. Clare's Hospital - Spellman Center for HIV, NYC, 1996-1997, and moonlighted as House Physician in Internal Medicine at both St. Clare's Hospital and Gracie Square Hospital, NYC.
