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Chief, Hospital Medicine Service, Department of Medicine
Get To Know Me
I am proud to be the Chief of the Hospital Medicine Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I lead an outstanding team of physicians and physician assistants who are hospitalists, meaning that we specialize in delivering comprehensive medical care to people who are hospitalized. Our service strives to provide care that is, above all else, compassionate and patient-centered, as well as safe and evidence-based.
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Our faculty members are national pioneers in the field of oncology hospital medicine. This subspecialty focuses on the care of the hospitalized cancer patient. Hospitalized cancer patients have unique medical and psychosocial challenges, and we have been able to demonstrate that hospitalists can provide this care just as well as the traditional model of oncologist-led care.
In addition to being board certified in internal medicine with focused practice in hospital medicine, I am board certified in hospice and palliative medicine. I have particular expertise in the alleviation of suffering, be it from pain or other cancer-related symptoms such as nausea and shortness of breath. In my role as a member of the Palliative Medicine Service, I provide inpatient consultative care to people who are suffering; our multidisciplinary team, comprised of physicians, nurse practitioners, chaplains, social workers, and pharmacists, works together to ensure the comfort and quality of life of our patients.
Our faculty members are leaders in the education of residents and medical students within the Department of Medicine at MSK. On a daily basis, we strive to demonstrate and teach the delivery of patient care that is of the highest quality, emphasizing outstanding communication skills and physician-patient interactions. We are also involved in many quality and safety-related initiatives; we continually seek to improve how we take care of patients at MSK, and then we endeavor to disseminate that knowledge to our trainees and colleagues around the country.
I became a Senior Fellow of the Society of Hospital Medicine in 2010. This honor recognizes my commitment to the field of hospital medicine and my demonstrated excellence in the areas of leadership, teamwork, and quality improvement. I was honored to be the recipient of the MSK Division of Medicine Teacher of the Year Award in 2008.
My Role at MSK
A hospitalist is a doctor with special training in caring for people in the hospital.
Areas of Expertise
My Specialties
General internal medicine
Inpatient care
Education & Honors
Education
MD, Yale University School of Medicine
Residencies
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Board Certifications
Internal Medicine
Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine
Insurance Information
Understanding your insurance options is an important part of managing your cancer care. We have relationships with many common healthcare providers and plans.
Aetna
In Network Coverage Type HMO, EPO PPO, POS, Transplant
Doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering work as teams, with specialists from all different areas. This allows us to consider all your needs together, and to give you the best possible care.
Memorial Sloan Kettering's doctors and scientists are constantly developing new treatments for cancer. MSK is typically running hundreds of clinical trials at a given time.
You may be able to participate in a clinical trial even if you are new to MSK. Search our online directory to find trial information and see more about who can participate.
Visit PubMed for a full listing of Dr. Egan’s journal articles. Pubmed is an online index of research papers and other articles from the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
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Disclosures
Doctors and faculty members often work with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology, and life sciences companies, and other organizations outside of MSK, to find safe and effective cancer treatments, to improve patient care, and to educate the health care community.
MSK requires doctors and faculty members to report (“disclose”) the relationships and financial interests they have with external entities. As a commitment to transparency with our community, we make that information available to the public.
Barbara C. Egan discloses the following relationships and financial interests:
No disclosures meeting criteria for time period
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