
Kristina R. Chacko, MD
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Kristina R. Chacko, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY. She joined the Einstein-Montefiore Liver Center in 2013 after completing a fellowship in Transplant Hepatology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, NY. She received her bachelor of arts in philosophy at Boston College and attended medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. She completed her internal medicine residency at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, and gastroenterology fellowship at New York University. Her clinical and research interests include the diagnosis and management of alcoholic hepatitis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, autoimmune liver diseases, and liver transplantation. As the program director of the ACGME-accredited transplant hepatology fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center, she is directly involved in the development and execution of the hepatology curriculum for gastroenterology and hepatology fellows.
Credentials
Education & Training
- Medical Education
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Residency
- Emory University Hospital
- Fellowship
- New York University Medical Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Expertise
Focus
- Clinical Focus
- Transplant Hepatology, Autoimmune Hepatitis, Fatty Liver Disease (Alcohol/Non-alcohol), Acute alcoholic hepatitis, Living Donor Transplant
- Research Focus
- Research interest includes alcohol-related liver disease, liver transplantation, viral hepatitis and autoimmune liver disease.
Specialties
- Transplant Hepatology
- Hepatology
Accepted Insurance
- 1199SEIU Benefit Funds
- Aetna
- Affinity by Molina Healthcare
- Amidacare
- Anthem BCBS
- Anthem BCBS Healthplus
- ArchCare
- CDPHP
Locations
- Primary LocationMontefiore-Einstein Center for Transplantation111 East 210th StreetRosenthal 2nd FloorBronx, New York 10467
- Highland Medical2 Crosfield AvenueSuite 202West Nyack, New York 10994
- Montefiore-Einstein Center for Transplantation555 Taxter RoadElmsford, New York 10523
- Montefiore Department of Hepatology1250 Waters Place- Tower II11th FloorBronx, New York 10461
- Hutchinson Tower II1250 Waters Place- Tower II11th FloorBronx, New York 10461
- Montefiore-Einstein Center for Liver Diseases1180 Morris Park AvenueBronx, New York 10461-1925
- Montefiore Einstein Advanced Care Hepatology555 Taxter Road3rd FloorElmsford, New York 10523
- MMC Wellness Gastroenterology1180 Morris Park AvenueBronx, New York 10461-1925
- Centerock Road Transplant Hepatology2 Centerock RoadWest Nyack, New York 10994-2215
- Highland Medical1 Crosfield AvenueSUITE 105West Nyack, New York 10994-2229