Mark J. Polisar, MD
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Education
Dr. Polisar completed a medical degree at Albert Einstein College of Meidcine and residency in Brown University's family practice program.
Professional Background
Dr. Polisar was a staff physician from 1991 to 1999 at Blackstone Valley Community Health Care in Central Falls, RI, a one-mile square community of mostly Latino immigrants. There, he helped coordinate a newly established outpatient training site for one quarter of Brown's family medicine residents, and served as part-time clinical faculty and preceptor for the department. Additionally he served as medical director of the health center, a federally Section 330-funded organization, which included a school-based health center at a local high school. He joined Montefiore Einstein as a faculty member in 1999.
Clinical Practice
Dr. Mark Polisar is currently based at the Williamsbridge site, where he sees family medicine patients. He coordinates the Williamsbridge Task Force (an interdisciplinary group that helps with the oversight of processes and workflows at the health center).
Teaching Activity
Dr. Polisar precepts residents and serves as the site coordinator for the 3rd-year family medicine medical student clerkship and 4th-year medical student family medicine ambulatory elective.
Dr. Polisar's teaching interests include:
Primary Care
Clinical administration of community health centers
Integration of residency education into community health centers
Optimal use of the EMR for use in patient care in the outpatient setting
Community Health
Dr. Polisar coordinates the Williamsbridge CATCH Initiative (Collective Action to Transform Community Health), a community intervention in the Williamsbridge area with the intent to improve the health and nutritional options for patients at high risk for sequelae of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia.
Adminstrative Activity
Dr. Polisar is the chair of the Montefiore Medical Group Peer Review Committee, participates in related quality improvement for Montefiore Medical Group, and participates on several committees to help with the transition from cEMR to EPIC.
Research Interests
Dr. Polisar is interested in community intervention for patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease.
Credentials
Education & Training
- Medical Education
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Residency
- Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island
Expertise
Focus
- Clinical Focus
- The clinical focus is on Quality improvement, Peer Review, administrative committee work,, community health, and medical student rotation oversight.
- Research Focus
- Oversee medical students whom that have an ongoing Quality Improvement project that is handed from group to group every six weeks, resulting in abstracts that can be presented at academic meetings. Most of the focus has been on practice changes related to COVID, including telehealth impacts and COVID vaccines.
Specialties
- Family Medicine
- Primary Care
Accepted Insurance
- 1199SEIU Benefit Funds
- Aetna
- Affinity by Molina Healthcare
- Amidacare
- Anthem BCBS
- Anthem BCBS Healthplus
- ArchCare
- CDPHP
Locations
- Primary LocationMontefiore Medical Group, Williamsbridge Family Practice3011 Boston RoadBronx, New York 10469-2512
- Montefiore Medical Group, Williamsbridge Family Practice3011 Boston RoadBronx, New York 10469-2512
- Montefiore Medical Group, Family Health Center1 Fordham Plaza5TH FloorBronx, New York 10458-4710