Aluko A. Hope, MD

Dr. Hope graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in biology and hispanic studies. He earned his medical degree at the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine where he also completed a master's degree in clinical epidemiology. His post-graduate training was in primary care Internal Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, followed by training in pulmonary and critical Care medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, with a particular focus on integrating palliative care and geriatric principles into the critical care setting.

Dr. Hope's research seeks to improve the long term outcomes of older adults who develop critical illness by 1) developing approaches to identify older adults who may be vulnerable to adverse outcomes after critical illness and 2) testing novel approaches to improve the physical, cognitive and neuropsychiatric outcomes of adult survivors of acute respiratory failure and other critical illnesses.  

As a graduate of the Montefiore-Einstein Certificate Program in Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Dr. Hope works as an Assistant Bioethics Consultant at Montefiore Medical Center and has developed post-graduate courses at Montefiore to help teach empathic communication skills to learners at all levels.

Dr. Hope is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.