Michael Musharbash

Michael Musharbash is an emergency physician at NYC Health + Hospitals and a clinical instructor of emergency medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He is interested in the relationship between substance use disorders and infectious diseases, especially among sexual and gender minorities. Currently, his work focuses on expanding access to medications for alcohol use disorder throughout New York City’s public health system. As a Clinical Leadership Fellow at NYC Health + Hospitals, he works with a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, pharmacists, and social workers to start patients across the health system’s emergency departments on naltrexone and link them to longitudinal care.

NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest municipal health care delivery system in the United States. Its mission is to provide the highest quality health care services to all New Yorkers with compassion, dignity, and respect, regardless of their immigration status or ability to pay. It is an integrated safety net health system comprised of hospitals, community-based health centers, long-term care and rehabilitation facilities, home care services, correctional health services, and a health plan. Its clinicians offer the full continuum of care, including primary care, urgent care, behavioral health, and specialty services in every area of medicine. Their goal is to improve the health of the communities they serve and help all New Yorkers live their healthiest life.