Dr. Masci graduated from Cornell University and New York University School of Medicine. He completed internal medicine residency training at Boston City Hospital. After a fellowship in infectious diseases at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Dr. Masci joined the faculty of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1982 and the staff of Elmhurst Hospital Center. He served as the associate director of the department of medicine from 1987 until 2002 and as director from 2002 until 2018, when he became chairman of the new department of global health. He founded the HIV/AIDS program at Elmhurst in 1985. He has worked in clinical and behavioral research into HIV infection and has published several books on primary care of HIV/AIDS. He has served on the medical care criteria committee and the quality assurance committee of the New York State AIDS Institute. Since 2001, he has been involved in bioterrorism preparation strategies at the citywide level. He chaired the Emergency Preparedness Councils of both the Queens Health Network and the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation from 2001 through 2009 and he co-authored a textbook on hospital preparedness for bioterrorism (CRC Press) which was published 2004 and a book on Ebola (CRC Press) which was published in 2017. He also served as co-principal investigator of the NIH-funded Center for Investigating Viral Immunity and Antagonism (CIVIA) at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 2004-09. Since 2012, he has served as co-investigator and provided distance-teaching for a project funded by the NIH focused on training scientists in eastern Europe in research ethics.
In 2018, Dr. Masci founded the Global Health Program at Elmhurst. In that capacity he has served as a consultant to the United Nations on infectious diseases giving monthly lectures to their global medical staff and has supervised research projects addressing access to care of the community served by the hospital. Dr. Masci has received several awards for clinical work including the Solomon Berson Award for Outstanding Teacher, Physician and Attending from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine; the Linda Laubenstein HIV Clinical Excellence Award from the New York State Department of Health, the President’s Award for Outstanding Medical Leadership from the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation and the Jacobi Medallion from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
He has many years of experience in organizing clinical programs and research studies involving the ethnically diverse population of one million served by our hospital. He also organized and led federally-funded HIV/AIDS programs in Ethiopia (2007-2014) and the Russian Federation (2004-2012).
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