Nicole Sirotin Clinical Oncology Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting 2021

Nicole Sirotin

Nicole Sirotin, MD, is Chair of Preventive Medicine and leader of the Center for Healthier Living, a comprehensive Lifestyle Medicine program in the Oncology Institute at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (CCAD). Over the last 7 years, Dr. Sirotin and her team created the Executive Health program, a longitudinal primary care practice and the Lifestyle Medicine program at CCAD. incorporating evidence-based therapeutic approaches, such as a predominantly whole food, plant-based diet, physical activity, adequate sleep, stress management, tobacco cessation and other non-drug modalities to prevent, treat and reverse chronic disease. Dr. Sirotin is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. Dr. Sirotin was among the first medical professionals globally to be certified as Diplomates of the ABLM/American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) and the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine. Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Dr. Sirotin was Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Sirotin also served as Medical Director of the Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights and conducted research as co-PI of a study on food insecurity in northern Uganda with Cornell University. Prior to Weill Cornell, Dr. Sirotin was Associate Program Director of the Primary Care/Social Medicine Residency Program Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center. She also co-directed the Global Health course and was an Attending Physician in the Bronx Human Rights Center. Dr. Sirotin earned her medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School and completed her residency in Primary Care/General Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), with a Health Equities Area of Distinction. Dr. Sirotin was awarded the UCSF Exceptional Physician Award in 2008. After residency, Dr. Sirotin completed a research fellowship in Global Public Health at the University of California, San Diego.