Damara Gutnick, MD is the senior director in the Montefiore Medical Center Office of Community and Population Health, and an Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Population Health, Family & Social Medicine and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Gutnick is a founding member of the non-profit Centre of Comprehensive Motivational Interventions (http://www.centrcmi.ca).
As a trainer of Motivational Interviewing (MI) and a member of MINT (The Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers), Dr. Gutnick is passionate about encouraging clinicians to incorporate the “spirit” of MI into their discussions with patients and dedicated to integrating MI based best practices into health care delivery systems to support patient centered transformation. She has consulted nationally with multiple healthcare systems interested in incorporating MI based principles into practice, and presented MI based workshops at national and international forums including the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, American College of Physicians, the Society of General Internal Medicine, and the MINT Forum. Dr. Gutnick is also part of the team who developed Brief Action Planning (BAP), a highly structured, patient centered, stepped care, evidence informed, self management support tool based on the principles and practice of MI.
An internist by training, Dr. Gutnick is passionate about providing culturally competent, quality patient centered care. She spearheaded corporate wide behavioral health integration and self-management support initiatives for 18 years at the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation and served as an improvement and communication skills coach for behavioral health integration teams across NYC’s HHC’s hospital system.
Damara Gutnick, MD is the senior director of the Montefiore Medical Center Office of Community and Populaiton Health, and an Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Population Health., Family & SOcial Medicine and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Gutnick is a founding member of the non-profit Centre of Comprehensive Motivational Interventions (http://www.centrcmi.ca).
