Mike Cusnir, MD

Position

Quality Chairman

Dr. Mike Cusnir earned his medical degree from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia and completed his internal medicine residency at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. He went on to complete a fellowship in hematology and oncology at University of Maryland Medical System, where he served as chief fellow during the last year of his training. Dr. Cusnir holds board certifications in internal medicine, hematology and oncology.

Since joining Mount Sinai Medical Center in 2003, Dr. Cusnir has been active in clinical trials and published multiple articles. He is co-director of Gastrointestinal Malignancies and has a special interest in gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and head and neck malignancies.  He has served in multiple administrative committees and in the past was elected to be president of the medical Staff for a 2 year tenure completed in July 2017, Since then he has served as Medical Director of the Mount Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center and chief of the division of hematology and Oncology.

He is currently a member of the gastrointestinal committee, symptom intervention and community oncology committee of the Alliance for cancer research. He holds academic titles Columbia University and Florida International University, Dr. Cusnir also is passionate about educating future medical generations and has been named attending of the year by residents and interns for 6 years out of the 12 that he has been in Miami and one additional year impatient attending of the year by the University of Miami medical students.

Dr. Cusnir completed a two-year fellowship in integrative medicine at the University of Arizona. He has been incorporating the techniques he learned there into his general clinical practice and developing novel clinical trials of integrative medicine for oncology patients.