Dr. Patricia Bloom is the immediate past Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, and recently completed a year-long sabbatical, studying complementary therapies and healthy aging. She has been involved in geriatric patient care, education, and research for over 25 years.  Dr. Bloom is currently an Associate Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, and the Director of Integrative Health for the Martha Stewart Center for Living/Coffey Geriatrics Practice at Mount Sinai.  Her major interests include the promotion of healthy aging, integrative health, stress reduction and management, and Mind Body Medicine. 

She graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School with a Bachelor of Arts, in Humanities, cum laude. Dr. Bloom trained in internal medicine and social medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, New York. She later joined the faculty of the Department of Medicine at Montefiore and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Here she was instrumental in helping to establish a new Division of Geriatric Medicine at the hospital and developing the curriculum in geriatric medicine for the college. She became the Director of Education for the Division of Geriatric Medicine at St. Luke’s/Roosvelt Hospital Center, and later became the chief of the division. In 2002 she joined the faculty at Mt. Sinai as Vice Chair in the Department of Geriatrics.

Dr. Bloom is an active member in numerous professional societies such as: Metropolitan Area Geriatrics Society, American Geriatrics Society, the American College of Physicians and The Gerontological Society of America.