Chapter Leadership Elections
Candidate Statements - NYACP Governor-Elect
Manhattan/Bronx Region
It’s time to vote for the next NYACP Governor for the Manhattan/Bronx Region! The Governor serves as the Chapter’s official ACP representative providing a link between members at the local level and leadership at ACP national. This year, candidates running for Governor are Cori Salvit, MD, FACP and Vasundhara Singh, MD, FACP.
Members in this region can vote online between September 26, 2025, and November 7, 2025. Members eligible to vote will receive a ballot that includes your ACP Member Number and a unique Election Passcode that is required in order to cast a vote.
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What do you see as an "existential challenge" to our specialty over the next 3-5 years, and how would it be best for Internal Medicine to meet that challenge?
How will your experiences, skills, and background help to support and advance the New York Chapter over that same time frame?
Cori Salvit, MD, FACP
Governor-Elect Candidate
Manhattan/Bronx Region
A decade ago, in honor of the ACP’s centennial, Dr. Steven Weinberger wrote an essay in the Annals of Internal Medicine outlining key challenges in our field. He emphasized the importance of defining the role of internal medicine in our health care system, addressing threats to professional satisfaction, and controlling rising healthcare costs. These issues remain pressing today.
I believe the existential crisis facing internal medicine over the next three to five years is the erosion of professional satisfaction and the loss of meaning in our daily work. Our current healthcare system prioritizes revenue generation, efficiency, and metrics. Internists are expected to care for complex patients in less time, while also navigating administrative burdens such as prior authorizations, insurance denials, and endless EMR documentation. Managing these pressures long term can lead to diminished sense of purpose, contribute to burnout, moral distress, and drive physicians to leave the profession, impacting workforce stability and patient care.
To address this crisis, we must prioritize the physician-patient relationship and advocate for care models that emphasize patient well-being over profit. At the same time, we must invest in professional development, mentorship, and community-building initiatives. Improving physician professional satisfaction is essential to sustaining a compassionate and effective internal medicine workforce.
As the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's Transitional Year Residency Director for over a decade and my leadership roles within NYACP, I have the skills and enthusiasm to champion these issues at the ACP regional and national levels to help reestablish value and pride in internal medicine.
Vasundhara Singh, MD, FACP
Governor-Elect Candidate
Manhattan/Bronx Region
One of the greatest existential challenges facing Internal Medicine in the next 3–5 years is the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. As AI reshapes how patients receive information, manage illness, and interact with the health system, internists must lead, not lag in adopting and directing its use. If we embrace AI as a tool to enhance, not replace, our humanity, we can reclaim time for meaningful patient care and return to practicing at the top of our cognitive, procedural, and humanistic capacities.
As a physician-educator with experience across UME, GME, and CME at Mount Sinai, I am well-positioned to lead faculty development that prepares our members to engage with AI effectively and ethically. My professional network spans program directors across New York and national leaders in medical education through the AAMC. As a hospitalist working with colleagues statewide, I would leverage these relationships to drive chapter-wide engagement and innovation. As an immigrant physician, I am deeply committed to supporting international medical graduates, a vital pillar of our workforce. My perspective allows me to connect meaningfully with this community and advocate for their inclusion and advancement.
I bring a strong record of NYACP service, co-leading the 2024 Women in Medicine webinar series, contributing to the Early Career series this year, and serving as Manhattan Region Counselor. Last summer, I organized a community bike ride that brought together trainees and practicing physicians across the city. I’m eager to build on this foundation and help guide our chapter through this critical era of transformation.