Credentials
Positions
- Professor, Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
- Professor, Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
- Associate Director, Medical Education, Institute for Excellence in Health Equity (IEHE)
- Co- Director, (Medical Education), Beyond Bridges
Board Certifications
- American Board of Internal Medicine - Internal Medicine, 2007
Education and Training
- Residency, New York Presbyterian - Weill Cornell Medical Center, Internal Medicine, 2007
- MD from Albert Einstein College of Med, 2004
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This provider accepts the following insurance plans.
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Aetna
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Indemnity
- Aetna Medicare
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO/EPO
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Agewell
- Agewell
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Amidacare
- Amidacare
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Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Empire BCBS
- Empire BCBS Top Tier
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Centerlight
- Centerlight
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Centers Plan For Healthy Living
- Centers Plan for Healthy Living
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Cigna
- Cigna EPO/POS
- Cigna PPO
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ElderPlan
- ElderPlan
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Emblem
- Emblem Select Care Exchange
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Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield EPO
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield HealthPlus
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Indemnity
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield MediBlue
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield POS
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO
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Fidelis
- Fidelis Child Health
- Fidelis Exchange
- Fidelis Medicaid
- Fidelis Medicare
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GHI
- GHI CBP
- GHI HMO
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HIP
- HIP Access I
- HIP Access II
- HIP Child Health
- HIP EPO/PPO
- HIP HMO
- HIP Medicaid
- HIP Medicare
- HIP POS
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Hamaspik Choice
- Hamaspik Choice Medicare DSNP
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Healthfirst
- Healthfirst
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Hotel Trades
- Hotel Trades
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Humana
- Humana Medicare
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Local 1199
- Local 1199 PPO
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Longevity Health Plan
- Longevity Health Plan Medicare
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MagnaCare
- MagnaCare PPO
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Medicaid
- NY Medicaid
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Medicare
- Medicare
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MetroPlus
- MetroPlus Child Health
- MetroPlus Exchange Plans
- MetroPlus Medicaid
- MetroPlus Medicare
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MultiPlan/PHCS
- MultiPlan/PHCS PPO
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NYS Health Insurance Plan
- The Empire Plan
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Oxford
- Oxford Freedom
- Oxford Liberty
- Oxford Medicare
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PHP
- PHP
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Railroad Medicare
- Railroad Medicare
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River Spring Health Plan
- River Spring Medicare HMP SNP
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Senior Whole Health
- Senior Whole Health
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Three Rivers
- Three Rivers Provider Network
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Tricare
- Tricare
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UHC
- UnitedHealthcare EPO
- UnitedHealthcare HMO
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare
- UnitedHealthcare POS
- UnitedHealthcare PPO
- UnitedHealthcare Top Tier
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VNS
- Visiting Nurse Service (VNS) Medicare
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Village Caremax
- Village Caremax
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WTC Health Program
- WTC Health Program
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WellCare
- WellCare Medicare
Cristina M. Gonzalez, MD does not accept insurance.
Locations and Appointments
NYU Langone Hospital Brooklyn
150 55th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11220
Research My Research
Interests
Health Equity, Health Disparities, Implicit Bias Recognition and Management, Medical Education
Research Summary
My lab's mission is to contribute to achieving health equity by transforming medical education at a national level. In support of that transformation, we focus on developing, implementing, and evaluating interventions that equip health professionals with the skills to optimize the outcomes with patients within the clinical encounter. Our target audience is health professionals across the spectrum of training and practice. We seek to improve clinicians' skills (including our own) to enable all patients across personal identities to have positive experiences, dignified encounters, and excellent, equitable outcomes.
Our strongest focus is on addressing the negative impacts of implicit bias. We have developed a patient-informed, skills-based, behavioral framework called implicit bias recognition and management (IBRM). IBRM is a two-fold process: 1) Recognize when implicit bias has impacted an interaction with a patient; and 2) Manage the negative impact of bias to restore rapport with the patient and achieve the excellent outcomes we intend in the first place. This framework accounts for actual bias on the part of the clinician (i.e. an assumption we might make) and it accounts for perceived bias by the patient (due to their lived experience) on a statement or procedure that we might otherwise deem routine. IBRM was initially developed through research with patients, then further refined through research with students and faculty. Patients' perspectives have informed all of our interventions. Interventions focus on optimizing both verbal and nonverbal communication skills.
My lab has also developed the experimental model to test interventions seeking to address implicit bias in a simulated setting. This advancement allows clinicians to learn and practice new skills without risking harming patients- key to patient safety and health equity.
More recently we have expanded from communication skills into research on addressing the impact of implicit bias on the diagnostic process.
We have benefitted from the ideas and contributions of many collaborators- from high school and college students, through medical students and trainees, and interprofessional colleagues and faculty at all career levels. We welcome any inquiries from those interested in medical education, health professions education, and/or health equity.
Research Interests Timeline
Publications
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Keegan, Grace...
American journal of surgery. 2025 Jan ; 239:116062
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Beltran, Christine P...
Journal of general internal medicine. 2025 Jan ; 40(1):207-212
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Ring, Jeffrey...
Journal of general internal medicine. 2024 Dec 20;