Phelps Promotes Briarcliff Resident

Tobe Banc, MD of Briarcliff Manor, has been promoted to the position of Vice President and Medical Director at Phelps Memorial Hospital Center in Sleepy Hollow, NY.

She has served as Assistant Medical Director at Phelps since 2007. In this new role, she is responsible for the oversight of all clinical activities including the delivery of medical care, utilization review and quality assurance. She also oversees all patient care policies and is involved in the strategic development and implementation of programs related to clinical services.

Dr. Banc joined the Phelps medical staff in 2004 and one year later was appointed Medical Director at Kendal on Hudson, the continuing care retirement community on the Phelps campus. In 2007, Dr. Banc became a full-time employed physician at Phelps and assumed the role of Assistant Medical Director. She also began to direct Senior Health and Internal Medicine, the geriatric, internal medicine and palliative care practice that is part of Phelps Medical Associates.

Dr. Banc is board certified in internal medicine with a certificate of added qualification in geriatrics. She received her medical degree from New York University School of Medicine and completed ar residency in internal medicine at the University of Connecticut. She then went on to complete a 2-year fellowship in geriatrics at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City where she also sought additional training in palliative care and became an attending physician. Through her affiliation there, she held positions as a physician manager at Franklin Health, a complex case management company, and went on to become the Director of Palliative Care Education at the Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) at the Bronx VA Medical Center. While at the GRECC, Dr. Banc co-authored a curriculum in geriatrics and palliative care for one of the first interdisciplinary fellowship programs in the country.