Internal Medicine

Dr. Deborah Hemel has been practicing outpatient internal medicine in Westchester for over a decade.

After graduating from Scarsdale High School, Dr. Hemel went on to Williams College in Massachusetts where she earned a BA in Religion, graduating Magna Cum Laude. After college, Dr. Hemel was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Israel, where she participated in research about the social impact and neurobiological underpinnings of PTSD. Dr. Hemel earned her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, then completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at New York University Medical Center/ Bellevue Hospital.

After residency, Dr. Hemel served as a teaching hospitalist at Montefiore Medical Center and as an instructor of medicine at Albert Einstein School of Medicine. After returning to Westchester to raise her family, she joined Scarsdale Medical Group as an outpatient internist. She subsequently joined the Columbia faculty in 2017, along with Dr. David Goldberg and Dr. Deborah Finkelstein. Since 2017 she has worked as an outpatient internist with ColumbiaDoctors, the faculty practice of Columbia University Medical Center, and has treated patients at NewYork-Presbyterian Medical Group in Westchester.

BOARD CERTIFICATIONS

Internal Medicine

EDUCATION & TRAINING

BA - Williams College

MD - University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Internship & Residency - NYU Langone / Bellevue Hospital, Internal Medicine

HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS

NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center

NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester

White Plains Hospital