Riffat Sadiq, MD, IM, a Geriatrician with WNY Medical, PC
Get to know Geriatrician Dr. Riffat Sadiq, who serves patients in Amherst, New York.
Dr. Sadiq is a respectable physician with over 25 years of extensive experience specializing in internal medicine and geriatrics. She is currently the President and CEO of WNY Medical, PC, which she founded in 2002. She is also the President of Geriatric Associates, LLP, serving as the Medical Director of Acute Geriatric Service at Erie County Medical Center.
WNY Medical, PC is a multiclinic and multidisciplinary practice focused on primary care and disease management and prevention. In this practice, the doctor leads a team of 35 physician and midlevel providers serving in fourteen offices throughout Western New York, as well as providing inpatient services at several area hospitals and nursing homes.
A native of Pakistan, Dr. Sadiq graduated with her medical degree from the Fatima Jinnah Medical University in 1987. After relocating to the United States, she completed her residency in internal medicine at the Erie County Medical Center in 1998, followed by her fellowship in geriatric medicine at the Deaconess Immediate Treatment Center in 1999.
Among her other roles, she is affiliated as volunteer faculty with University at Buffalo and as a Preceptor with the Physician Assistant program at Daemen College.
Geriatrics, or geriatric medicine, is a specialty that focuses on health care of elderly people. It aims to promote health by preventing and treating diseases and disabilities in older adults. Geriatricians are physicians who work primarily with the elderly. Although they address their patients’ multiple medical problems and chronic illnesses, geriatricians focus primarily on quality of life and functional ability. They determine when it is no longer medically safe for seniors to live alone and counsel them on alternative living arrangements, as well as counsel patients and families on end of life care.
An authority in her field, Dr. Sadiq has been recognized by Business First Magazine as one of the top fifty medical professionals in the Buffalo area for her contributions to improving health care in Western New York.
Learn More about Dr. Riffat Sadiq:
Through her findatopdoc profile, https://www.findatopdoc.com/doctor/2702001-Riffat-Sadiq-Internist or through WNY Medical, PC, https://www.wnymedical.com/team/riffat-sadiq-md
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