| CUMC Celebrates - August 19, 2008 |
The entire Columbia University Medical Center work force -- faculty, administrators, and support staff -- is the vital currency to carry out our missions in educating and training health care practitioners, conducting scientific and public health research, and caring for the medical and dental needs of our patients. The new faculty and staff introduced in this issue -- and in other issues throughout the past year -- give us confidence that our important work will flourish through the dedication of our continuing faculty and staff and the energy these new recruits bring through their varied backgrounds in education and experience. Welcome to all of them.
Although this issue is devoted entirely to new recruits, we will share news of appointments in other issues. Let us know about faculty we may have missed or others who join us during the year.
Lee Goldman, M.D.
Executive Vice President, Health and Biomedical Sciences
2007-2008 RECRUITS
COLLEGE OF DENTAL MEDICINE
Nurit Bittner, DDS
Prosthodontics
Dr. Bittner joined the College of Dental Medicine July 1 as assistant professor of clinical dental medicine in the adult dentistry section's division of prosthodontics. Dr. Bittner received her dentistry degree from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (Caracas, Venezuela) in 2003. She remained in Venezuela to complete a series of professional internships and general practice dentistry appointments until entering the master's program in prosthodontics at CDM in 2005. Dr. Bittner recently earned a research grant from the American Academy of Fixed Prosthodontics and won first prize for a poster presentation at the fall 2007 meeting of the American College of Prosthodontics, Northeast Section. At Columbia, she will have clinical instruction responsibilities for third-year dental students and postdoctoral students specializing in prosthodontics.
Elizabeth Philipone, DMD
Oral Pathology
A 2004 graduate of the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, Dr. Philipone completed her residency in oral & maxillofacial pathology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and was appointed diplomate of the American Board of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology in 2007. She joined Columbia in July as assistant professor of clinical dental medicine in the section of hospital dentistry, division of oral pathology. Dr. Philipone's responsibilities will include instruction, supervision of residents, and oral pathology faculty practice.
SCHOOL OF NURSING
Ira Lerner, MBA
Administration
Mr. Lerner has joined the School of Nursing as vice dean for finance and administration. Mr. Lerner comes to SON from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where he was long-time director of facilities management. Mr. Lerner previously worked at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, Mount Sinai Medical Center, and the New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens.
MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Venkatraman E. Seshan, PhD
Biostatistics (and Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, P&S)
Dr. Seshan was recruited to Columbia from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in July 2007, joining the Mailman School as professor of biostatistics and the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center as director of the HICCC's Biostatistics Shared Resource. Dr. Seshan received his undergraduate and master's degrees from the Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta and his doctoral degree in statistics from Stanford University. He launched his academic career as assistant professor of statistics at the University of Arizona in Tucson and later joined the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as clinical assistant biostatistician, rising through the ranks to become an associate member of the center in 2002. Dr. Seshan's research interests focus primarily on developing computer-intensive nonparametric methods for the analysis of biomedical data. He has collaborated extensively with clinical and basic science colleagues and made significant contributions to the design and data analysis of their research studies.
William C.L. Stewart, PhD
Biostatistics
Dr. Stewart was recruited to Columbia from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, where he just completed his postdoctoral fellowship in biostatistics. He will join the Mailman School as assistant professor of biostatistics in the division of statistical genetics in October. A 1999 graduate of the mathematics program at San Francisco State University and a recipient of graduate and doctoral degrees in statistics from the University of Washington-Seattle, Dr. Stewart has a bright future in biostatistics. He specializes in the development of statistical methodologies for genetically linked disorders with non-standard data types. His methods have been used to identify genetic risk factors for bipolar disorder, Alzheimer's disease, and primary pulmonary hypertension. Dr. Stewart is perhaps best known in his field for designing software that locates deleted regions of the genome at the resolution of a single base pair.
COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
Maryam Banikazemi, MD
Pediatrics-Clinical Genetics
Dr. Banikazemi has been named assistant professor of clinical pediatrics in the clinical genetics division after appointments at NYU and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Banikazemi, a metabolic geneticist, is one of the world's foremost experts on Fabry disease and other lysosomal storage disorders, a group of more than 40 rare genetic diseases that lead to the accumulation of harmful waste products in the lysosomes of cells, ultimately disrupting cell function. At Columbia, she will develop a biochemical genetics service within the Department of Pediatrics. A 1991 graduate of the Gazi School of Medicine (Ankara, Turkey), Dr. Banikazemi did her pediatrics residency at Cook County Hospital in Illinois and completed two clinical residencies in medical genetics and biochemical genetics at Mount Sinai.
Henry M. Colecraft, PhD
Physiology & Cellular Biophysics and Pharmacology
Dr. Colecraft, associate professor of physiology & cellular biophysics and associate professor of pharmacology, joined P&S in October 2007. He is a leading expert in the areas of ion channel structure/function and regulation and voltage-gated calcium channels, critical for the biology of electrically active cells such as heart muscle and nerve cells. Dr. Colecraft's work focuses on achieving fundamental understanding of how these channels operate in both normal functioning and disease states, as well as engineering new molecules to regulate their activity for potential therapeutic benefit. A graduate of the University of London, Kings College, Dr. Colecraft received his master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Rochester and did postdoctoral work at Johns Hopkins, where he also served as an assistant professor of biomedical engineering.
Katie Conway, MA, EdM
Administration-Faculty Development
A long-time member of Columbia's Morningside community, Ms. Conway has joined P&S as director of faculty professional development, a position that will use her expertise in program development, institutional research, and strategic planning to assist Vice Dean of Academic Affairs Anne Taylor on projects supporting the needs of faculty throughout their academic careers. Ms. Conway received her bachelor's degree from Columbia College and holds two master's degrees from Columbia's Teachers College, where she is completing her doctorate. She is a research associate in the Office of the President at Teachers College and is part of a Ford Foundation-funded research cohort in the Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences program at Columbia. Ms. Conway has studied issues of social and cultural capital in faculty careers, as well as how faculty navigate the tenure process while doing interdisciplinary work. Her dissertation research focuses on how faculty development programs can best support professors to create thriving careers.
Sheldon Marc Feldman, MD, FACS
Surgery-Surgical Oncology
A specialist in minimally invasive breast cancer surgery and mammary ductoscopy, Dr. Feldman was named assistant professor of clinical surgery and chief of the breast cancer section in the surgical oncology division. He joins P&S from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he was associate professor of clinical surgery since 2001. Dr. Feldman also directed the Appel-Venet Comprehensive Breast Service and served as chief of Beth Israel Medical Center's Division of Breast Surgery from 2000 until joining Columbia. Dr. Feldman's research interests include environmental factors and breast cancer, breast endoscopy and intraductal diagnostics and treatment, and sentinel node biopsy. A graduate of NYU, Dr. Feldman did his internship and residency at NYU/Bellevue Hospital Medical Center and completed a clinical fellowship in peripheral vascular surgery at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in the early 1980s.
Joachim Frank, PhD
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
Dr. Frank joined P&S as professor of biochemistry & molecular biophysics (and professor of biological sciences at Morningside) after more than three decades as a senior research scientist at the Wadsworth Center in Albany. A native of Germany and a University of Munich graduate, Dr. Frank is perhaps best known for developing a number of novel imaging techniques to study the molecular machines of the cell. He pioneered the use of cryo-electron microscopy and three-dimensional reconstruction to clarify how the ribosome, the workhorse driving the translation of messenger RNA into protein, interacts with messenger RNA, transfer RNA, and other ligands to synthesize protein. The bacterial ribosome is the target of many antibiotics, and an understanding of its function will lead to better ways to fight drug resistance. Previously affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, the Technical University of Munich, and the Cavendish Laboratory (Cambridge, U.K.), Dr. Frank is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and recipient of numerous awards and honors, including fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Biophysical Society and membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy for Microbiology.
Sankar Ghosh, PhD
Microbiology (chair)
Sankar Ghosh, PhD, will join us later this year as chair of the Department of Microbiology. A world-renowned immunologist and microbiologist and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Ghosh has spent nearly two decades at Yale University School of Medicine, where he most recently served as a professor of immunobiology and of molecular biophysics & biochemistry. He is well known for his work on the role of the Nuclear Factor-kappa B (NF-kB) family of transcription factors in the mammalian immune response. NF-kB plays an important role in regulating the expression of several genes involved in the inflammatory process, so Dr. Ghosh's research has significant implications for the treatment of inflammatory diseases such as arthritis, colitis, dermatitis, and asthma, and diseases in which inflammation plays a major role, such as cancer and muscular dystrophy. Dr. Ghosh received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Calcutta University, completed his doctorate at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and did his postdoctoral research at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT.
Monica Halem, MD
Dermatology
A specialist in dermatological surgery, Dr. Halem was appointed assistant clinical professor of dermatology and joined the staff of Columbia University Dermatology Associates. She received her medical degree from the University of Miami School of Medicine in 1997, then completed a one-year internship and two years of residency in general surgery at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, followed by a clinical research fellowship in cosmetic dermatology and a three-year residency program at the University of Miami. She recently underwent specialized procedural surgery training at the University of California at San Francisco, completing a fellowship in Mohs micrographic surgery, a precise technique that involves removing skin cancers one layer at a time and examining them under a microscope.
L. Fredrik Jarskog, MD
Psychiatry
Dr. Jarskog joined the Department of Psychiatry at P&S as associate professor of clinical psychiatry (and the New York State Psychiatric Institute as chief of clinical therapeutics and research director for psychotic disorders clinical services, Lieber Center for Schizophrenia Research and Treatment) last summer. An expert in the neuropathology and psychopharmacology of schizophrenia, Dr. Jarskog's research involves testing drugs with novel mechanisms of action for cognitive deficits, negative symptoms, and treatment resistance in schizophrenia, working to translate and develop them into effective clinical therapeutics. Before joining P&S, Dr. Jarskog served as deputy director of the clinical research unit at Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh, N.C. A native of Sweden, Dr. Jarskog earned his BA in chemistry from Johns Hopkins University in 1986 and his medical degree from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in 1991. He did his medical internship at Wake Forest and completed his psychiatry residency and a clinical psychobiology and psychopharmacology fellowship at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
Amy M. Jean, MD
Pediatrics-Pediatric Endocrinology
Dr. Jean has been recruited to the Department of Pediatrics as instructor in pediatric endocrinology, joining the faculty upon completion of a related research fellowship at P&S in June 2008. In her new role, she will focus on clinical research, assessing the metabolic and appetite hormone changes that occur in teenagers after bariatric surgery. A 2002 graduate of Marshall University's medical school, Dr. Jean has studied the genetics and prenatal diagnosis of the rare condition known as congenital lipoid adrenal hyperplasia.
Wyman Lai, MD, MPH
Pediatrics-Pediatric Cardiology
Dr. Lai has been recruited as assistant professor of clinical pediatrics and director of non-invasive imaging in the pediatric cardiology division. Dr. Lai received his medical degree from Brown University School of Medicine, completed his residency and fellowship training at UCLA, and holds an MPH in maternal and fetal health from Harvard University. His professional interests include complex congenital heart disease, fetal cardiology and echocardiography, and cardiac MRI.
Carin Lamm, MD
Pediatrics-Pediatric Pulmonology
Dr. Lamm joined the Department of Pediatrics last year as associate clinical professor of pediatrics, Division of Pulmonology, after 25 years at Mount Sinai Medical Center. A noted expert in pediatric asthma and sleep disorders in children, Dr. Lamm was appointed director of the Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center of Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian. Dr. Lamm, a graduate of NYU, completed her pediatrics residency and a clinical fellowship in pediatric pulmonary medicine at Mount Sinai, where she directed the pediatric sleep disorders program for many years. Dr. Lamm is a member of the American Board of Sleep Medicine and the American Sleep Disorders Association and was included in the last seven editions of "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area," published by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.
Hilel Lewis, MD
Ophthalmology
Dr. Lewis, a world-renowned ophthalmologist, was recruited in early July as professor of ophthalmology at P&S and the Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute from the Cleveland Clinic-Lerner College of Medicine, where he served as chairman and professor of ophthalmology and was founder and director of the Cole Eye Institute. Dr. Lewis will establish and lead a division of international ophthalmology, developing and building a first-class research program focused on efforts to combat global vision loss. He will have teaching and patient care responsibilities through the Eye Institute's retina division. Born, raised, and educated in Mexico City, Dr. Lewis did his residency training at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA and completed fellowships at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Johns Hopkins. Before joining the Cleveland Clinic in 1993, Dr. Lewis had an appointment at UCLA. He is president-elect of the International Council of Ophthalmology Foundation and Chair XXXIV of Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis and has served as associate editor and executive editor of the American Journal of Ophthalmology.
Guohua Li , MD, DrPH
Anesthesiology (P&S) and Epidemiology (Mailman)
A noted authority on injury epidemiology and prevention, Dr. Li came to P&S and Mailman in July 2007 from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he served as professor and director of research in the Department of Emergency Medicine. In his new role as the M. Finster Professor of Anesthesiology and Epidemiology, Dr. Li directs the clinical research program for perioperative care and critical care. He is also leading the effort to develop a clinical epidemiology program at CUMC. Dr. Li received his medical degree from Beijing Medical University and did graduate training at Johns Hopkins University. He won the Kenneth Rothman Epidemiology Prize in 1999 and a coveted Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. He is an elected fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association and the American College of Epidemiology.
Jessica Newman, MD, MPH
Dermatology
A 1999 graduate of Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health (MPH, Epidemiology) and 2004 graduate of Yale University's medical school, Dr. Newman comes to P&S from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she just completed a three-year dermatology residency. As assistant clinical professor of dermatology at P&S, Dr. Newman will serve as section chief of the dermatology clinic at the James J. Peters Bronx VA Medical Center, where she will have an active teaching role in the dermatology residency and training program.
Kristin Ognibene, MD
Pediatrics-Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
A recent graduate of the pediatric residency and critical care fellowship programs at P&S, Dr. Ognibene was appointed to a faculty position as assistant professor of clinical pediatrics in the pediatric critical care medicine division earlier this summer. Dr. Ognibene received her medical degree from the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey and a master's degree in biostatistics from the Mailman School. She has served as resident councilor of the New York County Medical Society, as representative to the American Medical Association's House of Delegates from New York state, and as member-at-large of the AMA's Resident and Fellow Section.
Heather Paladine, MD
Medicine-Center for Community and Family Medicine
Dr. Paladine, newly appointed as associate residency program director in family medicine and assistant clinical professor of medicine-family medicine, joined P&S and the Center for Community and Family Medicine in May 2008, leaving her positions as visiting assistant professor and associate residency director in clinical family medicine at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. In this new capacity, Dr. Paladine will work to enhance the residency training curriculum and rotations and pursue her interest in women's health issues. A graduate of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Dr. Paladine completed a residency in family medicine at Oregon Health and Science University, followed by a fellowship in maternal and children's health care at California Hospital in Los Angeles.
Malini Patel, MD
Pediatrics
A graduate of MIT and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Dr. Patel has been named instructor in clinical pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Patel completed her pediatric residency at NYU School of Medicine and served as chief pediatric resident at NYU/Bellevue Hospital Center.
Sameer Patel, MD
Pediatrics-Infectious Diseases
Dr. Patel joined the Department of Pediatrics in its infectious disease division as instructor in clinical pediatrics after completing a pediatric infectious diseases fellowship at P&S in June. A graduate of Rush University Medical College in Chicago, Dr. Patel did his pediatric residency at Weill-Cornell. His research interests include prevention of antibiotic resistance in hospitalized infants and children, perceptions of antimicrobial stewardship among neonatologists, and barriers to adherence with CDC antimicrobial guidelines in neonatal and pediatric hospital settings.
Raul Rabadan, PhD
Biomedical Informatics
Most recently affiliated with the world-renowned Institute for Advanced Study (Simons Center for Systems Biology) at Princeton, Dr. Rabadan has been named assistant professor of biomedical informatics (in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics), effective September 1. A theoretical physicist and string theory expert by training, Dr. Rabadan addresses key open research questions in computational biology, specifically in the areas of virology, viral epidemiology, and cancer genetics. He has developed and used novel quantitative biology methods to establish differences between Influenza A viruses in birds and humans, studied how avian and human influenza viruses transmigrate between species, designed algorithms to identify organism-specific genetic sequences in HIV, and employed techniques in comparative genomics to help clarify how single nucleotide polymorphisms, one of the largest types of inherited genetic variations in humans, affect cancer. Dr. Rabadan received his doctoral degree from Universidad Autonoma (Madrid, Spain) and has completed postdoctoral fellowships with the Institute for Advanced Study's Theoretical Physics Group and CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
Marc Richmond, MD
Pediatrics-Pediatric Cardiology
A June 2008 graduate of the pediatric cardiology clinical fellowship program at P&S, Dr. Richmond has joined the faculty as assistant professor of clinical pediatrics. He will work with Linda Addonizio, MD, professor of pediatrics, in the pediatric cardiomyopathy, heart failure, and transplantation program. Dr. Richmond received his medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine and completed his residency training at Yale University/New Haven Hospital. During his two-year P&S fellowship, he conducted research on ventricular function and heart failure with Dr. Henry Spotnitz, the George H. Humphreys II Professor of Surgery.
Rodrigo Sandoval, MD
Surgery-Abdominal Organ Transplantation
Dr. Sandoval joined the faculty as instructor in clinical surgery earlier this year. A graduate of the Central University of Ecuador's Faculty of Medical Sciences in Quito, Dr. Sandoval did his medical internship at the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security Hospital and a general surgery residency at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He completed an organ transplant fellowship at P&S and was elected to membership in the American Society for Transplant Surgeons in 2007. Dr. Sandoval's clinical specialties include liver transplantation, laparoscopic liver and gallbladder surgery, pancreatic surgery, kidney transplantation, cross-match transplantation and laparoscopic donor kidney removal surgery, and pediatric kidney, liver, and small bowel transplantation.
Anita Sen, MD
Pediatrics-Critical Care Medicine
Dr. Sen joined the division of critical care medicine in July as an assistant professor of pediatrics. A 2001 graduate of P&S, Dr. Sen completed the pediatric residency program at Mount Sinai Hospital in 2004 and a pediatric critical care fellowship at Columbia earlier this summer. Her research interests include the role of enzymes known as matrix metalloproteinases in acute lung injury.
Steven L. Shafer, MD
Anesthesiology
Dr. Shafer was recruited to P&S from Stanford University last year, joining the faculty as professor of anesthesiology. He continues to hold an adjunct academic position at Stanford, where he received his medical degree and did a clinical fellowship in pharmacology, as well as a similar appointment in biopharmaceutical sciences at the University of California at San Francisco. Dr. Shafer is a graduate of Princeton University and completed his anesthesia residency at the University of Pennsylvania. He is editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Anesthesia & Analgesia and former chair of the Anesthesia and Life Support Drug Advisory Committee at the FDA, with whom he continues to work as a special government employee. An expert in mathematical modeling of drug behavior, Dr. Shafer has conducted and led numerous clinical studies on the intravenous opioids and hypnotics used in anesthetic practice.
Michael M. Shen, PhD
Medicine and Genetics & Development
Dr. Shen joined P&S in 2007 as professor of medicine-oncology and of genetics & development and as director of the tumor cell biology program in the Department of Medicine's Division of Hematology and Oncology, after 13 years with the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. At UMDNJ Dr. Shen rose through the academic and professional ranks, ultimately serving as chief of the Division of Developmental Biology in the Department of Pediatrics and as associate director of the UMDNJ-affiliated Child Health Institute of New Jersey. He received his undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Harvard University and completed doctoral studies in genetics at Cambridge University and a postdoctoral fellowship in genetics at Harvard. Dr. Shen's research interests include the molecular mechanisms of organ development in vertebrates and prostate development and cancer in mouse models.
Barbara Stanley, PhD
Psychiatry
Director of the Suicide Intervention Center at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, Dr. Stanley was recently appointed as assistant professor of clinical psychology (in psychiatry). She was previously a professor of psychology at City University of New York, John Jay College. Dr. Stanley has research experience and professional expertise in the clinical factors, neurobiology, and treatment of suicidal behavior, borderline personality disorder, and depression. She has served as president of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's metropolitan New York chapter and on the board of directors of PRM&R (Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research); founded the Applied Research Ethics National Association, a PRM&R affiliate, in the mid-1980s; and is a former chair of the American Psychological Association's Committee for the Protection of Human Participants in Research. Dr. Stanley received her undergraduate degree from Montclair State University, completed her graduate and doctoral studies at New York University, and did her medical internship in psychiatry at Long Island Jewish Medical Center.
Joel Stein, MD
Rehabilitation Medicine (chair)
Dr. Stein has been named chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at P&S and chief of the coordinated program in rehabilitation medicine at CUMC, Weill-Cornell Medical Center, and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, effective September 1. A leading national figure in stroke research and patient care, Dr. Stein is currently the chief medical officer for Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School. His research explores the use of robot-aided rehabilitation for weakness after stroke and other neurological conditions, the use of electrical cortical stimulation to facilitate motor recovery, and the development of wearable sensors to monitor daily activity levels of recovering stroke patients. Dr. Stein received his undergraduate degree from Columbia College and his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He trained in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Columbia, serving as chief resident. He has been on the faculty of Harvard Medical School since 1993. Dr. Stein also will oversee the physical therapy and occupational therapy programs at P&S, direct the hospital's rehabilitation medicine service, and serve as division chief of rehabilitation medicine at Weill-Cornell.
Erik H. Waldman, MD
Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery
Dr. Waldman joined the P&S faculty in July 2008 as assistant professor of otolaryngology/head & neck surgery and as clinical director of pediatric cochlear implants. Dr. Waldman received his medical degree from UCLA, did his residency training at Johns Hopkins University, and completed a pediatric otolaryngology fellowship at Children's Hospital Boston. Dr. Waldman's research and professional interests include pediatric cochlear implantation, pediatric otology (the branch of biomedicine focusing in-depth on normal and pathological anatomy and physiology of the ear), pediatric sinus disorders, and airway disorders in children.
Christopher Kevin Wong, MS, PhD, PT
Rehabilitation Medicine-Physical Therapy
Dr. Wong, a P&S PT alumnus, has joined the faculty as assistant professor of clinical physical therapy, effective July 1. A board-certified orthopedic clinical specialist with expertise in prosthetics and amputee rehabilitation, Dr. Wong served as associate professor and director of physical therapy programs at Manhattan's Touro College. His research interests include testing the validity, reliability, and efficacy of clinical assessments and interventions in orthopedics and sports physical therapy. Dr. Wong is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association's New York chapter and education and orthopedic sections and has published articles in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Physical Therapy, Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapy, Journal of Physical Therapy Education, and Biomechanics. He received his doctorate from Touro University International in Los Angeles.
Naureen Zafar, MD
Medicine-Center for Community and Family Medicine
Dr. Zafar, newly appointed assistant clinical professor of medicine, joined P&S and the clinical faculty of the Center for Community and Family Medicine in May. Dr. Zafar received her medical degree from Fatima Jinnah Medical College in Pakistan. She received cardiology training in Pakistan and then completed a residency in family medicine and fellowships in family practice, geriatrics, and pain & behavioral medicine at New York's Stony Brook University. Dr. Zafar, who has maintained a private practice in Bedford, N.Y., since 2004, has been recognized for the past four years by the Guide to America's Top Family Doctors, published by the Consumers' Research Council of America. Her areas of research and professional interest include medical education and international health.
Other faculty recruits announced in previous issues (issue date noted in parentheses) of CUMC Celebrates:
COLLEGE OF DENTAL MEDICINE
Christos Angelopoulos, DDS, Periodontics (Aug. 1, 2007)
Courtney H. Chinn, DDS, Community Health (Dec. 13, 2007)
Philip Kang, DDS, Periodontics (Jan. 14, 2008)
Emil Kozarov, PhD, Periodontics (May. 20, 2008)
Stephen St. James, DDS, Periodontics (Jan. 14, 2008)
Sonia Varlamos, DDS, Periodontics (Jan.14, 2008)
MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Debbie Barrington, PhD, Epidemiology (Sept. 27, 2007)
Lisa Bates, PhD, Epidemiology and Population & Family Health (Sept. 27, 2007)
Linda Fried, MD, dean (Feb. 15, 2008)
Moazzem Hossain, MD, Population & Family Health (Sept. 27, 2007)
Andrea Howard, MD, Epidemiology (Dec. 13, 2007)
Claire Wang, MD, ScD, Health & Policy Management (Sept. 27, 2007)
COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
Cory Abate-Shen, PhD, Urology (March 18, 2008)
Mark Alter, MD, PhD, Psychiatry (Sept. 27, 2007)
Gudrun Aspelund, MD, Surgery (Sept. 13, 2007)
Matthew Bacchetta, MD, Surgery (Sept. 13, 2007)
Ketan K. Badani, MD, Urology (Jan. 14, 2008)
Michael Bowdish, MD, Surgery (March 18, 2008)
Randy Bruno, PhD, Neuroscience (Sept. 27, 2007)
Allen B. Chefitz, MD, Surgery (Sept. 27, 2007)
K.S. Clifford Chao, MD, Radiation Oncology (April 24, 2008)
Christine Chen, ScD, Occupational Therapy (Sept. 27, 2007)
Daniel Chrzanowski, MD, Psychiatry (Sept. 27, 2007)
Rajeev Dayal, MD, Surgery (Feb. 15, 2008)
Noemie Elhadad, PhD, Biomedical Informatics (Sept. 13, 2007)
Rachana Gavara, MD, Obstetrics & Gynecology (Sept. 27, 2007)
Erica J. Gibson, MD, Pediatrics (Sept. 13, 2007)
Michael Goldstein, MD, Surgery (Feb. 15, 2008)
Nancy S. Green, MD, Pediatrics (Sept. 13, 2007)
Jason M. Greenfield, MD, Urology (Jan. 14, 2008)
Andrew A. Gumbs, MD, Surgery (Sept. 13, 2007)
Lara Harik, MD, Pathology (May 20, 2008)
Amanda Johnson, MD, Obstetrics & Gynecology (Sept. 27, 2007)
Nahla Khalek, MD, Obstetrics & Gynecology (Sept. 27, 2007)
Arno Klein, PhD, Psychiatry (Sept. 27, 2007)
Heidi Klingbeil, MD, Rehabilitation Medicine (Sept. 13, 2007)
Solomon S. Kuah, MD, Medicine (Sept. 27, 2007)
Aileen Langston, MD, Obstetrics & Gynecology (Sept. 27, 2007)
Susan Lin, DrPH, Medicine (April 24, 2008)
Jason Moy, MD, Surgery (Feb. 15, 2008)
Benjamin Ohlstein, MD, PhD, Genetics & Development (Sept. 27, 2007)
Felix Raymond Ortega, MD, Surgery (Feb. 15, 2008)
Rebecca Pagan, PhD, Psychiatry (Sept. 27, 2007)
Kiran Pandit, MD, Medicine (Sept. 27, 2007)
Susanna Park, MD, Obstetrics & Gynecology (Sept. 27, 2007)
Devendra Patel, MD, Obstetrics & Gynecology (Sept. 27, 2007)
Matthew Perkins, MD, Psychiatry (Sept. 27, 2007)
Sandra Pimentel, PhD, Psychiatry (Sept. 27, 2007)
Li Poa, MD, Surgery (Sept. 13, 2007)
Adam Ratner, MD, Pediatrics and Microbiology (Sept. 27, 2007)
Joanna Robin, PhD, Psychiatry (Sept. 27, 2007)
Oliver Sacks, MD, Psychiatry (Sept. 27, 2007)
Noa'a Shimoni, MD, Obstetrics & Gynecology (Sept. 27, 2007)
Miguel R. Silva, MD, Surgery (Sept. 27, 2007)
Lawrence R. Stanberry, MD, PhD, Pediatrics (Nov. 28, 2007)
Lori Sussel, PhD, Genetics & Development (Sept. 27, 2007)
Peter Tang, MD, Orthopedic Surgery (Oct. 26, 2007)
Anne Taylor, MD, Medicine and Vice Dean (Nov. 28, 2007)
Christopher M. Tedeschi, MD, Medicine (Sept. 27, 2007)
Ravi Ubriani, MD, Dermatology (Sept. 27, 2007)
Joseph P. Underwood, MD, Medicine (Sept. 27, 2007)
Ilyas Washington, PhD, Ophthalmology (Sept. 13, 2007)
Chunhua Weng, PhD, Biomedical Informatics (Sept. 13, 2007)
Emily White, MD, Obstetrics & Gynecology (Sept. 27, 2007)
Mathew R. Williams, MD, Surgery (Sept. 13, 2007)
Ai Yamamoto, PhD, Neurology (Sept. 27, 2007)
Richard Younge, MD, Medicine (Sept. 27, 2007)
Laurie C. Zephyrin, MD, Obstetrics & Gynecology (Sept. 27, 2007)
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