IRVING INSTITUTE - Key Persons
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- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics - Developmental Drugs
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- MHS, Medicine / Endocrinology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Associate Research Scientist, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
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- Biomedical Informatics - Biomedical Informatics ( Principal Investigator )
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- Pediatrics ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Nursing - Scholarship and Research ( Principal Investigator )
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- Neurology - Movement Disorders ( Principal Investigator )
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- Psychiatry and Epidemiology ( Co - Investigator )
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- Psychiatry ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Columbia Climate School ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Principal Investigator
- Radiology
- Assistant Professor, Radiology, Pilot Study: Optical Imaging of Radionuclides
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- Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellow
Optimization of the Isopomiferin Scaffold as an HDAC-based Precision Medicine for MycNAMP Nueroblastoma
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Alexander Melamed, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. He provides medical and surgical care to women with cancers of the reproductive system including ovarian, uterine, cervical, and vulvar cancer. Before joining the faculty at Columbia University, he completed residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology and fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology at the Harvard-affiliated programs of Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital. In addition to caring for patients, he also conducts research into how variation in treatment affects cancer outcomes in the real world. His research interests and expertise center on harnessing "big data" to learn how we can improve surgical outcomes among women receiving treatment for gynecologic cancers. Specifically, his work has helped to define the role of minimally invasive surgery in gynecologic oncology and identified strategies that reduce unnecessary side effects in the treatment of ovarian cancer. These and other studies have been published in leading medical journals including The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA Oncology, and BMJ.
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- Assistant Professor, Medicine: Genetic Studies of Acute Renal Allograft Rejection
- Medicine - Nephrology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Pediatrics ( Principal Investigator )
- Professor of Pediatrics in Pharmacology
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- Assistant Professor, Pathology and Cell Biology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Associate Research Scientist, Urology and Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center ( HICCC )
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- Associate Research Scientist, Neuroscience
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- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Psychiatry, Neural Correlates of Visual Attention Bias in PTSD
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- School of Social Work ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Environmental Health Sciences ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Dr., Systems Biology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
Andrea Miltiades, MD, Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology: A Window into the Effects of Preeclampsia on Women's Health Long Term: A Post-partum Longitudinal Study to Evaluate Endothelial Function and Angiogenic Biomarkers in Women Diagnosed with Early Bersus Late Onset Preeclampsia
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- Assistant Professor, Medical Science ( in Medicine )
Very short bio: Dr. Duran is an Assistant Professor of Medical Science at the Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, as well as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar Alumna. She received her PhD in Kinesiology at Columbia University and completed her post-doctoral fellowship in Implementation Science in the Department of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Her current research focuses on developing equitable, theory-informed, multilevel implementation strategies for integrating evidence-based physical activity guidelines and novel behavioral interventions into diverse healthcare and community settings, with the aim of reducing health disparities in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Dr. Duran's interest in the behavioral sciences and CVD prevention is driven by her dedication to address the high rates of physical inactivity and CVD in disadvantaged communities.
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- Associate Research Scientist, Pediatrics
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- Co - Principal Investigator
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- Co - Principal Investigator )
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- DSc, Biomedical Engineering and Radiology
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- Psychiatry ( Principal Investigator )
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- Neurology
- Neurology - Neuro - Oncology
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- Pathology and Cell Biology ( Co - Principal Investigator: Clinical )
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- Associate Research Scientist, Medicine - Oncology
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- Dermatology, Genetics & Development ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Instructor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
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- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Psychiatry, Behavioral Medicine
Angeliki Pollatou, PhD is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry. Her research interests involve development of tools to study fetal and neonate brains.
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- Esther Aboodi Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Medicine
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- Otolaryngology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Instructor in Clinical Medicine, Medicine
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- Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine ( Principal Investigator )
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- Medicine: Infectious Diseases ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Assistant Clinical Professor, Pediatrics
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- Associate Research Scientist, Pediatrics, Functional Screening
Anthony Romer, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, Pediatrics, Functional Screening for Novel Diabetes Risk Variants That Impair the Differentiation, Function and/or Fitness of Insulin-Producing Beta Cells
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- Associate Research Scientist, Psychiatry
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- FAAP, Pediatrics ( Principal Investigator )
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- Assistant Professor, Medicine
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- Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Pediatrics - Emergency Medicine ( Principal Investigator )
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- Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow, Pediatrics
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- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Associate Research Scientist, Surgery
Barry Hudson, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, Surgery: Preoncology: The Soluble Splice Variant of RAGE is a Protective Mechanism Against Tumorigenesis and Metastasis
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- Medicine - Cardiology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Epidemiology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Medicine
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- Assistant Professor, Genetics and Development
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- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Psychiatry, Neural Correlates of Location - Specific Threat Memory in Trauma
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- DrPH, Sociomedical Science ( Co - Principal Investigator )
- Neurology
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- Psychiatry - Cognitive Neurosciences ( Principal Investigator )
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- Biological Sciences
- Professor of Biological Sciences and Chemistry
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- Pathology and Cell Biology ( Principal Investigator: Basic Science )
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- Assistant Attending, NewYork - Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center, the Neural Bases of Expectancy Effects in Depression
- Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow, Pediatrics
- Psychiatry: Geriatrics ( Principal Investigator )
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- Medicine / Hematology and Oncology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Associate Research Scientist, Medicine - Cardiology
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- Ophthalmology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Dental Medicine ( Principal Investigator )
Caroline Hwang, MD, Assistant Attending, NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Positron Emission Tomography with 2-Deoxy-2-[18F] Fluoro-D-Glucose in the Detection of Malignancy in Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms (IPMN) of the Pancreas
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- Associate Research Scientist, Obstetrics and Gynecology
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- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hematology / Oncology
Dr. Ager earned his PhD in Immunology in 2018 under mentorship of Dr. Michael Curran at MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he investigated novel combination immunotherapies involving agonists of the innate immune-targeting STING pathway in prostate and pancreatic cancer models. He moved to Columbia in 2019 for postdoctoral training with a diverse team of clinical scientists Dr. Benjamin Izar, Dr. Charles Drake, and Dr. Matthew Dallos. Casey uses cutting-edge cytometry techniques (CyTOF, spectral flow cytometry) on human tumor specimens and novel murine tumor models, together with in vivo genetic systems, to identify and validate targetable vulnerabilities of tumor-infiltrating regulatory T cells for cancer immunotherapy.
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- City Harvest ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry
- Obstetrics and Gynecology - Psychiatry ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Radiation Oncology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Associate Research Scientist, Medicine - Cardiology
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- Genetics and Development ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Psychiatry ( Principal Investigator )
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- Microbiology and Immunology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Psychiatry, GABA, Neuronal Synchrony, and Neurocognitive Efficiency in Schizophrenia
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- Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow, Medicine
As a postdoctoral clinical fellow Dr. Eckhardt has developed strong working relationships with several research mentors in an effort to build an array of investigative skills. With their guidance, she has developed quantitative skills, learned to extract novel findings from a raw dataset, and learned to effectively relay those findings to a broader audience through abstracts, manuscripts and presentations on a formal stage. Dr. Eckhardt's current research aims to construct a novel DNA methylation-based smoking score that indexes acute and long-term tobacco smoke exposure and predicts lung function decline.
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- Epidemiology and Psychiatry ( Co - Principal Investigator )
Christine DeForge is a PhD student at Columbia University School of Nursing and a staff nurse in the medical ICU at NewYork-Presbyterian/CUIMC. Her dissertation research aims to explore end-of-life decision making and symptom burden experienced by ICU family members. Her long-term research objectives include developing interventions to improve outcomes after critical illness for patients and families.
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- Electrical Engineering ( Principal Investigator: Basic Science )
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- Pharmacology ( Principal Investigator: Basic Science )
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- Biomedical Informatics ( Co - Principal Investigator )
- Biomedical Informatics ( Principal Investigator )
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- Instructor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
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- Biomedical Informatics ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- School of Nursing ( Principal Investigator )
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- Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Psychiatry - Child and Adolescent ( Co - Principal Investigator )
Dr. Holland is a postdoctoral research fellow whose overarching research interests focus on early growth trajectories of social-emotional development and identification of precursors to social-emotional vulnerabilities in order facilitate early intervention and overall developmental and family outcomes
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- Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Dr. Fernández is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center and cares for newborns in the Well Baby Nursery of the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian. Her innovative research focuses on the areas of food insecurity, diet-related disparities, and issues in development and health maintenance in vulnerable child populations. As an emerging investigator with burgeoning expertise in newborn care, Dr. Fernández assists in coordination of clinical research initiatives with the newborn nursery population.
She received her MPH from the Yale School of Public Health and subsequently completed her medical training at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons. She subsequently completed her residency in pediatrics at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center and a primary care research fellowship in community health at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
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Dallin is originally from Utah. He became interested in Alzheimer's disease as an undergraduate, and has enjoyed the additional education in immunology he's received since coming to Columbia. Dallin hopes to continue pursuing clinical and translational research after he completes his doctorate.
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- Psychiatry - Experimental Therapeutics ( Principal Investigator )
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- Instructor in Clinical Medicine, Medicine
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- Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Pediatrics - Emergency Medicine
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- Assistant Professor of Surgery
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- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Medicine - Cardiology
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- Associate Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology and Pediatrics
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- Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Medicine
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- Instructor in Clinical Psychiatry, Psychiatry
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- Microbiology & Immunology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Co - Principal Investigator )
- Herbert Irving Assistant Professor, Medicine
- Irving Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in Pediatrics, Medicine
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- Radiology ( Co - Principal Investigator: Clinical )
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- Surgery: Cardiothoracic ( Principal Investigator )
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- Assistant Professor, Pediatrics - Emergency Medicine
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- Associate Research Scientist, Ophthalmology
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- Chief Social Service Officer, YM & YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Psychiatry ( Principal Investigator )
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- Pediatrics - Molecular Genetics ( Principal Investigator )
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- Chairman, Medicine
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- Samuel Bard Professor of Medicine
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- Psychiatry ( Principal Investigator )
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- Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics
Dr. Caleb Miles works on developing semiparametric methods for causal inference and applying them to problems in public health. His applied work has largely been in HIV/AIDS, and he has more recently begun to work on psychiatric applications as well. Dr. Miles' current methodological research interests include the intersection between machine learning and causal inference, interference, mediation analysis, and measurement error.
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- Pathology and Cell Biology ( Principal Investigator: Basic Science )
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- Pathology and Cell Biology ( Principal Investigator: Basic Science )
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- Neurology - Aging and Dementia
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- Emergency Medicine ( Principal Investigator )
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- Associate Research Scientist, Medicine
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- Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Instructor, Medicine - Cardiology
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- Biomedical Engineering ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Neurology - Stroke and Cerebrovascular
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- Biomedical Engineering ( Principal Investigator )
- Biomedical Engineering and Radiology
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- Instructor, Medicine, Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases ( COPD ) on Pulmonary Magnetic Resonance Angiography ( MRA )
Emily Rinebold, MD: Viral infection as a possible cause behind the emerging epidemic of rectal cancer in young adults
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- Genetics and Development ( Co - Principal Investigator )
Eric Buss, MD: Physiological role of presynaptic HCN1 in parvalbumin+ GABAergic interneurons and modulation in epilepsy
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- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Psychiatry
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- Associate Research Scientist, Surgery - Cardiothoracic Division
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- Medicine - Emergency Medicine ( Principal Investigator )
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- Pathology and Cell Biology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Assistant Professor, College of Dental Medicine
- Associate Professor, Periodontics ( Co - Principal Investigator )
- College of Dental Medicine ( Principal Investigator )
Dr. Momen-Heravi is an Assistant Professor in the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine. After obtaining her DDS, she completed several years of fundamental research in molecular biology and immunology at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She received a PhD degree from the University of Westminster, UK, in molecular biology/biotechnology. She also received an MPH degree from Harvard University, with a concentration in quantitative methods and biostatistics. Dr. Momen-Heravi completed a clinical residency and received a Master of Science in Periodontics from Columbia University College of Dental Medicine and is a board-certified periodontist.
As a clinician scientist, Dr. Momen-Heravi's work is focused on understanding the interplay between the immune system, tumor microenvironment, and tumors to identify actionable molecular targets for head and neck cancer and other solid tumor treatments. She also studies the biological basis for cancer health disparities and is passionate about combining different disciplines, including translational research, bioinformatics and biostatistics, and epidemiology and community outreach in her research.
A Feasibility Study to Assess the Effects of Maternal Discrimination and Acculturative Stress on Infant Development
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- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Psychiatry
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- Radiology
- Research Scientist, Radiology, Advances in the Utilization of Magnetic Resonance Methodology in Prostate Cancer
- Research Scientist, Radiology, Use of 31P - MRS and FDG - PET to Predict Treatment Response in Lymphomas
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- Neurology - Aging and Dementia
Gabrielle Page-Wilson, MD: Utilization of Proopiomelanocortin and Agouti-related Protein ELISAs for the Differential Diagnosis and Evaluation of ACTH-dependent Cushing's syndrome
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- Environment Health Science ( Principal Investigator )
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- Psychiatry - Experimental Therapeutics ( Principal Investigator )
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- Psychiatry ( Principal Investigator )
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute ( Co - Principal Investigator )
Metallomics MISSION: A comprehensive assessment of Metals, ISotopes and SpeciatioN as disease biomarkers and therapeutic targets
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- Biomedical Engineering ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Special Research Scientist, Epidemiology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Assistant Professor, Surgery
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- Psychiatry ( Co - Principal Investigator
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- Neurological Surgery
- Neurological Surgery ( Co - PI )
- Neurological Surgery ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Otolaryngology / Head & Neck Surgery
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- Evaluation of the Utility of Head CTs in General Medical and Surgical Intensive Care Patients
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- Medicine - Pulmonary ( Co - Principal Investgator )
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- Systems Biology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Associate Research Scientist, Medicine
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- Clinical Psychology, Teachers College ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Associate Professor of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics
- Institute of Cancer Genetics ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Instructor, Medicine - Nephrology
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- Neurology - Movement
- Neurology - Movement Disorders ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Radiation Oncology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Pathology and Cell Biology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine
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- Associate Research Scientist, Center for Radiological Research
Imama A. Naqvi, MD Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology Show more about Imama A. Naqvi, MD Project: Integrated Telehealth After Stroke Care (iTASC): a pilot randomized controlled trial Dr. Naqvi obtained her medical degree with honors from Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. She completed Neurology residency at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, followed by stroke fellowship in Vascular Neurology at the National Institutes of Health. Her research focuses on secondary stroke prevention. Dr. Naqvi's interests include health disparities and innovative care delivery models for post-acute stroke.
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- Associate Research Scientist, Medicine - Hematology and Oncology
- Associate Research Scientist, Medicine, Investigating Shifts in Chromatin Accessibility in Human Cutaneous T - Cell Lymphomas
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- Medicine - Molecular Medicine ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Executive Director, Institute for Applied Research and Community Collaboration ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Radiology
- Assistant Professor, Radiology, Using Hypercapnia and BOLD FMRI to Detect Non - Enhancing Glioblastoma
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- CP Soccer ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- School of Nursing ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- President, Mexican Coalition for the Empowerment of Youth and Families, Inc. ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dermatology, Identification of Drugs Targeting Immune Infiltrate Recruitment in Autoimmune Disease through Regulatory Network Analysis
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- Neurology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Medicine and Chief Patient Safety Officer & Associate Chief Quality Officer, Columbia University Irving Medical Center / NewYork - Presbyterian
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- Medicine - Infectious Diseases ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Associate Research Scientist, Psychiatry
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- Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Assistant Attending, NewYork - Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center, the Neurochemistry of Cognitive Therapy
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- Neurological Surgery
- Principal Investigator
- Neurosurgery
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- Neurology ( Co - Principal Investigator: Clinical )
- Neurology - Child Neurology
- Neurology - Pediatric Neurology
- Neurology: Pediatrics
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- Pediatrics ( Principal Investigator )
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- Associate Professor of Pediatrics ( Co - Principal Investigator )
- Pediatrics - Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition ( Co - Principal Investigator )
- Pediatrics - Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition ( Principal Investigator )
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- Epidemiology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Psychiatry - Child and Adolescent ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Program Director, Girls Educational and Mentoring Services ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- DPT, Physical Therapy Consultant
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- Medicine ( Principal Investigator )
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- Psychiatry - Research
- Trainee, Biostatistics
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- Medicine - Digestive and Liver Diseases ( Principal Investigator )
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- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biomedical Informatics, Clonal Evolution of Glioblastoma under Therapy
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- Associate Research Scientist, Medicine - Preventative Medicine
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- Associate Professor of Pediatrics ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Assistant Professor of Nursing, Columbia University School of Nursing ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Associate Research Scientist, Neurology, Investigating
Joanna Dragich, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, Neurology, Investigating the Effects of a Genetic Risk Factor for Neuropsychiatric Disease on White Matter Connectivity Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI)
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- Pathology and Cell Biology ( Principal Investigator: Basic Science )
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- Biomedical Engineering ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Associate Research Scientist, Medicine - Experimental Therapeutics
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- Medicine: Nephrology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Psychiatry - Child and Adolescent ( Principal Investigator )
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- Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Nephrology
Dr. Nestor is a nephrologist specializing in Precision Nephrology and a member of the Gharavi laboratory. She aspires to make meaningful contributions towards remedying healthcare disparities and lessening the disproportionate burden of chronic diseases experienced by underserved minority communities through the use of genomics and complex clinical data. Dr. Nestor's research focuses on strategies for making genomic medicine more inclusive of diverse patient populations and accessible to nephrologists, in hopes of delivering more personalizing care and improving health care outcomes of patients living with kidney disease.
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- Associate Research Scientist, Joint Center for System Biology
Jose Gutierrez-Contreras, Neurology
Accelerated Non-Atherosclerotic Brain Arterial Aging Relationship to Alzheimer's Disease
Erin Heinzen Cox, Pathology and Cell Biology
Translating Post-Zygotically Acquired Mutations in a SLC35A2 into Disease Mechanisms in Epilepsy
Nathalie Moise, Medicine
Harnessing Precision Medicine and Implementation Science to Improve Psychological Distress Treatment in Breast Cancer Patients
Gissette Reyes-Soffer, Medicine
Unraveling the Complexities of Lipoprotein(a) in Humans Through Stable Isotope Metabolic Studies, Proteomics, and Particle Characterization
Emily Tsai, Medicine
Validation and Translation of a Novel Transcriptomic Signature of Right Ventricular Failure
Joseph Belloir, MSc, MPhil PhD Candidate, Nursing Show more about Joseph Belloir, MSc, MPhil Project Title: Precision Sleep Health in Transgender and Nonbinary Adults Dr. Belloir is a PhD Candidate in Nursing. His current research aims to 1) identify sleep phenotypes in transgender and nonbinary adults using actigraphy data and 2) examine the associations of adverse life experiences with these sleep phenotypes. His long-term research interests involve using precision medicine approaches to reduce sleep and mental health disparities in LGBT individuals.
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- Orthopedic Surgery ( Principal Investigator )
Joseph Rubin is a PhD Candidate studying Biomedical Engineering. His long-term research interests involve the development of Single Molecule Glycan Sequencing, and aiding in the development of a comprehensive understanding of IgA1 Nephropathy etiology.
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- Neurology - Stroke and Cerebrovascular
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- Associate Research Scientist, Medicine / Hematology and Oncology, Co - Clinical Study of Novel Therapeutic Strategies for MYC - Positive Prostate Cancer Bone Metastasis
- Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Medicine - Hematology and Oncology
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- Assistant Clinical Professor, Dermatology
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- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Psychiatry, Neural Mechanisms of Maternal Stress in Early Postpartum Women
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- Otolaryngology / Head & Neck Surgery ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Psychiatry ( Principal Investigator )
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- Pediatrics ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Microbiology and Immunology ( Principal Investigator: Basic Science )
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- New York University Pain Research Center
- Pediatrics ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Associate Research Scientist, Medicine
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- School of Nursing ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Psychiatry ( Principal Investigator )
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- Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons ( Co - Principal Investigator )
- Medicine and Epidemiology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Psychiatry ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Environmental Health Sciences ( Principal Investigator )
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- Medicine and Genetics and Development ( Principal Investigator )
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- Electrical Engineering and Applied Sciences ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Nursing - Scholarship and Research
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- Instructor in Clinical Medicine, Medicine
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- Pediatrics and the Sergievsky Center ( Principal Investigator )
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- Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow, Radiology
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- Obstetrics / Gyn MFM ( Principal Investigator )
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- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Human Cervix
- Mechanical Engineering ( Principal Investigator )
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- Instructor in Clinical Medicine, Medicine
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- Biomedical Engineering ( Principal Investigator )
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- Psychology & Education, Teacher 's College ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Associate Research Scientist, Pathology and Cell Biology
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- Clinical Instructor, Medicine
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- Irving Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
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- Emergency Medicine ( Co - Principal Investigator )
Lauren S. Chernick, MD: A personalized interactive text message intervention to improve the reproductive health of young adolescent female
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- Epidemiology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Biomedical Informatics ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Physical Therapy Consultant
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- Anesthesiologist
- Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
Dr. Eisler is a practicing pediatric anesthesiologist with an interest in how preparation for surgery improves postoperative outcomes. Her specific clinical question at this stage of her research career is whether optimization for childhood spinal fusion surgery can impact the need for perioperative blood transfusion and related complications. She is also interested in targeting pediatric populations with multiple comorbidities for preoperative assessment and intervention, with outcomes of interest ranging from immediate postoperative events to patient- and parent-reported outcomes such as satisfaction. She is currently working towards a Master's of Science in Patient-Oriented Research at the Mailman School of Public Health. She completed her anesthesiology and subspecialty training at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She holds a medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and an undergraduate degree from Harvard College.
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- Sociomedical Science ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Washington Heights Corner Project ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Ophthalmology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Pathology and Cell Biology ( Principal Investigator: Basic Science )
Lori Quinn, BS, MA, EdM, EdD, Teacher's College - Health and Behavior Studies (Co-Principal Investigator)
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- Northern Manhattan Perinatal Partnership ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Assistant Professor, Dermatology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine ( Principal Investigator )
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- Epidemiology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement ( Co - Principal Investigator )
Understanding Barriers to Adoption of Oropharyngeal Cancer Screening and Diagnosis in Dental Clinics for HIV-Infected Residents of the Washington Heights/Inwood Community
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- Physiology and Cellular Biophysics ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Assistant Professor Epidemiology & Pediatrics ( Oncology ) at CUIMC, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Irving Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Medicine
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- Pediatrics ( Principal Investigator )
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- Light and Health Research Center, Population Health Science and Policy, Mount Sinai
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- Medicine / Nutritional Medicine ( Principal Investigator )
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- Assistant Director of Marketing / Program Director, Institute for Older Adults, Isabella Geriatric Center ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Pediatrics ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Chemical Engineering ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow, Psychiatry
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- Psychiatry: Behavioral Medicine ( Principal Investigator )
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- Epidemiology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Professional Practice, School of Social Work ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine ( Principal Investigator )
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- Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Psychiatry - Mental Health Service Research and Policy
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- Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow, Medicine
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- Trainee, Biomedical Informatics
Melanie Mayer is working towards her PhD in the Biostatistics department at the Mailman School of Public Health. Her main research focus is causal inference methods with an application on global health, health disparities and environmental health studies. Currently working on evaluating the external validity of epidemiological investigations on environmental mixtures.
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- South Bronx Unite ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Pediatrics ( Co - Principal Investigator )
- Pediatrics ( Principal Investigator )
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Radiology, Real - Time Motion Correction for MRI at 3 Tesla Using Active Markers
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Psychiatry, Probing Dopamine D2 Receptor Internalization in Schizophrenia
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- Medicine - Hematology and Oncology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Pediatrics ( Principal Investigator )
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- Neurology - Stroke
- Neurology - Stroke and Cerebrovascular
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- Instructor, Anesthesiology, Functional Imaging of Acute Lung Injury
- Instructor, Anesthesiology, Functional Lung Imaging in Acute Lung Injury
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- Addo Foundation, Inc. ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- El Nido De Esperanza ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Pediatrics - Critical Care ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Psychiatry ( Principal Investigator )
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- Assistant Professor, Medicine - Endocrinology: the Effects of Smoking on Skeletal Microarchitecture
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- Assistant Professor of Medicine at CUIMC, Medicine ( Co - Principal Investigator )
Gender, Immigration, and the Safety Net: Leveraging CBPR to Improve Resource Access for Immigrant Women in NYC
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- Instructor, Anesthesiology
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- Microbiology and Immunology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Associate Research Scientist, Medicine - Nephrology
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- Pediatrics - Critical Care ( Principal Investigator )
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- Electrical Engineering ( Principal Investigator: Basic Science )
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- Neurology: Movement Disorders ( Principal Investigator )
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- Pediatrics ( Principal Investigator )
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- Anesthesiology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Neurology ( Co - Principal Investigator: Clinical )
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- Epidemiology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Psychiatry - Mental Health Service Research and Policy ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow, Pediatrics
Paul Oberstein, MD: The impact of physical activity level on environmental and epigenetic mechanisms in asthma
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- Biomedical Engineering and Radiology
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- Associate Research Scientist, Psychiatry
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- Computer Science ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Pathology and Cell Biology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Emergency Medicine - Pediatric Emergency Medicine
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- Ophthalmology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics ( Principal Investigator: Basic Science )
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- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR )
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- Irving Assistant Professor Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine Department of Epidemiology, Pulmonary Blood Flow Measures for COPD Randomized Clinical Trials
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- Medicine and Epidemiology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Associate Executive Director & Chief of Programs and Community Affairs, Citymeals on - Wheels ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow, Psychiatry
- Psychiatry ( Co - Principal Investigator: Clinical )
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- Associate Research Scientist, Ophthalmology
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- Graduate Research Fellow: Human IPSC Modeling of Autism for Developing New Therapeutics
Yevgeniya Gartshteyn, MD: Platelet bound complement activiation products as biomarkers for cardiovascular risk and response to aspirin in SLE
Medini Annavajhala, PhD: Microbial metagenomic pathways contributing to chronic inflammation in patients with HIV
Rebecca Silva is a Graduate Student Research Assistant in Biostatistics.
Some of her current works includes comparing continual reassessment method (CRM) and Time-to-Event CRM to the standard 3+3 design in dose-finding clinical trials for cancer therapies; apply methods through case studies of past phase I trials using a proteasome inhibitor to target advanced malignancies. She studies literature in bridging information from past trials to trials using a different population or different dosing schedule to ultimately improve methodology in utilizing prior information in dose-finding through the CRM.
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- DNP, Nursing ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Assistant Professor, Medical Sciences, Targeting Tissues of Relevance for Antigen - Specific Immunotherapy of Type 1 Diabetes
- Assistant Professor, Medicine - Immunology
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- Medicine - Hematology and Oncology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Medicine - Family Medicine ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Radiology ( Co - Principal Investigator
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- Sociomedical Science ( Principal Investigator )
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- Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Sociomedical Sciences
Robyn Gartrell-Corrado, MD: Establishing key characteristics of the tumor immune microenvironment to allow for personalized immunotherapy of pediatric high-grade glioma
Roheeni Saxena, MPH, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Environmental Health Sciences Show more about Roheeni Saxena, MPH, PhD Project Title: Brain-derived extracellular vesicles: a novel biomarker of metals exposure Dr. Saxena is a child and adolescent environmental cognitive neurotoxicologist, currently cross-training in the use of extracellular vesicles as potential biomarkers of CNS metals load in the context of neurodegenerative diseases.
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- Environmental Health Sciences ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Ophthalmology - Ophthalmology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology, Radiology and Jaclyn Spitzer, Professor Emerita of Audiology and Speech Pathology, Preliminary Exploration
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- Medicine / Nephrology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Neurology
- Neurology - Movement Disorders ( Co - Principal Investigator: Clinical )
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- Anesthesiology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Epidemiology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Epidemiology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Neurological Surgery
- Principal Investigator
- Neurological Surgery ( Co - Principal Investigator )
- Neurosurgery
Samuel Hayward is a PhD Candidate and does research in Immunology, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Samuel joined Dr. Alberto Ciccia's laboratory to conduct his doctoral research. His project focuses on dissecting genetic interaction networks within the DDR pathway. Samuel has built NGS pipelines for his lab and modified genetic interaction screening techniques from other labs.
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- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Professor, Biomedical Engineering ( Principal Investigator )
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- Assistant Professor, Epidemiology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Neurology - Aging and Dementia
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- Associate Research Scientist, Surgery
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- Pathology and Cell Biology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Pediatrics ( Principal Investigator )
- Pediatrics - Gastroenterology ( Principal Investigator )
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- DO, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Psychiatry ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Assistant Professor of Medicine and Public Health ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Epidemiology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Associate Research Scientist, Medicine - Nephrology
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- MHS, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology
- MHS, Ophthalmology - Ophthalmology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
- Ophthalmology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Environmental Health Sciences
Stacia Nicholson, PhD is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow examining the involvement of air pollution and lead exposure in the development and progression of Alzheimer's Disease and age-related cognitive disorders. Her goal is to identify and evaluate CNS-derived exosomes and their microRNA cargo linked to environmental toxicant exposure and cognitive decline for use as diagnostic and possible therapeutic agents.
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- Physiology - Research ( Principal Investigator )
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- Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow, Psychiatry
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- Association to Benefit Children ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics ( Principal Investigator )
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- Ophthalmology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center / Pediatrics / Epidemiology ( Principal Investigator )
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- PsyD, Pediatrics ( Principal Investigator )
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- Professor of Pediatrics in Neurology
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- Medicine - Cardiology ( Principal Investigator )
- Professor of Medicine in Pharmacology
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- Medicine - Nephrology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
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- DrPH, Nursing / Informatics ( Principal Investigator )
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- Institute of Cancer Genetics ( Principal Investigator )
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- Neurology
- Neurology - Child Neurology
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- Biomedical Engineering ( Principal Investigator )
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- Instructor in Medical Sciences
Dr. Cornelius conducts research focused on understanding health behaviors in the social context in which they are performed. In particular, her work explores processes of health-related power and influence, interdependence in change over time, and how partner support can both facilitate and/or undermine health-promoting behaviors. Recent projects include an examination of how the presence of close others (i.e., a spouse/partner, a child) in the Emergency Department (ED) impacts patients' ED experience, the effect of romantic partners on blood pressure both short and long term, and a qualitative study describing couples' experiences following an acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Dr. Cornelius is also exploring novel applications of dyadic analysis to interdependent, individual-level processes.
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- Pediatrics ( Principal Investigator )
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- Pediatrics ( Principal Investigator )
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- Pediatrics ( Principal Investigator )
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- Pathology and Cell Biology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Psychiatry
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- Radiology, MRI Biomarker Assessment of Osteoarthritis Prevention in Femoroacetabular Impingement
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- Neurology - Child Neurology
- Neurology - Pediatric Neurology ( Principal Investigator: Basic Science )
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- Medicine - Endocrinology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Pediatrics / Molecular Genetics ( Principal Investigator )
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- Medicine: Cardiology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Pediatrics ( Principal Investigator )
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- Pediatrics ( Principal Investigator )
- Pediatrics - Clinical Genetics ( Co - Principal Investigator )
- Pediatrics - Clinical Genetics ( Principal Investigator )
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- Neurology ( Co - Principal Investigator: Clinical )
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- Psychiatry and Pediatrics ( Co - Principal Investigator )
- Psychiatry and Pediatrics ( Principal Investigator )
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- Undocumented Women 's Fund ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Epidemiology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ophthalmology, Comparative Effectiveness of Dietary Supplement Versus Gene Editing in Personalized Medicine
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- Associate Research Scientist, Medicine, VEGF - Directed Imaging of the Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaque
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- Biostatistics ( Principal Investigator )
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- Systems Biology and Biomedical Informatics ( Principal Investigator )
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- Medicine / Cardiology ( Principal Investigator )
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- Health Policy and Management ( Principal Investigator )
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- Epidemiology and Psychiatry Director of Post - Traumatic Stress Disorder Program at CUIMC
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Pediatrics - Molecular Genetics ( Co - Principal Investigator )
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- Psychiatry: Clinical Neurobiology ( Principal Investigator )