New VP&S Faculty

The VP&S Office of Faculty Affairs has provided this list of full-time faculty who joined the medical school in September 2023. 

• Andres J. Arredondo Santana, MD, Emergency Medicine
• Joel Tupper Braslow, MD, Psychiatry
• Yi Cai, MD, Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
• Kevin L. Chow, MD, Surgery: Chow is a trauma and acute care surgeon as well as a surgical intensivist joining the Acute Care Surgery Division. His clinical interests include surgical innovation, point of care ultrasound, robotic surgery, and trauma. He also has an interest in resident education through simulation and cadaver labs.
• Erica R. Eldon, DO, Rehabilitation & Regenerative Medicine: Eldon is a physiatrist who is fellowship trained in interventional spine and pain management. Eldon’s clinical focus includes conservative management and interventions using ultrasound and/or fluoroscopic guidance to treat spinal pathology.
• Omar B. Fraij, MD, Medicine
• Nicholas Gaeto, DO, Medicine: Gaeto is a new general internist at Columbia Primary Care. He has a clinical interest in complex medical patients, substance use disorders, and the treatment of HIV and viral hepatitis.
• Jermie J. Gandhi, MD, Pediatrics
• Conor B. Garry, MD, Orthopedic Surgery
• Arnar Geirsson, MD, Surgery: Geirsson’s research interests include clinical outcome research focusing on valve diseases as well as basic research projects focusing on pathogenesis of mitral valve prolapse in murine models.
• Sandra Michelle Goldlust, MD, Medicine: Goldlust's academic interests include medical education as well as patient safety and quality improvement in the inpatient setting.
• Kristine N. Kim, MD, Radiation Oncology
• Mark T. Langhans, MD, Orthopedic Surgery
• Ariel Peñaranda, MD, Psychiatry: Peñaranda joined the child and adolescent psychiatry faculty after completing his child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian. His interests include employing both psychopharmacological interventions and eclectic therapy modalities to better the lives of his patients and their families. 
• Sonal Pruthi, MBBS, Medicine
• Alireza Salem, MD, Pathology & Cell Biology
• Jenna Suzanne Schauer, MD, Pediatrics
• Rushabh S. Shah, MD, Emergency Medicine
• Paul K. Sue, MD, Pediatrics: Sue is a pediatric infectious disease physician and director of the pediatric transplant & immunocompromised host (“PITCH“) infectious disease service at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital. His research focuses on the role of functional immunity and the clinical implications of novel diagnostics and therapeutics to optimize infectious disease outcomes in the immunocompromised child.
• Robert Tampe, PhD, Physiology & Cellular Biophysics
• Xiao Xu, PhD, Obstetrics & Gynecology: Xu, who joined the Division of Gynecologic Oncology, is a health services researcher trained in health economics and outcomes research. Her research seeks to inform ways to improve the quality, outcomes, and value of care, with a focus on women’s health and health care.
• Dian Yang, PhD, Molecular Pharmacology & Therapeutics
• Adil A. Yunis, MD, Medicine