New VP&S Faculty

The VP&S Office of Faculty Affairs has provided this list of full-time faculty who joined the medical school from July 1 to Sept. 1, 2024:

• Daniel Bernard, MD, Emergency Medicine
• Joshua R. Broden, MD, Medicine: Broden is a hospitalist at NYP-Allen with an interest in point-of-care ultrasound, medical education, and quality improvement through electronic health record optimization.
• Montgomry L. Burgoon, MD, Medicine: Burgoon is a licensed internist. She has interests in health policy and equitable health care.
• Corinne Carland, MD, Medicine
• William Cheng, MD, Emergency Medicine
• Victoria Chernyak, MD, Radiology
• Melissa K. Chiappetta, DO, Pediatrics (in Emergency Medicine): Chiappetta is a board-certified pediatrician with interests in simulation, medical education, and asthma research. 
• Stephanie M. Conner, MD, Medicine: Conner is medical director for the section of hospital medicine at Milstein Hospital in the Department of Medicine. Her professional interests include point-of-care ultrasound, bedside procedures, medical education, and optimizing clinical workflows for the benefit of clinicians, trainees, and patients. 
• Nikhil L. Cordeiro, MBBS, Medicine
• Dina S. Dass, MD, Neurology (in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain): Dass is a board-certified neurologist in the Division of Aging and Dementia. Her research interests include metabolic syndrome in adults with Down syndrome and links to Alzheimer’s disease, as well as Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials.
• Michael David, MD, Radiology
• Enad M. Dawod, MD, Medicine
• Julissa De La Cruz, MD, Emergency Medicine
• Monisha Dilip, MD, Emergency Medicine: Dilip is an assistant medical director for quality and patient safety in the Department of Emergency Medicine. Her research interests include examining how optimizing ED flow efforts can affect clinical quality and flow metrics, ethics in emergency medicine, and how quality improvement and operational initiatives can influence and be used to improve clinician well-being.
• Lea Duncker, PhD, Neuroscience (in the Zuckerman Institute)
• Laura Easton, MD, Medicine
• Neela A. Easwar, MD, Medicine
• Adnan M.I. Faruqui, MBBS, Medicine
• Gloria Felix, MD, Emergency Medicine: Felix’s clinical interests include promoting diversity and inclusion within the medical profession and providing teaching and community outreach opportunities to high school students, college students, medical students, and residents. 
• Veronica M. Flake, MD, Center for Family & Community Medicine: Flake’s clinical interests include providing comprehensive reproductive health care services. 
• Benjamin Fujita-Howie, MD, Anesthesiology
• Michael A. Gevertzman, DPT, Rehabilitation & Regenerative Medicine: Gevertzman is a physical therapist and board-certified neurologic clinical specialist who focuses on rehabilitation for individuals with neurologic disorders. His research emphasizes rehabilitative interventions for individuals with neurodegenerative diseases and the interplay between cognitive and physical decline in neurodegeneration.
• Mitchell Gronowitz, MD, Medicine: Gronowitz is a hospitalist whose academic interests include patient-centered quality improvement and medical education. He enjoys teaching and mentoring medical students and residents.
• Gail Gutman, MD, Pediatrics
• Alexander J. Hatsis, MD, Ophthalmology
• Ryan Hetz, MD, Emergency Medicine: Hetz’s research and clinical interests are point-of-care ultrasound, simulation medicine, and delivery of emergency psychiatric care. 
• Cristin M. Holland, PhD, Rehabilitation & Regenerative Medicine
• Kathryn B. Holroyd, MD, Neurology: Holroyd is a neurologist who focuses on the clinical practice of hospitalist neurology and the care of neuroinfectious and neuroinflammatory disorders, particularly the neurologic complications of HIV infection. She has ongoing research based in Bangkok, Thailand, characterizing cerebrovascular disease in people living with HIV and is also dedicated to improving neuroinfectious disease education both locally at Columbia and internationally. 
• Christopher R. Huber, MD, Medicine
• Candace L. Jackson, MD, Medicine
• Antoinette N. Jones, MD, Pediatrics
• Stephen G. Kaler, MD, Pediatrics
• Komal Kasbati, MD, Pediatrics
• Mert K. Keceli, MD, Emergency Medicine
• Michelle Kikel, DO, Emergency Medicine
• Rebecca A. Klahr, MD, Medicine: Klahr is interested in heart failure, heart transplantation, and cardio-obstetrics.
• Arash Lahoutiharahdashti, MD, Pathology & Cell Biology
• Violetta Laskova, MD, Medicine: Laskova is a board-certified internist with more than 13 years of experience providing thorough medical care to hospitalized patients with various complex diseases. She implements evidence-based medicine while teaching students and residents; her primary focus is improving the delivery of care to hospitalized patients.
• Hannah P. Leo, MD, Psychiatry: Leo is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital’s outpatient Diagnostic Evaluation Stabilization Center within the Acute Services of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Her interests include family therapy and systems of care. 
• Anfei Li, MD, PhD, Ophthalmology
• Katleen Lozada, MD, Emergency Medicine
• Pravin M. Matthew, MD, Center for Family & Community Medicine: Matthew is a board-certified family medicine physician at the Lincoln Center location of Columbia Primary Care. He provides full-spectrum care to patients of all ages and is a champion for health equity, with special interests in health policy and administration.
• Rachelle P. Mendoza, MD, Pathology & Cell Biology: Mendoza is a board-certified anatomic and clinical pathologist and cytopathologist. Her main clinical and research interests include gynecologic pathology, gynecologic oncology, placenta, and cytopathology.
• Jeanette Minson, LMSW, Psychiatry: Minson is a licensed master social worker and works at the Lieber Recovery Clinic as a therapist and supported employment and education coach. She is certified in motivational interviewing and prolonged grief disorder therapy. She focuses on building therapeutic relationships with a foundation based on warmth, authenticity, curiosity, empathy, and collaboration with diverse populations.
• Alina Mitina, DO, Emergency Medicine
• Nabeel U. Moon, MD, Medicine
• Abdulrahman S. Museedi, MBBS, Medicine
• Tyler P. Nghiem, DO, Emergency Medicine
• Taemin Oh, MD, Neurological Surgery: Oh is a pediatric neurosurgeon specializing in scoliosis, cervical spine deformity, and spasticity. Research interests focus on evaluating the efficacy of vertebral body tethering compared to standard posterior spinal fusions and improving quality of long-term care for spasticity patients.
• Shayda S. Pedram, MD, Obstetrics & Gynecology: Pedram is interested in women’s health, reducing health care disparities, and preventive care.
• Nia S. Pellone, MD, Obstetrics & Gynecology
• Aadil Rahman, MD, Emergency Medicine: Rahman’s primary focus of research has been the performance of commonly used weight estimation modalities in the pediatrics emergency department. He has worked in several places in the United States and spent time in Vietnam studying and teaching. He will be working in the pediatric emergency departments at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital and NYP Westchester.
• Ilan Richter, MD, Medicine: Richter is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiology, and heart failure in Israel. His research interests include hemodynamics, durable MCS technologies, and epidemiology of heart failure, as well as designing novel technologies to empower patients and enable self-care.
• Charlaine Valentino Roberto, MD, Emergency Medicine
• Jeremy Rose, MD, Emergency Medicine
• Ben-zion Rotter, MD, Emergency Medicine
• Lewis B. Silverman, MD, Pediatrics: Silverman is director of the Hope and Heroes Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation and associate director for pediatric cancers at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center.   
• Dorothy A. Sippo, MD, Radiology: Sippo, vice chair of informatics in the Department of Radiology, is a breast imager. Her research interests include implementing informatics tools in clinical radiology and optimizing breast cancer screening performance, particularly with mammography and breast MRI. 
• Eitan N. Sosner, MD, Radiology
• Matthew R. Straight, MD, Emergency Medicine (in Rehabilitation & Regenerative Medicine): Straight is dual board-certified in emergency medicine and sports medicine and will split time between the emergency departments at CUIMC and NYP-Allen and hold a weekly sports medicine clinic in Bronxville. His interests include medical education and emergency sideline management.
• Justin D. Taft, PhD, Pediatrics
• Lindsay Tishberg, MD, Emergency Medicine
• Jeannette R. Wong-Siegel, MD, Pediatrics