Course Director

Gerald B. Appel, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, New York
Jai Radhakrishnan, M.D., M.S., Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine; Director, Nephrology Fellowship, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, New York
Donald W. Landry, M.D., Professor and Interim Chair of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, New York

Planning Committee

Bertie Bergman, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, New York


Columbia University Medical Center Faculty &
New York-Presbyterian Hospital Staff

Jeanine Albu, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
John H.M. Austin, M.D., Professor of Radiology; Director of Thoracic Imaging
Laxmi Baxi, M.D., Professor of Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology
Carl W. Bazil, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology; Director, Anticonvulsant Drug Trials
John P. Bilezikian, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology; Chief, Division of Endocrinology; Director, Metabolic Bone Diseases Program
Robert S. Brown Jr., M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery; Chief, Division of Abdominal Organ Transplantation; Medical Director, Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation
Karen Brudney, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
Joseph Chang, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine;
Assistant Director, Section of Hospital Medicine
Ajai Chari, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine
Eric Collins, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Arthur Cotliar, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology
Katherine D. Crew, M.D., M.S., Assistant Professor of Medicine and
Epidemiology
Emily A. DiMango, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine; Director,
The John Edsall-John Wood Asthma Center
David Diuguid, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Jay Dobkin, M.D., Arnold P. Gold Foundation Associate Professor of
Clinical Medicine
Edward Dwyer, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Scott Fink, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Mary Flood, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
E. Yoko Furuya, M.D., M.S., Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Ali Gharavi, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine
Robin S. Goland, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine; Co-Director,
Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center
Ira J. Goldberg, M.D., Dickinson W. Richards, Jr. Professor of Medicine; Chief, Division of Preventive Medicine and Nutrition
Lauren Golden, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Mark W. Green, M.D., Director of Headache Medicine and Clinical Professor of Neurology (in Neurology, Anesthesiology and Dentistry)
Peter H.R. Green, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine
Jason M. Greenfield, M.D., Assistant Professor of Urology
Silvia Hafliger, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Charles L.G. Halasz, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology
Thomas Jacobs, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine
Andrew K. Joe, M.D., Irving Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Paul Lee, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
Karen S. Marder, M.D., M.P.H., Kerlin Professor of Neurology in the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center and the Taub Institute
David D. Markowitz, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine
Elizabeth Mayer, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
Robert McConnell, M.D., Clinical Professor of Medicine
Rachel L. Miller, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine and Public Health (Environmental Health Sciences)
Ellen Morrison, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology
Nicholas Morrissey, M.D., Assistant Professor of Surgery
Gerald Neuberg, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine; Director, Allen Pavilion ICU
Katherine Nickerson, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Thomas Pickering, M.D., Professor of Medicine
Charles A. Powell, M.D., Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Kenneth M. Prager, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine; Director, Clinical Ethics
LeRoy E. Rabbani, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine; Director, Cardiac Inpatient Services; Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
James Reiffel, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine
David Savage, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine
Hermann Schubert, M.D., Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Paul F. Simonelli, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine; Clinical Director, Center for Interstitial Lung Disease
Robert Sladen, M.D., Professor of Anesthesiology
Magdalena Sobieszczyk, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Ian S. Storper, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Otolaryngology; Director of Neurotology
Joseph G. Sweeting, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine
Joseph Tenenbaum, M.D., Edgar Leifer Professor of Clinical Medicine; Chief, Allen Medicine Division
Michael L. Weinberger, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology; Medical Director, Division of Pain Medicine
Robert Winchester, M.D., Professor of Medicine
Clinton Wright, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology