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 June and July 2025:

• Andrew S. Baird, MD, Medicine (Cardiology): Baird is a cardiologist with an interest in multimodality imaging, particularly the applicability of cardiac CT and MRI for disease diagnosis, risk stratification, as well as for therapeutic planning and response.
• Ilona Belinskaya, MD, Medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy/Critical Care Medicine)
• Abigail H. Belser, MD, Pediatrics: Belser’s academic interests center on medical education and trainee well-being, specifically on bereavement expression opportunities and training in graduate medical education to promote professional growth and resilience.
• Benjamin C. Blake, MD, Medicine (Allen Hospital)
• Kafayat A. Busari, MD, Medicine (Digestive and Liver Diseases)
• Kechna Cadet, PhD, MPH, Emergency Medicine: Cadet examines the impact of structural determinants of health on substance use outcomes and other forms of injury, with a focus on polysubstance-related mortality through interdisciplinary research that incorporates drug use, structural equation modeling, spatial epidemiology and machine learning methods.
• Laura Dhariwal, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Dhariwal is a urogynecologist with interests in robotic and vaginal reconstruction, expedited recovery after surgery, and surgical outcomes research.
• Michael DiGaetano, MD, Emergency Medicine: DiGaetano is a medical education fellow with research interests in simulation-based learning, procedural competency, and the implementation of innovative educational modalities like escape rooms and murder mystery parties to teach fundamental concepts.
• Michael S. Dorritie, DO, Emergency Medicine: Dorritie is an emergency medicine specialist whose clinical and administrative work focuses on technological innovations to improve quality care and operational efficiency.
• Olisa Ezegwu, MBBS, Medicine (Cardiology)
• Boris Fishman, MD, Medicine (Cardiology)
• Eleanor F. Gerhard, MD, Medicine (Cardiology)
• Alyssa G. Goodman, MD, Emergency Medicine: Goodman is board-certified by the American Board of Pediatrics; her professional interests focus on public health, academic teaching, global health, pediatric patient care, and research.
• Fahad Gul, MD, Medicine (Cardiology)
• Kundan R. Jana, MBBS, Medicine (Nephrology)
• Yuan Ji, MD, Neurology. Ji is a board-certified neurologist with a subspecialty certification in headache medicine. She focuses on the diagnosis and management of complex headache disorders.
• Sourabh P. Kharait, MD, Medicine (Nephrology)
• Su Jeoung Kim, MD, Ophthalmology
• Lucy Li, MD, Ophthalmology
• Thomas M. Lipari, MD, Pediatrics: Lipari is a neonatologist with professional interests in neonatal-perinatal medicine, quality improvement, and antibiotic stewardship in newborn care.
• Thomas L. Mawson, MD, Medicine (Cardiology): Mawson’s professional interests focus on identifying novel targets for atherosclerosis through integration of smooth muscle cell lineage tracing in mouse models with population genetic and human knockout studies.
• Matthew B. McDermott, PhD, Biomedical Informatics: McDermott studies artificial intelligence methods for health and biomedicine, particularly the emerging field of foundation models for these data. He has been one of the driving leaders behind the emerging Medical Event Data Standard (MEDS) ecosystem for reproducible, collaborative health AI research.
• Irmak Karaca, MD, Ophthalmology
• Eitan Keizman, MD, Surgery: Keizman is a congenital and pediatric cardiac surgeon with clinical interests in neonatal surgery and complex congenital heart repair. He is dedicated to providing comprehensive care for children with critical heart disease and to improving their long-term outcomes.
• Ardi Knobel Nuevo Mendoza, MD, Emergency Medicine: Mendoza’s professional interests focus on global health, emergency medicine education, emergency care systems development, and surgical access in resource-limited settings.
• Jean Meneses, MD, Pediatrics
• Gil Metser, MD, Medicine (Cardiology)
• Despina Michailidou, MD, PhD, Medicine (Rheumatology): Michailidou is an adult rheumatologist, board-certified in rheumatology, with clinical expertise in vasculitis, polymyalgia rheumatica and IgG4-related disease. She received an Investigator Award for early-career rheumatology researchers from the Rheumatology Research Foundation to study mitochondrial markers and platelet-mediated mitochondrial extrusion in patients with giant cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica. She is also involved in launching a novel investigator-initiated clinical trial in patients with giant cell arteritis at Columbia University.
• Heather M. Molvik, MD, Emergency Medicine: Molvik is an instructor in emergency medicine and a fellow in advanced emergency ultrasound. Her interests are the administration of ultrasound, particularly reimbursement; optimizing workflow; and the enthusiastic teaching of ultrasound to all levels of learners. 
• Ramya C. Mosarla, MD, Medicine (Cardiology): Mosarla is an interventional cardiologist, subspecializing in vascular medicine and endovascular intervention, with clinical interests in the treatment of critical limb ischemia, pulmonary embolism, and the spectrum of coronary artery disease. 
• Shruti A. Nanivadekar, MD, Medicine (Hematology and Oncology)
• Anna Maria Nuti, MD, Anesthesiology: Nuti’s professional interests include ENT/neuro-anesthesiology, neurocritical care, intraoperative neuromonitoring, and general anesthesia.
• Sunwoo Park, MD, Medicine: Park is a primary care physician who believes in empowering individuals to take an active role in their health and well-being.
• Samir K. Shah, MD, Medicine (Cardiology)
• Lawanya Singh, MD, Medicine (Hematology and Oncology)
• Justin Steinfeld, MD, PhD, Psychiatry: Steinfeld is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and physician-scientist. His research in glutamate receptor pharmacology is aimed at developing new treatments for autism and schizophrenia. He provides clinical care for children in the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital Emergency Department and Consultation-Liaison services.
• Wendy W. Sun, MD, Emergency Medicine: Sun in a board-certified emergency medicine physician and assistant medical director of the NYP-Allen Emergency Department. Her research focuses on clinical operations, clinician well-being, and health innovation. 
• Suzanne K. Smyth, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Hua Tian, PhD, Pediatrics
• Frantz Torchon, MD, Medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy/Critical Care Medicine)
• Jessica J. Tuan, MD, Medicine (Infectious Diseases): Tuan’s underlying interests focus on global health through the lens of health care infrastructure and social justice; the intersection of how life is impacted by infectious diseases, geography, and society; and the syndromes seen in tropical medicine. She brings experience from humanitarian medicine and global health work, including Doctors Without Borders, and her background as an HIV and infectious disease clinical trial investigator.
• Amber L. Whitley, MD, Medicine (General Medicine): Whitley is a hospitalist with academic interests in medical education and mentorship.