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Biography: Dr Chaudhuri is a (classic) Texas to New York transplant. She completed her medical school training in San Antonio, Texas and did her internal medicine residency at NYP-Columbia. She remained in New York for an infectious diseases fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital and very recently returned to Columbia as faculty. Her focus is HIV care, and delivers care at the Comprehensive Health Program that serves our patients living with HIV.She also has a Master's in Public Health and one of her primary passions is working to combat health disparities, especially among immigrant populations. Her projects have included improving transitions in care among at-risk HIV patients in Queens and identifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on HIV continuity care.

Biography: Dr. Yin is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases.

Biography: Dr. Jason Zucker, MD is an Infectious Disease Specialist who practices in New York, NY. Dr. Jason Zucker, MD is affiliated with NewYork-Presbyterian/The Allen Hospital and Newyork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.

Biography: Dr. Brudney is currently the Senior Expert Adviser to the Centers for Disease Control Division of HIV and Tuberculosis. She spends a significant amount of time working in the southern cone of AfricaMozambique, Zimbabwe and Zambiaon HIV and Tuberculosis. She has also worked on TB Infection Control issues in Mumbai and is currently involved in a new project on MDRTB there. Dr. Brudney was the program director for the Treatment Adherence Demonstration Project in the Comprehensive HIV Program Outpatient HIV clinic. In order to improve antiretroviral adherence in difficult populations, an interdisciplinary program called Jumpstart was initiated in 1998 in the Infectious Disease/AIDS Clinic at NewYorkPresbyterian Hospital. Dr. Brudney obtained a 5 year NIH Fogarty grant for research training in 2002 and trained several teams of Dominican health professionals in the HIV care and delivery program in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Biography: Dr. Gomez-Simmonds' research interests entail understanding the molecular factors that potentiate the acquisition and dissemination of multidrug resistance among hospital-associated pathogens. Her current projects focus on developing sequencing-based methods for investigating the epidemiology and transmission of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria at CUIMC such as carbapenem-resistant and ESBL-producing Enterobacterales. She is particularly interested in characterizing the repertoire of antibiotic resistance genes and associated mobile genetic elements in these pathogens. Additional research interests include identifying clinical risk factors and optimal therapeutic regimens for multidrug-resistant bacterial infections and investigating the clinical and microbiome factors associated with colonization and subsequent infection with hospital-associated pathogens such as Clostridioides difficile.