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Biography: Dr. Spencer Liu, MD is an Interventional Cardiology Specialist who practices in Staten Island, NY. He is 39 years old. Dr. Spencer Liu, MD is affiliated with Staten Island University Hospital.

Biography: Dr. Geurys Rojas Marte, MD is a Cardiology Specialist who practices in Staten Island, NY. He is 39 years old. Dr. Geurys Rojas Marte, MD is affiliated with Staten Island University Hospital.

Biography: Nellie I. Kalcheva, MD, serves as a critical care cardiologist and the Director of Clinical and Consultative Services for Columbia's Interventional Cardiovascular Care program at Columbia University Irving Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Kalcheva is a full-time faculty member, assistant professor of clinical medicine at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Kalcheva received her medical degree from Medical Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria. She completed her internal medicine residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and her clinical cardiology fellowship at New York University Medical Center. Furthermore, she completed an advanced echocardiography fellowship at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

Biography: Dr. Emily Slater, MD is a Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. She is 40 years old and has been practicing for 14 years. Dr. Emily Slater, MD is affiliated with Newyork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.

Biography: Dr. Edward Lin, MD is an Advanced Heart Failure /amp Transplant Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He is 41 years old and has been practicing for 26 years. Dr. Edward Lin, MD is affiliated with Newyork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.

Biography: Dr. Emily J. Tsai is the Florence Irving Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons and an attending physician at the Center for Advanced Cardiac Care of New York-Presbyterian Hospital at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Board-certified in Cardiovascular Medicine and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology, Dr. Tsai specializes in caring for heart failure patients who require, or who have received, a ventricular assist device or heart transplant. Dr. Tsai is a magna cum laude graduate in engineering sciences of Harvard College and a cum laude graduate of Harvard Medical School and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Program. She completed internal medicine residency training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and then cardiology fellowship and advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. As a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awardee, Dr. Tsai completed post-doctoral basic cardiovascular research training at Johns Hopkins University in the laboratory of Dr. David A. Kass. After fellowship training, Dr. Tsai was recruited to Temple University School of Medicine as an assistant professor of medicine and physiology and a principal investigator in its Cardiovascular Research Center. In 2015, Dr. Tsai joined the faculty of Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and established her laboratory in molecular and integrative cardiac pathophysiology.As a physician-scientist, Dr. Tsai studies the molecular and cellular biology of heart failure with the goal of developing novel therapies. Major areas of research in Dr. Tsai's laboratory include the signaling of soluble guanylyl cyclase (the nitric oxide receptor) in the heart, right heart dysfunction, and cardiac complications associated with COVID-19. Dr. Tsai has been nationally recognized for her scientific achievements by the American College of Cardiology and the Heart Failure Society of America, with their respective Presidential Career Development Award and Jay N. Cohn New Investigator in Basic Sciences Award. She has been awarded several research grants from the National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association, Foundation of Gender Specific Medicine, and the Columbia University Provost's Grants Program. Dr. Tsai has served on national committees of the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and Heart Failure Society of America.

Biography: Dr. Ellie Coromilas, MD is a Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiologist who practices in New York, NY. She is 38 years old. Dr. Ellie Coromilas, MD is affiliated with Newyork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Lawrence.

Biography: Dr. Karan Wats is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Cardiologist, specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with advanced heart failure. His practice includes those requiring left ventricular assist device or heart transplantation. He also attends as a cardiac intensivist. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Echocardiography, Nuclear Cardiology, Hypertension and Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology. Dr. Wats received his medical degree from Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, India. He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center. He then went on to do Hypertension Research fellowship at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai followed by Cardiology fellowship at Maimonides Medical Center and Advanced Heart Failure, Transplant fellowship at Westchester Medical Center. He is particularly interested in infiltrative cardiomyopathy and currently serves as an associate director for amyloid program.

Biography: Siqin Ye, MD, MS, FACC is a general cardiologist and the Director of Cardiology Inpatient Consultation Service, the Heart Institute Inpatient Service, and the Ambulatory Cardiology Fellowship Program. He has previously served as the Associate Chief Medical Officer for ColumbiaDoctors, the faculty practice of Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), in which role he directed key population health and telemedicine programs, including the conversion of all outpatient practices to telemedicine during the Covid-19 pandemic. He has conducted NIH-funded research examining informatics approaches to improve shared decision-making for statin therapy, as well as outcomes research on the implementation and evaluation of telemedicine for ambulatory care. His clinical practice is focused on providing hospital based cardiac care at CUIMC.

Biography: Steven O. Marx, M.D., is the Director of the Cardiovascular Fellowship Program at Columbia University Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and is director of the cardiology component of a NIH training grant for cardiology fellows and surgery residents. His research program in cardiovascular diseases at Columbia has been focused in two major areas: molecular cardiology, particularly the regulation of ion channels in normal and pathological conditions in the heart, and vascular biology, particularly the molecular mechanisms of vascular smooth muscle proliferation, migration and contractility. Working with others at Columbia, Dr. Marx has identified rapamycin (sirolimus) as a therapeutic agent for preventing restenosis after angioplasty/stent implantation. He also characterized the dysfunction of the ryanodine receptor in heart failure. A major focus of Dr. Marx's current research is the regulation of arterial contractility and blood pressure by the ion channels. Dr. Marx received his B.S. in Biology from Union College and M.D. from Albany Medical College as part of a six-year program. Following a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in ion channel research at Johns Hopkins, he completed an internship and residency at the University of Rochester-Strong Memorial Hospital followed by a Cardiology Fellowship and a Clinical Electrophysiology Fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology. He is also the principal investigator of several NIH R01 grants and a T32 grant. Dr. Marx has served on NIH and AHA peer review committees, is a member of the AHA Founders Affiliate Research Committee, and serves on the New York Academy of Medicine Glorney-Raisbeck Selection Committee.

Biography: Dr. Shames has completed her training in Cardiology at McGill University, Montreal, Canada followed by a research fellowship under the supervision of Dr. Linda Gillam at CUMC. She is board certified in Adult Cardiology and Adult Echocardiography. Her main area of expertise and research interest is adult echocardiography including transthoracic, transesophageal, and stress echocardiography. She is actively engaged in teaching cardiology fellows rotating through the echo lab.

Biography: Dr. Shimbo received a B.S. from the Johns Hopkins University in Biomedical Engineering and a M.D. from Albany Medical College. He then completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, and was selected as Chief Resident. He subsequently completed a fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine, also at the Mount Sinai Hospital, before joining the faculty at Columbia University in September 2003. Currently, Dr. Shimbo is a board-certified cardiologist and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology in the Department of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He co-directs the Columbia Hypertension Center, a multi-disciplinary center of excellence that provides high quality care and state-of-the-art diagnostic testing for patients with hypertension. Dr. Shimbo's clinical interests include the accurate diagnosis and treatment of hypertension, and evaluating the cardiovascular manifestations of hypertension. Dr. Shimbo conducts rigorous, innovative, interdisciplinary research that increases the understanding of the behavioral, psychosocial and biological processes in the pathogenesis of the increased cardiovascular disease risk associated with hypertension.

Biography: Dr. Michael Fremed, MD is a Pediatric Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He has been practicing for 10 years. Dr. Michael Fremed, MD is affiliated with Newyork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.

Biography: Dr. Ellis Rochelson, MD is a Pediatric Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He is 38 years old and has been practicing for 11 years. Dr. Ellis Rochelson, MD is affiliated with Newyork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.

Biography: Kerry A. Esquitin, MD, FACC, FASE, FACP, RPVI is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center with clinical expertise in general cardiology and cardiovascular imaging. Her academic work is dedicated to medical education. Dr. Esquitin is the Director of the Advanced Echocardiography Fellowship Program at CUIMC. She is an Associate Program Director of both the Cardiology Fellowship and Internal Medicine Residency Programs. At the Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. Esquitin is Section Director of Cardiology in The Bodyin Health and Disease course.Dr. Esquitin's clinical expertise in general cardiology includes management of hypertension, cholesterol disorders, coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, heart failure and other cardiomyopathies. Dr. Esquitin provides comprehensive, individualized care to each of her patients and places an emphasis on nutrition and fitness as part of a heart-healthy lifestyle. At the medical center, Dr. Esquitin is an attending in the Cardiovascular Ultrasound Laboratory. She is highly skilled in transthoracic echocardiography (TTE), transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), stress echocardiography, 3D imaging, and vascular ultrasound.Dr. Esquitin completed her undergraduate studies at Cornell University and was recognized as a Graduate with Distinction. She earned her medical degree at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and completed her residency training at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where she received the Eileen Gong Weiner Award for Compassionate Care. Dr. Esquitin pursued her fellowship in cardiovascular diseases at Beth Israel Medical Center, followed by advanced training in echocardiography at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Dr. Esquitin holds leadership roles in the American College of Physicians (ACP): at the national level, she sits on the Internal Medicine Scientific Planning Committee to develop the cardiology content for the ACP Annual Meetings (2021, 2023). Regionally, she is an active member of the Education Committee for the New York chapter of the ACP. Dr. Esquitin has been invited to national and regional conferences hosted by the American College of Physicians and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation to speak on topics related to cardiovascular disease. As a highly regarded medical educator, Dr. Esquitin was awarded Teacher of the Year in the Division of Cardiology in 2016 and she is recognized as a Ewig Clinical Scholar in the Department of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.