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Biography: Lisa Nathan, MD, MPH is theChief of Obstetrics, Sloane Hospital for Women, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and an Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at CUMC. She completed her Ob/Gyn residency training at Montefiore/Einstein and stayed on to work for several years as an academic generalist. During this time, she founded the Global Women's Health Program for the Department with grant support from the Einstein Global Health Center and the U.S. Fulbright African Regional Research Program. Dr. Nathan also founded Einstein's Departmental Health Equity Task Force. The goal of this task force was to create a Departmental culture and workforce that understands the concepts of health disparities and structural racism, recognizes the ways in which society and the health system promote them, and works proactively to dismantle them. In addition to her clinical and administrative duties, Dr Nathan is also active within ACOG, where she is a member of the Safe Motherhood Initiative Steering Committee. She was the Chair of the Maternal Sepsis Bundle workgroup and is a current member of the Health Equity Subcommittee. She also serves as a consultant to the New York City Department of Health, where she serves as the Co-Chair of the Maternal Mortality Review Committee. In this role, she reviews events leading to maternal mortality for the majority of cases occurring in New York City. These reviews form the basis for the development of recommendations for city and state level initiatives to combat the root causes of the high maternal mortality rates in New York City.

Biography: Dr. Lentzsch is a Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Multiple Myeloma and Amyloidosis Program at Columbia University Irving Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. She received her medical and doctorate degrees from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, where she also completed her residency and fellowship. She did a research fellowship, studying the mechanism of action of thalidomide and its derivatives in multiple myeloma, in the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center under the mentorship of Dr. Kenneth Anderson at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA. Dr. Lentzsch was recruited in August 2004 to the University of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI), PA, USA, and served as Clinical Director of the Multiple Myeloma Program at UPCI before accepting the position as Director of the Multiple Myeloma and Amyloidosis Program at Columbia University Medical Center. She cares primarily for patients with plasma cell dyscrasia including MGUS, Multiple Myeloma, Amyloidosis, POEMS and Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia. Dr. Lentzsch is an internationally recognized expert in the field of Multiple Myeloma and Amyloidosis. She serves as a SWOG Myeloma Committee Member, SWOG Study Coordinator and International Myeloma Foundation "Black Swan Research Initiative" committee member. She is a member of the standing advisory board for the evaluation of Secondary Primary Malignancies associated with IMiDs.

Biography: Dr. Timothy Wang is a leading expert in gastroenterology cancer research and patient care. His research specifically focuses on transgenic/ knockout mice, stem cells, lineage tracing, bone marrow-derived cells, and FACS analysis of immune/epithelial cells in the gut. His laboratory has for decades investigated the molecular mechanisms of gastrointestinal carcinogenesis, and has been continuously funded by the NIH for 29 years and by the NCI for 14 years. His lab has worked for many years on the role of inflammation in promoting gastrointestinal neoplasia, including colon cancer. His research has defined key roles for stromal cells in tumor development, including myeloid cells. Dr. Wang is the GI Division Chief at Columbia and serves as Co-leader of the Tumor Biology and Microenvironment Program of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center. He also serves as director of the Columbia University NCI U54 Tumor Microenvironment (TMEN) program and directs the Barretts Esophageal Translational Research Network (BETRNet) program and the Intestinal Stem Cell Consortium (ISCC) at Columbia. In addition to his leadership at Columbia, Dr. Wang has served as President of the American Gastroenterology Association (AGA). His work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Outstanding Investigator Award from the NCI, the Irene and Arthur Fishberg Prize for medical research, the Ruth Leff Siegel Award for pancreatic cancer research, and the William Beaumont Prize in Gastroenterology from the AGA. Over his career, he has organized numerous conferences, including conferences on Gastrin, Regulatory Peptides, AACR Symposium on Gastric Cancer, Tumor Microenvironment, and Keystone Conferences.

Biography: Dr. Henick is a medical oncologist specializing in the care of patients with malignancies of the aerodigestive tract.As the Associate Director of Experimental Therapeutics and Director of Translational Research in Aerodigestive Cancers in Medical Oncology, Dr. Henick's clinical care and research are aligned to improve the effectiveness of, and limit toxicity from, emerging cancer treatments. These effortsentail clinical trials that Dr. Henick has written and leads to study novel therapeutic approaches and to reduce steroid dependence among patients experiencing adverse events fromimmunotherapy.

Biography: Dr. Vaibhav Patel, MD is a Hematology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He is 38 years old. Dr. Vaibhav Patel, MD is affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Brooklyn and Mount Sinai Queens.

Biography: Dr. Chris Hackett received his BS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University in 2000. After doing biomedical research in industry and academia, he then pursued graduate studies in cancer genomics at the University of California, San Francisco, where he earned his PhD in 2010. Seeking to become a physician-scientist, he then earned his medical degree (MD) from the University of Minnesota in 2014. He then completed his Internal Medicine Residency at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, followed by a fellowship in Medical Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), where he focused on solid tumor oncology in the clinic and carried out laboratory research to design T cell therapies for cancer. Following fellowship, Dr. Hackett was an attending on the Cellular Therapeutics Service at MSK, where he focused on treating patients with CAR T cells, Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TIL) and other cell therapies. In 2023, he joined the Bone Marrow Transplant Service at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, where he continues to both treat patients with cellular therapies and conduct research to develop new cell therapies for solid tumors.

Biography: Amrin Khander, MD, is an obstetrician and gynecologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Medical Group Queens and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology at Weill Cornell Medicine. She specializes in maternal-fetal and high-risk pregnancy care for women with co-existing medical conditions and performs deliveries and procedures at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens. Dr. Khander has a clinical focus on providing a full scope of OB/GYN care to women with chronic or complex health conditions, including hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease or other gastrointestinal diseases, blood disorders, rheumatic disease, cancer, and neurologic disorders. She closely monitors the condition of both mother and baby throughout pregnancy and has advance knowledge of high-risk and complicated pregnancies. Active in research, Dr. Khander has been published in various medical journals, including the Journal of Hepatology and the Journal of Maternal Fetal Neonatal Medicine and has presented her research at annual medical conferences. She is a member of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine. After graduating from The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, Dr. Khander served her residence at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. She completed her fellowship in obstetrics and gynecology and maternal fetal medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.