Thyroid Nodules
Amira M. Mohamed
Amira Mohamed completed her medical school education in Khartoum, Sudan before moving to the United States. She completed an internal medicine residency and sub-specialized in Critical Care Medicine after which she joined Montefiore Medical Center in 2019.<br />Dr. Mohamed became involved in the medical education of both internal medicine residents and critical care medicine fellows soon after joining Montefiore and was appointed the Associate Program Director of the Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program in early 2021. She rebuilt the fellow curriculum and strengthened their involvement in non-clinical duties such as research and quality improvement. She became the Program Director in 2022.<br />Outside of medical education, Dr. Mohamed is the Associate Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at the Moses campus and her research interests include vaccine effectiveness and healthcare disparities.
Amira Mohamed is an intensivist with a specific interest in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) and respiratory failure. As the Associate Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at the Moses campus, she is involved in multiple quality improvement projects such as ventilator liberation with spontaneous awakening and breathing trials and measures to decrease Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections.<br />As an intensivist and a clinical educator, Dr. Mohamed's focus has been on resident and fellow education. She has contributed to the recent changes in the Critical Care Curriculum with a renewed focus on research and quality improvement. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Mohamed joined the ICY network in a CDC-funded study of vaccine effectiveness and has published multiple studies on this topic.
<p>Amira Mohamed, MD, is Director, Critical Care Fellowship Program, Associate Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Moses Campus and Assistant Professor, Medicine at Montefiore Einstein. Dr. Mohamed is an intensivist with a specific interest in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) and respiratory failure.</p><p>After completing her medical school education in Khartoum, Sudan in 2012, Dr Mohamed later moved to the United States. She completed her internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center in 2017, followed by a critical care medicine fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine in 2019, acting as Chief Fellow in her final year.</p><p>Dr. Mohamed’s research interests include vaccine effectiveness and health care disparities. As an intensivist and a clinical educator, Dr Mohamed's focus has been on resident and fellow education. She has contributed to recent changes of the critical care curriculum at Montefiore Einstein, with a renewed focus on research and quality improvement. She has shared her research through peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and abstracts.</p><p>Dr. Mohamed is board certified in Internal Medicine and Critical Care Medicine. She is a member of the American Thoracic Society, the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors.</p>
Renee M. Moadel
<span style="color:#4d4d4d;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, source-code-pro, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace;font-size:16px;background-color:#ffffff;">Dr. Moadel has been with Montefiore since 2002, with a clinical focus on therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals in oncology and pediatric nuclear medicine, and a particular interest in the therapy of thyroid, liver, and prostate cancers.</span><quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
<span style="color:#4d4d4d;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, source-code-pro, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace;font-size:16px;background-color:#ffffff;">In addition to sarcoma, pulmonary embolism, and infection imaging, Dr. Moadel’s research focuses on engineering-driven medicine and the use of Y-90 microsphere therapy (a minimally evasive procedure combining embolization and radiation) for treating liver cancers. Her research examines many topics, ranging from nuclear therapy of breast cancer to methods of body scanning.</span><quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
<p>Renee M. Moadel, MD, MSc, is an Attending Physician in the Department of Radiology and an Assistant Professor of Nuclear Medicine and Medicine at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Moadel has been with Montefiore since 2002, with a clinical focus on therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals in oncology and pediatric nuclear medicine, and a particular interest in the therapy of thyroid, liver, and prostate cancers.</p><p>Dr. Moadel received her Doctor of Medicine in 1996 and Master of Clinical Research in 2007 at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. From 1996 to 2001, Dr. Moadel completed her postgraduate training with a residency in medicine and nuclear medicine, a chief residency in nuclear medicine, and a fellowship in nuclear medicine at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine.</p><p>In addition to sarcoma, pulmonary embolism, and infection imaging, Dr. Moadel’s research focuses on engineering-driven medicine and the use of Y-90 microsphere therapy (a minimally evasive procedure combining embolization and radiation) for treating liver cancers. Her research examines many topics, ranging from nuclear therapy of breast cancer to methods of body scanning. Dr. Moadel’s work has been published in a number of reviewed journals, books, and review articles.</p><p>In 1998, Dr. Moadel was the recipient of the Leo M. Davidoff Society Award for Teaching in Internal Medicine by Montefiore, which honors teachers who have made significant contributions to the education of students of our Albert Einstein College of Medicine.</p><p>She is board certified by the American College of Nuclear Medicine, sitting on the Board of Regents.</p>
Sofiya Milman
<p>Dr. Sofiya Milman is Professor of Medicine and of Genetics, Interim Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Medicine, and Director of Human Longevity Studies at Einstein’s Institute for Aging Research. Dr. Milman’s research focuses on a unique population of centenarians and their families who are generally free of age-related diseases. Healthy longevity runs in most of these families, suggesting a heritable basis for this phenomenon. Dr. Milman's team conducts translational research focused on the discovery of genomic mechanisms that regulate endocrine and metabolic pathways that protect against common age-related diseases, like diabetes, cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's. </p>
<p>Many of the discovered longevity genes and phenotypes are related to hormonal pathways. Changes in most hormones are observed throughout the human lifespan, but it remains unknown whether the observed changes cause aging, are associated with age but are not the cause of aging, or are protective for the aging body. Identification of protective endocrine parameters will inform our understanding of the mechanisms of healthy aging and lead to the discovery of interventions that protect from age-related diseases.</p>
<p>A biological pathway that has been repeatedly implicated in aging is the somatotropic axis that involves signaling via growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I). Substantial evidence exists that diminished signaling via this pathway delays aging, resulting in longer lifespan and health-span, not only in animal models, but also in humans. In fact, Dr. Milman's research demonstrated that lower IGF-I levels were associated with longer survival and better cognition in humans with exceptional longevity and provided evidence against supplementing older adults with growth hormone in an attempt to delay aging. Dr. Milman's team uses computational approaches to integrade genetic information, such as whole-exome sequencing, with rich phenotype data in families with inherited longevity to understand the genetic and molecular mechanisms that lead to protective effects of low IGF-I. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> 1. Zhang WB, Ye K, Barzilai N, <strong>Milman S</strong>. The antagonistic pleiotropy of insulin-like growth factor 1. <em>Aging Cell </em>2021; </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: #231f20; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; background-color: white;">20(9), e13443</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">; </span><span class="id-label"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black;">PMCID: PMC8441393</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black;"> 3. Zhang WB, Aleksic S, Gao T, Weiss EF, Demetriou E, Verghese J, Holtzer R, Barzilai N,<strong> Milman S. </strong><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32492897/?from_term=sofiya+milman&f… style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 and IGF Binding Proteins Predict All-Cause Mortality and Morbidity in Older Adults.</span></a> <em>Cells</em> 2020; 9(6):E1368, PMCID:<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc7349399/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">PMC7349399</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black;"> 4. Zhang ZD, <strong>Milman S</strong>, Lin J, Barzilai N, Gorbunova V, Ladiges WC, Niedernhofer LF, Suh Y, Robbins PD, Vijg J. Genetics of extreme human longevity to guide drug discovery for healthy ageing. <em>Nat Metab </em>2020; 2(8)663-672.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black;"> 5. Lehallier B, Gate D, Schaum N, Nanasi T, Lee SE, Yousef H, Moran Losada P, Berdnik D, Keller A, Verghese J, Sathyan S, Franceschi C, <strong>Milman S</strong>, Barzilai N, Wyss-Coray T. Undulating changes in human plasma proteome profiles across the lifespan. <em>Nat Med</em> 2019; 25(12):1843-1850; PMCID: <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc7062043/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="color: black;">PMC7062043</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black;"> 6. Gubbi S, Quipildor GF, Barzilai N, Huffman DM, <strong>Milman S</strong>. 40 Years of IGF-1: IGF-1: the Jekyll and Hyde of the aging brain. <em>J Mol Endocrinol </em>2018; 61(1):T171-T185. PMCID: PMC5988994</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black;"> 7. Gubbi S, Schwartz E, Crandall JP, Verghese J, Holtzer R, Atzmon G, Braunstein R, Barzilai N, <strong>Milman S</strong>. Effect of Exceptional Parental Longevity and Lifestyle Factors on Prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease in Offspring. <em>Am J Cardiol</em> 2017</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black;"> 8. Ismail K, Nussbaum L, Sebastiani P, Andersen S, Perls T, Barzilai N, <strong>Milman S</strong>. Compression of Morbidity is Observed Across Cohorts with Exceptional Longevity. <em>J Am Geriatr Soc</em> 2016; 64(8):1583-91. PMCID: <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4988893/"><span style="color: black;">PMC4988893</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black;"> 9.</span><strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black;"> Milman S</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black;">, Huffman DM, Barzilai N. The Somatotropic Axis in Human Aging: Framework for the Current State of Knowledge and Future Research. <em>Cell Metab</em> 2016; 23(6):980-9. PMCID: <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4919980/"><span style="color: black;">PMC4919980</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> 10.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black;">Perice L, Barzilai N, Verghese J, Weiss EF, Holtzer R, Cohen P, <strong>Milman S</strong>. Lower Circulating Insulin-like Growth Factor-I is Associated with Better Cognition in Females with Exceptional Longevity Without Compromise to Muscle Mass and Function. <em>Aging </em>Albany NY) 2016; 8(10): 2414-2424. PMCID: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5115897/"><span style="color: black;">PMC5115897</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> 11.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black;">Milman S</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black;">, Barzilai N. Dissecting the Mechanisms Underlying Unusually Successful Human Health Span and Life Span. <em>Cold Spring Harb Perspect Med</em> 2015 Dec 4. PMCID: <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4691799/"><span style="color: black;">PMC4691799</span></a> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> 12.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Milman S</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, Atzmon G, Huffman DM, Wan J, Crandall JP, Cohen P, Barzilai N. Low Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 Level Predicts Survival in Humans with Exceptional Longevity. <em>Aging Cell</em> 2014; 13(4):769-71</span></p>
Vikas Mehta
Clinical focus is on the treatment of patients with head and neck cancer, diseases of the salivary glands and thyroid/parathyroid disease, with a particular interest in transoral robotic surgery and minimally invasive endocrine surgery.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
Currently, Dr. Mehta is interested in researching the clinical outcomes in head and neck cancer patients, and patients with thyroid conditions, looking particularly at health disparities, cost-effectiveness, quality of care and systems improvements.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
<p>Vikas Mehta, MD, MPH, FACS, is the Vice Chair and an Associate Professor in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at Montefiore Einstein. His clinical focus is on the treatment of patients with head and neck cancer, diseases of the salivary glands and thyroid/parathyroid disease, with a particular interest in transoral robotic surgery and minimally invasive endocrine surgery.</p><p>Dr. Mehta received his Bachelor of Science in Molecular Cell Biology at the University of California Berkeley in 2001. In 2006, he received his Doctor of Medicine at the University of California Irvine. Dr. Mehta completed an internship in general surgery at St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center in 2007. He then completed a residency in otolaryngology at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. In 2012, he completed a fellowship in Head and Neck Surgical Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He also attended Johns Hopkins University where he received his Master of Public Health in 2015.</p><p>Currently, Dr. Mehta is interested in researching the clinical outcomes in head and neck cancer patients, and patients with thyroid conditions, cost-effectiveness, quality of care and systems improvements. He also serves as the Quality Improvement Coordinator for the Montefiore Einstein Cancer Committee and received a green belt in Lean Six Sigma training in 2022. His previous work on a range of topics has been published in many peer-reviewed journals and books, as well as presented nationally and internationally.</p><p>Dr. Mehta is a member of numerous professional societies, including the American Head and Neck Society, the American College of Surgeons, the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and the New York Head and Neck Society. He maintains active board certification with the American Board of Otolaryngology.</p>
Justin D. Mathew
Anjali Manavalan
Hanna Lee
Preeti Kishore
<p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; margin: 0pt 0pt .0001pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial;">Dr. Preeti Kishore is a Professor in the Division of Endocrinology. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px;"> She is the site director for the Einstein/Montefiore Endocrinology Fellowship Program at Jacobi Medical Center. As Chief of the Endocrinology Division at Jacobi she is responsible for the clinical endocrine inpatient and outpatient operations at Jacobi and North Central Bronx Hospitals.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px;"> She actively participates in the teaching of endocrinology fellows, internal medicine residents and Einstein medical students. Her education philosophy is to empower learners to drive their own educational goals/learning. She is interested in the use of diabetes technology to manage low health literacy patients with diabetes. She is also the Director of the Weight Management Program at Jacobi.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; margin: 0pt 0pt .0001pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Her research interests have been in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and the Insulin resistance syndrome. She has investigated the pathogenic role of free fatty acids in various aspects of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px;">Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">, particularly the role they play in regulating “glucose effectiveness”. She is also interested in the role of adipose tissue inflammation in the pathogenesis of the metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance. As an extension to her interest in adipose inflammation, she has investigated the role of vitamin D deficiency in Type 2 diabetes and whether it may regulate adipose inflammation/fibrosis. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; margin: 0pt 0pt .0001pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Dr. Kishore is </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px;">a member of the Leo M Davidoff Society and a</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> recipient of the prestigious Henry Christian Award of the American Federation of Medical Research. She is also the recipient of several teaching/advising awards. </span></p>
<p>Esterson YB, Carey M, Boucai L, Goyal A, Raghavan P, Zhang K, Mehta D, Feng D, Wu L, Kehlenbrink S, Koppaka S, Kishore P, Hawkins M.Central Regulation of Glucose Production May Be Impaired in Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes. 2016 Sep;65(9):2569-79</p>
<p>Kishore P, Boucai L, Zhang K, Li W, Koppaka S, Kehlenbrink S, Schiwek A, Esterson YB, Mehta D, Bursheh S, Su Y, Gutierrez-Juarez R, Muzumdar R, Schwartz GJ, Hawkins M. Activation of K(ATP) channels suppresses glucose production in humans. J Clin Invest. 2011 Dec;121(12):4916-20</p>
<p>Kishore P, Li W, Tonelli J, Lee DE, Koppaka S, Zhang K, Lin Y, Kehlenbrink S, Scherer PE, Hawkins M. Adipocyte-derived factors potentiate nutrient-induced production of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 by macrophages. Sci Transl Med. 2010 Feb 24;2(20):20ra15.</p>
Dominique M. Jan
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Dr. Jan's research focus is in the areas of pediatric transplantation of the small bowel, liver and kidney.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
<p>Dominique M. Jan, MD received his medical degree from the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie in Paris.</p><p>He completed his internship and residency in general surgery with special training in pediatric surgery, urology, surgery of the digestive tract and vascular surgery at the Assistance publique – Hôpitaux de Paris. He fulfilled fellowship training in pediatric surgery at the Hôpital Necker – Enfants Malades in Paris and is board certified by the French Boards for General Surgery and Pediatric Surgery.</p><p>Dr. Jan is a member of numerous leading international professional societies and has published and presented more than 100 articles in the areas of pediatric transplantation of the small bowel, liver and kidney.</p><p>Prior to assuming his current role of Chief, Division of Pediatric Surgery, and Director, Pediatric Transplantation Surgery, Professor of Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he served as attending surgeon in the Department of Surgery at the Columbia University Medical Center, attending physician at the Hôpital Necker – Enfants Malades and as deputy chair of Pediatric Surgery at the Hôpital Saint Camille in Paris.</p>