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Biography: Andrew T. Lenis, MD MS, is an Assistant Professor of Urology at CUIMC. He specializes in treating patients with bladder, kidney, prostate, testis, and penile cancers. Dr. Lenis graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, with a dual MD MS degree and Honors Distinction in Research. He then completed his surgical internship and urology residency at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. After residency, Dr. Lenis completed a fellowship in Urologic Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Dr. Lenis joined CUIMC as a surgeon-scientist with an interest and specialization in urothelial cancer (tumors of the bladder, ureter, and renal pelvis). In the laboratory, Dr. Lenis works and collaborates with Michael Shen, Ph.D., who is an expert in bladder and prostate developmental and molecular biology and a pioneer in bladder tumor organoids. The American Urological Association, the American Cancer Society, and the American Society for Clinical Oncology have funded Dr. Lenis' research. His work on urologic malignancies has been published in JAMA, the Journal of Urology, European Urology, the Journal of Clinical Oncology Precision Oncology, and Urologic Oncology. When not seeing patients or in the laboratory, Dr. Lenis enjoys spending time with his wife and two sons. They enjoy the outdoors and traveling.

Biography: Marcus Pereira, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at CUMC and the Director of Clinical Services in the Division of Infectious Diseases. In addition, he is the Medical Director of the Transplant Infectious Diseases Program, where he oversees the development of infection prophylaxis and treatment protocols for immunocompromised patients. His areas of interest include the management of multi-drug resistant bacterial and fungal infections, as well as drug resistant CMV infections and more recently the impact of COVID-19 in transplant recipients. He has also collaborated in important multi-center studies as well as the 2025 International CMV Guidelines, sponsored by the Transplantation Society. Dr. Pereira is an active member in national societies such as the American Society of Transplantation and Infectious Disease Society of America, and is an Associate Editor for the American Journal of Transplantation.

Biography: Dr. Gordon is the Medical Director of the Comprehensive Health Program (CHP) at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's Columbia campus and a Professor of Medicine at Columbia University's School of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Gordon is a practicing HIV/HCV Specialist and Primary Care Provider within the Designated AIDS Center at NewYork-Presbyterian, a clinical investigator within the Columbia Collaborative HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Unit, and a clinical investigator at Columbia University's HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Science. He is the former Chair of the New York State AIDS Institute Quality of Care Advisory Committee and currently serves on the Clinical and Research Committees of Healthix, a regional health information exchange (RHIO) based in NYC. Dr. Gordon's research interests and contributions have focused upon healthcare delivery systems evaluation, consumer health information technology, bioinformatics, HIV and Hepatitis C care and prevention. Recent work has focused upon understanding and improving HIV and HCV care and prevention services through IT enabled institutional care cascades, EHR enhanced HIV risk assessment, and health information exchange event notification for people living with HIV and HCV who are lost to care. He has authored or co-authored over 30 scientific articles on topics ranging from HIV prevention, workforce development, HIV testing, therapeutics, and bioinformatics. He currently is the Principle Investigator on a number of CDC, NIH, HRSA, and NYC DOHMH HIV research and service delivery grants.

Biography: I am involved in numerous clinical protocols investigating new immunosuppressive drugs and/or new combinations of existing medications in renal transplant patients, both newly transplanted patients and those with long-term functioning transplants.

Biography: Dr. Geoffrey Dube, MD is a Nephrology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He has been practicing for 51 years. Dr. Geoffrey Dube, MD is affiliated with Newyork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.