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Biography: Partha Sardar, MD, is an interventional cardiologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Dr. Sardar specializes in cardiology, interventional cardiology, and vascular interventions. He is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, and interventional cardiology by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr. Sardar's clinical interests include complex coronary artery intervention, peripheral arterial disease, critical limb ischemia, renovascular disease, pulmonary embolism, and venous thromboembolism.Dr. Sardar completed a fellowship in interventional cardiology at Brown University and Vascular Diagnostic and Intervention fellowships at Massachusetts General Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. He obtained his medical degree from Calcutta National Medical College in India. He also completed his internal medicine residency at New York Medical College and a cardiovascular medicine fellowship at the University of Utah School of Medicine.Dr. Sardar's research interests focus on clinical outcomes and comparative effectiveness research related to endovascular devices and the application of artificial intelligence in interventional cardiology. He is also interested in value-based cardiology and finding solutions to decrease healthcare costs. Dr. Sardar has written over 70 original manuscripts, more than 30 reviews and editorials, and contributed to two chapters in widely used textbooks on Interventional Cardiology. His original research has been published in top journals in his specialty, including the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, European Heart Journal, Journal of the American Medical Association, Circulation Interventions, and JACC Interventions, among others. He frequently lectures at national meetings, including the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions.

Biography: Jonathan Kochav MD, MS specializes in general Cardiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD). His clinical expertise is focused on Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging, with clinical and research interests in the use of advanced cardiovascular imaging in the diagnosis and surveillance of complex congenital heart disease. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) and an assistant attending cardiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP). Dr. Kochav completed his MD at the Duke University School of Medicine. He subsequently trained in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital of Harvard University. He completed a fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, where he served as Chief Fellow prior to completing an Adult Congenital Heart Disease Fellowship. He also received a Master of Science in Biostatistics at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Kochav sees patients at Columbia University Medical Center in Washington Heights, NY

Biography: Dr. Yoanna Pumpalova is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and medical oncologist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center where she specializes in the treatment of gastrointestinal malignancies, with a focus on colorectal and anal cancers. She received her MD from Weill Cornell Medical College and completed internship and residency training in Internal Medicine and Global Health at Stanford University. She then completed fellowship training in Medical Oncology at Columbia University/New York Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Pumpalova works as part of a multidisciplinary team with the mission of delivering compassionate and state-of-the-art oncologic care to each patient, using a precision medicine approach to provide innovative and promising treatments. Dr. Pumpalova is actively involved in translational research to understand the biological mechanisms driving early onset colorectal cancer. She collaborates with Dr. Joel Gabre, a gastroenterologist and clinician scientist and Dr. Beatrice Dionigi, colorectal surgeon, on research to understand how early onset colorectal cancer differs from average onset colorectal cancer, with the goal of uncovering novel ways to treat all patients with colorectal cancer. Dr. Pumpalova is also the site principal investigator of industry-sponsored clinical trials investigating novel therapies for the treatment of colorectal cancer. Further, Dr. Pumpalova conducts studies in low- and middle-income countries focused on early detection and screening for colorectal cancer. She has active studies in South Africa and Dominican Republic. Her research goal is to improve outcomes for patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer, regardless of where they reside. Her work has been recognized by several awards including an ASCO Young Investigator Award and ASCO Career Development Award. In the NewsColumbia Researchers Seek Answers for Rise of Colon Cancer in Younger PatientsWhat to Know About the Rise of Colorectal Cancer in Younger PeopleExploring Strategies for Earlier Colon Cancer Detection in Sub-Saharan Africa

Biography: Michael Brener, MD, MS, is an interventional cardiologist with over five years of experience treating patients with a variety of cardiovascular conditions, specifically coronary artery disease, heart failure, and heart valve abnormalities. He is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiology, and interventional cardiology. Dr. Brener serves as a full-time faculty member of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University School of Medicine. Dr. Brener completed his medical degree and training in internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Before starting his training in cardiology, Dr. Brener was an Assistant Chief of Service (Chief Resident) at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He then completed his cardiovascular disease, interventional cardiology, and structural interventional cardiology fellowships at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City. Dr. Brener's clinical practice focuses on cardiac catheterization, percutaneous treatment of coronary artery disease with stents and angioplasty, and procedures to treat heart valve conditions like transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair. In addition, Dr. Brener is an active researcher with a faculty appointment at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation. His work focuses on cardiovascular hemodynamics in patients with heart failure and valvular heart disease.