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Biography: Dr. Calley Levine is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Attending Physician in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Computer Science and Digital Media Design from the University of Pennsylvania, and received her medical degree from New York Medical College, where she was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. Dr. Levine completed her internal medicine residency at The Mount Sinai Hospital, followed by fellowship training in gastroenterology and hepatology at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine.At Weill Cornell, Dr. Levine oversees the Direct Access Colonoscopy (DAC) Program and serves as a GI hospitalist, specializing in the care of patients on the inpatient consultation service. Her clinical interests include inpatient GI care, colon cancer screening, and medical education, with a focus on the training and mentorship of GI fellows. She is actively involved in several professional societies, including the New York Society for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, the American College of Gastroenterology and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

Biography: Amer Assal MD is a board certified medical oncologist and hematologist who specializes in the use of autologous and allogeneic bone marrow stem cell transplantation for the treatment of multiple myeloma, leukemia, lymphoma, myelodysplastic syndromes and other bone marrow disorders. Dr. Assal completed his medical education and internal medicine training at NYU School of Medicine. He was also a hospitalist in the department of medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center caring for patients with a variety of cancer diagnoses, including stem cell transplant patients. Dr. Assal completed a fellowship in hematology and medical oncology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine where he also served as chief fellow. He finally completed a fellowship in blood and marrow stem cell transplantation at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. His research interests center around improving outcomes of stem cell transplantation and the diseases it is used to treat. He has a particular interest in immunotherapy and studying ways to harness the immune system to attack tumor cells, while at the same time decreasing the risk of graft versus host disease. He is also interested in studying therapeutic interventions to prevent and treat relapse of disease after stem cell transplantation. He has presented his research at several national conferences and was awarded an American Society of Hematology Abstract Achievement award for his research.