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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. Joel Gabre, MD is a Gastroenterology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He is 39 years old and has been practicing for 13 years. Dr. Joel Gabre, MD is affiliated with Newyork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.

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. Sheen is the Medical Director of Labor and Delivery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She entered the field of maternal-fetal medicine after an established career in general obstetrics and gynecology and education, having received her medical degree from the New York University School of Medicine and followed with residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College. She then practiced general obstetrics and gynecology and was the Associate Residency Director at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center prior to pursuing her fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center. Her experience with varying maternal medical and fetal disorders contributed to her interest in pursuing formal training in perinatology. During fellowship, Dr. Sheen continued her work with maternal medical disorders, obstetrics and gynecology education, patient safety and the quality assessment of patient care, besides developing her interests in evaluating fetal anomalies. Her research and interests have included studies of progesterone use in preventing preterm labor in patients with varying medical co-morbidities, radiologic imaging for evaluating pulmonary emboli in pregnancy, postpartum emergency room utilization, epigenetics of diabetes and obesity, as well as patient safety and resident education through simulation/hand-off training.

Biography: Blair Johnson Wylie, MD, MPH, is the Founding Director of The Collaborative for Women's Environmental Health at Columbia University and the Virgil G. Damon Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. She also serves as the obstetric consultant to Region 1's Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Network (PEHSU). Dr. Wylie received her bachelor's degree from Princeton University and her medical degree from Harvard Medical School. She studied epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, where she received her master's in public health. She completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Washington Medical Center and a fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Columbia University. Dr. Wylie's clinical practice encompasses the full range of maternal-fetal medicine, including prenatal diagnosis and ultrasound, high risk obstetric conditions, caring for pregnant women hospitalized during pregnancy, and deliveries. She also offers women and their families consultation about how environmental exposures can impact the health of pregnancy and the developing fetus. In addition to her clinical and administrative roles, Dr. Wylie conducts research with a focus on global maternal/child health, with a particular interest in environmental exposures during pregnancy in international settings, such as smoke from cooking fires, pesticides from subsistence farming, and climate-related factors like heat and air pollution. She has ongoing projects in Ghana, Tanzania, Pakistan and India. She is co-Principal Investigator for Columbia University/Aga Khan University Research Unit in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research. She previously chaired the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's Global Health Committee and now chairs the Foundation for SMFM's Queenan Fellowships for Global Health. Additionally, she recently completed a three-year term on the Board for the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.

Biography: Stephanie Purisch, MD is a maternal-fetal medicine specialist and assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She joined the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Columbia after completing residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine at Columbia University. Dr. Purisch is the co-director of the Mothers Center Heart Program, which provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary clinical care to women with cardiovascular disease who are pregnant or contemplating pregnancy. Dr. Purisch's primary clinical and research interest is the care of women with medically complicated pregnancies. In addition to cardiac disease in pregnancy, she also has expertise caring for pregnant women with underlying maternal pulmonary, endocrine, rheumatologic, and hematologic diseases.