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Biography: Dr. Kohta Saito, Assistant Professor of Medicine, received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School before going on to complete an Internal Medicine-Pediatrics combined residency program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai. He concurrently completed a Masters of Public Health along the Global Health Track, and was Chief Resident of Internal Medicine-Pediatrics in his final year. He then went on to complete a fellowship in adult Infectious Diseases at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is currently working at WCM in both inpatient and outpatient infectious diseases capacities. When not providing clinical services, his research interests lie in better understanding Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis. He studies different states of the bacterium that allow it to tolerate current antimicrobials, and aims to find new treatment options for tuberculosis.

Biography: Dr. Christopher Brown, MD is an Infectious Disease Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He has been practicing for 29 years. Dr. Christopher Brown, MD is affiliated with Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Biography: Dr. Karen Acker is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and Assistant Attending at Phyllis and David Komansky Children's Hospital at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. She received her B.S. in biology at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina, and then returned to her home state of New York for her medical training. She received her medical degree (M.D.) at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY, and completed her residency in pediatrics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College, followed by her fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. During her fellowship, she developed clinical and research interests in Staphylococcal infections and infections in immunosuppressed patients.Dr. Acker is board-certified in pediatrics and board-eligible for pediatric infectious diseases.