Medical College

Areas of Concentration Programs

Introduction

Faculty leaders from many of the Areas of Concentration have prepared brief videos to introduce themselves and the research opportunities available within their fields

Addiction and Trauma in Special Populations

Contacts:
Ann Beeder (anb2007@med.cornell.edu)
Brandon Aden (bra2002@med.cornell.edu)

Addiction Medicine

Contacts:
Teresa Milner (tmilner@med.cornell.edu)
Bernice Grafstein (bgraf@med.cornell.edu)
Charles Inturrisi (ceintur@med.cornell.edu)

Aerospace Medicine, Space Genetics & Technology

Contact:
Chris Mason (chm2042@med.cornell.edu)

Burroughs Wellcome WCM Physician Scientist Academy

Contact:
Kyu Rhee (kyr9001@med.cornell.edu)

Cancer Biology & Therapy

Contact:
Anthony Brown (amcbrown@med.cornell.edu)

Cardiometabolic Disease & Prevention

Contact:
Marisa Censani (mac9232@med.cornell.edu)
Keith LaScalea (kal9006@med.cornell.edu)
Alpana Shukla (aps2004@med.cornell.edu)
Evelyn Vamvakaris (evv2001@med.cornell.edu)

Cardiothoracic Surgery

Contact:
Giovanni Soletti (gis2011@med.cornell.edu)
Lamia Harik (lgh9002@med.cornell.edu)
Roberto Perezgrovas Olaria (rop4006@med.cornell.edu)

Comparative Effectiveness and Outcomes Research

Contact:
Ali Jalali (alj4004@med.cornell.edu)
Alvin Mushlin (aim2001@med.cornell.edu)

Cutaneous Biology & Dermatological Research

Contact:
Jonathan Zippin (jhzippin@med.cornell.edu)

Development & Human Disease

Contact:
Heidi Stuhlmann (hes2011@med.cornell.edu)

Contact:
Deborah Estrin (destrin@cornell.edu)

Disease-Specific Epidemiology

Contact:
Linda Gerber (lig2002@med.cornell.edu)

Emergency Medicine

Contact:
Kaushal Shah (kas3002@med.cornell.edu)
Junaid Razzak (jur9123@med.cornell.edu)
EMResearch@med.cornell.edu

Contact:
Caitlin Hoffman (ceh2003@med.cornell.edu)

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Contact:
Samuel Selesnick (shselesn@med.cornell.edu)
Michael Stewart (mgs2002@med.cornell.edu)
Alison Maresh (aam9008@med.cornell.edu)

Healthcare Policy & Research

Contacts:
William Schpero (wls4001@med.cornell.edu)

Infectious Diseases

Contact:
Harjot Singh (has9032@med.cornell.edu)
Laura Kirkman (lak9015@med.cornell.edu)

Contact:
Daniel Fitzgerald (dwf2001@med.cornell.edu)

Medical Education Research

Contacts:
Adin Nelson (adn9018@med.cornell.edu)
Alice Joy Tang (alt9071@med.cornell.edu)

Medical Ethics & the Humanities

Contact:
Joan Walker (jow9033@med.cornell.edu)
Malgorzata Agnieszka Stapor (mas4071@med.cornell.edu)

Medical Imaging, Image-Guided Intervention & Artificial Intelligence

Contact:
Jana Ivanidze (jai9018@med.cornell.edu)
Nicole Lamparello (nil9053@med.cornell.edu)
Kimberly Scherer (kis2007@med.cornell.edu)

Musculoskeletal Diseases

Contacts:
Scott Ellis (elliss@hss.edu)
Chisa Hidaka (hidakac@hss.edu)
Joseph Lane (lanej@hss.edu)

Contact:
Amy Wright (amw4010@med.cornell.edu)
Antonio Bernardo (anb2029@med.cornell.edu)

Neurodegenerative Diseases

Contact:
Jacqueline Burre (jab2058@med.cornell.edu)
Manu Sharma (mas2189@med.cornell.edu)
Virginia Gao (vig9070@med.cornell.edu)

Contact:
Conor Liston (col2004@med.cornell.edu)
Besty Ross (mer2005@med.cornell.edu)

NeuroRestorative Medicine

Contact:
Dianna Willis (diw2004@med.cornell.edu)
Botir Sagdullaev (bos2005@med.cornell.edu)

Neurovascular Biology & Stroke

Contact:
Josef Anrather (joa2006@med.cornell.edu)

Palliative & Geriatric Medicine

Contacts:
Veronica Lo Faso (vel2001@med.cornell.edu)
Allison Maritza Lasky (all3001@med.cornell.edu)

Patient Activated Learning System (PALS)

Contacts:
Monika Safford (mms9024@med.cornell.edu)
Elizabeth Baquero (epb2002@med.cornell.edu)

Patient-Centered Care & Health Equity

Contacts:
Christopher Gonzalez (cjg7003@med.cornell.edu)
Lawrence Onyekwere (lco4001@med.cornell.edu)
Kathryn Zhu (kaz2009@med.cornell.edu)

Pediatric Neuro-Oncology

Contact:
Rohan Ramakrishna (ror9068@med.cornell.edu)
Jeffrey Greenfield (jpgreenf@med.cornell.edu)
Mark M Souweidane (mmsouwei@med.cornell.edu)

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Contact:
Vandana Sood (vas2008@med.cornell.edu)

Precision Medicine & Computational Biology

Contacts:
Olivier Elemento (ole2001@med.cornell.edu)
Marie Normile (man3014@med.cornell.edu)

Psychiatry, Neurodevelopment & Behavioral Sciences

Contact:
Susan Samuels (sus9079@med.cornell.edu)

Quality Improvement & Patient Safety

Contacts:
Jennifer Lee (jel9026@med.cornell.edu)
Rebecca Berger (reb9095@med.cornell.edu)

Reproductive Medicine

Contact:
Steven Spandorfer (sdspando@med.cornell.edu)

Scholarly Activity in Surgery

Contact:
Shaun Steigman (shs9161@med.cornell.edu)

Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine

Contact:
Todd Evans (tre2003@med.cornell.edu)

Systems Neurology

Contact:
Jonathan Victor (jdvicto@med.cornell.edu)

Transplantation Medicine

Contact:
John Lee (jrl2002@med.cornell.edu)

Vascular Biology & Medicine

Contact:
Annarita Di Lorenzo (and2039@med.cornell.edu)

WCM Wellness Qlinic

Contact:
Jessica Spellun (jes9244@med.cornell.edu)

Additional Resources

Ongoing & Past AOC Scholarly Projects

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AOC Contact Faculty & List of Potential Mentors

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