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Faculty Mentors

The mentorship program was recently established for first year MD-PhD students to meet with active physician scientist faculty members at Columbia. These relationships strengthen students’ progress through the program transitions from the medical school to the graduate school, and back to medical school. The program also teaches students about the life of a physician scientist. The following is a list of the current mentors:

  • Dritan Agalliu, PhD
  • Sunil Agrawal
  • Nicholas Arpaia, PhD
  • Uttiya Basu, PhD
  • Rober Bauer, PhD
  • Elizabeth Bradshaw, PhD
  • Andrea Califano, Dr
  • Peter Canoll, MD, PhD
  • Alex Chavez, MD
  • Angela Christiano, PhD
  • Henry Colecraft, PhD
  • Tal Danino
  • Phil De Jager, MD, PhD
  • Christine Denny, PhD
  • Charles G Drake, MD, PHD
  • Donna Farber, PhD
  • Anthony Ferrante Jr., MD
  • Jean Gautier, PhD
  • Iva Greenwald, PhD
  • Rene Hen, PhD
  • Elizabeth Hillman, PhD
  • Barry Honig, PhD
  • Benjamin Izar, MD
  • Itamar Kahn, PhD
  • Christoph Kellendonk, PhD
  • Kerry Keyes
  • Tal Korem
  • Andrew Laine
  • Tuuli Lappalainen
  • Kam Leong
  • Shawn Liu
  • Stavros Lomvardas, PhD
  • Attila Losonczy, MD, PhD
  • Rachel Marsh
  • Adam Mor, MD, PhD
  • Adler Perotte
  • Hemali Phatnani, PhD
  • Alice Prince, MD
  • Carol Prives, PhD
  • Raul Rabadan, PhD
  • Muredach Reilly, MD
  • Tannistha Reya, PhD
  • Anil Rustgi, MD
  • Mike Shadlen, MD, PhD
  • Steve Siegelbaum, PhD
  • Blair Simpson, MD, PhD
  • Peter Sims, PhD
  • Sam Sternberg, PhD
  • Brent Stockwell
  • Carol Troy, MD, PhD
  • David Vawdrey
  • Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD
  • Harris Wang, PhD
  • Robert Wechsler-Reya, PhD
  • Ai Yamamoto, PhD
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