Ava L. Liberman, MD

Nicole D. Goulet is a Trauma and Acute Care Surgeon. Dr. Goulet earned her undergraduate degree from Smith College. She completed her medical educationand residency at University of Connecticut. She then went on to complete her Trauma and Critical Care Fellowship and her first year in practice at Rutgers University in Newark, NJ before she began working at NYU Langone in 2018. She served as the Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit in Brooklyn, NY for the past three years.Dr. Goulet is one of the founders of the Association of Out Surgeons and Allies (AOSA) and the current Founding President. She is also a member of several trauma organizations including the American Association for the Surgeryof Trauma (AAST) and Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) as well as the Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) where she serves on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) committees. She has published several articles on diversity and equity in surgery which is her primary research focus.

Rebecca Wax, M.D. is a radiologist specializing in Abdominal Imaging. She is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine and an Assistant Attending Radiologist at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine Campus.Dr. Wax graduated from Emory University where she earned her B.S. in Anthropology and Human Biology in 2013. She then received her M.D. from SUNY Downstate Medical Center in 2018. Following an internal medicine internship at Lenox Hill Hospital, Dr. Wax completed her residency in Diagnostic Radiology at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York in 2023. She then completed her fellowship in Abdominal Imaging at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine in 2024.Dr. Wax joined the faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine in September 2024 as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology.

Erin Hassett, ANP-BC is a Nurse Practitioner at Weill Cornell Medicine in Endocrine Surgery. She is a board-certified Adult Nurse Practitioner, earning her Master's of Science degree in 2009 from New York University. Erin Hassett runs the Adrenal Nodule Clinic which is a unique program designed to expedite the work-up of adrenal nodules found incidentally on imaging studies done for other purposes. This includes guiding patients through necessary bloodwork and integrating collaborative evaluations with Endocrine Surgeons, Endocrinologists and Radiologists when appropriate. Erin will assess patients for functioning, verse non-functioning nodules and stratify the risk of them being cancerous or benign.In addition to the Adrenal Nodule clinic, Erin runs the Endocrine Tumor surveillance program, which includes monitoring low-risk thyroid cancer patients undergoing active surveillance instead of surgery. Studies have shown papillary thyroid cancers are slow growing and a sub-set of patients can be safely monitored, avoiding surgery. After patients are deemed candidates for surveillance by our Endocrine Surgeon’s patients will have biannual follow up with Erin to monitor for stability.For patients requiring adrenal, thyroid and parathyroid surgery, Erin will facilitate surgical planning and provide long-term follow up care. Erin works closely with her colleagues and patients to make sure all patients' needs are met.