Babacar Cisse, M.D., Ph.d

Dr. Cynthia Tsay is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian Hospital and a general gastroenterologist with a clinical and research interest in early gastric cancer, gastric intestinal metaplasia, and other conditions involving the stomach. She is interested in the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence in the risk stratification and early detection of premalignant lesions in high risk populations, as well as the role of the microbiome in these conditions and ways in which medications alter the gastrointestinal microbiome. She has published in Gastroenterology, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics and the American Journal of Gastroenterology. She obtained her B.A. in the History of Science and the History of Medicine at Yale College and her M. Phil in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Medicine, and Technology at the University of Cambridge. Dr. Tsay returned to New Haven where she earned her M.D. at the Yale School of Medicine and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital. She also has a M.P.H in Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed her fellowship training in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital where she served as chief fellow during her last two years. Dr. Tsay is also passionate about medical education and the experience of trainees, having served as president of the Yale Resident and Fellow Senate and the chair of the Johns Hopkins Clinical Fellows Council.