Brooke I. Spector, M.D.

Anna Alperovich, MD, is a hematologist-oncologist at the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Weill Cornell Medicine/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital where she cares for patients with blood cancers who are in need of astem cell transplant or cellular therapy.Specializing in treating patients with a wide range of blood cancers, including lymphomas, leukemias and bone marrow failures, Dr. Alperovich uses bone marrow transplantation with autologous stem cells—in which immature, healthy cells are taken from the patient and given back after chemotherapy—orallogeneic stem cells, which come from a genetically matched donor. She also uses chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, an innovative cellular therapy-based treatment in which immune system cells called T-cells are altered in a laboratory and re-infused into the patient to fight their blood cancer.Dr. Alperovich received her medical degree from the University of Grenada in the West Indies in 2012. She completed her residency at New York University, hematology and medical oncology fellowship at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, and specialized training in Bone Marrow Transplant at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Prior to this position, Dr. Alperovich worked as a stem cell transplant physician at Northwell Health.Dr. Alperovich is an assistant professor at Weill Cornell Medicine and assistant attending at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. She is fluent in both English and Russian. Dr. Alperovich has published numerous research articles in peer-reviewed medical journals, with a focus on hematologic malignancies. She is a member of the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT). She is also a recipient of an American Society of Hematology (ASH) abstract achievement award.

Steven Pon, MD is Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College and Associate Attending Pediatrician at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine. He is board certified in pediatric critical care medicine, pediatric emergency medicine, and general pediatrics but devotes his entire clinical practice caring for critically ill and injured children in the pediatric intensive care unit at the Weill Cornell campus of the New York Presbyterian Hospital.Dr. Pon received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University, concentrating in biology. He completed his medical school training, pediatric residency, and fellowship training in pediatric emergency medicine at the New York University School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital Center. He received his fellowship training in pediatric critical care medicine at the Cornell University Medical Center - New York Hospital, now known as New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine.Dr. Pon is the Associate Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and the Medical Director of Respiratory Care at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine and serves on several hospital committees.He is a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He belongs to the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators, a research consortium of seventy institutions across the United States and Canada that has conducted numerous important multi-center clinical research projects. He was a founding member and a former president of the New York Society for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. He also helped found the Virtual Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and was co-editor of the PedsCCM.org website that was widely recognized as a valuable web-based resource for pediatric intensivists. He has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.

Dr. Mehrin Islam is an assistant professor of clinical emergency medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. She earned her bachelor’s degree in global health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received her medical degree from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. She completed her pediatric residency at University of Texas Southwestern/Children's Health and a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Dr. Islam’s clinical and research interests include global health, simulation, and wellness. She is fluent in Bangla and proficient in Spanish.