Columbia Otolaryngology

Christine Clark, MD, MSc is an attending laryngologist at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Sean Parker Institute for the Voice and Assistant Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College.Dr. Clark is originally from western Pennsylvania and obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh where she graduated summa cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She then received her medical degree from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine where she established a medical student-run free clinic in Tyrone, Pennsylvania and was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha. She subsequently completed residency training in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Georgetown University and was awarded several teaching awards for excellence in medical student education. As a resident, she developed a quality improvement initiative geared towards augmenting knowledge of and comfort with caring for patients with surgical airways among physicians in Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine, and Emergency Medicine. Following residency, she completed a two-year fellowship in Laryngology at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Sean Parker Institute for the Voice during which she concurrently obtained a master’s degree in Clinical and Translational Science at Weill Cornell.Dr. Clark pursued Laryngology because it afforded the opportunity to address basic functions (swallowing, voice, and breathing) that are tantamount to the human experience and have tangible impacts on patients’ quality of life. Her clinical expertise is in the evaluation and treatment of swallowing, voice, and airway disorders.Her research interests include chronic cough, laryngeal hypersensitivity, and benign phonotraumatic vocal fold lesions.She is dedicated to providing evidence-driven, compassionate care to each patient.

Dr. Michelle Pelcovitz completed her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at Barnard College at Columbia University and earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from St. John’s University, where she received research and clinical training in evidence-based interventions for children, adolescents and adults. Dr. Pelcovitz has contributed multiple publications and presentations on clinical research. She completed her clinical internship training at the NYU Child Study Center and Bellevue Hospital Center. Dr. Pelcovitz has trained in multiple clinical settings, including inpatient units, emergency rooms, partial hospitalization, day treatment, and outpatient psychotherapy, and additionally has trained in a number of specialized treatments, such as trauma-focused CBT (TF-CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT). Following her internship year, she completed a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Weill Cornell Medicine, where she joined the Youth Anxiety Center to work with emerging adults in addition to children and adolescents. She continues to work with the Youth Anxiety Center.