Joseph P. Alukal, MD, MBA

Morgan Busko, MD is a sports medicine physician specializing in the non-operative treatment of chronic and acute musculoskeletal injuries and conditions in adult and pediatric patients. She has a particular interest in endurance athletes, running and overuse injuries, and injury prevention. After completing a residency in Internal Medicine at New York University, where she also received her Medical Degree, Dr. Anderson completed a Sports Medicine Fellowship at Wake Forest University. She received her B.S. in Biological Anthropology and Anatomy at Duke University, where she competed in Cross-Country and Track & Field. Dr. Busko is an active endurance athlete who has competed in the Hawaii Ironman World Championship five times, finishing amongst the top triathletes in the world. She finds great reward in helping athletes return to sport safely while facilitating an athlete’s ability to reach their optimal athletic performance. She hopes that her passion for exercise as medicine will be contagious to her patients and everyone around her.

Thomas C Randall, MD is a gynecologic oncologist focused on meeting the individual needs and goals of women with gynecologic cancers. Dr. Randall provides care for all gynecologic cancers and for women at increased risk for gynecologic cancers. He has a particular focus on providing safe surgical care for women with gynecologic cancers, including advanced or recurrent ovarian cancer, uterine, cervical and vulvar cancer. Dr. Randall also performs surgery for complex gynecologic conditions. He has extensive experience and expertise in minimally invasive surgeries, and he has performed over 1000 surgeries with the DaVinci surgical robot. Additionally, Dr. Randall has expertise in radical cancer surgeries, including fertility sparing surgeries for gynecologic cancers. Dr. Randall studied at Bowdoin College where he graduated Magna Cum Laude with Honors in English Literature and won the College Prize for Bowdoin from the Academy of American Poets. He then attended Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Next, he completed his fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Dr. Randall practiced gynecologic oncology and gynecologic surgery at the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts General Hospital before coming to Columbia. Dr. Randall is a leader in global health. He is the Chair of the Mentorship and Training Committee of the International Gynecologic Cancer Society, which supports 22 gynecologic oncology fellowships in low- and middle-income countries where gynecologic cancer surgery was not previously available. He also serves as an international mentor for gynecologic oncology fellowships in Haiti and Rwanda.

Patricia Vuguin, MD, MSc, is Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Pediatric Endocrine Fellowship Program at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC). She is also Medical Director of the Pediatric Thyroid Center at CUMC and NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital. Her expertise includes thyroid disease, metabolic syndrome, glucose metabolism, growth, puberty and disorders of puberty, and fetal programming of adult disease. Dr. Vuguin is an accomplished clinician, researcher, and educator. She is fluent in Spanish and English and empathetic to the medical needs of New York’s Hispanic community. In her leadership role for the Pediatric Thyroid Center, she collaborates with a multidisciplinary team of specialists to care for children and adolescents with thyroid disorders, such as thyroid nodules and papillary thyroid cancer. In addition, Dr. Vuguin was the recipient of K08 and R21 awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), independent grants from pharmaceutical companies, and funding from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. She has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles in research journals; presented her research findings at national and international meetings; and is an active member of the Pediatric Endocrine Society and the Society of Pediatric Research. Dr. Vuguin also completed a Master of Science Training Program in Clinical Research, an NIH-funded program offered by the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Prior to Columbia, Dr. Vuguin provided clinical care at Jacobi Medical Center, Montefiore Medical Center, and North Shore-Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Health System (now Northwell Health). She is a member of the SuperDoctors ® list and received an Outstanding Teacher Award from North Shore-LIJ Health System. The American Medical Association’s Board of Trustees also selected her to serve on the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Review Committee for Pediatrics.