Nancyanne Schmidt, MD

Alicia Bacchus, RN, MSN, FNP-BC is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner. She received her Bachelors of Science degree in Nursing from Dominican University of California, in San Rafael California. Following graduation, she delivered compassionate nursing care in tertiary level hospitals in the areas of Med- Surg, Telemetry, and Ambulatory Surgical Care. In 2013, she returned to school to obtain a Master of Science degree in Nursing and completed the Family Nurse Practitioner program at the University of California, San Francisco.As a Nurse Practitioner, Alicia collaborated with patients and their family members across the lifespan to provide comprehensive, patient-centered primary care. In her prior role as a clinical nurse practitioner, Alicia worked alongside genitourinary oncologists at Columbia University Medical Center providing comprehensive cancer care to patients with bladder, kidney, prostate,and testicular cancer diagnoses.Her professional interests in women's health and gynecology led her to Weil Cornell Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. As a member of the urogynecology team working closely with Drs. Asfaw and Segal, Alicia is dedicated to providing patient-centered care to women across the lifespan with pelvic floor disorders.As a devoted life-long learner, she is currently working towards obtaining a Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree at the University of California, San Francisco via the virtual platform. Alicia is seeing new patients at Weil Cornell Medicine's East 68th Street location on Monday's and Wednesday's.

Dr. Mapara is Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center and the Director of the Blood and Marrow Transplantation (BMT)/Cell Therapy Program at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Mapara graduated from the University of Heidelberg Medical School/Germany, and received his post-graduate training in Internal Medicine and Hematology/Oncology at the Universities of Heidelberg and the University Medical Center Charite of the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany. In addition, he completed a research fellowship at the Transplantation Biology Research Center of the Massachusetts General Hospital at the Harvard Medical School in Boston. As Assistant Professor of Medicine, he headed the Hematologic Intensive Care Unit and served as deputy director of the Stem Cell Transplantation unit at the University Medical Center Charite in Berlin, Germany. Before coming to Columbia, Dr. Mapara was Associate Professor of Medicine (with tenure) at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and served as the Director of the Adult Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Program. Dr. Mapara specializes in the care of patients with sickle cell disease and certain blood cancers (Multiple Myeloma, Amyloidosis) undergoing bone marrow transplantation and gene therapy. His research is focused on developing novel approaches to make bone marrow transplantation and cell therapy safer for patients.

Jane S. Kang, MD, is Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) in the Division of Rheumatology and a bioethicist with a Masters of Bioethics from Columbia University. She was the Rheumatology Fellowship Program Director at CUIMC for over a decade, was named an Ewig Clinical Scholar at CUIMC for her work in teaching and education and received a Fellowship Training Award from the Rheumatology Research Foundation (RRF). In addition to being actively involved in teaching and trainee education, Dr. Kang has been interested in addressing bioethical issues in medicine and rheumatology. She was awarded the RRF Clinician Scholar Educator Award, which supported her work in creating an online, interactive bioethics curriculum for trainees, covering topics such as the recruitment of vulnerable research subjects and the globalization of clinical research. Her bioethics work also includes exploring participant preferences for the return of research results, investigating researchers’ practices and views on returning incidental findings, and using the arts to address physician well-being, moral injury and health equity. Dr. Kang served on the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Board of Directors, as Chair of the ACR Ethics and Conflict of Interest Committee, and as Co-Chair of the ACR Strategic Planning Task Force and Co-Chair of the ACR In-Training Examination Taskforce.