Salila Kurra, MD

Dr. Deep Patel is an Assistant Professor of Dermatology at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), where he sees patients at the ColumbiaDoctors Third Avenue office, ColumbiaDoctors Midtown, and the CUMC main campus. Dr. Patel graduated summa cum laude from Wilkes University, where he also played on the baseball team. He then earned both his Doctor of Medicine and Master of Business Administration from Pennsylvania State University, where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society and received several awards, including the Business Leadership Immersion Scholar, Medical Student Research Award, and the Alphonse E. Leure-Dupree Exemplary Medical Student Award. He completed his internship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and his dermatology residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Patel is an active member of the American Academy of Dermatology and has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Patel is committed to providing compassionate, evidence-based, and up-to-date care to all his patients. With a strong background in health systems and business administration, he brings a unique lens to quality improvement and systems-based care, leading initiatives that measurably enhance healthcare delivery. Outside of medicine, Dr. Patel enjoys spending time with his family, running and biking, and watching the Yankees (and the Knicks and Giants when they're good).

Dr. Schrope joined the faculty of the Department of Surgery in July of 2001 as a Clinical instructor after completing her residency with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. She is currently a Professor of Clinical Surgery. She graduated with an M.D. degree from Temple University in 1996. Prior to joining the profession of medicine, she completed a Ph. D. in Biomedical Engineering at Drexel University in 1992, and won numerous federal grants as principle investigator for research work in medical ultrasound. She is the author of numerous publications in the fields of bariatric surgery, medical ultrasound and GI surgery. She is the sole editor of a new textbook on Surgical and Interventional Ultrasound. Her research interests include novel applications of autologous pancreatic islet cell transplantation, pancreatic cysts and pancreatitis. She also employs minimally invasive surgical techniques for benign and malignant conditions of the stomach. Dr. Schrope is an active member of the American College of Surgeons, the American HepatoPancreaticoBiliary Association, and Society of Surgery of the Alimentary Tract. She is currently serving as Regional Medical Director of the Southern New York chapter of the National Pancreas Foundation.

Andrew S. Bomback, MD, MPH, is a nephrologist who specializes in glomerular diseases and resistant hypertension. Dr. Bomback received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed residency in Internal Medicine and fellowships in Nephrology and Clinical Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was the Doc J. Thurston III Fellow in Nephrology and Hypertension. In 2009, he returned to Columbia University as an associate at the Center for Glomerular Diseases and is currently Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Bomback is a member of the ColumbiaDoctors Hypertension Center, a multi-disciplinary center of excellence that provides high quality care and state-of-the-art diagnostic testing for patients with hypertension, Dr. Bomback has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on the subjects of chronic kidney disease, glomerular diseases, and hypertension. He is the co-author of the textbook, Chronic Kidney Disease and Hypertension Essentials, and an editor of the National Kidney Foundation's Primer on Kidney Diseases. He is the recipient of the 2013 Daniel V. Kimberg Junior Faculty Award for oustanding teaching of medical students and housestaff. Dr. Bomback's research interests focus on evaluating novel therapies for glomerular diseases. He currently serves as principal or co-investigator on clinical trials of new treatments for IgA nephropathy, membranous nephropathy, lupus glomerulonephritis, hereditary nephritis, C3 glomerulopathy, and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.