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Dr. Crystal Kamilaris is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and an Assistant Attending Physician at the New York Presbyterian Hospital. She is specialized in endocrinology and internal medicine with a clinical and research focus on adrenal diseases, endocrine hypertension, pituitary diseases, endocrine tumors, and multiple endocrine neoplasia syndromes. She received her medical degree from the University of Patras Medical School in Greece and subsequently completed her residency training in internal medicine at the University of Connecticut. She completed her fellowship training in adult endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Following her fellowship, she was appointed as a Research Staff Clinician and Ward Chief of Inpatient Endocrinology at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at the NIH and as a faculty member for the NIH Endocrinology Fellowship Program. She also served as the NICHD Director of Graduate Medical Education and Co-Director of the Outpatient Endocrinology Clinic. Her research experience includes being principal investigator on clinical research protocols focused on primary aldosteronism, Cushing’s syndrome, adrenocortical tumors causing hormone excess, Carney Complex, and pituitary disease and she continues to work in these areas.

Dr. Robert Abrams, M.D., is a graduate of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and completed residency training in psychiatry at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He is currently Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and attending psychiatrist in the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, with an outpatient and consulting practice in geriatric psychiatry at the Wright Center on Aging. He has published numerous research and review articles on depression and aging, personality disorders, suicide, elder abuse and the humanities.