Yelitza J. Castanos, MSN, BSN, DNP, AGPCNP-BC

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. Rao is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology at Columbia University, where she has been on the faculty since 2009. She is the Director of the Chronic Kidney Disease Program at Columbia. She is also currently the chief of Medicine at the Allen Hospital, part of the NYP system. Previously, she has been the medical director of several outpatient dialysis units. Her clinical interests are in pre-dialysis kidney disease. She also has an interest in caring for older adults with kidney disease, focusing on dialysis decision making and initiating a palliative approach for patients who choose to forgo dialysis for active medical management of their kidney disease. In addition, she 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. Rao has previously done work in health care disparities and chronic kidney disease. Her current research interests are in geriatric nephrology. She had a NIH grant to study the ideal vascular access in older adults preparing for dialysis. She currently is the site leader for a NIH funded study evaluating a tool to guide the decision making around dialysis in older and frail adults.

Dr. Siddall is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology at Columbia University Medical Center. He completed his medical residency and nephrology fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Siddall is a member of the Columbia Doctors 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. Siddall sees patients with all forms of kidney disease and hypertension. His clinical interests include hypertension, electrolyte disorders, acid-base disorders, acute kidney injury, critical care nephrology, and capillary leak syndrome. He is the faculty leader of the Columbia medical student internal medicine interest group pathophysiology sessions.