John A Chabot, MD

Dr. Engel is a Professor of Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University and Attending Physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale University and medical degree from Cornell University Medical College. He completed his post-graduate cardiology fellowship training at Columbia University Medical Center with advanced fellowship training in echocardiography.Dr. Engel is a clinical noninvasive cardiologist with expertise in preventative cardiology, valvular and coronary heart disease, arrhythmic disorders and cardiomyopathies.Dr. Engel has a special area of expertise in Sports Cardiology and in the cardiovascular assessment of athletes. He has published one of the largest echocardiographic studies to date characterizing the Athlete’s Heart in elite American athletes. Through his clinical and research work with athletes, Dr. Engel has gained national recognition in the field of Sports Cardiology and performs consultations for pre-participation cardiovascular exams and assessments, the evaluation of cardiovascular symptoms in athletes and the management of existing cardiac conditions in the competitive athlete as an integral component of his practice. Dr. Engel is the Co-Editor of the textbook, Sports Cardiology: Care of the Athletic Heart from the Clinic to the Sidelines (2021).Dr. Engel additionally is a member of the NYP/CUMC Aortic Center and performs evaluations and provides care for patients with Marfan Syndrome and other genetic aortopathies.He currently serves as the Director of the NYP/CUMC Sports Cardiology Program, Co-Director of the NYP/CUMC Marfan and Related Connective Tissue Disorders Clinic, and Director of Echocardiography at the ColumbiaDoctors midtown facility.

Hilary Y. Robbins, MD earned her BA from Yale University and MD from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She completed her training in Internal Medicine, followed by a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, at Columbia University Medical Center. Her fourth year of fellowship was supported by a grant from the Stony Wold-Herbert Fund. She is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine. She joined the faculty in the Lung Transplant Program at Columbia as an assistant professor in 2010. Her professional society memberships include the American Thoracic Society, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation.

Andrew Eisenberger graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Philosophy in 1992 and received his MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2001. Dr. Eisenberger did his residency in internal medicine at Montefiore Medical Center, where he served for a year as chief resident. He then completed his fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Eisenberger embraces his role as a medical educator: for medical students, physicians in training, colleagues and patients alike. The Columbia University Vagelos School of Physicians and Surgeons’ Hematology course has been under his leadership for more than a decade, and he recently became an associate program director of the University’s Hematology/Oncology post-doctoral fellowship program. Dr. Eisenberger was inducted into the Medical Center’s Academy of Clinic Excellence in 2018. His clinical practice currently focuses on the diagnosis and management of complex bleeding and clotting disorders, particularly in unique populations such as pregnant women and critically ill hospitalized patients. He also has extensive experience with difficult-to-manage blood disorders including antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APLS), heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT), immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA), thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), hematologic complications of solid organ transplantation and myeloproliferative neoplasms.