McCay, Marissa, MD

Dr. Michael Monaco is a board certified pediatric cardiologist. He received his bachelor of arts in biology at Siena College in New York and was elected to the Alpha Kappa Alpha honor society. He was also a four year starter on the lacrosse team. He was awarded his medical degree from Albany Medical College where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. Dr. Monaco completed his residency in pediatrics at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital including a year as Chief Resident. He went on to complete his fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital in New York, where he was Chief Fellow. As assistant professor in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at Columbia University Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian, Dr. Monaco has mentored many medical students, residents and cardiology fellows. His practice is dedicated to non-invasiove cardiac imaging, fetal cardiology and the care of children with congenital heart disease. His other specialties include transesophageal echocardiography, exercise cardiology and 3D imaging. Dr. Monaco has authored several academic articles and delivered various lectures and presentations in the area and around the country.

Faisal Shaikh, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and the Thoracic Surgery Section. He is the director of the newly founded Interventional Pulmonology Program at Columbia. This is a unique division that collaborates with thoracic surgery, pulmonary medicine, oncology and several other subspecialties in clinical care and research. Interventional pulmonology is at the forefront of performing state-of-the-art, minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic thoracic endoscopy. After earning his medical degree at University of Tennessee, Dr. Shaikh completed his medical residency at Weill Cornell, where he developed an interest in pulmonary disease. Thereafter, he completed several advanced fellowships in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, followed by interventional fellowship at the Harvard combined Beth Israel Deaconess and Massachusetts General Hospital program. Dr. Shaikh's clinical work focuses on performing minimally invasive bronchoscopy to provide our patients with effective diagnostic and therapeutic options for lung nodules, lung masses, and lung cancer. He has expertise in palliating benign and malignant airway obstruction as well as performing minimally invasive, single incision thoracoscopy. He has worked in a collaborative effort on developing Columbia's lung volume reduction program in order to provide patients with advanced treatment options in emphysema.

Dr. Daphna Mezad-Koursh is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at CUMC, Columbia University Medical Center. She received her MD from Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Dr. Mezad-Koursh is active in the International Strabismological Association, World Society of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, Israeli Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Society, American Academy of Ophthalmology (International Member), Costenbader Society, American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS), Israel Ophthalmological Society, and Israeli Medical Association. Her professional interests focus on Ophthalmology and strabismus. Dr. Mezad-Koursh was recently honored with the Dean Prize for Best Teachers, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University (2022), and Best Clinical Abstract, 13th Sackler Faculty Day (2019) for her contributions to medicine.