Tibor Krisko, MD

Dr. Jacob received her B.S. in biology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her medical doctorate from Albany Medical College. She completed her internal medicine training at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. She subsequently finished her gastroenterology training at Columbia Presbyterian, College of Physicians and Surgeons. She did further sub-specialty training with an advanced fellowship specifically in inflammatory bowel diseases under the tutelage of Dr. Ellen Scherl, Director of the Jill Roberts Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.

Dr. Russell Rosenblatt is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. He specializes management of patients with liver diseases including autoimmune liver disease, viral hepatitis B and C, fatty liver disease, metabolic liver disease, and liver cancers. He sees patients with end-stage liver disease (cirrhosis) and evaluates those who need liver transplantation. He provides medical care to patients before and after liver transplantation. He has a special interest in the care of patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis.He received his undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Physiology and Neurobiology from the University of Maryland in College Park, where he was a College Park Scholar, and graduated from the State University of New York Downstate College of Medicine in Brooklyn, New York, where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. In 2014, he completed his internal medicine residency at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, New York and was a clinical instructor of medicine as a hospitalist from 2014-2015. He completed his gastroenterology fellowship training at Weill Cornell Medicine in 2018, where he served as chief gastroenterology fellow, and completed a Master’s of Science in Healthcare Policy and Economics the same year. He received the AASLD Advanced/Transplant Hepatology Fellow Award in 2018. He completed his transplant hepatology fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medicine in 2019.

Thangamani Muthukumar, M.D., M.S., is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College and an Associate Attending Physician at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. He is the associate director (research) for the nephrology fellowship program at Cornell. He is board certified in internal medicine and nephrology. Dr. Muthukumar trained as a nephrologist in India and again in the U.S.A. He graduated from the Madras Medical College, Chennai (Madras), India and after residency in medicine, completed his nephrology fellowship at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. He joined as a research fellow at Cornell in 2001, in the transplantation immunology research laboratory of Dr. Manikkam Suthanthiran, Stanton Griffis Distinguished Professor of Medicine. Dr. Muthukumar subsequently did his residency in medicine and fellowship in nephrology at the New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell, and upon completion, joined the faculty at Cornell in 2009. He also serves as a nephrology consultant at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and at the Hospital for Special Surgery. Dr. Muthukumar’s research is primarily focused on the molecular aspects of kidney transplant rejection. He has published extensively in this area and is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and from the American Society of Transplantation. Dr. Muthukumar has also received advanced training in research methodology and graduated from the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences with a master's degree in clinical and translational investigation. He is as a Fellow of the American Society of Transplantation (FAST) and the American Society of Nephrology (FASN).