Dr. Adam Buckholz is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University. He completed his M.D. studies at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. His clinical practice focuses on the prevention and management of liver disease, including fatty liver, hepatitis, abnormal liver tests, autoimmune disease, liver cancer and other tumors, and cirrhosis and its complications. He has additional research interests in the prevention of disease progression and complications, especially using emerging technologies.
Dr. Sonal Kumar graduated summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis in 2002 and obtained her medical degree in 2006 from Washington University School of Medicine. She subsequently completed an internal medicine internship and residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, and then a Gastroenterology and Hepatology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University. During the fellowship, she also received her Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Kumar is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology/Hepatology. Dr. Kumar is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and currently is the Director of Clinical Hepatology at Weill Cornell Medical College. Her clinical interests include non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, viral hepatitis, genetic/autoimmune liver disease, and alcoholic liver disease. Dr. Kumar also has a background in clinical research and is involved in multiple clinical trials. She is a member of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, the European Association for the Study of the Liver, the Empire Liver Foundation, and the American College of Gastroenterology. Dr. Kumar also routinely performs upper endoscopy and colonoscopy.
Carolyn Newberry is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and Attending Physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. She is a clinical gastroenterologist with advanced training in nutrition and obesity sciences. Dr. Newberry received her B.S. from The George Washington University majoring in Biological Anthropology. She then attended medical school at Temple University School of Medicine and completed internal medicine residency and fellowship in gastroenterology during which she served as a Chief Fellow at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. While in fellowship, Dr. Newberry also completed advanced training in nutrition through the Nestle Nutrition Institute and is a board-certified Physician Nutrition Specialist (PNS). Dr. Newberry’s primary clinical and research interests lie in defining the relationship between GI, nutrition, and obesity. She has published multiple review papers and original articles examining role of diet in treating common gastrointestinal diseases, the link between malnutrition and gut pathology, and optimal therapy for obesity management. She performs general upper endoscopy and colonoscopy and sees clinic patients in a multi-disciplinary obesity management centre as well as with a variety of nutritionally related complications of GI disease.
