Author Biographies

Dr. Alexander S Vogel attended medical school at the SUNY Downstate of NY and completed an internship at the Kings County Hospital Center—GME and a residency at the Mount Sinai Health System. He holds a board certification in Ophthalmology. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Medicine (Hepatology), Montefiore Einstein Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
Dr. Rebecca Roediger, MD is a Gastroenterology Specialist in New York, NY, USA. She earned her Doctor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College in 2014. She completed her internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai Hospital in 2017, followed by a gastroenterology fellowship at Washington University in 2020.
Dr. Dagny von Ahrens is an abdominal organ transplant and hepatobiliary surgeon at Montefiore Einstein. She earned her Doctor of Medicine at Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. She then completed her general surgery residency at Weill Cornell New York Presbyterian in 2020 followed by a fellowship in transplant at Mount Sinai Hospital completed in 2022.
Dr. Brett Fortune, MD, MSc, is Medical Director, Liver Transplant Program, and Associate Professor, Medicine at Montefiore Einstein in Bronx, NY, USA. Dr. Brett Fortune’s clinical focus centers on providing care for patients with advanced liver disease and those who need or have received liver transplantation.
Dr. Jonathan M. Schwartz is a Board-Certified Transplant Hepatologist. He is a graduate of Tel Aviv University, Sackler School of Medicine. He was an Internal Medicine Resident at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a Fellow in Gastroenterology/Transplant Hepatology at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Dr. Shalom Frager, MD is a gastroenterology specialist in Bronx, NY, USA and has over 10 years of experience in the medical field. Dr. Shalom Frager has extensive experience in Liver Disease. He graduated from the New York University School of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in 2013. He is affiliated with the Montefiore Medical Center. He is accepting new patients.
Dr. Kristina R Chacko, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY, USA. Dr. Kristina R Chacko joined the Einstein-Montefiore Liver Center in 2013 after completing a fellowship in Transplant Hepatology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, NY, USA.
Dr. Clara Yentin Tow is a transplant hepatologist and Associate Professor of Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She serves as the Clinical Site Director of Hepatology at the Weiler Division of MMC, Associate Program Director of the Gastroenterology & Liver Diseases Fellowship Program, and Co-Director of the AECOM Gastroenterology & Hepatology Systems Course. Dr. Tow holds a B.A. in Biological Sciences from Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude for her work in developmental research. While attending Weill Cornell Medical College, she developed her passion for transplant medicine and was awarded Alpha Omega Alpha and Honors in Research for her characterization of mitochondrial injury during ischemia–reperfusion injury. She completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital—Weill Cornell Medical Center, where she served as an education resident, and fellowship in Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases at Montefiore Medical Center. Subsequently, she pursued her advanced fellowship training in Transplant Hepatology at New York Presbyterian Hospital—Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Tow has been at Montefiore/Einstein since 2018, where she specializes in the complications of advanced liver diseases, liver cancer, and liver transplants.
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