Benjamin Lebwohl, MD

Thomas C Randall, MD is a gynecologic oncologist focused on meeting the individual needs and goals of women with gynecologic cancers. Dr. Randall provides care for all gynecologic cancers and for women at increased risk for gynecologic cancers. He has a particular focus on providing safe surgical care for women with gynecologic cancers, including advanced or recurrent ovarian cancer, uterine, cervical and vulvar cancer. Dr. Randall also performs surgery for complex gynecologic conditions. He has extensive experience and expertise in minimally invasive surgeries, and he has performed over 1000 surgeries with the DaVinci surgical robot. Additionally, Dr. Randall has expertise in radical cancer surgeries, including fertility sparing surgeries for gynecologic cancers. Dr. Randall studied at Bowdoin College where he graduated Magna Cum Laude with Honors in English Literature and won the College Prize for Bowdoin from the Academy of American Poets. He then attended Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Next, he completed his fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Dr. Randall practiced gynecologic oncology and gynecologic surgery at the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts General Hospital before coming to Columbia. Dr. Randall is a leader in global health. He is the Chair of the Mentorship and Training Committee of the International Gynecologic Cancer Society, which supports 22 gynecologic oncology fellowships in low- and middle-income countries where gynecologic cancer surgery was not previously available. He also serves as an international mentor for gynecologic oncology fellowships in Haiti and Rwanda.

Morgan Busko, MD is a sports medicine physician specializing in the non-operative treatment of chronic and acute musculoskeletal injuries and conditions in adult and pediatric patients. She has a particular interest in endurance athletes, running and overuse injuries, and injury prevention. After completing a residency in Internal Medicine at New York University, where she also received her Medical Degree, Dr. Anderson completed a Sports Medicine Fellowship at Wake Forest University. She received her B.S. in Biological Anthropology and Anatomy at Duke University, where she competed in Cross-Country and Track & Field. Dr. Busko is an active endurance athlete who has competed in the Hawaii Ironman World Championship five times, finishing amongst the top triathletes in the world. She finds great reward in helping athletes return to sport safely while facilitating an athlete’s ability to reach their optimal athletic performance. She hopes that her passion for exercise as medicine will be contagious to her patients and everyone around her.

Dr. Ratner is Professor of Surgery and Director of Renal and Pancreatic Transplantation at Columbia University. Prior to joining the faculty at Columbia, Dr. Ratner was on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and served as the Chief of Solid Organ Transplantation at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Dr. Ratner was responsible for dramatic growth of the kidney transplant program at CUIMC. He also established the pancreas transplant program, and the Kidney Autotransplant Program. He introduced robotic surgery to our kidney transplant program. Access to organ transplantation has been Dr. Ratner's major academic interest. Dr. Ratner has been a leading innovator in transplantation for over two decades. In 1993, he performed the world's first dual renal transplant. In 1995 (with Dr. Louis Kavoussi) he performed the first laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, and set the stage for its widespread adoption, which resulted in a profound increase in living donor kidney transplantation. Dr. Ratner has made significant contributions in overcoming immunologic incompatibilities that prohibited transplantation. He devised the plasmapheresis/IVIg protocol for alloantibody desensitization in 1998. In 2001, Dr. Ratner orchestrated the second paired-kidney exchange in the U.S. Subsequently, he arranged the first paired kidney exchanges in both Pennsylvania and New York. More recently Dr. Ratner has been a leading proponent of including compatible donor/recipient pairs in kidney exchanges. And, his more contemporary work has looked at the organizational and regulatory barriers to access to care. All of these strategies have increased organ availability and access to transplantation. Additionally, he has made important contributions to improve living donor safety. For his work, Dr. Ratner has received numerous awards and honors. And, he has been invited to speak and operate at various venues around the world. Dr. Ratner has authored or co-authored over 240 peer-reviewed publications, and has been a federally funded investigator. His publications have been cited over 20,000 times. He served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the LiveOnNY (formerly the New York Organ Donor Network), and has served on numerous national committees including the Board of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN). He recently completed a term as the President of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, and previously served as that Society's Treasurer.Dr. Ratner originally hails from Brooklyn, NY. He received his undergraduate education at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He received his M.D. from Hahnemann University. His general surgery training was obtained at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He completed a Fellowship in Transplantation Surgery and Immunology at Washington University. In 2011 Dr. Ratner completed a Master of Public Health with a focus on health care policy, administration and management.