Daniel Pak, M.D.

Payal Patel is board-certified Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner originally from Metro-Detroit, Michigan. She obtained her Bachelors in Neuroscience from Michigan State University and her Bachelors in Nursing from University of Detroit Mercy. Payal has over 4.5 years of nursing experience where she was initially trained in the Neuro Trauma ICU and later transitioned to Medical-Surgical ICU at Ascension Providence hospital in Michigan.While working in the ICU, Payal went on to complete her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) as part of the Adult Gerontology Nurse Practitioner program from University of Michigan (UofM) in Ann Arbor, MI. She was an active board member of the Michigan Council of Nurse Practitioners and volunteered at the UofM Free Clinic for uninsured/underinsured patients. During her studies, she had clinical training at Michigan Medicine's Neurosurgery Spine Center where she gained vast knowledge on chronic and acute pain related to spinal diseases.

Christine Clark, MD, MSc is an attending laryngologist at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Sean Parker Institute for the Voice and Assistant Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College.Dr. Clark is originally from western Pennsylvania and obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh where she graduated summa cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She then received her medical degree from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine where she established a medical student-run free clinic in Tyrone, Pennsylvania and was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha. She subsequently completed residency training in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Georgetown University and was awarded several teaching awards for excellence in medical student education. As a resident, she developed a quality improvement initiative geared towards augmenting knowledge of and comfort with caring for patients with surgical airways among physicians in Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine, and Emergency Medicine. Following residency, she completed a two-year fellowship in Laryngology at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Sean Parker Institute for the Voice during which she concurrently obtained a master’s degree in Clinical and Translational Science at Weill Cornell.Dr. Clark pursued Laryngology because it afforded the opportunity to address basic functions (swallowing, voice, and breathing) that are tantamount to the human experience and have tangible impacts on patients’ quality of life. Her clinical expertise is in the evaluation and treatment of swallowing, voice, and airway disorders.Her research interests include chronic cough, laryngeal hypersensitivity, and benign phonotraumatic vocal fold lesions.She is dedicated to providing evidence-driven, compassionate care to each patient.