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Meet the Team
President
Beverly Tchang, MD
Dr. Tchang earned her medical degree from SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Dr. Tchang graduated with her BA from University of Chicago and was a NIH T32 trainee. She completed her residency at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell , Endocrinology Diabetes & Metabolism Fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and Obesity Fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell .
Vice President
Devika Umashanker, MD
Devika Umashanker, MD, MS, MBS, DABOM is the Medical Director of Obesity Medicine at Hartford Healthcare Medical Group. She is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at University of Connecticut School of Medicine and an Assistant Professor at Frank Netter School of Medicine, Quinnipiac University. Dr. Umashanker specializes in the care of patients with obesity and bariatric medicine.
Secretary
Priya Jaisinghani, MD
​Dr. Priya Jaisinghani is an endocrinologist and certified obesity medicine specialist. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Dr. Jaisinghani received a distinction in service to the community through her work at the The Boggs Center at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, where she also completed her internal medicine residency and was inducted into the AOA Honor Society. She completed her endocrinology training at New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell. She is passionate about minority health, medical education, and mentorship.
Committee Chairs
Chair of Education
Sarah Barenbaum, MD
Sarah Barenbaum, MD is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and an Assistant Attending Physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Barenbaum specializes in the care of patients with obesity and weight-related medical complications.
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Dr. Barenbaum sees patients at the Comprehensive Weight Control Center, and also with the GI Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery program, where she serves as the Obesity Medicine Director.
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Dr. Barenbaum received her B.A. from Yale University, where she won two NCAA Division I national championships in squash and received the College Squash Assocation's scholar athlete award. She received her M.D. from Drexel University College of Medicine, where she won the Samuel M. Levit Award for Clinical Excellence & Bridging the Gaps Clinical Scholar. Dr. Barenbaum completed both her Residency & Obesity Medicine Fellowship at Weill Cornell Medicine/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
Chair of Metabolic/Bariatric Innovation
Kartik Sampath, MD
Dr. Kartik Sampath is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical Center and an Attending Physician at the New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He is an advanced fellowship trained interventional gastroenterologist.
Dr. Sampath graduated from Carleton College and received his medical degree from RUSH Medical College. He completed his internal medicine residency, gastroenterology fellowship and therapeutic endoscopy fellowship at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. His clinical and research interests relate to the fields of surgical endoscopy, bariatric endoscopy and obesity medicine. He strives to provide effective clinical care within a multi-disciplinary care model, while continuing to develop novel and innovative strategies to manage clinical obesity.
Board of Directors