About Us
Steven M. Kawut, MD
Steven M. Kawut is a Herbert Irving Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (in Epidemiology) at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He received his medical degree from the Yale School of Medicine in 1995. He completed his clinical training in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He completed a two year course towards an MS in Clinical Epidemiology at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the Columbia faculty in 2001. He holds a joint faculty appointment in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care and in the Department of Epidemiology. He sees patients in the Pulmonary Hypertension Center and Lung Transplant Center at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital. His research interests include the determinants and prediction of outcome for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension and for patients who are undergoing lung transplantation. Dr. Kawut has received research support from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the Office of Clinical Trials at Columbia University. He participates in Resident and Fellow Mentorship programs, is a member of several Departmental and University Committees at Columbia. Dr. Kawut has published and continues to publish numerous articles and is continually invited to lecture on Pulmonary Hypertension.
Gladys Celeste Mercader plays The Swan by Camille Saint-Saëns
A life well-lived doesn't end
any more than music ends...
it echoes through time
with whispers of beauty and grace...
If we listen,
we can hear the encore with our hearts,
for the song plays on,
just as love lives on.
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