Women’s Colorectal Health: Beyond the Surface

Dr. Gholami is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Surgical Oncology at Northwell Health. She also serves as the Surgical Director of the Liver Multidisciplinary Clinic, Director of the Hepatic Artery Infusion Pump Program, and Director for Translational Research in Surgical Oncology at Northwell Health with a joint appointment at Coldspring Harbor Laboratory. Dr. Gholami is a board-certified surgical oncologist and surgeon-scientist with an interest in translational research focusing on the role of the tumor microenvironment in hepatobiliary malignancies. Her research laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory explores mechanisms of immune resistance in liver metastases to develop novel immune augmenting therapies and practice-changing clinical trials to improve patient outcomes with colorectal cancer liver metastases.

Dr. Christine Molmenti is an associate professor and cancer epidemiologist within the Department of Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology and Prevention, Northwell Health Cancer Institute, and Katz Institute for Women’s Health, the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and an associate professor at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. She is co-Director of Northwell’s Center for Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer and leading Northwell’s research efforts on women and colorectal cancer. Her work is focused on prevention and early detection of colorectal cancer.