Measuring the Effect of Wildfire Smoke Events on Patients Treated at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx

Director of Research in the Department of Medicine at Lincoln Medical Center | Dr. Vidya Menon is a board-certified Internal Medicine physician. Dr. Menon graduated from King Edward Memorial Hospital, one of the leading medical institutions in India. She continued her residency training in Internal Medicine at the Lincoln Medical Center.

Professor in the Economics Department at Fordham University | Professor Conte, a professor of economics whose research focuses on pollution, biodiversity, and climate change, has been selected to join the fifth New York City Panel on Climate Change (NCPP). Professor Conte has a degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and before joining Fordham, was a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford.

Christina Pili is the Senior Director of Research Administration at NYC Health + Hospitals. Her team is responsible for the oversight of research across the System; Christina’s work predominantly focuses on the regulatory and compliance aspects of research. She has been with the System for over a decade and is committed to bringing clinical research to underrepresented populations. She holds a BA from Haverford College and an MPH from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

Assistant Professor of Economics at Fordham University | Professor Rosenkranz’s research focuses on applied microeconomics, particularly in the areas of health economics and industrial organization. In 2023, he completed postdoctoral training at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, the Wharton School, and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University and holds a B.A. from Vassar College.