About us

Dr. Mary E. Choi is a Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC) and an Attending Physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Choi received her medical degree from the University of Kansas School of Medicine. She completed residencies at the University of California San Francisco and VAMC and Duke University Medical Center. She was a Clinical and Research Fellow in Nephrology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Choi is a National Institute of Health (NIH) funded physician scientist whose expertise includes cellular and molecular mechanisms of kidney injury, inflammation and fibrosis, TGF beta signaling and autophagy. She serves on several committees in the WCMC Department of Medicine including the Medicine Ground Rounds Award Committee, Research Executive Committee and the Medicine Research Retreat Program Committee. She is the Director of the Basic Science Research Core Curriculum in the Internal Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Choi is also a permanent member of the NIH Study Section, Molecular and Integrative Signal Transduction (MIST) and an Editorial Board Member of the Kidney Research & Clinical Practice in Physiological Reports.