Dr. Harsh Patel is an academic hospitalist at Tulane Medical Center and University Medical Center and will be an attending physician on the newly launched private hospitalist service at University Medical Center. Patel received his MD from St. George University School of Medicine and completed his internal medicine residency training at Medical City Fort Worth. Prior to medical school, Patel received his Bachelor of Arts from New York University and a Master's of Biomedical Sciences from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

Erik P. Castle earned his medical degree from University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School. He completed a urology residency at the University of Kansas Medical Center, followed by a laparoscopic and reconstructive urologic surgery fellowship at Mayo Clinic of Arizona. Castle's surgical expertise includes minimally invasive urologic oncology including robot-assisted radical cystectomy, prostatectomy, retroperitoneal lymph node dissection, and partial nephrectomy.

Chloe D. Villavaso, APRN, is an instructor in the Section of Cardiology at Tulane School of Medicine.

Bilon Khambu’s research has focused on understanding autophagy, its molecular mechanism, and its pathophysiological function in metabolic liver diseases such as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, alcoholic liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma. Khambu's recent work has focused on disease degeneration and regeneration in chronic liver disease, examining the mechanism of liver injury, inflammation, ductular reaction, fibrosis and tumorigenesis, particularly the role of hepatic factors such as HMGB1 in the development of various liver pathologies.