Dr. Kneifati-Hayek was the inaugural Patient Safety Research Fellow at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He graduated from Weill Cornell Medicine in 2014 and completed residency at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell in 2017. He completed his Patient Safety Research fellowship in 2020 and went on to join the faculty at Columbia University Irving Medical Center Department of Medicine, Division of General Medicine as an Assistant Professor. He now serves as an Assistant Director of Quality and Patient Safety for the Department of Medicine, the faculty advisor to the NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia Housestaff Quality Council, the Co-Chair of the NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia Patient Safety Working group, a member of the founding Board of Directors of the Vagelos Physicians & Surgeons Latino Association, and a member of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center Institutional Review Board. During his time as faculty Dr. Kneifati-Hayek has received a National Institute of Health Loan Repayment Award and is currently an Empire Clinical Research Investigator Program Fellow at NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia.