Chiara Campana and Dr. Cameron Joseph Kemal were married Feb. 22 at Our Lady of Pompeii Church in New York. The Rev. Angelo Plodari, a Roman Catholic priest, officiated, with the Rev. Michael Simone, also a Roman Catholic priest, participating.
Ms. Campana, 29, is pursuing a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences in the department of pharmacology and therapeutics discovery at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She graduated cum laude from the University of Bologna, from which she also received a master’s degree cum laude in biomedical engineering.
She is the daughter of Giuliana Mami and Giorgio Campana of Poggio Torriana, Italy. The bride’s father retired as an artisan at Gruppo Ripa Bianca, a maker of terra-cotta products in Santarcangelo di Romagna, Italy. Her mother retired as a cook at Giulio Turci, a primary school in Poggio Torriana.
Dr. Kemal, 28, is a third-year resident in internal medicine at NewYork Presbyterian/ Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University and received a medical degree from Albert Einstein School of Medicine. In July, Dr. Kemal is to begin pursuing a cardiology fellowship at New York University Medical Center.
He is a son of Dr. Mary Di Maio and Mustafa Kemal of New York. The groom’s mother, a pediatric pulmonologist, allergist and immunologist, is a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College and has a private practice in New York. His father is the president of Mercator, an international trading company whose specialty is dairy products, in Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
The couple met in January 2019 through the dating app Hinge. They each knew they had found their anima gemella, Italian for soul mate, on their first date at Parallutti e Vino, an Italian restaurant on the Upper West Side in New York. They were engaged nine months later along Lanikai Beach in Oahu, Hawaii.
