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John Schreiber, MD, MPH, Chairman and Pediatrician-in-Chief
Diana Bianchi, MD, Vice Chair for Research and Academic Affairs
Kevin Petit, MD, Vice Chairman for Clinical Affairs
Lynne Karlson, MD, Pediatric Residency Program Director
John Schreiber, MD, MPH, David and Leona Karp Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrician-in-Chief. MD, Tulane University School of Medicine, 1980. Postgraduate training: Children’s Hospital, Boston. Clinical/research interests: Host response to surface polysaccharides of encapsulated bacterial pathogens and to conjugate vaccines.
CARDIOLOGY
Anirban Banerjee, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics. Acting Chief, Cardiology; Director of Pediatric Echocardiography. MD, University of Calcutta, India, 1982. Postgraduate training: UMDNJ-Rutgers Medical School; University of California, San Francisco. Clinical/research interests: Echocardiography, TEE, fetal echocardiography and 3-D echocardiography; evaluation of cardiac function using noninvasive and invasive modalities.
Ashraf Nagm, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, 1981, PhD, 1993. Postgraduate training: Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn; St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children; Texas Medical Center, Houston. Clinical/research interests: Device closure of congenital heart defects.
CRITICAL CARE
Carlos Duran, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1999. Postgraduate training: Massachusetts General Hospital. Clinical/research interests: Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure, Ventilator Strategies, and Exhaled Nitric Oxide.
DEVELOPMENTAL & BEHAVIORAL PEDIATRICS
Ellen Perrin, MD, Professor of Pediatrics. Chief, Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. MD, Case Western Reserve University, 1968. Postgraduate training: Strong Memorial Hospital; Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia; University of Rochester; M.A., Developmental Psychology, University of Rochester. Clinical/research interests: Screening for developmental and behavioral problems in primary care settings; care of children with developmental and behavioral difficulties; successful parenting; children's and parents' understanding of physical and psychological chronic conditions; issues related to sexuality in pediatric care; recognition and prevention of ADHD.
Karen Bresnahan, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, UMDNJ, Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine, Camden & Newark, 1986. Postgraduate training: UMDNJ/Newark; Boston City Hospital. Clinical/research interests: Evaluation and management of developmental, behavioral, learning and attentional disorders in children.
Laurel K. Leslie, MD, MPH Assistant Professor in Medicine and Pediatrics. MD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1989. Postgraduate training: University of California, San Francisco. Clinical/research interests: Developmental and mental health needs of underserved children (including children in foster care), the impact of policy initiatives on access to care for underserved children, implementation of guidelines on ADHD in primary care, collaborative models of care, the future of pediatric education and practice.
Karen Miller, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics. MD, Tulane University School of Medicine, 1977. Postgraduate training: Georgetown University Medical Center; Schneider Children’s Hospital, Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Clinical/research interests: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, learning disabilities and autistic spectrum disorders.
Naomi Steiner, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, University of Zurich, 1991. Postgraduate training: University of Florida, Gainesville; The Brooklyn Hospital Medical Center; Boston Medical Center. Clinical/research interests: Evaluation and management of behavioral disorders in children; learning, attentional, and sleep disorders.
Ludwig von Hahn, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, McGill University, 1989. Postgraduate training: Montreal Children’s Hospital; Children’s Hospital, Boston; Tufts Medical Center. Clinical/research interests: Interface between health care system and the educational system; creating collaborative relationships between hospital-based clinicians, school professionals, and families through communication and joint training.
ENDOCRINOLOGY
Abdollah Sadeghi-Nejad, MD, Professor of Pediatrics. Chief, Endocrinology. MD, University of Chicago, 1964. Postgraduate training: University of Chicago Hospitals; New England Medical Center, Floating Hospital; University of California Medical Center, San Francisco. Clinical/research interests: Growth disorders; carbohydrate and lipid metabolism; thyroid abnormalities; disorders of sexual differentiation.
GASTROENTEROLOGY/NUTRITION
Alejandro Flores-Sandoval, MD, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics. Chief, Gastroenterology-Nutrition. MD, University of San Carlos of Guatemala School of Medical Sciences. Postgraduate training: Children's Hospital, Boston. Clinical/research interests: Gastrointestinal motility disorders; GE reflux disease; gastroparesis; pseudo-obstruction syndromes; Hirschprungs disease; chronic constipation; functional bowel disease.
Peter Ngo, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Director, Pediatric Endoscopy. MD, University of California at Los Angeles, 2000. Postgraduate training: University of California at Irvine Medical Center; Children’s Hospital, Boston. Clinical/research interests: Inflammatory bowel disease, pediatric endoscopic procedures and allergic gastrointestinal disease.
Brian Regan, DO, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. D.O., New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, 2001. Postgraduate training: Winthrop University Medical Center; Schneider Children’s Hospital, Long Island. Clinical/research interests: Inflammatory bowel disease, specifically thioguanine nucleotides and predicting efficacy in combination therapy.
Bhanu Sunku, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, Boston University School of Medicine, 1998. Postgraduate training: Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago. Clinical/research interests: Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome (CVS); functional GI disorders including, nausea, vomiting and irritable bowel syndrome.
GENERAL PEDIATRICS AND ADOLESCENT MEDICINE
Elizabeth Goodman, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Public Health and Family Medicine, and Nutrition. MD, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1988. Postgraduate training: Children’s Hospital, Boston; University of California, San Francisco; New England Medical Center; Harvard School of Public Health. Clinical/research interests: Processes through which differences in social status influence children’s health and the trajectory toward adult cardiovascular health, specifically in relations to obesity and insulin resistance in adolescence; biopsychosocial determinants of risk and their interactions in adolescence; allostatic load.
Stephan Glicken, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, Hahnemann Medical College, 1974. Certificate in Sign Language and Deaf Studies, Northeastern University, 1991. Postgraduate training: Boston City Hospital. Clinical/research interests: Aspects of child development and medical interactions in deaf families; language acquisition; epidemiology of pediatric diarrhea.
Mitzi Johnson, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Public Health & Family Medicine. MD, SUNY/Syracuse, 1985. MPH, Harvard School of Public Health, 1990. Postgraduate training: Brown University; Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Clinical/research interests: Cross-cultural issues in health care; complimentary & alternative medicine; integrative pediatrics.
Shuba Kamath, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Associate Director, Pediatric Residency Training Program. MD, Brown University Medical School, 2000. Postgraduate training: Mount Sinai Medical Center. Clinical/research interests: primary care pediatrics; resident education; community pediatrics and advocacy; childhood overweight.
Lynne Karlson, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics. Director, Pediatric Residency Training Program. MD, Tufts University School of Medicine, 1981. Postgraduate training: New England Medical Center, Floating Hospital; Baylor College of Medicine. Clinical/research interests: Resident training; primary care.
Jeffrey Lasker, MD, MMM, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer of the physician network of Tufts Medical Center, New England Quality Care Alliance. MD, New Jersey Medical School. Postgraduate training: Boston City Hospital. Clinical/research interests: Children with special healthcare needs, asthma and ADHD; quality improvement and healthcare policy.
Robert Reece, MD, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics. MD, University of Cincinnati, 1961. Postgraduate training: Indiana University Medical Center; Children's Hospital, Boston. Clinical/research interests: Diagnosis of child maltreatment in all of its manifestations; conditions mistaken for child maltreatment; Munchausen Syndrome by proxy; multidisciplinary education about child abuse; telemedicine in child abuse cases.
Elisabeth Schainker, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1999. Postgraduate training: Boston Medical Center, Children's Hospital, Boston, Combined Program in Pediatrics; Boston University Medical School; Boston University School of Public Health. Clinical and research interests: Examining the delivery of health services in the school setting; how the school health system can become integrated as an extension of the medical health system, especially for children with chronic diseases, such as asthma, obesity and diabetes.
ADOLESCENT MEDICINE
John Kulig, MD, MPH, Professor of Pediatrics, Public Health and Family Medicine. Director, Adolescent Medicine. MD, University of Cincinnati, 1975. MPH, Harvard School of Public Health, 1990. Postgraduate training: New England Medical Center, Floating Hospital; Children's Hospital, Cincinnati. Clinical/research interests: Adolescent substance abuse; adolescent risk behavior.
Claudia Lavin, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, 1990. Postgraduate training: Texas Tech University;New England Medical Center, Floating Hospital; Children’s Hospital, Boston. Clinical/research interests: Adolescent health; weight management and obesity.
GENETICS AND METABOLISM
Laurie Demmer, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics. Chief, Genetics and Metabolism. MD, Washington University School of Medicine, 1987. Postgraduate training: St. Louis Children’s Hospital; Washington University School of Medicine. Clinical/research interests: Clinical genetics, dysmorphology, cancer genetics, genetics education, genetic testing, and ethical issues in genetics.
Mark Korson, MD,Associate Professor of Pediatrics. Chief, Division of Metabolism. MD, University of Toronto, 1982. Postgraduate training: St. Joseph's Health Center, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto; Children's Hospital, Boston. Clinical/research interests: clinical biochemical genetics; genetic metabolic disease in adults; delivery of metabolic care; educational models for teaching about genetic metabolic disease.
Diana Bianchi, MD, Natalie V. Zucker Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology. Vice Chair for Research and Academic Affairs, Department of Pediatrics. MD, Stanford University, 1980. Postgraduate training: Children's Hospital, Boston. Clinical/research interests: Fetal and neonatal dysmorphology and genetics; fetal cell and DNA isolation from maternal blood for prenatal diagnosis; prenatal and preimplantation genetic diagnosis; fetal cell microchimerism.
Janet Cowan, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics. Director, Cytogenetics Laboratory, Tufts Medical Center. PhD, University of Birmingham, U.K., 1982. Clinical/research interests: Karyotype analysis, including amniotic fluids, bone marrow aspirates, peripheral bloods, skins, and tumors. Use of fluorescent in situe hybridization (FISH) to monitor the progress of patients with leukemia.
Cheryl Garganta, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, PhD, Medical College of Virginia, 1991, 1995. Postgraduate training: Medical College of Virginia; Yale University. Clinical/research interests: Clinical biochemical genetics; inherited metabolic disease in adults; laboratory testing for diagnosis and management of metabolic disease as well as evaluation of developmental delay, autism, hypoglycemia.
Jodi Hoffman, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1999. Postgraduate training: Yale Children's Hospital; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Clinical/research interests: Genetic syndromes; connective tissue disorders; prenatal consultation regarding genetic conditions; Ashkenazi Jewish genetic diseases; cancer predisposition syndromes.
Kirby Johnson, PhD, Research Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. PhD, West Virginia University, 1997. Research interests: molecular cytogenetics.
HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY
Lawrence Wolfe, MD, Professor of Pediatrics. Chief, Hematology/Oncology. MD, Harvard University, 1976. Postgraduate training: Children's Hospital, Boston. Clinical/research interests: The testing of new treatment modalities for oncology patients; innovative care for sickle cell disease and thalassemia syndrome; red cell membrane biochemistry; reorganization and technology for improved health care delivery; palliative treatment and end of life care.
Howard Grodman, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Director, Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation. MD, Albany Medical College, 1985. Postgraduate training: Children's Hospital of Buffalo; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Clinical/research interests: Use of autologous and allogeneic bone marrow transplantation in the treatment of pediatric malignancies, including solid tumors and leukemias.
Cynthia Kretschmar, MD, Professor of Pediatrics. MD, Yale University, 1978. Postgraduate training: Yale/New Haven Hospital; Children's Hospital, Boston; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Clinical/research interests: Tumors of the central nervous system; neuroblastoma; phase I & II testing of new drugs.
Susan Parsons, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics. MD, Columbia University, 1986. Postgraduate training: Cornell University; Children's Hospital, Boston; Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Clinical/research interests: assessment of quality of life in children with chronic diseases: methodological considerations, interrater differences and instrument design; fiscal and functional impact of chronic disease in childhood; economics of technology applications to critically ill children.
Maria Pelidis, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, Harvard Medical School, 1990. Postgraduate training: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Johns Hopkins Hospital. Clinical/research interests: Sickle cell disease; neuroblastoma; hemoglobinopathies; anemias; coagulation disorders.
Cathy Rosenfield, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, University of Massachusetts, 1980. Postgraduate training: Rhode Island Hospital; Children's Hospital National Medical Center; Puget Sound Blood Center. Clinical/research interests: Coagulation disorders and bone marrow transplants.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
H. Cody Meissner, MD, Professor of Pediatrics. Chief, Infectious Diseases; Associate Director, Microbiology Laboratories, Tufts Medical Center. MD, Tufts University, 1973. Postgraduate training: New England Medical Center, Floating Hospital; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Children's Hospital, Boston; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard Medical School. Clinical/research interests: Etiology, pathogenesis and treatment of Kawasaki syndrome; prevention and treatment of viral respiratory tract infections; diagnosis and treatment of congenital infections.
Colin Marchant, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics. MD, McGill University, 1973. Postgraduate training: Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital; Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Case Western Reserve University; McMaster University. Clinical/research interests: Respiratory infections; otitis media; antimicrobial therapy; pertussis; vaccines.
John Schreiber, MD, MPH, David and Leona Karp Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrician-in-Chief. MD, Tulane University School of Medicine, 1980. Postgraduate training: Children’s Hospital, Boston. Clinical/research interests: Host response to surface polysaccharides of encapsulated bacterial pathogens and to conjugate vaccines.
NEPHROLOGY
Lawrence S. Milner, MD, Professor of Pediatrics. Chief, Nephrology. MBBCh, Witwatersrand University, 1974. Postgraduate training: Witwatersrand; McGill University, Montreal Children's Hospital. Clinical/research interests: Experimental models of glomerular injury; hypertension; renal failure and dialysis; nephrolithiasis in infants; prevention of progressive renal failure; fish oil and antioxidants in glomerular disease.
Julie Nicoletta, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, SUNY/Syracuse, 1997. Postgraduate training: Children’s Hospital of Buffalo; Strong Memorial Hospital. Clinical/research interests: Hematuria/proteinuria/hypertension/renal insufficiency.
NEUROLOGY
Linda Specht, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Chief, Neurology. MD, PhD, Cornell University Medical College, 1980. Postgraduate training: New England Medical Center, Floating Hospital; Massachusetts General Hospital. Clinical/research interests: Neuromuscular disease; neurorehabilitation; genotype-phenotype correlations in neurologic diseases; developmental neuroanatomy.
Rebeca Alvarez-Altalef, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, 1993. Postgraduate training: Long Island College Hospital/Beth Israel Medical Center, N.Y.; Children’s Hospital, Boston. Clinical/research interests: Acute care neurology.
Pamela L. Follett, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, UMDNJ: New Jersey Medical School, 1992. MPH, Harvard School of Public Health, 2006. Postgraduate training: University of Massachusetts Medical Center; Children's Hospital, Boston. Clinical/research interests: Neonatal neurology, hypoxic/ischemic brain injury, cerebral palsy, autism.
NEWBORN MEDICINE
Jonathan Davis, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Chief, Newborn Medicine. MD, McGill University, Faculty of Medicine, 1981. Postgraduate education: Children’s Hospital, Boston; Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Clinical/research interests: Neonatal lung injury (acute and chronic), neonatal brain damage and neonatal infection.
Geoffrey Binney, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Associate Chief, Newborn Medicine. MD, University of California, La Jolla, 1991. MPH, George Washington University School of Public Health, 1997. Postgraduate training: Children's National Medical Center. Clinical/research interests: Red blood cell transfusion and donor exposure rates in neonates; resource utilization in the NICU.
Timothy Baba, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Director Pediatrics at Lowell General Hospital. MD, Southwestern Medical School, 1988. PhD, University of Texas Health Science Center, 1984. Postgraduate training: Children's Hospital, Boston; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Clinical/research interests: Animal models of immunodeficiency virus in the fetus and newborn.
Paige Terrien Church, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, University of Vermont, 1999. Postgraduate training: University of Chicago Children’s Hospital; Tufts Medical Center. Clinical/research interests: Developmental outcomes of prematurity.
Mario Cordova, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Director, Newborn Medicine, Lowell General Hospital. MD, University of Guayaquil, Equador, 1980. Postgraduate training: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey; The New York Hospital. Clinical/research interests: Comparison of surface tension of the three most common available surfactant preparations.
Christiane Dammann, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Director, Neonatology Fellowship Program. MD, University of Hamburg, 1990. Postgraduate Education: University Hospital of Hamburg, Tufts Medical Center; Harvard University. Clinical/research interests: The biology of late prenatal and early postnatal lung development; factor inferring with normal lung development leading to bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
Olaf Dammann, MD, SM (Clinical Epidemiology). Research Professor of Pediatrics. Director of Research, Newborn Medicine. MD, Universities of Lubeck and Hamburg, 1990. Postgraduate training: University of Hamburg (Pediatrics); Children’s Hospital Boston (Neuroepidemiology). Clinical/Research interests: Identifying risk factors for perinatal brain damage and developmental outcome in preterm infants.
John Fiascone, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; Medical Director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. MD, Tufts University School of Medicine, 1981. Postgraduate training: New England Medical Center, Floating Hospital; Yale University. Clinical/research interests: Fetal lung development; surfactant structure interactions in newborn lung functions; inhaled nitric oxide.
Ivan D. Frantz, III, MD, Professor of Pediatrics; Division of Newborn Medicine. MD, University of Minnesota, 1971. Postgraduate training: University of Minnesota; Montreal Children's Hospital, Royal Victoria and Jewish General Hospitals, Montreal; Children's Hospital, Boston; Boston Hospital for Women. Clinical/research interests: Neonatal pulmonology.
Nicholas Guerina, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Director, Perinatal Infectious Diseases. MD, Harvard University, 1983. PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 1978. Postgraduate training: Children's Hospital, Boston. Clinical/research interests: Pathogenisis, treatment and prevention of fetal and neonatal infections; international pediatrics: development of teaching and research programs in developing countries.
Karen Harvey-Wilkes, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Director of Neonatology, Melrose-Wakefield Hospital. MD, University of Massachusetts, 1983. Postgraduate training: New England Medical Center, Floating Hospital. Clinical/research interests: Intrauterine growth failure; neonatal nutrition.
H. Ozlem Kasaroglu, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Director, Neonatology, Brockton Hospital, Medical Director, Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Program, Tufts Medical Center. MD Cerrahpasa School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, 1994. Postgraduate training: Tufts Medical Center. Clinical/research interests: Perinatal medicine; nosocomial neonatal sepsis.
Chiwan Kim, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD Brown University, 1991. Postgraduate training: Mount Sinai Hospital; New England Medical Center, Floating Hospital. Clinical/research interests: Study of gene expression in lung development; newborn medicine.
Laurie Konowitz, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Director, Newborn Medicine, Jordan Hospital. MD, University of Rochester, 1983. Postgraduate training: Babies Hospital, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. Clinical/research interests: Perinatal outreach education.
Juliette Madan, MD, M.S. Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, Brown University School of Medicine, 2000; MS, Tufts University Sackler School, 2006. Postgraduate training: University of Vermont; Maine Medical Center; Tufts Medical Center. Clinical/research interests: Perinatal epidemiology, infant nutrition/breastfeeding.
Jill Maron, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, Tulane University School of Medicine, 2000; MPH, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 2000. Postgraduate training: Hasbro Children’s Hospital; Tufts Medical Center. Clinical/research interests: Feto-maternal nucleic acid trafficking.
Elisabeth McGowan, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, University of Vermont, 2001. Postgraduate training: University of Virginia Medical Center; Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island. Clinical/research interests: Placental pathology and neonatal outcome.
Simon Michael, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, PhD, Medical College of Georgia, 1988, 1985. Postgraduate training: Massachusetts General Hospital; Children's Hospital, Boston. Clinical/research interests: Early mouse development.
Heber Nielsen, MD, Professor of Pediatrics. MD, University of Utah, 1975. Postgraduate training: University of Utah; Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School. Clinical/research interests: Regulatory genes and growth factors in the control of fetal lung growth and differentiation.
Sunita Pereira, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, 1981. Postgraduate training: New England Medical Center, Floating Hospital. Clinical/research interests: Bronchopulmonary dysplasia and the role of transforming growth factor beta in lung development, injury and repair.
Kevin Petit, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, Brown University School of Medicine, 1980. Postgraduate training: Strong Memorial Hospital; New England Medical Center, Floating Hospital. Clinical/research interests: Control of fetal lung surfactant production.
Sujatha Ramadurai, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, Madras Medical College, India, 1985. Postgraduate training: Cook County Hospital; Tufts Medical Center, Floating Hospital. Clinical/research interests: Regulation of lung development by hormones and growth factors.
Barbara Shephard, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, Georgetown University, 1986. Postgraduate training: New England Medical Center, Floating Hospital. Clinical/research interests: Neonatal pain; perinatal genetics and dysmorphology; neonatal resuscitation.
Mary Ann Volpe, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, Dartmouth Medical School, 1988. Postgraduate training: University of Virginia; Tufts Medical Center, Floating Hospital. Clinical/research interests: Morphologic development of the lung; congenital lung malformations; necrotizing enterocolitis; small for gestational age infants.
PULMONOLOGY/ALLERGY
William Yee, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Acting Chief, Pulmonology/Allergy. MD, Tufts University, 1977. Postgraduate training: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx Municipal Hospital; New England Medical Center, Floating Hospital. Clinical/research interests: Investigation of growth factors affecting development of fetal mammalian lung.
Anne Chetty, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, Madurai Medical College, Madras, India, 1962. Postgraduate training: Milwaukee Children’s Hospital; Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York; Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland. Clinical/research interests: Bronchopulmonary dysplasia and bronchial asthma; Cytokines and growth factors in hyperoxic lung injury in developing lung; Cell-cell, cell-matrix interaction, and signal transduction in lung injury.
Michele Palella, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD & PhD, New York Medical College, 1991. Postgraduate training: Babies Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center; Children’s Hospital, Boston. Clinical/research interests: Lung growth and development; acute or chronic lung injury (bronchopulmonary dysplasia).
RHEUMATOLOGY
Jorge Lopez-Benitez, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Chief, Rheumatology, and Director, Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship Program. MD, National University of Asuncion (Paraguay), School of Medical Sciences, 1989. Postgraduate training: Yale University School of Medicine, Yale-New Haven Medical Center; New England Medical Center, Floating Hospital. Clinical/research interests: Anti-phospholipid antibodies in SLE; Calcinosis in DMS; Providing care to rheumatology patients in underserved (developing) countries.
Laurie Miller, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatric. Director, International Adoption Clinic. MD, Ohio State University, 1978. Postgraduate training: University of Minnesota; New England Medical Center, Floating Hospital. Clinical/research interests: Childhood rheumatic diseases; cytokines and rheumatic diseases; international child health. |