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John Schreiber, MD, MPH, Chairman and Pediatrician-in-Chief
Diana Bianchi, MD, Vice Chair for Research and Academic Affairs
Priya Garg, 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
Michael de Moor, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiology. MD, University of Witwatersrand. Postgraduate Training: Groote Schuur Hospital and Red Cross Children's Hospital.
Alisa Niksch, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, University of Virginia School of Medicine. Postgraduate Training: Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital (pediatrics), Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons (pediatric cardiology) and Stanford University (electrophysiology).
Liwen Tang, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, Sun Yat-Shen University of Medical Science in Guangzhou, China. Postgraduate Training: Children's Hospital of Michigan/Detroit Medical Center.
Mark Zilberman, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, Leningrad Paediatric Medical Institute. Postgraduate Training: Indiana University Medical Center (pediatrics) and Cincinnati Children's Hospital (pediatric cardiology).
CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE
Rashed Durgham, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics. Chief, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. MD, Aleppo University School of Medicine, Syria, 1987. Postgraduate Training: Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit; and Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland. Clinical/Research Interests: Sepsis, mechanical ventilation, head injury.
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.
Karen Fauman, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, University of Michigan, 2004. Postgraduate Training: University of Michigan.
Mehrdad Mehr, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics. MD, Boston University School of Medicine, 1994. Postgraduate Training: Hasbro Children's Hospital, Providence; and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Clinical/Research Interests: Traumatic brain injury, transport medicine.
DEVELOPMENTAL & BEHAVIORAL PEDIATRICS
Monica Ultmann, MD, Professor of Pediatrics. Chief, Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. MD, Columbia College of Columbia University. Postgraduate Training: Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, NY; and The Children & Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center, NY.
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.
Roula Choueiri, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, Saint Joseph University Medical School, Beirut, Lebanon, 1998. Postgraduate training: American University Hospital; Massachusetts General Hospital; Children’s Hospital. Clinical Research Interests: Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD); Early Diagnosis of ASD; Clinical measures of autism treatment follow-up in children younger than 3 years.
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.
Ellen Perrin, MD, Professor of 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.
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.
Erik von Hahn, MDCM, 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, MS, MD, Professor of Pediatrics; Chief, Pediatric 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.
Sanjay Bansal, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, St. George's University School of Medicine. Postgraduate Training: Children’s Hospital at Albany Medical Center; University Hospital of Stony Brook; Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Clinical/Research Interests: Pediatric endocrinology, diabetes.
GASTROENTEROLOGY & NUTRITION
Alex F. Flores, 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.
Silvana Bonilla, MD, MS. Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, 2002. Postgraduate Training: Miami Children's Hospital 2007; Northwestern University 2010. Clinical/Research Interests: Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders, Inflammatory bowel disease, Nutrition: Overweight and Obesity.
GENERAL PEDIATRICS AND ADOLESCENT MEDICINE
Lynne Karlson, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Chief, General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health; Program Director, Center for Youth Wellness. 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.
Mary Brown, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Clerkship Director, Tufts University School of Medicine. MD, Temple University, 2003, Postgraduate Training: University of Connecticut, University of Pittsburgh. Clinical/Research Interests: primary care, medical education.
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.
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.
GENETICS AND METABOLISM
Laurie Demmer, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Chief, Pediatric 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, PhD, 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.
HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY
Johannes Wolff, MD, Professor of Pediatrics. Chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology. MD, University of Mainz, Germany, 1986. Postgraduate Training: University Hospital of Dusseldorf; Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; and University Hospital of Munster.
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.
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.
Giannoula Klement, MD, Assistant Professor in Medicine and Pediatrics. MD, McMaster University, Canada, 1992. Postgraduate training: University of Toronto.
Michael Kelly, MD, Pediatric Hematology Oncology Attending Physician. MD, MCP Hahnemann University School of Medicine, 2002. Postgraduate training: Brown University.
Jason Law, MD, Pediatric Hematology Oncology Attending Physician. MD, State University of New York, New York, 2003. Postgraduate training: University of California at San Francisco.
HOSPITALIST
Elisabeth Schainker, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; Director, Pediatric Hospitalist Program. 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/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.
Amanda Goddard, MD, Infectious Diseases Pediatrician, Pediatric Hospitalist. MD, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Postgraduate training: Connecticut Children's Medical Center; Seattle Children's Hospital.
Priya Garg, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD: St. George’s University School of Medicine, 2004. Director, Pediatric Residency Program. Postgraduate Training: University of Maryland School of Medicine, Pediatrics. Clinical/Research Interests: General pediatrics, resident and medical education.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
H. Cody Meissner, MD, Professor of Pediatrics; Chief, Pediatric 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.
Amanda Goddard, MD, Infectious Diseases Pediatrician, Pediatric Hospitalist. MD, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Postgraduate training: Connecticut Children's Medical Center; Seattle Children's Hospital.
NEPHROLOGY
Lawrence S. Milner, MD, Professor of Pediatrics; Chief, Pediatric Nephrology. MBBCh, University of the Witwatersrand, 1974. Postgraduate Training: University of the Witwatersrand; Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University. 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, MA 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.
Nicole Randazzo, MD. Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, SUNY/Brooklyn, 2000. Postgraduate Training: Mount Sinai Medical Center, NYC. Clinical/Research Interests: Hematuria/proteinuria/hypertension/renal insufficiency/nephrocalcinosis/dysfunctional voiding/weight management.
NEUROLOGY
David Griesemer, MD, Professor of Pediatrics. Chief, Division of Pediatric Neurology. MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1976. Postgraduate Training: Johns Hopkins Hospital; University of Michigan Hospital.
Douglas Hyder, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Director, Ambulatory Pediatric Neurology. MD, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, 1991. Postgraduate Training: University of Chicago; Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Tomo Tarui, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Director, Fetal-Neonatal Neurology. MD, Keio University School of Medicine, 1996. Postgraduate Training: Infants and Children’s Hospital, Maimonides Medical Center; Children’s Hospital Boston; Harvard Medical School.
Ju Tang, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Director, Pediatric EEG Laboratory. MD, Beijing Medical University, 1991. Postgraduate Training: Miami Children’s Hospital; Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School; Children’s Hospital Boston.
NEWBORN MEDICINE
Jonathan Davis, MD, Professor of Pediatrics; Chief, Newborn Medicine. MD, McGill University, Faculty of Medicine, 1981. Postgraduate Training: 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, MPH, 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.
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 Training: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, Pediatric 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.
RHEUMATOLOGY
Jorge Lopez-Benitez, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; Chief, Pediatric Rheumatology. MD, National University of Asuncion (Paraguay), School of Medical Sciences, 1989. Postgraduate Training: Yale University School of Medicine, Yale-New Haven Medical Center; Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center. 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 Pediatrics; Director, International Adoption Clinic; Director, Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship Program. MD, Ohio State University, 1978. Postgraduate Training: University of Minnesota; Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center. Clinical/Research Interests: Childhood rheumatic diseases; cytokines and rheumatic diseases; international child health.
Marc Natter, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. MD, SUNY/Stonybrook School of Medicine. Postgraduate Training: Indiana University; Albany Medical Center; and Tufts Medical Center.
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