Neonatology/Perinatology

Richard Polin, MD Academic Title(s): Director, Division of Neonatology Professor of Pediatrics; Attending Contact Information: Office Telephone# (212) 305-5827 Office Fax# (212) 305-7086 Email: rap32@columbia.edu

Education:

• Temple University, BA, 1966
• Temple University, M.D., 1970

• Pediatric Residency, Children's Memorial Hospital Chicago, 1970-1972
• Senior Resident in Pediatrics, Babies Hospital 1972-1973
• Chief Resident in Pediatrics, Babies Hospital 1974-1975
• Fellowship, Neonatal Perinatal Medicine, Babies Hospital 1973-1974 and 1975-1977

Awards and Honors:

• Outstanding Pediatric Attending Babies Hospital, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 1978-79 & 1982-83,
• National Neonatal Education Award, 2006
• Outstanding Alumnus, Temple University School of Medicine

Interests/Specialties:

• Hyperbilirubinemia
• Neonatal Sepsis
• Fluid and Electrolyte Management

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Francis Akita, MB, ChB Academic Title(s): Director, Division of Neonatology Allen Pavilion of New York Presbyterian Hospital Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Attending Contact Information: Office Telephone# (212) 932-4035 Office Fax# (212) 932-5441 Email: faa8@columbia.edu

Education:

• Prenpeh College, BS, 1972
• University of Ghana Medical School, MD, 1978

• Residency, Harlem Hospital Center, 1984
• Fellowship, Tuft's New England Medical Center, 1986

Interests/Specialties:

• General Neonatology

David A. Bateman, MD Academic Title(s): Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Attending Contact Information: Office Telephone# (212) 305-6578 Office Fax# (212) 305-8796 Email: Dab2@columbia.edu

Education:

• College of Wooster, BA, 1968
• Tufts University School of Medicine, MD, 1973
• Columbia University School of Public Health, MS (Biostatistics)

• Residency, Lincoln Hospital (Bronx), 1973-1975
• Residency, Tufts-New England Medical Center (Boston), 1978-1979
  
• Fellowship, St Margaret's Hospital, Tufts New England Medical Center, 1978-1979
• Babies and Children's Hospital, 1979-1981

Interests/Specialties:

• Effects of intrauterine cocaine exposure and other manifestations of urban poverty on the newborn.

Thomas G. Diacovo, MD Academic Title(s): Director, Neonatal and Critical Care Research Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology Contact Information: Office Telephone# (212) 851-4683 Office Fax# (212) 851-4504 Email: td2142@columbia.edu

Education:

• McGill University, BSc, 1984
• Medical School: McGill University, 1988

• Residency, Texas Children's Hospital, 1988-1991
• Fellowship, Boston Children's Hospital, 1991-1994

Awards and Honors:

• 1993 Farley Fund Fellowship, Children?s Hospital, Boston
• 1998 Scholar of the Washington University Child Health Research Center of Excellence in Developmental Biology
• 2002 AHA Young Investigator Prize in Thrombosis
• 2007 Lewis Katz Prize in Cardiovascular Medicine, Columbia University
• 2007 NYSTAR faculty development award

Interests/Specialties:

• Hemostasis and Thrombosis
• Inflammation related to autoimmune diseases

Jennifer Duchon, MDCM Academic Title(s): Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Attending Neonatologist Contact Information: Office Telephone# (212) 932-4035 Office Fax# (212) 932-5441 Email: jmd2116@columbia.edu

Education:

• City University of New York, BS, 1997 City College of New York; McGill University Faculty of Medicine, MD, 2001

• Residency, North Shore University Hospital, 2004
• Fellowship, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, 2007

Interests/Specialties:

• Epidemiology of Drug-Resistant Organisms
• Feeding and Nutrition of the Low Birth Weight Infant

Christiana R. Farkouh, MD, MPH Academic Title(s): Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Contact Information: Office Telephone# (212) 342-3735 Office Fax# (212) 305-8796 Email: crf9@columbia.edu

Education:

• Barnard College, Columbia University, BA, 1992
• Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, MPH, 1994
• New York Medical College, MD, 1998

• Internship/Residency, Mount Sinai Medical Center (Pediatrics), New York, NY, 1998-2001
• Fellowship, Children's Hospital of Philadelpia (Neonatology), Philadelphia, PA, 2001-2004

Interests/Specialties:

• Neuro developmental follow-up of premature infants
• Neuro developmental follow-up of infants with Congenital Diaphragmatic Herinia (CDH)
• Neonatal Resuscitation

Marianne Garland, MB ChB Academic Title(s): Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Attending Contact Information: Office Telephone# (212) 305-0954 Office Fax# (212) 305-0956 Lab Telephone# (212) 305-5117 Email: Mg71@columbia.edu

Education:

• University of Auckland, BHB, 1981
• University of Aukland, School of Medicine, MD, 1984

• Residency, Monmouth Medical Center (New Jersey), 1991
  
• Fellowship, Columbia University, 1995

Interests/Specialties:

• Perinatal transmission of HIV infection and interventions to reduce transmission
• Perinatal pharmacology of morphine and its glucuronide metabolites
• Perinatal pharmacology of anti-HIV drugs
• Pharmacology of pregnancy
• Placenta transfer and fetal metabolism
• Ontogeny of autonomic control in the fetus

Philip Grieve, PhD Academic Title(s): Assistant Professor of Clinical Biomedical Engineering (in Pediatrics) Contact Information: Office Telephone# (212) 305-0953 Office Fax# (212) 305-0956 Email: pgg3@columbia.edu

Education:

• Cornell University, BEE, 1964
• Cornell University, University of California at Los Angeles, PhD, 1973

• Fellowship in Developmental Psychobiology, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1992-1994

Awards and Honors:

• General Motors National Scholarship, Cornell University
• Hughes Aircraft Company, Masters Fellowship, UCLA
• Howard Hughes Doctoral Fellow, UCLA
• Eta Kappa Nu, Electrical Engineering Academic Honor Society
• Session chairman, IEEE International Radar Conference.
• Chairman, Aerospace Industries Association Committee on Optical Information Processing
• Claire Lucille Pace Humanitarian Award in Pediatrics at Babies and Children's Hospital Columbia for efforts on behalf of the children on the Pine Ridge Lakota Indian Reservation

Interests/Specialties:

• Developmental electrophysiology including measurement of abnormal brain function in premature infants and young children with affect disorders
• Collection and processing of high density (128 lead) EEG data from infants and young children.

Joseph Isler, PhD Academic Title(s): Associate Research Scientist Contact Information: Office Telephone# (212) 342-4151 Office Fax# (212) 305-0956 Email: jri2101@columbia.edu

Education:

• Kenyon College and University of Cincinnati, BS, 1985
• University of Cincinnati, MS, 1987
• University of Cincinnati, PhD, 1990

• University of Alaska at Fairbanks, 1990-1991
• Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, 2003-05

Interests/Specialties:

• Development of neural systems assessed with measures of synchronization and coupling in neuroelectrical oscillations
• Event-related potentials in infants and novel analytical techniques
• Perinatal development of the waking state and higher levels of cognition

Sudha Kashyap, MD Academic Title(s): Professor of Pediatrics Attending Neonatologist Contact Information: Office Telephone# (212) 305-9034 Office Fax# (212) 305-8796 Email: sk48@columbia.edu

Education:

• St John's Medical College, MBBS, 1972
• Maulana Azad Medical College, DCH, 1976

• Residency, Brookdale Hospital, 1978
• Fellowship, Columbia Univ. College of Physicians & Surgeons, 1979

Interests/Specialties:

• Neonatal Nutrition & Metabolism

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Ganga Krishnamurthy, MD Academic Title(s): Garrett Isaac Neubauer Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Director of Neonatal Cardiac Care, MS-CHONY Attending Contact Information: Office Telephone# (212) 342-1316 Office Fax# (212) 305-8796 Email: gk2008@columbia.edu

Education:

• Mysore University, Mysore, India, M.B.B.S., 1990

• Residency, Infant and Children's Hospital of Brooklyn at Maimonides Medical Center, New York, NY, 2001
• Fellowship, Neonatology: Columbia University, 2004
• Senior Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care, Children's Hospital, Boston, 2005

Awards and Honors:

• Neubauer Award, Pediatric cardiac intensive care: 2004-2006
• Milton Singer Award for academic excellence in Neonatology, 2003
• Sassine Rahi Award for Excellence in Neonatology, 2001
• Best Graduating Resident in Pediatrics, 2000
• Robert Gilmore Award, AAP in-training Examination, 2000

Interests/Specialties:

• Neonatal Cardiac Physiology
• Catecholamine resistant hypotension in neonates after congenital heart surgery
• Brain monitoring in the neonate
• Non-invasive monitoring of tissue perfusion
• Neurodevelopment outcomes in infants with congenital heart disease

Hyejin R. Lee, D.O. Academic Title(s): Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics/Neonatology Attending Contact Information: Office Telephone# (201)833-7271 Office Fax# (201)833-7221 Email: Hrleepark@pol.net

Education:

• State University of New York, BS, 1987
• Nova-Southeastern University School of Medicine, DO, 1992
• Nova-Southeastern University School of Medicine, MD, 1995

• Residency, New York Medical College, NY
• Fellowship, Yale University School of Medicine, CT

Interests/Specialties:

• Bilirubin metabolism during developmental period

Jane S. Lee, MD, MPH Academic Title(s): Director, Neonatal Follow-Up Program Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Attending Contact Information: Office Telephone# (212) 305-8500 Office Fax# (212) 305-8796 Email: jl572@columbia.edu

Education:

• State University of New York at Binghamton, BA, 1992
• Albert Einstein College of Medicine, MD, 1996
• Harvard School of Public Health, MPH, 2001

• Residency, Babies and Childrens Hospital, Columbia University, 1999
  
• Fellowship, Childrens Hospital Boston, Harvard University, 2002

Interests/Specialties:

• Neurodevelopmental outcome of at risk infants including premature infants and infants with complex congenital heart disease
• Neonatal resuscitation; evidence based medicine

John M. Lorenz, MD Academic Title(s): Director of Clinical Research, Division of Neonatology Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Attending Contact Information: Office Telephone# (212) 305-5827 Office Fax# (212) 305-7086 Email: jl1084@columbia.edu

Education:

• University of Cincinnati, BS, 1972 University of Cincinnati, MD, 1976

• Residency, Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati), 1976-1979
• Fellowship, University of Cincinnati, 1979-1981

Awards and Honors:

• Phi Beta Kappa, University of Cincinnati, 1972
• Magna Cum Laude, University of Cincinnat, 1972
• Roche Award, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, 1974
• Alpha Omega Alpha, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, 1975
• Peter T. Kilgour Prize (awarded to the graduating student who, in work and character, best expresses the ideals of medicine), College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati 1976
• Miracle Maker Award (Honoring exceptional children's physicians), Children's Miracle Network, Sparrow Hospital, Lansing, Michigan, 1995
• Accepted as a life member of the/ National Registry of Who's Who (http://www.bestdoctors.com), 1999

Interests/Specialties:

• F & E management
• Thermal management
• Bioethics
• Developmental renal and fluid and electrolyte physiology
• Long-term outcomes of newborn intensive care
• Decision making in the NICU

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Kristina Orfali, PhD Academic Title(s): Associate Clinical Professor of Bioethics in Pediatrics Contact Information: Office Telephone# (212) 305-6561 Office Fax# (212) 305-8796 Email: ko2145@columbia.edu

Education:

• Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, 1976
• Diplôme de l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, 1979
• Ph.D. in Social Sciences, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1997

Interests/Specialties:

• Bioethics
• Long-term outcomes of newborn intensive care
• Decision making in the NICU
• Parents perspective

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Elvira Parravicini, MD Academic Title(s): Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Neonatal Attending Contact Information: Office Telephone# (212) 305-0955 Office Fax# (212) 305-8796 Email: ep127@columbia.edu

Education:

• Liceo Classico at Monza, Milano, Italy, 1975
• University of Milan, Italy, MD, 1981

• Residency, University of Milan, Italy, 1985
• Residency, New York University, 1998
• Fellowship, University of Milan, Italy, 1987
• Fellowship, Columbia University, 2001

Awards and Honors:

• The Milton Singer memorial fellowship award, Columbia University, 1999

Interests/Specialties:

• Prenatal diagnosis and postnatal treatment of infants with congenital anomalies
• Acute renal failure in low birth weight infants

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Tara Randis, MD Academic Title(s): Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Contact Information: Office Telephone# (212) 305-8500 Lab# (212) 342-2902 Office Fax# (212) 305-8796 Email: tmr2103@columbia.edu

Education:

• University of Scranton, BA Biology, 1996
• MCP Hahnemann University School of Medicine, Philadelphia PA, MD, 2000

• Residency, St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, 2004
• Fellowship, Columbia University, 2007

Awards and Honors:

• Milton Singer Memorial Fellowship Award (2006), Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University, NY American Academy of Pediatrics, Neonatal Resuscitation Program: Young Investigator Grant (2005)

Interests/Specialties:

• Role of Gardnerella vaginalis in preterm birth
• Hypoxic-ischemic brain injury

Veniamin Ratner, MD Academic Title(s): Assistant Professor in Pediatrics Contact Information: Office Telephone# (212) 342-0503 Office Fax# (212) 305-0956 Email: vr158@columbia.edu

Education:

• Donetsk Medical University, Ukraine, MD, 1987

• Residency, Nassau County Medical Center, East Meadow, NY, 1997-2000
• Fellowship, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/ Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, 2002-05

Interests/Specialties:

• Neonatal cardiology
• ECMO and EXIT interventions
• Animal models of neonatal lung diseases
• Link between lung development, injury, repair and mitochondrial dysfunction.

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Tove Rosen, MD Academic Title(s): Professor of Clinical Pediatrics/Neonatology Attending Contact Information: Office Telephone# (212) 305-8500 Office Fax# (212) 305-8796 Email: tsr1@columbia.edu

Education:

• University of Rochester, BA, 1961
• SUNY Downstate Medical Center School of Medicine, MD, 1965

• Internship, St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital Center, 1966
• Residency, St. Lukes/Roosevelt Medical Center, 1970
• Fellowship, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 1974

Interests/Specialties:

• Perinatal pharmacology and follow-up
• Brain imaging and neurobehavioral development
• Neonatal pain management

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S. David Rubenstein, MD Academic Title(s): Director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Director, Fellowship Training Program in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Medical Director, Physician extender program Professor of Clinical Pediatrics; Attending Contact Information: Office Telephone# (212) 305-8500 Office Fax# (212) 305-8796 Email: Sdr26@columbia.edu

Education:

• Syracuse University, AB Psychology, 1966
• Chicago Medical School, MD, 1970

• Residency, St. Christophers Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, PA, 1971
• Fellowship, Fellow in Clinical Neonatology, The Pennsylvania Hospital and Research Fellow in Perinatal Physiology, The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1973-1975

Interests/Specialties:

• Respiratory physiology
• Respiratory mechanics
• Respiratory gas exchange

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Rakesh Sahni, MD Academic Title(s): Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Attending Contact Information: Office Telephone# (212) 305-8500 Office Fax# (212) 305-8796 Email: rs62@columbia.edu

Education:

• Maulana Azad Medical College, BS, MB 1983
• Maulana Azad Medical College (New Delhi, India), MD, 1984

• Residency, St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital, 1990
• Fellowship, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 1993

Interests/Specialties:

• Neonatal physiology and behavior
• Effects of sleep position in developing low birth weight infants

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Raymond I. Stark, MD Academic Title(s): Director and Principal Investigator: Perinatal Emphasis Research Center from the NICHD Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Attending Contact Information: Office Telephone# (212) 305-0954 Office Fax# (212) 305-0956 Email: ris2@columbia.edu

Education:

• Columbia College, BA, 1962
• Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, MD, 1971

• Residency, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1971-73

Interests/Specialties:

• Animal research

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Vadim S. Ten, MD, PhD Academic Title(s): Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Contact Information: Office Telephone# (212) 342-0075 Office Fax# (212) 305-8796 Email: vt82@columbia.edu

Education:

• Minsk State Medical Institute (Minsk, Belarus), MD, 1984

• Residency, Maimonides Medical Center (Brooklyn, USA), 1999
• Fellowship, Columbia University Medical Center (New York, USA), 2002

Awards and Honors:

• Bennet-Silvermann Young Investigator Award (Columbia University)
• Young Investigator Award at the International Congress "New Frontiers in Neonatology," Austria
• Assistant Professor Basic Science Research Award (Columbia University)

Interests/Specialties:

• Mechanisms of ischemic damage in the developing tissue.
• Animal models of neonatal diseases: hypoxic-ischemic brain injury and alveolar developmental arrest.
• Cellular bioenergetic and mitochondrial dysfunction as a potential mechanism in neonatal diseases resulting in organs developmental failure.

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Helen M. Towers, LRCP & SI, MBBCh Academic Title(s): Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Attending, Associate Medical Director NICU Contact Information: Office Telephone# (212) 305-7822 Office Fax# (212) 305-8796 Email: hmt4@columbia.edu

Education:

• Royal College of Surgeons, LRCP & SI, MB, BCh 1983

• Internship, St. Laurence's Hospital - Dublin, 1984
• Residency, St. Vincents Hospital and Medical Center of New York, 1990
• Fellowship, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 1995

Interests/Specialties:

• Nutrition
• Energy balance

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Kimon Violaris, MD Academic Title(s): Director, Well Baby Nursery Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Attending Contact Information: Office Telephone# (212) 305-3202 Office Fax# (212) 305-8796 Email: kv2145@columbia.edu

Education:

• University of Athens, Greece, MD, 1973

• Residency, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, 1978-1980
• Fellowship, SUNY/Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, 1980-1982
• Fellowship, The New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center, New York, 1986-1988

Interests/Specialties:

• The late preterm infant
• Infant apnea
• Neonatal cardiology and vascular blood flow

Jen-Tien Wung, MD, FCCM Academic Title(s): Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Contact Information: Office Telephone# (212) 342-8668 Email: jw32@columbia.edu

Education:

• Taipei Medical University, MD, 1966

• Residency, Columbia University Medical Center, 1973
• Fellowship, Babies Hospital, New York, 1974

Awards and Honors:

• 1979 Teacher of the Year Award, Department of Pediatrics
• First prize in 2nd International Video Congress, "The Newborn Through Pictures," Turin, Italy
• "Thank God for Jen Wung Award" from Neonatal Parents' Support Network, September 17, 1995
• Distinguished Citizen Award (in Medicine), Yi-Ju, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, March 11, 2000
• The First Annual Physician of the Year Award, Columbia Presbyterian Medical CenterDepartment of Nursing, November 9, 2000
• Outstanding Achievement Award, American Chinese Medical Association of New Jersey, November 5, 2005

Interests/Specialties:

• Neonatal intensive care medicine and respiratory care
• Gentler and kinder ventilation with preservation of spontaneous breathing
• Permissive hypercarbia
• The management of infants with PPHN without hyperventilation
• Congenital diaphragmatic hernia infants with gentle ventilation, delayed surgery and no prophylactic chest tubes

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