The Department of Pediatrics

Department Chair: Stanley E. Fisher, M.D.
(718) 270-1911 Fax: (718) 270-1985

To schedule patient appointments: (718) 270-4714

The Department of Pediatrics offers a full range of services for children and adolescents in both general pediatrics and various subspecialties. Well child care, including guidance for immunizations for infants and school checkups, constitutes part of our primary care service. Care for minor illnesses is also readily available. Subspecialists in adolescent medicine, child development and developmental disabilities, critical care, cardiology, neonatology, pulmonary diseases, gastroenterology, genetics and genetic counseling, hematology/oncology, nephrology, endocrinology, allergy and immunology, and infectious diseases provide comprehensive services for diagnostic appraisals and acute and chronic pediatric care. All of the physicians in the department are board certified.

The department’s physicians provide a wide range of services for diseases of the heart, lungs, blood, kidneys and all of the other body systems.

PEDIATRIC INPATIENT SERVICES: (718) 270-2843

PEDIATRIC SPECIALITY OUTPATIENT SERVICES: (718) 270-4714

GENERAL PEDIATRIC OUTPATIENT SERVICES (718) 270-2957






ADOLESCENT MEDICINE
Division Chief
Amy Suss, M.D. (718) 270-4714

Our Division of Adolescent Medicine provides comprehensive care for all teenagers aged 10 through 21 years. In addition to providing immunizations and physical examinations to healthy adolescents, our adolescent clinics provide care for teenagers with acute and chronic medical illnesses, substance use/abuse problems, gynecological/contraception concerns, and evaluation of sexually transmitted diseases.






CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
Division Chief
Harris Huberman, M.D. (718) 270-4714

This division evaluates, diagnoses, and manages children with a broad range of normal, atypical, and abnormal development. It also identifies and helps coordinate services for infants at risk for neurodevelopmental and related disabilities.






GENERAL PEDIATRICS
Division Chief
Eugene Dinkevich, M.D. (718) 270-2957

This division’s physicians provide care for children requiring guidance and health maintenance. In addition, consultations are available for diagnosis of any child who is sick or who has a problem with development.






NEONATOLOGY AND PERINATAL MEDICINE
Division Chief NICU Director
Jacob Aranda , M.D. Gloria Valencia, M.D.

Pediatricians in this division provide specialized care for low birth weight babies and those with congenital abnormalities as well as any illness of the newborn.






PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY
Division Chief
Sarita Dhuper, M.D.
(718) 270-4714

Children with congenital heart disease, hypertension, rheumatic heart disease and thalassemic heart disease are provided with a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic services by this division.






PEDIATRIC CRITICAL CARE
Division Chief
Steven Wadowski, M.D. (718) 270-4649

The Division of Pediatric Critical Care provides a full range of critical care service to pediatric patients. Care is provided in a fully equipped Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. In addition to 24-hour resident coverage, the unit is staffed by nurses, physician assistants, and respiratory therapists with specialized training in the care of critically ill children. A team of board certified pediatric intensivists is available at all times to provide and supervise the care of the patients admitted to the service. The team is supported by a complete complement of pediatric medical and surgical subspecialists.




PEDIATRIC DERMATOLOGY
Sharon Glick, M.D. (718) 270 1230

PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY
Division Chief
Salvador Castells, M.D. (718) 270-4714
Svetlana Ten, M.D. (718) 270-4714
Services are available in this division for patients with childhood diabetes, thyroid disorders and all other diseases of the endocrine system.




PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Nooruddin Tejani, M.D. (718) 270-8214

PEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY AND NUTRITION
Division Chief
William Tree, M.D. (718) 270-4714

This division cares for children with diseases of the esophagus, stomach, and intestines as well as those of the liver and pancreas. Nutritional problems are a particular specialty.






PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY
Division Chief
Sreedhar P. Rao, M.D. (718) 270-4714

This division offers specialized care for children with hemophilia, sickle cell disease, thalassemia and leukemia and other cancers.



PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Division Chief
Margaret Hammerschlag, M.D. (718) 270-3097

Inpatient and outpatient consultations for infectious problems and travel advice.





PEDIATRIC IMMUNOLOGY
Division Chief
Hamid J. Moallem, M.D. (718) 270-4714

The Division of Pediatric Immunology offers special diagnostic evaluation and treatment of immune deficiencies and rheumatology (systemic lupus, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, dermatomyositis, Kawasaki syndrome).






PEDIATRIC NEPHROLOGY
Division Chief
Morris Schoeneman, M.D. (718) 270-4714

This division treats kidney and bladder diseases. The division operates the largest children’s dialysis unit in New York, and its staff members collaborate closely with transplant surgeons.

PEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY
Joan Cracco, M.D. (718) 270-2042

PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGERY
Ethan Benardete M.D. (718) 270-4335

PEDIATRIC ORTHOPEDICS
Charles Spero, M.D. (718) 270-1958

PEDIATRIC OTOLARYNGOLOGY
Nira Goldstein, M.D. (718) 270-4701

PEDIATRIC PULMONOLOGY
Division Chief
Haesoon Lee, M.D. (718) 270-4714

Associate Chief
Stephen Wadowski, MD

The Division of Pediatric Pulmonary Diseases provides comprehensive diagnostic evaluation and care to all children with acute or chronic disease of the upper and lower respiratory tract. It has comprehensive pediatric pulmonary function, sleep apnea and exercise physiology laboratories. In addition, the division has a very active fiberoptic bronchoscopy program. The Pediatric Asthma Center of Excellence, where children with difficult, hard-to-manage asthma are evaluated and treated, is also under the jurisdiction of the division.

PEDIATRIC RADIOLOGY
John Amodio, M.D. (718) 270-1603

PEDIATRIC SURGERY
Nicholas Shorter M.D. (718) 270-1386

PEDIATRIC UROLOGY
Mark Horowitz M.D. (718) 270-1958