Residency Training Program in General Pediatrics

Faculty Listing

Stephen Wadowski, MD
Professor and Chairman

Jacob Aranda, MD
Professor and Vice Chair for Research

Margaret Hammerschlag, MD
Professor and Vice Chair for Faculty Development

Simon Rabinowitz, MD
Professor of Clinical and Vice Chair for Clinical Development

Sergio Golombek, MD
Clinical Professor and Vice Chair for Pediatric Clinical Services at UHD

Ninad Desai, MBBS
Associate Professor of Clinical, Chief Academic Officer and Chief of Pediatrics at KCHC

Adolescent Medicine

Amy Suss, MD, Director
Jeffrey Birnbaum, MD
Rhonda Cambridge, MD
Luciana Michel, MD

Allergy and Immunology/ Rheumatology

Rauno Joks, M.D, Director
Smita Kumar, MD KCHC
MariaAnna Vastardi, MD, Assoc. Dir. Pediatrics

Ambulatory Care & General Pediatrics

Eugene Dinkevich, MD, Director UHD
Lee Waldman, MD, Acting Director KCHC
Paridhi Anand, MD, KCHC
Shelley Anne Bailey, MD, KCHC
Patrice Brown, MD, KCHC
Laura Bruno, MD
Angela Bennett, MD (emeritus)
Karen Griffith, MD, KCHC
Laura Dattner, MD
Maureen Gelling, RN, PNP
Andrea Weiner, DO
Paul Harris, MD
Christina Guillen, MD
Charles Manopla, MD
Temitope Jose, MD
Robert Karp, MD (emeritus)
Swati Mehta, MD
Robin Ovitsh, MD
Ella Jean Richards, MD
Achini Wanasinghe, MD, KCHC

Hal Sitt, MD, KCHC 

Rizwanna Shams, MD, KCHC
Linda Blanc, MD, KCHC

Behavioral and Developmental  Child Psychology

Harris Huberman, MD, Director
Joan Hittleman, PhD
Kathy McCormick, PhD
Anna Sangrund, PhD
Jean Jacques, MD, KCHC

Cardiology

Sarita Dhuper, MD, Acting Director
Damodar Thambireddy, MD
Sudha Rao, MD, KCHC

Child Neurology

Steven Pavlakis, MD, Director
Geetha Chari, MD
Radha Giridharan, MD
Emily Kurlansik, Psy.D., BCBA NCSP
Joan Cracco, MD
Alexandra Reznickova, MD
Arthur Rose, MD
Y. Hisamoto, MD

Critical Care

Ramon Gist, MD, Director, UHD
Vikas Shah, MD, Director , KCHC
Rohit Pinto, MD
Sule Doymaz, MD
Clara Giambruno, MD
Davor Skaricic, MD, KCHC
MIchael Keenaghan, MD, KCHC
Joel Schwartz, PA-C
Kathleen Howard, PA-C
Raymond Lin, PA
Rosemary Nwanne, PA-C

Education

Angela Bennett, MD (emeritus)
Stephen Wadowski, MD, Chairman
Christina Guillen, MD, Residency Director
Temitope Jose, MD, Clerkship Director
Laura Dattner, MD, Clinical Assistant Dean Asst. Clerkship Dir. 
Robin Ovitsh, MD, Assistant Dean
Vivian Chin, MD, Assoc.Program Director
Lawrence Fordjour, MD, Assoc Program Dir.
Paul Harris, MD, Ambulatory Clerkship Director
Amy Suss, MD, Assoc. Program Director
Henry Schaeffer, MD, (emeritus)

Ella-Jean Richards, MD, Asst. Clerkship Dir

Sule Doymaz, MD, Asst. Clerkship Dir.

Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Toxicology and Acute Care

Konstantinos Agoritsas, MD, Director KCHC
Jennifer Chao, MD, KCHC
Rachel George, MD, KCHC
Ambreen Khan, MD, KCHC
June Lee, MD, KCHC

Tian Liang, MD

Aditi Jayanth, MD,
Nooruddin Tejani, MD

Endocrinology & Metabolism

Vatacharapan Umpaichitra, MD, Director
Vivian Chin, MD
Renee Bargman, MD

Haiyan Lu, MD, PhD

Elka Jacobson-Dickman, MD,

Dawn Haggerty, RN

Family Life

Lisa Smith, Director
Katia Chenet-Casimir

Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition

Steven Schwarz, MD, Director
Stanley Fisher, MD
Radha Nathan, MD
Simon Rabinowitz, MD
Katherina Vaidy, MD

Genetics and Metabolism

Nellie Oundjian, MD, KCHC

Hematology and Oncology

Yaoping Zhang, MD, Director
Ninad Desai, MD
Sana Usmani, MD
Yara Perez, MD
Kathy Rey, PA

Infectious Disease

Margaret Hammerschlag, MD
Jyotsna Bhattacharya, MD
Matthew Gesner, MD, KCHC
Stephan Kohlhoff, MD, Division Director
Swati Kumar, MD

Inpatient Services

Stanley Fisher, MD, Director, UHD
Seema Khandhekar, MD, KCHC
Risa Bochner, MD, KCHC
Charles Manopla, MD, UHD
Melvyn Braiman, MD, UHD

Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine

Jacob Aranda, MD, Director
Sergio Golombek, MD, Director, NICU
Ivan Hand, MD, Director NICU, KCHC
Asma Ahmed, MD, KCHC
Vadim Bronshtein, MD
Antoni D'Souza, MD
Lawrence Fordjour, MD
Nadine LaHage, MD, KCHC
Jae Min, MD
Gratias Mundakel, MD, KCHC
Thomas Duggan, MD
Farah Hussain, MD
Sukvinder Ranu, MD, KCHC
Kay Beharry, MS
Shirley Weiz, PA-C
Rachel Reichman, PA-C
Erin Stern, PA-C

Nephrology

Oluwatoyin Bamgbola, MD, Director
Anil Mongia, MD
Aniziya Smaga, PA-C

Pediatric AIDS Network/HEAT

Jeffrey Birnbaum, MD, MPH, Director
Stephan Kohlhoff, MD

Pulmonology

Americo Esquibies, MD, Director
Emily Concepcion, D.O.
Madu Rao, MD (emeritus)
Stephen Wadowski, MD
Diana Weaver, MD, KCHC
Gail Solomon, PA-C
Jeremy Wadowski, MA
Iman Mina

Community and Social Pediatrics

Robert Karp, MD
Eugene Dinkevich, MD
Christina Guillen, MD, Director
Ella-Jean Richards, MD
Temitope Jose, MD

Affiliated Departments

Pediatric Anesthesia
Christophe DeBrady, MD
Ramesh Kodavatiganti,MD
Jeffrey Lampert, MD
Catherine McWade, MD
Khosrow Mojedhi, MD
Margarita DelaPena, MD, Director

Bioethics/Humanities in Medicine

Kathleen Powderly, RN, MS, PhD

Pediatric Dermatology

Sharon Glick, MD, Director
Jeannette Jakus, MD

Pediatric Ophthalmology

James Deutsch, MD, KCHC
Charles Morgan, MD
Janine Smith, MD

Orthopedics

Khaled Hashem, MD (Pediatric)
Claude Scott, MD (Pediatric)
Christopher Chapman, MD (Pediatric)
Steven Koehler, MD (Hand and Microsurgery)
Carl Paulino, MD (Spine/scoliosis)
Wiliiam Urban, MD (Sports Medicine)
Andrew Miller, MD (Pediatrics)

Pediatric Otolaryngology

Richard Rosenfeld, MD
Ann Plum, MD
Nira Goldstein, MD
Ari Goldsmith, MD

Pediatric Pathology

Virginia Anderson, MD
Kristina Loukeris, MD

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Sanjeev Agrawal, MD, Director
Susan Stickevers, MD, Residency Director

Child / Adolescent Psychiatry & Psychology

Irmgard Borner, MD
Leonore Engel, MD
Cathryn Galanter, MD
Norman Green, MD
Rev. Jeff Hamblin, MD
Barbara McGann, MD
Nicholas Nikolav, MD
Jeffrey Pavares, MD
Gene Fish, PhD
Kalman Flomenhaft, PhD
Dorothy Gartner, PhD
Joan Hittleman, PhD
Mark Isacoff, PhD
Moses Preiser,PhD
Mark Press, PhD
Richard Sloves, PhD

Urology

Jeffrey Weiss, MD Chair
Brian McNeil, MD, Chief

Pediatric Radiology

Paul Liu, MD

Pediatric Surgery

Francesca Velcek, MD