Critical Care

Katherine V. Biagas, MD Academic Title(s): Interim Director, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Director, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Contact Information: Tel: (212) 305-8458 Fax: (212) 342-2293 Email: kb316@columbia.edu

Education

• University of Chicago, IL
  
• University of Pittsburgh, PA
  

• Pediatric Residency, Northwestern University, Chicago
  
• Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh

Interests/Specialties:

• Post graduate education of residents and fellows in critical care medicine
• Gene expression in neurologic injury
• Management and functional outcomes of children with critical neurologic injury
• Neurologic monitoring post-cardiopulmonary bypass
• Establishing medical/surgical care programs for orphans in mainland China
• Research interests: gene expression of nutrient transporters at the blood brain barrier

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John Scott Baird, MD Academic Title(s): Transport Program Director, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Contact Information: Tel: (212) 305-8458 Fax: (212) 342-2293 Email: jsb106@columbia.edu

Education

• University of California, Irvine, CA
  
• Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY
  

• Residency, Internal Medicine and Pediatric Residency, Los Angeles County University of Southern California Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
• Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship, New York Hospital, Cornell University, New York, NY

Interests/Specialties:

• Noninvasive ventilation
• Hemofiltration
• Neuromuscular diseases and respiratory failure

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Dennis Coffey, MD Academic Title(s): Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Contact Information: Tel: (212) 305-8458 Fax: (212) 342-2293 Email: dc2332@columbia.edu

Education

• Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
  
• University of Medicine and Dentistry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ

• Pediatric Residency, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC
  
• Critical Care Fellowship, New York Hospital, Cornell University, New York, NY

Interests/Specialties:

• Renal replacement in multi-organ failure
• Lung protective ventilation strategies
• Delivery of pediatric critical care in the community hospital setting

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Pamela Feuer, MD Academic Title(s): Quality Assurance Director, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Contact Information: Tel: (212) 305-8458 Fax: (212) 342-2293 Email: pf2121@columbia.edu

Education

• Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
  
• New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY

• Pediatric Residency, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
  
• Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA

Interests/Specialties:

• Patient Safety and Quality
• Medical Event Reporting
• Reduction of healthcare-acquired infections
• Chronic Respiratory Failure/Mechanical Ventilation

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Sandeep Ganagadharan, MD Academic Title(s): Education Director, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine; Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Contact Information: Tel: (212) 305-8458 Fax: (212) 342-2293 Email: sg623@columbia.edu

Education

• Columbia University, New York, NY
  
• University of Medicine and Dentistry - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ

• Pediatric Residency, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY
• Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY

George Hardart, MD, MPH Academic Title(s): Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Contact Information: Tel: (212) 305-8458 Fax: (212) 342-2293 Email: gh2115@columbia.edu

Education

• Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
  
• Masters in Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA
• University of Virginia School of Medicine

• Anesthesia Residency, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
• Pediatric Residency, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, MD
  
• Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship, Children's Hospital Boston, MA
• Health Care Services Research Fellowship, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
• Fellowship in Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
• Fellowship in Community Pediatrics and Child Advocacy, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY

Interests/Specialties:

• Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
• Pediatric Anesthesia
• Medical ethics
• Ethics of organ transplantation
• Family interests in medical decision-making
• Clinical epidemiology

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R. Stanley Hum, MD Academic Title(s): Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Contact Information: Tel: (212) 305-8458 Fax: (212) 342-2293 Email: rsh2117@columbia.edu

Education

• University of Toronto, ON, Canada
• University of Toronto, ON, Canada

• Categorical Pediatric Residency, Baystate Medical Center Children's Hospital, Tufts University, Springfield, MA
  
• Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship, British Columbia Children's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Interests/Specialties:

• Biomedical informatics in pediatric critical care medicine
• Automatic data collection, signals processing and systems modeling in pediatric critical care medicine
• Natural language processing in pediatrics
• Clinical informatics and workflow

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E. Heidi Jerome, MD Academic Title(s): Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics Contact Information: Tel: (212) 305-8458 Fax: (212) 342-2293 Email: ej91@columbia.edu

Education

• Williams College, Williamstown, MA
  
• University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN

• Anesthesia Residency, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
  
• Pediatric Residency, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY
• Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA

Interests/Specialties:

• Lung injury
• Lung edema

Marilyn Morris, MD, MPH Academic Title(s): Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Contact Information: Tel: (212) 305-8458 Fax: (212) 342-2293 Email: mcm2113@columbia.edu

Education

• Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
  
• Masters in Public Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY
• Tufts University School Of Medicine, Boston, MA

• Pediatric Residency, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY
  
• Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA

Interests/Specialties:

• Informed Consent
• Resuscitation Research
• Pediatric CPR
• Induced hypothermia

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Kristin Ognibene, MD, MSc Academic Title(s): Associate Fellowship Director, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine; Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Contact Information: Tel: (212) 305-8458 Fax: (212) 342-2293 Email: ko2006@columbia.edu

Education

• New York University, New York, NY
  
• Masters in Biostatistics, Columbia University, New York, NY
• University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ

• Pediatric Residency, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY
  
• Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY

Interests/Specialties:

• Hyperglycemia in critical illness
• Effects of hypoglycemia in critical illness

Logeswary Rajagopalan, MD Academic Title(s): Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Contact Information: Tel: (201) 305-8458 Fax: (201) 342-2293 Email: lr481@columbia.edu

Education

• North Colombo Medical College, Ragama, Sri Lanka
  
• North Colombo Medical College, Ragama, Sri Lanka

• Pediatric Residency, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
  
• Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY

Interests/Specialties:

• Acute lung injury
• Resident education in pediatric critical care medicine

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Thyyar Ravindranath, MD Academic Title(s): Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Contact Information: Tel: (212)305-8458 Fax: (212) 342-2293 Email: tr2148@columbia.edu

Education

• Kilpauk Medical College, Madras, India
  
• Kilpauk Medical College, Madras, India

• Pediatric Residency, Cook County Children's Hospital, Chicago, IL
  
• Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship, Children's Medical Center, University of Texas Health Science Center, Dallas, TX

Interests/Specialties:

• Aldose Reductase-RAGE axis in septic heart
• Neutrophil, pulmonary endothelial aberrations in septic peritonitis
• Neutrophil function in acute respiratory failure

Charles L. Schleien, MD, MBA Academic Title(s): Executive Vice Chairman of Pediatrics Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology Contact Information: Tel: (212) 305-7112 Fax: (212) 305-3020 Email: cs600@columbia.edu

Education

• Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, NY
  
• Masters of Business Administration, Columbia Business School, New York, NY
• Mt. Sinai School Of Medicine, New York, NY

• Pediatric Residency, Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
  
• Anesthesia Residency, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
• Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Interests/Specialties:

• Pediatric Critical Care medicine
• Pediatric Anesthesiology
• Sedation and pain in children
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• Hypothermia
• Neuro-resuscitation
• Pediatric Bioethics
• Health Care Economics

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Anita I. Sen, MD Academic Title(s): Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Contact Information: Tel: (212) 305-8458 Fax: (212) 342-2293 Email: ais13@columbia.edu

Education

• Yale University, New Haven, CT
  
• Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY

• Pediatric Residency, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
  
• Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY

Interests/Specialties:

• Acute Lung Injury
• Resident education

Arthur Smerling, MD Academic Title(s): Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit Director, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology Contact Information: Tel: (212) 305-8458 Fax: (212) 342-2293 Email: ajs8@columbia.edu

Education

• Yeshiva University, New York, NY
  
• University Of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

• Anesthesia Residency, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY
  
• Pediatric Residency, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Hospital Medical Center, Bronx, NY
• Pediatric Anesthesia and Critical Care Fellowship, The Children's Hospital, Boston, MA

Interests/Specialties:

• Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care
• Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia
• Treatment of pulmonary hypertension in the Operating Room and Intensive Care Unit

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