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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
Postgraduate Training:
  • 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
Postgraduate Training:
  • 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
Postgraduate Training:
  • 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
Postgraduate Training:
  • 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
Postgraduate Training:
  • 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
Postgraduate Training:
  • 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
Postgraduate Training:
  • 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
Postgraduate Training:
  • 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
Postgraduate Training:
  • 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
Postgraduate Training:
  • 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
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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
Postgraduate Training:
  • 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
Postgraduate Training:
  • 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
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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
Postgraduate Training:
  • 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
Postgraduate Training:
  • 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
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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
Postgraduate Training:
  • 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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