Kwame Anyane-Yeboa, MD
Academic Title(s):
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Interim Director, Division of Clinical Genetics
Contact Information:
Tel: (212) 305-6731
Fax: (212) 305-9058
Email: Ka8@columbia.edu
Education
- Prempeh College, Advance level certification, 1967
- University of Ghana Medical School, MB, ChB.,1972
Postgraduate Training
- Rotating Intern, Korlebu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana,1972-1974.
- Pediatric Resident, Harlem Harlem Hospital Center, 1974-1977
- Fellow, Clinical Genetics, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, 1977-1980
Awards and Honors:
- Awarded an Honorary Doctors degree, University of Ghana, 2004
Interests/Specialties
- Infants and children with congenital malformations
- Autism
- Mental retardation in children and adults
- Congenital malformation in pregnancy
Learn more about Dr. Yeboa
Dr. Yeboa is committed to the care of children and families with complex genetic problems and birth defects, particularly congenital malformations, mental retardation and autism. Specializes in genetic counseling for couples with a diagnosis of a fetal anomaly.
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Wendy Chung, MD, PhD
Academic Title(s):
Herbert Irving Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Contact Information:
Tel: (212) 851-5313
Fax: (212) 851-5306 Patient Appointments: (212) 305-6731
Email: wkc15@columbia.edu
Education
- Cornell University, B.A., 1990
- Rockefeller University, Ph.D., 1996
- Cornell University, M.D., 1998
Postgraduate Training
- Intern and resident in Pediatrics, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 1998-2000
- Fellow, Clinical Genetics, Division of Clinical Genetics in Pediatrics, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 2000-2002
- Fellow, Molecular Genetics, Division of Clinical Genetics in Pediatrics, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 2002-2003
Awards and Honors:
- American Academy of Pediatrics Young Investigator Award
- Charles W. Bohmfalk Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching in the Clinical Years.
- Medical Achievement Award, Bonei Olam
- Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, Columbia University
Interests/Specialties
- Genetic basis of obesity and diabetes
- Metabolic and endocrine genetic disease
- Congenital heart disease, cardiomyopathies, and inherited arrhythmias
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
- Breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility
- Cancer syndromes including von Hippel Lindau Disease
- Spinal muscular atrophy
Learn more about Dr. Chung
Dr. Chung is a Herbert Irving Assistant Professor of pediatrics in medicine whose research relates to the molecular genetics of obesity and diabetes in rodents and humans, the genetic basis of congenital heart disease, cardiomyopathies, arrhythmias, long QT Syndrome, pulmonary hypertension, endocrinopathies, congenital diaphragmatic hernias, cleft lip/cleft palate, seizures, mental retardation, inherited metabolic conditions and breast and pancreatic cancer susceptibility. She is the director of the Pediatric Heart Network Genetic Core, the Pediatric Neuromuscular Network Molecular Core, the New York Obesity Center Molecular Genetics Core and the Diabetes and Endocrine Research Center Molecular Genetics Core. She is also director of the Clinical Genetics Program, Clinical Cancer Genetics program, the director of the fellowship program in Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics, and supervises medical education in human genetics for Columbia University Medical School.
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Alejandro D. Iglesias, MD
Academic Title(s):
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Director, Medical Genetics Residency Program
Contact Information:
Tel: (212) 212-851-5377 Appointments: (212) 305-2710/6731
Fax: (212) 851-5306 / (212) 305-9058
Email: ai2269@columbia.edu
Education
- School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1985
Postgraduate Training
- Intern, Pediatrics, Hospital de Pediatría Pedro Elizalde, Buenos Aires Argentina, 1986-1987
- Resident, Pediatrics, Hospital de Pediatría Pedro Elizalde, Buenos Aires Argentina, 1987-1990
- Chief Resident, Pediatrics, Hospital de Pediatría Pedro Elizalde, Buenos Aires Argentina, 1990-1991
- Fellow, Clinical Genetics, Hospital de Pediatría Juan Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1991-1993
- Fellow, Clinical and Biochemical Genetics, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, 1995-1998
- Resident, Pediatrics, Jacobi Medical Center, New York, 1998-2000
Interests/Specialties
- Inborn Errors of Intermediate Metabolism
- Phenylketonuria
- Neurogenetics
- Errors of embryonic development
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Alfred Slonim, MD
Academic Title(s):
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Contact Information:
Tel: (212) 305-5717
Fax: (212) 304-5699
Email: as2718@columbia.edu
Education
- MBBS (M.D.) University of Melbourne, Australia, 1958
Postgraduate Training
- Junior resident (intern), Box Hill Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, 1959
- Pediatric resident, Asaf Harofeh Hospital, Israel, 1960
- Pediatric resident, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, 1961-1962
- Research fellow in Pulmonology, Pediatric Research Center, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, 1963-1965
- Senior resident, Internal Medicine Department, Tel Hashomer Hospital, Israel, 1966-1968
- Research fellow in endocrinology, Department of Cancer Research and Basic Sciences, Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel, 1969
Interests/Specialties
- Inborn errors of metabolism
- Metabolic disease of muscle and liver
- Crohn's Disease
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Learn more about Dr. Slonim
Dr. Slonim has long specialized in genetic errors of metabolism, and more recently also in a number of metabolic disorders of uncertain etiology such as Crohn’s disease and Chronic Fatigue syndrome. By extensively investigating the metabolic disturbances occurring in these disorders, he has devised therapies, consisting of special nutrition, exercise and in certain cases hormones, that attempt to correct these metabolic disturbances; in some disorders compensating for certain substrate deficiencies and in other disorders minimizing the detrimental effects of excessive metabolites.
The therapies devised from these investigations have resulted in marked clinical improvement in many of these disorders. Consequently, Dr. Slonim’s clinical research program attracts patients from throughout the USA and overseas seeking effective therapies for their rare, and often scientifically neglected, metabolic disorders.
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Lynn Bush, PhD, MA
Academic Title(s):
Adjunct Associate Research Scientist in Pediatrics, Pediatric Clinical Genetics
Contact Information:
Tel: (203) 984-5813
Fax: (203) 222-9093
Email: lwb25@columbia.edu
Education
- Hunter College, CUNY, B.A., 1980
- Teachers College, Columbia U, M.A., 1981
- Columbia University, PhD, 1989
- Columbia University, MS 2012
Postgraduate Training
- Internship, Clinical psychology, Montefiore-Einstein, 1984-1985
- Fellowship, Infant/child psychiatry, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, 1985-1989
- Fellowship, Infant/child psychiatry and Pediatric liaison, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, 1989-1981
- Postgraduate Series in Neuroscience, Columbia University Medical Center, Winters 2005-2009
Interests/Specialties
- Psychological & ethical implications of genomics
- Newborn and prenatal screening
- Inborn errors of metabolism
- Neurogenetic disorders in children
Learn more about Dr. Bush
Dr. Bush has an interdisciplinary background in clinical and developmental psychology, bioethics, neuroscience and genetics that informs her research on heritable disorders of infants and children. She is currently investigating the psychological and ethical implications of newborn screening and sharing neurogenetic information. Dr. Bush also writes dramatic vignettes (in collaboration with Karen Rothenberg, JD MPA at NHGRI) to enhance the discourse and understanding of complex psychosocial/ethical issues surrounding genomic research and clinical practice amongst the scientific, bioethical, and policy-making communities. These interactive dialogues are also used as a creative teaching vehicle for medical schools, as they bring to life the challenges facing both the physician-scientist and participant-patient concerning the informed consent process, returning primary genetic results involving children, and the disclosure of incidental findings.
Affiliated Faculty
Jack Maidman, MD: Prenatal Clinical Geneticist
Ronald Wapner, MD: Prenatal Clinical Geneticist
Dorothy Warburton, PhD: Cytogeneticist
Brynn Levy, PhD: Cytogeneticist
Vaidehi Jobanputra, PhD: Cytogeneticist
Vundavalli Murty, PhD: Cancer Cytogeneticist
Mahesh Mansukhani, MD: Molecular Pathologist