Neonatology and Perinatology

Faculty

Richard Polin, MD

Academic Title(s):

Director, Division of Neonatology and Perinatology
Professor of Pediatrics
Attending Physician

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 305-5827
Fax: (212) 305-7086
Email: rap32@columbia.edu

Education

Temple University, BA, 1966
Temple University, M.D., 1970

Postgraduate Training

Pediatric Residency, Children's Memorial Hospital Chicago, 1970-1972
Senior Resident in Pediatrics, Babies Hospital 1972-1973
Chief Resident in Pediatrics, Babies Hospital 1974-1975
Fellowship, Neonatal Perinatal Medicine, Babies Hospital 1973-1974 and 1975-1977

Awards and Honors:

Outstanding Pediatric Attending Babies Hospital, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 1978-79 & 1982-83,
National Neonatal Education Award, 2006
Outstanding Alumnus, Temple University School of Medicine

Interests/Specialties

Hyperbilirubinemia
Neonatal Sepsis
Fluid and Electrolyte Management

Dr. Polin has a broad range of scientific interests. Currently, his major focus is on developmental immunology, infectious diseases, hypoxic ischemic brain injury and aerosolized surfactant. Dr. Polin has published over 100 original papers, more than 60 editorial reviews and chapters, 20 books (including Fetal and Neonatal Physiology, Workbook in Practical Neonatology, Pediatric Secrets, Fetal and Neonatal Secrets, Current Pediatric Therapy, Pocket Neonatology) and more than 200 abstracts. He is an editor of the American Academy of Pediatrics publication, Grand Rounds.

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Francis Akita, MB, ChB

Academic Title(s):

Director, Division of Neonatology NewYork-Presbyterian/The Allen Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Attending Physician

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 932-4035
Fax: (212) 932-5441
Email: faa8@columbia.edu

Education

Prenpeh College, BS, 1972
University of Ghana Medical School, MD, 1978

Postgraduate Training

Residency, Harlem Hospital Center, 1984
Fellowship, Tuft's New England Medical Center, 1986

Interests/Specialties

General Neonatology

David A. Bateman, MD

Academic Title(s):

Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Attending Physician

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 305-6578
Fax: (212) 305-8796
Email: Dab2@columbia.edu

Education

College of Wooster, BA, 1968
Tufts University School of Medicine, MD, 1973
Columbia University School of Public Health, MS (Biostatistics)

Postgraduate Training

Residency, Lincoln Hospital (Bronx), 1973-1975
Residency, Tufts-New England Medical Center (Boston), 1978-1979
Fellowship, St Margaret's Hospital, Tufts New England Medical Center, 1978-1979
Babies and Children's Hospital, 1979-1981

Interests/Specialties

Effects of intrauterine cocaine exposure and other manifestations of urban poverty on the newborn.

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Thomas G. Diacovo, MD

Academic Title(s):

Director, Neonatal and Critical Care Research
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology and Cell Biology

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 851-4683
Fax: (212) 851-4504
Email: td2142@columbia.edu

Education

McGill University, BSc, 1984
Medical School: McGill University, 1988

Postgraduate Training

Residency, Texas Children's Hospital, 1988-1991
Fellowship, Boston Children's Hospital, 1991-1994

Awards and Honors:

1993 Farley Fund Fellowship, Children?s Hospital, Boston
1998 Scholar of the Washington University Child Health Research Center of Excellence in Developmental Biology
2002 AHA Young Investigator Prize in Thrombosis
2007 Lewis Katz Prize in Cardiovascular Medicine, Columbia University
2007 NYSTAR faculty development award

Interests/Specialties

Hemostasis and Thrombosis
Inflammation related to autoimmune diseases

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Christiana R. Farkouh, MD, MPH

Academic Title(s):

Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 342-3735
Fax: (212) 305-8796
Email: crf9@columbia.edu

Education

Barnard College, Columbia University, BA, 1992
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, MPH, 1994
New York Medical College, MD, 1998

Postgraduate Training

Internship/Residency, Mount Sinai Medical Center (Pediatrics), New York, NY, 1998-2001
Fellowship, Children's Hospital of Philadelpia (Neonatology), Philadelphia, PA, 2001-2004

Interests/Specialties

Neuro developmental follow-up of premature infants
Neuro developmental follow-up of infants with Congenital Diaphragmatic Herinia (CDH)
Neonatal Resuscitation

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Marianne Garland, MB ChB

Academic Title(s):

Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Attending Physician

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 305-0954
Fax: (212) 305-0956 Lab Telephone# (212) 305-5117
Email: Mg71@columbia.edu

Education

University of Auckland, BHB, 1981
University of Aukland, School of Medicine, MD, 1984

Postgraduate Training

Residency, Monmouth Medical Center (New Jersey), 1991
Fellowship, Columbia University, 1995

Interests/Specialties

Perinatal transmission of HIV infection and interventions to reduce transmission
Perinatal pharmacology of morphine and its glucuronide metabolites
Perinatal pharmacology of anti-HIV drugs
Pharmacology of pregnancy
Placenta transfer and fetal metabolism
Ontogeny of autonomic control in the fetus
Optimizing care of ELBW infants
Benefits of breast milk for ELBW infants
Novel educational strategies for GME

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Philip Grieve, PhD

Academic Title(s):
Assistant Professor of Clinical Biomedical Engineering (in Pediatrics)

Contact Information:
Tel: (212) 305-0953
Fax: (212) 305-0956
Email: pgg3@columbia.edu

Education

Cornell University, BEE, 1964
Cornell University, University of California at Los Angeles, PhD, 1973

Postgraduate Training

Fellowship in Developmental Psychobiology, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1992-1994

Awards and Honors:

General Motors National Scholarship, Cornell University
Hughes Aircraft Company, Masters Fellowship, UCLA
Howard Hughes Doctoral Fellow, UCLA
Eta Kappa Nu, Electrical Engineering Academic Honor Society
Session chairman, IEEE International Radar Conference.
Chairman, Aerospace Industries Association Committee on Optical Information Processing
Claire Lucille Pace Humanitarian Award in Pediatrics at Babies and Children's Hospital Columbia for efforts on behalf of the children on the Pine Ridge Lakota Indian Reservation

Interests/Specialties

Developmental electrophysiology including measurement of abnormal brain function in premature infants and young children with affect disorders
Collection and processing of high density (128 lead) EEG data from infants and young children.

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Joseph Isler, PhD

Academic Title(s):

Associate Research Scientist

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 342-4151
Fax: (212) 305-0956
Email: jri2101@columbia.edu

Education

Kenyon College and University of Cincinnati, BS, 1985
University of Cincinnati, MS, 1987
University of Cincinnati, PhD, 1990

Postgraduate Training

University of Alaska at Fairbanks, 1990-1991
Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, 2003-05

Interests/Specialties

Development of neural systems assessed with measures of synchronization and coupling in neuroelectrical oscillations
Event-related potentials in infants and novel analytical techniques
Perinatal development of the waking state and higher levels of cognition

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Sudha Kashyap, MD

Academic Title(s):

Professor of Pediatrics
Attending Neonatologist

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 305-9034
Fax: (212) 305-8796
Email: sk48@columbia.edu

Education

St John's Medical College, MBBS, 1972
Maulana Azad Medical College, DCH, 1976

Postgraduate Training

Residency, Brookdale Hospital, 1978
Fellowship, Columbia Univ. College of Physicians & Surgeons, 1979

Interests/Specialties

Neonatal Nutrition & Metabolism

Learn more about Dr. Kashyap

Dr. Kashyap and colleagues have been studying the effects of systematic variations in dietary protein and energy intake on the growth, metabolism, physiology and behavior of low birth weight infants. The results from these studies produced accurate predictive equations and have raised interesting new hypotheses concerning early nutritional intake of these infants, their growth and neurobehavioral development. Evidence from these studies and the work of others, indicates that very low birth weight infants (<1250 g) incur a cumulative deficit in nitrogen stores during the early days and weeks of life due to inadequate nitrogen availability and/or retention. Given the uncertain neurodevelopmental outcome for these small infants and the likelihood that some of this deficit may be attributable to nutritional factors, Dr. Kashyap has just completed a study evaluating the effects of aggressive nitrogen supplementation during the first days and weeks of life on acute macronutrient retention, growth rate, composition of weight gain and protein nutritional status during subsequent enteral feeds and on neurodevelopmental performance at 18 months.

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Ganga Krishnamurthy, MD

Academic Title(s):

Garrett Isaac Neubauer Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Neonatal Cardiac Care
Attending Physician

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 342-1316
Fax: (212) 305-8796
Email: gk2008@columbia.edu

Education

Mysore University, Mysore, India, M.B.B.S., 1990

Postgraduate Training

Residency, Infant and Children's Hospital of Brooklyn at Maimonides Medical Center, New York, NY, 2001
Fellowship, Neonatology: Columbia University, 2004
Senior Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care, Children's Hospital, Boston, 2005

Awards and Honors:

Physician of the Year award nominee, 2011
Physician of the Year award nominee, 2009
Neubauer Award, Pediatric cardiac intensive care, 2004-2006
Milton Singer Award for academic excellence in Neonatology, 2003
Sassine Rahi Award for Excellence in Neonatology, 2001
Best Graduating Resident in Pediatrics, 2000
Robert Gilmore Award, AAP in-training Examination, 2000

Interests/Specialties

Neonatal Cardiac Physiology
Catecholamine resistant hypotension in neonates after congenital heart surgery
Brain monitoring in the neonate
Non-invasive monitoring of tissue perfusion
Neurodevelopment outcomes in infants with congenital heart disease

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John M. Lorenz, MD

Academic Title(s):

Director of Clinical Research, Division of Neonatology and Perinatology
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Attending Physician

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 305-5827
Fax: (212) 305-7086
Email: jl1084@columbia.edu

Education

University of Cincinnati, BS, 1972 University of Cincinnati, MD, 1976

Postgraduate Training

Residency, Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati), 1976-1979
Fellowship, University of Cincinnati, 1979-1981

Awards and Honors:

Phi Beta Kappa, University of Cincinnati, 1972
Magna Cum Laude, University of Cincinnat, 1972
Roche Award, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, 1974
Alpha Omega Alpha, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, 1975
Peter T. Kilgour Prize (awarded to the graduating student who, in work and character, best expresses the ideals of medicine), College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati 1976
Miracle Maker Award (Honoring exceptional children's physicians), Children's Miracle Network, Sparrow Hospital, Lansing, Michigan, 1995
Accepted as a life member of the/ National Registry of Who's Who ( http://www.bestdoctors.com ), 1999

Interests/Specialties

F & E management
Thermal management
Bioethics
Developmental renal and fluid and electrolyte physiology
Long-term outcomes of newborn intensive care
Decision making in the NICU

Learn more about Dr. Lorenz

Dr. Lorenz is a member (and past chair) of the NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital Ethics Committee, a member of the Columbia University Medical Center Ethics Committee, and a Faculty Associate in the Center for Bioethics at Columbia University. His outcomes research focuses on quantifying the long-term outcomes of the extremely premature infant and exploring the effect of differences in the application of intensive care on these outcomes. Another focus is how varying methods of presenting relevant information to parents influence parental decisions regarding the initiation/continuation of intensive care.

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Kristina Orfali, PhD

Academic Title(s):

Associate Clinical Professor of Bioethics in Pediatrics

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 305-6561
Fax: (212) 305-8796
Email: ko2145@columbia.edu

Education

Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, 1976
Diplôme de l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, 1979
Ph.D. in Social Sciences, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1997

Interests/Specialties

Bioethics
Long-term outcomes of newborn intensive care
Decision making in the NICU
Parents perspective

Learn more about Dr. Orfali

Dr. Orfali is a Faculty Associate at the Center for Bioethics and a Research Scholar at Institute for Social and Economic Research and policy (ISERP). She has published work in a cross cultural perspective on patient's hospital experiences and on clinician and family decision making in intensive care units. Her more recent work focuses on ethical dilemmas and international variations in medical prognosis in neonatology, a particular emphasis being put on the links between decision theory and empirical results. Another line of research, pursued with colleagues form behavioral sciences, relates to the negative psychological consequences of choice in life and death contexts. She is a co-editor of the book The View From Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences (Blackwell, 2007). Before joining Columbia, K. Orfali has been an Assistant Professor in Medicine and Assistant Director at the MacLean Center for Clinical Ethics a the University of Chicago and Directeur de Recherches at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France. As an ethicist she is a member of the Morgan Stanley CHONY ethics committee.

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Elvira Parravicini, MD

Academic Title(s):

Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Neonatal Attending

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 305-0955
Fax: (212) 305-8796
Email: ep127@columbia.edu

Education

Liceo Classico at Monza, Milano, Italy, 1975
University of Milan, Italy, MD, 1981

Postgraduate Training

Residency, University of Milan, Italy, 1985
Residency, New York University, 1998
Fellowship, University of Milan, Italy, 1987
Fellowship, Columbia University, 2001

Awards and Honors:

The Milton Singer memorial fellowship award, Columbia University, 1999

Interests/Specialties

Prenatal diagnosis and postnatal treatment of infants with congenital anomalies
Acute renal failure in low birth weight infants

Learn more about Dr. Parravicini

Dr. Parravicini is a team member of Prenatal Pediatrics, whose aim is caring for babies with abnormalities before and after birth with neonatal and long-term pediatric follow-up. During the weekly multidisciplinary Prenatal Pediatrics conference each patients unique situation is presented and discussed to develop a consistent plan for the best management of the pregnancy, delivery and newborn care. Dr Parravicini's primary interest is following infants who have been prenatally diagnosed with a potential lethal malformation. Her interventions include at first the communication to the parents of the neonatal prognosis when the diagnosis has been established. As the pregnancy progresses, other meetings are planned to provide adequate understanding of the condition of the fetus, to develop a delivery plan in collaboration with the obstetrician and to propose a plan of comfort care for the newborn. The focus of compassionate care is to provide the most comfortable and loving environment to an infant whose life is presumably very short. Essential points in the infants management are providing warmth, hydration and pain control. According to the length of life of the infant and the familys desire, different options are presented and include: rooming in with parents and family members and discharge home with hospice care support, or admission to the NICU for compassionate care, or transfer to a perinatal hospice facility.

Dr. Parravicini has been working on kidney development. Currently her major focus is the study of urine NGAL (Neutrophil Gelatinase Associated Lipocalin) as an early biomarker of acute renal failure in very low birth weight infants. Please see her research profile.

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Tara Randis, MD

Academic Title(s):

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 305-8500 Lab# (212) 342-2902
Fax: (212) 305-8796
Email: tmr2103@columbia.edu

Education

University of Scranton, BA Biology, 1996
MCP Hahnemann University School of Medicine, Philadelphia PA, MD, 2000

Postgraduate Training

Residency, St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, 2004
Fellowship, Columbia University, 2007

Awards and Honors:

Milton Singer Memorial Fellowship Award (2006), Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University, NY American Academy of Pediatrics, Neonatal Resuscitation Program: Young Investigator Grant (2005)

Interests/Specialties

Role of Gardnerella vaginalis in preterm birth
Hypoxic-ischemic brain injury

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Veniamin Ratner, MD

Academic Title(s):

Assistant Professor in Pediatrics

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 342-0503
Fax: (212) 305-0956
Email: vr158@columbia.edu

Education

Donetsk Medical University, Ukraine, MD, 1987

Postgraduate Training

Residency, Nassau County Medical Center, East Meadow, NY, 1997-2000
Fellowship, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/ Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, 2002-05

Interests/Specialties

Neonatal cardiology
ECMO and EXIT interventions
Animal models of neonatal lung diseases
Link between lung development, injury, repair and mitochondrial dysfunction.

Learn more about Dr. Ratner

Dr. Ratner's primary clinical interest is clinical management of infants with congenital heart disease. He is also a member of the multidisciplinary team (obstetrician, neonatologist, pediatric surgeon, anesthesiologist) for the EXIT procedure, which performed for the delivery of neonates with divers pathologies involving compromised or high risk for difficulties to intubate upon the delivery. During EXIT procedure infant initially is delivering via C-section with uninterrupted Fetal-placental circulation and only when airway is secured by intubation or tracheostomy, infant delivery is completed.

Dr.Ratner's research interest is to investigate mechanisms of pulmonary development, interactions between developing pulmonary tissue and divers stress factors, role of cellular bioenergetics in the process of lung development.

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Tove Rosen, MD

Academic Title(s):

Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Neonatology Attending

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 305-8500
Fax: (212) 305-8796
Email: tsr1@columbia.edu

Education

University of Rochester, BA, 1961
SUNY Downstate Medical Center School of Medicine, MD, 1965

Postgraduate Training

Internship, St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital Center, 1966
Residency, St. Lukes/Roosevelt Medical Center, 1970
Fellowship, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 1974

Interests/Specialties

Perinatal pharmacology and follow-up
Brain imaging and neurobehavioral development
Neonatal pain management

Learn more about Dr. Rosen

Dr. Rosen's major area of interest is perinatal pharmacology and follow-up. She has extensive experience in brain imaging and neurobehavioral development of infants born to mothers on drugs of abuse during pregnancy. She is also interested in brain imaging and neurobehavioral development of infants of mothers with a history of depression and the premature infant. Additional interests include neonatal pain management. Dr. Rosen is collaborating with members of the Department of Pharmacology in the use of gene therapy in cardiac arrhythmias in an animal model. Dr. Rosen is also a member of the CPMC IRB and Pediatric Bioethics Committee.

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S. David Rubenstein, MD

Academic Title(s):

Director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Director, Fellowship Training Program in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Medical Director, Physician Extender Program
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Attending Physician

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 305-8500
Fax: (212) 305-8796
Email: Sdr26@columbia.edu

Education

Syracuse University, AB Psychology, 1966
Chicago Medical School, MD, 1970

Postgraduate Training

Residency, St. Christophers Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, PA, 1971
Fellowship, Fellow in Clinical Neonatology, The Pennsylvania Hospital and Research Fellow in Perinatal Physiology, The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1973-1975

Interests/Specialties

Respiratory physiology
Respiratory mechanics
Respiratory gas exchange

Learn more about Dr. Rubenstein

Dr. Rubenstein was one of the original team members, with Drs. Tom Shaffer and Marla Wolfson, to investigate pulmonary mechanics, respiratory gas exchange and acid-base balance in preterm lambs during ventilation with perfluorochemical liquids (Pediatric Research 1976) and was the clinician responsible for bringing liquid ventilation of preterm babies into the clinical arena (Lancet 1989), thereby promoting many clinical research protocols. Other interests include neonatal cardiac intensive care, bilirubin metabolism, general neonatal intensive care and mentoring young physicians into the field of academic neonatal medicine.

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Rakesh Sahni, MD

Academic Title(s):

Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Attending Neonatologist

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 305-9743
Fax: (212) 305-8796
Email: rs62@columbia.edu

Education

Maulana Azad Medical College (New Delhi, India), MBBS 1983
Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (Dublin, Ireland), MRCP(I) 1987
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (Glasgow, United Kingdom), DCH 1988

Postgraduate Training

Residency, St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital, 1990
Fellowship, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 1993

Interests/Specialties

Neonatal physiology and behavior
Effects of sleep position in developing low birth weight infants
Sudden infant death syndrome
Invasive and non-invasive monitoring in newborn infants

Learn more about Dr. Sahni

Dr. Sahni is a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Director of the Infant Physiology Laboratory at the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian. After earning his medical degree from Maulana Azad Medical College, University of Delhi in India, he did pediatric residency training in India, United Kingdom and United States. He further completed fellowship training in neonatal-perinatal medicine at Columbia University in 1993 and has been on faculty since.

Dr. Sahni's major area of interest is neonatal physiology and behavior. The broad goals of research in his laboratory are to understand the physiological basis of various processes during the neonatal period. Investigations of how do these processes alter cardiorespiratory activity, thermal regulation and neurobehavioral organization in extremely low birth weight infants during the early stages of development, what are the acute physiological effects of various interventions such as nutrition and postural alteration and long-term effects of early nutritional experiences in very low birth weight infant pertaining to cardiovascular, metabolic, and cognitive alterations at the resting level and stimulus responsiveness of the maturing sympathetic nervous system are of special interest. Working in collaboration with researchers from the Department of Developmental Neuroscience, he is studying the interactive relationships among body position during sleep, body temperature and cardiorespiratory and neuroelectric activity in the regulation of cardiovascular function during early development of low birth weight infants with the long-term objectives of elucidating physiologic vulnerabilities that may underlie sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and to develop age-appropriate, non-invasive tests that will identify infants who are at the greatest risk for SIDS. His interests also include continuous invasive and non-invasive physiological monitoring during neonatal intensive care in preterm and term infants. He has published over 50 original papers and more than 65 abstracts and is a recipient of several grant awards.

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Raymond I. Stark, MD

Academic Title(s):

Director and Principal Investigator: Perinatal Emphasis Research Center from the NICHD
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Attending

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 305-0954
Fax: (212) 305-0956
Email: ris2@columbia.edu

Education

Columbia College, BA, 1962
Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, MD, 1971

Postgraduate Training

Residency, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1971-73

Interests/Specialties

Animal research

Learn more about Dr. Stark

At the present time, Dr. Stark, director of the animal research facility, is studying chronically instrumented fetal baboons. Comprehensive and sophisticated measurements are used to track the fetal baboon response to controlled maternal hypoxia. Of particular interest is effect of hypoxia on the development of cardiorespiratory control. Measurements of fetal breathing, fetal heart rate and heart rate variability and fetal EEG are made continuously during the last two to four weeks of gestation during steady-state resting behavior and during a number of experimental interventions. Dr. Stark is also studying the physiology of neurohypophyseal peptide hormones using a chronic sheep preparation with catheters placed in the ventricles of the brain. Changes in the level of such hormones as vasopressin and corticotropin-releasing factor are monitored under a number of rigidly controlled conditions.

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Vadim S. Ten, MD, PhD

Academic Title(s):

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 342-0075
Fax: (212) 305-8796
Email: vt82@columbia.edu

Education

Minsk State Medical Institute (Minsk, Belarus), MD, 1984

Postgraduate Training

Residency, Maimonides Medical Center (Brooklyn, USA), 1999
Fellowship, Columbia University Medical Center (New York, USA), 2002

Awards and Honors:

Bennet-Silvermann Young Investigator Award (Columbia University)
Young Investigator Award at the International Congress "New Frontiers in Neonatology," Austria
Assistant Professor Basic Science Research Award (Columbia University)

Interests/Specialties

Mechanisms of ischemic damage in the developing tissue.
Animal models of neonatal diseases: hypoxic-ischemic brain injury and alveolar developmental arrest.
Cellular bioenergetic and mitochondrial dysfunction as a potential mechanism in neonatal diseases resulting in organs developmental failure.

Learn more about Dr. Ten

Clinical: Dr. Ten's major interest is clinical management of compromised tissue oxygen delivery in critically ill newborn infants.
Research: Dr. Ten is a leading investigator in the divisional core-laboratory of developmental biology. Dr. Ten's research interests are focused on understanding of mechanisms contributing to cerebral and pulmonary developmental delay in response to exposure to hypoxia-ischemia, hyperoxia and inflammation. His group investigates developmentally defined changes in cellular bioenergetics during pathological insults in brain and lungs. Dr. Ten is a recipient of several honors for his work: Bennet-SilvermannYoung Investigator Award (Columbia University),Young Investigator Award at the International Congress "New Frontiers in Neonatology," Austria and Assistant Professor Basic Science Research Award (Columbia University).

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Helen M. Towers, LRCP & SI, MBBCh

Academic Title(s):

Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Attending Physician
Associate Medical Director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 305-7822
Fax: (212) 305-8796
Email: hmt4@columbia.edu

Education

Royal College of Surgeons, LRCP & SI, MB, BCh 1983

Postgraduate Training

Internship, St. Laurence's Hospital - Dublin, 1984
Residency, St. Vincents Hospital and Medical Center of New York, 1990
Fellowship, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 1995

Interests/Specialties

Nutrition
Energy balance

Learn more about Dr. Towers

Dr. Towers is a clinical neonatologist with interest in nutrition and energy balance, and has collaborated in research and published on these topics. She has collaborated in research and published on these topics. She has collaborated in a recent study investigating the prevalence of auditory neuropathy in NICU graduates. She is a member of the Pediatric Department of Ethics and Bereavement committees, and continues as Pediatrics Liaison to the Graduate Medical Education office.

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Kimon Violaris, MD

Academic Title(s):

Director, Well Baby Nursery
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Attending Physician

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 305-3202
Fax: (212) 305-8796
Email: kv2145@columbia.edu

Education

University of Athens, Greece, MD, 1973

Postgraduate Training

Residency, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, 1978-1980
Fellowship, SUNY/Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, 1980-1982
Fellowship, The New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center, New York, 1986-1988

Interests/Specialties

The late preterm infant
Infant apnea
Neonatal cardiology and vascular blood flow

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Gloria D. Wiseman, MD, FAAP

Academic Title(s):

Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Attending Physician

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 304-5635
Email: gw56@columbia.edu

Education

City College of the City University of New York, BS, 1977
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, MD, 1981

Postgraduate Training

Pediatric Residency, New York University Medical Center, 1981 – 1984
Fellowship, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Babies Hospital, 1984-1986
Research Fellowship, Allergy/Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1988-1991

Awards and Honors

2011 Clinical Documentation Program Award, September 26, 2011

Interests/Specialties

Developmental/Neonatal Immunology
Infectious Diseases
Gastroesophageal Reflux
Diuretic role in weaning off nasal CPAP

Jen-Tien Wung, MD, FCCM

Academic Title(s):

Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 342-8668
Email: jw32@columbia.edu

Education

Taipei Medical University, MD, 1966

Postgraduate Training

Residency, Columbia University Medical Center, 1973
Fellowship, Babies Hospital, New York, 1974

Awards and Honors:

1979 Teacher of the Year Award, Department of Pediatrics
First prize in 2nd International Video Congress, "The Newborn Through Pictures," Turin, Italy
"Thank God for Jen Wung Award" from Neonatal Parents' Support Network, September 17, 1995
Distinguished Citizen Award (in Medicine), Yi-Ju, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, March 11, 2000
The First Annual Physician of the Year Award, Columbia Presbyterian Medical CenterDepartment of Nursing, November 9, 2000
Outstanding Achievement Award, American Chinese Medical Association of New Jersey, November 5, 2005
2011 Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Taiwan Society of Neonatology

Interests/Specialties

Neonatal intensive care medicine and respiratory care
Gentler and kinder ventilation with preservation of spontaneous breathing
Permissive hypercarbia
The management of infants with PPHN without hyperventilation
Congenital diaphragmatic hernia infants with gentle ventilation, delayed surgery and no prophylactic chest tubes

Learn more about Dr. Wung

Dr. Wung is a pioneer in bubble nasal CPAP therapy and inventor of nasal prong CPAP system (Hudson) and Oxyscope. Dr. Wung as delivered more than 200 lectures related to neonatal respiratory care in over 20 countries. He also serves as course director of annual conferences on Respiratory Care of the Newborn-A Practical Approach at Columbia University in New York since 1988.