Our Faculty

Program Leadership

• Aracelis D. Fernandez, M, FAAP
  • Director of Pediatrics
  • Director, Family Care Center
• Sundari Periasamy, MD
  • Associate Director, Department of Pediatrics
  • Director, Pediatric Residency Program
• Audrie Anne L. Lazaga, MD                                                
  • Associate Director, Pediatric Residency Program
  • Site Co-director, Pediatric Clerkship, Columbia VP&S

Primary Care Pediatrics

• Benjamin Aubey, MD, MPH
  • Attending, Pediatrics
• Ngozi Nweze, MD
  • Attending, Pediatrics
• Averil Weir, MD
  • Attending, Pediatrics
  • Site Co-director, Pediatric Clerkship, Columbia VP&S
• Gozen Tuysuzoglu, MD
  • Attending, Pediatrics
  • Allergy and Immunology
• Audrie Anne L. Lazaga, MD      
  • Attending, Pediatrics
• Elaine Dinolfo, MD
  • Attending, Pediatrics
• Sundari Periasamy, MD
  • Director, Pediatrics Residency Program
• Seth Roncoroni, MD
  • Attending, Pediatrics
• Hridya Suman, MD
  • Attending, Pediatrics
  • Pediatric Nephrology

Newborn Medicine

• Umesh Paudel, MD
  • Director of Newborn Services 
• Clariss Blanco, MD
  • Neonatologist
• Anil Pathak, MD
  • Neonatologist
• Xavier Ameer, MD
  • Neonatologist

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

• David Mortel, MD
  • Director, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
• Maysoun Majanni, MD
  • Attending, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
• Adam Shore, MD
  • Attending, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
• Alexie Puran, MD
  • Attending, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
• Shelly Waldman, MD
  • Attending, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
• Haralambos Damanakis, MD
  • Attending, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
• Vicky Kuo, MD
  • Attending, Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Pediatric Critical Care

• Melissa Grageda, MD, FAAP
  • Director, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
• Sumon Das, MD, FAAP
  • Pediatric Critical Care
• Elia Rackovsky, MD, FAAP
  • Pediatric Critical Care

Pediatric Surgery

• Arthur Cooper, MD
  • Director, Pediatric Surgery
• David Friedman, MD
  • Pediatric Surgeon

Adolescent Medicine

• Diana Aschettino, MD
  • Adolescent Medicine

Development and Behavior​

• Douglas Waite, MD (Metropolitan Hospital)
  • Attending, Development and Behavior

Pediatric Cardiology

• Manoj Gupta, MD
  • Pediatric Cardiologist

Pediatric Infectious Diseases

• Aracelis Fernandez, MD
  • Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist

Pediatric Endocrinology

• Abeer Hassoun, MD
  • Pediatric Endocrinologist

Pediatric Genetics​

• Nelly Jouayed-Oundijian, MD
  • Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics & Pediatric Geneticist

Pediatric Hematology and Oncology​

• Erin Ramoutar, MD
  • Pediatric Hematology Oncologist

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

• Erva Khan, MD
  • ​​​​​​​Child Psychiatrist
• Chidinma Okani, MD
  • ​​​​​​​Child Psychiatrist

Pediatric Orthopedics

• Dayna Phillips, MD
  • Attending Physician, Pediatric Orthopedics

Pediatric Pulmonology

• Nooralam Rai, MD
  • Pediatric Pulmonologist
• Stephanie Lovinsky-Desir, MD
  • Pediatric Pulmonologist

Pediatric Rheumatology

• Lisa Imundo, MD
  • Pediatric Rheumatology

Pediatric Ophthalmology

• Sonali Talsania, MD
  • Pediatric Ophthalmologist

Pediatric Neurology

• Gabor Szuhay, MD
  • Pediatric Neurologist

Pediatric Radiologist

• Richard Hong, MD
  • Pediatric Radiologist

 Pediatric Gastroenterology

• Padmini Nallapaneni, MD
  • Pediatric Gastroenterologist