Marina Catallozzi: New Interim Chair for Pediatrics

Marina Catallozzi, MD, associate professor of pediatrics and population and family health and executive vice chair and vice chair for education in the Department of Pediatrics, has been appointed interim chair of the Department of Pediatrics. She has served as the pediatric clerkship director and the director of pediatric medical student education at VP&S since 2016.

Dr. Catallozzi is an adolescent medicine specialist and board certified in both pediatrics and adolescent medicine. Her research has focused on adolescent and young adult access to confidential and clinical preventive services, adolescent relationship violence, adolescent and parent communication and decision-making in clinical trial participation, and adolescent pregnancy prevention.

Jordan Orange, MD, PhD, the Reuben S. Carpentier Professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics and physician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, is leaving Columbia for a new role as pediatrician-in-chief of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.