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This Week In Pediatrics
Weill Cornell Medicine Department of Pediatrics
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RSV This Year: Clinician Insights and Urgent Vaccination Strategies
Dr. Sallie Permar, one of the panelists, discussed the significance of ensuring that children receive the vaccine and the necessity to keep promoting vaccinations that may be administered to young children in a safe manner. Access to vaccines may result in preventable intensive care unit admission. Read full article here!
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Protecting Children from RSV
Dr. Sean Cullen shares a moving personal story to raise awareness about new tools to prevent RSV. He is encouraging everyone to take advantage of new tools that will help reduce the risk of a disease that results in nearly 80,000 hospitalizations of children each year. Read full article here!
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Castle Connolly 2024 Top Doctors | |
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We're delighted to celebrate our 15 Department of Pediatrics providers below who have been honored as 2024 Top Doctors by Castle Connolly! This noteworthy
recognition is particularly special as it is peer-nominated, a testament to the
high regard and esteem within the medical community. This honor is
reserved for the top 7% of physicians who have demonstrated unparalleled
expertise, dedication, and impact in the field of healthcare. A heartfelt
congratulations to them for this remarkable achievement!
As a reminder, Castle Connelly nominations are accepted on a rolling basis and physicians are encouraged to nominate peers. The nomination link is listed here!
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Dr. Bernhard Kühn Named Chief of the Division of Cardiology in Pediatrics
Dr. Kühn, a leading physician-scientist who specializes in heart regeneration, has been named chief of the Division of Cardiology in the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children’s Hospital, effective February 1, 2024. In his role as chief, Dr. Kühn will lead a skilled team of physicians and scientists committed to enhancing the Division of Pediatric Cardiology’s clinical care, education, and research programs that aim to improve cardiac health in children. He will lead the new Pediatric Institute for Heart Regeneration and Therapeutics which will focus on pediatric myocardial growth and regeneration and the goal of turning research findings into new therapies for cardiac patients. Dr. Kühn will also serve as co-director of the NewYork-Presbyterian Children’s Heart Center, a collaboration between NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children’s Hospital and NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital.
Read more here!
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Dr. David Kalfa Named Site Chief for Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
The Weill Cornell Medicine Department of Pediatrics is pleased to welcome Dr. Kalfa as the Site Chief for Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children's Hospital, where he will work with our department to further grow the cardiac program across Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
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Dr. Omar Abdul-Rahman Named Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Professor of Pediatrics
Dr. Abdul-Rahman, a leading specialist in pediatric genetic medicine and chief of the Division of Medical Genetics in the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children’s Hospital, has been named the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Professor of Pediatrics.
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NIH Awards $1.8M Education Grant for Weill Cornell Medicine's First Post-Baccalaureate Research Program
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health has awarded Weill Cornell Medicine a $1.8 million five-year grant to fund a new post-baccalaureate research education program that aims to cultivate scientists and physician-scientists who hail from groups traditionally underrepresented in science and medicine.
Advancing Success and Persistence in Research Education, or ASPiRE, will support college graduates who hope to attend professional and graduate school. The program will train four scholars each year for the first three years, and five scholars in years four and five. The program’s duration is designed to be flexible to the individual needs of the scholars, though ideally will last 12 months.
Drs. Joy Howell and Genevieve Fouda will serve as principal investigators!
Read more here!
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Chief Resident Nominations!
We are seeking nominations from the faculty for chief residents for the 2025-2026 academic year. The chief resident in the Department of Pediatrics serves as a leader, educator, and administrator and contributes significantly to the well-being of the program. The nominees must be current PGY2s.
Please submit nominations by February 2nd at 5pm EST by clicking here!
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Dr. David Lyden is a recipient of the Metastasis Research Society Paget-Ewing Award! The highest honor given by the Metastasis Research Society which recognizes a person’s scientific excellence and substantial contributions to the understanding and/or control of cancer metastasis. Read more here! | | | |
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Dr. TJ Jirasevijinda received the Dalio Center for Health Justice Service Line Award for $10,000 to support his study to promote health equity through culturally sensitive care and effective communication.
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Dr. Lisa Roth was elected to the 2023 American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI). The ASCI is a nonprofit medical honor society composed of more than 3,000 physician-scientists representing all medical specialties. The Society is dedicated to the advancement of research that extends understanding of diseases and improves treatment, and members are committed to mentoring future generations of physician-scientists.
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Dr. Claire Otero received the 2023 Michelson Prize by the Michelson Medical Research Foundation and the Human Immunome Project for her proposal entitled Viral Fc receptors as vaccine antigens for prevention of congenital CMV.
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Dr. Isabella Kong received the competitive America Cancer Society Fellowship Award for her project Targeting Latency Switch for the Treatment of EBV-Associated Lymphomas. | | | |
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Dr. Beemnet Neway (PGY2 Resident)
was a recipient of the Frontiers of Science award. The International Congress for Basic Science honors top research, with an emphasis on achievements from the past five years which are both excellent and of outstanding scholarly value, making the selection process extremely rigorous. The goal of this award is to encourage young scholars to look to the frontiers of basic science, set goals to obtain breakthrough results as early as possible, and contribute wisdom and energy to humankind's study of the mysteries of the natural world.
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Dr. Elliott Gordon (Gastroenterology Fellow)
was awarded the Graduate Staff of the Month for January 2024 for his outstanding performance and commitment to patient care at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
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Dr. Cynthia Perez (Neonatology Fellow)
was awarded the Graduate Staff of the Month for December 2023 for her outstanding performance and commitment to patient care at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
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Dr. Sean Cullen was named a finalist in the Eastern Society for Pediatric Research Abbott Nutrition Junior Faculty Young Investigator Session for their upcoming annual meeting in Philadelphia on March 7-9th, 2024. His talk is entitled The role of KHDC3 & Small RNA in the Epigenetic Inheritance of Obesity. | | | |
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Dr. Emily Ahn's project on Decreasing Neonatal Mortality with Interventions Initiated during Labor, at Birth, and through the Golden Hour has been approved for funding as part of the Thrasher Research Fund Early Career Award Program. | | | |
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Dr. Hannah Kim was awarded the the Pediatric Nephrology Research Consortium Grant by NephCure for her study entitled The Role of Sex Hormones in Chronic Kidney Disease. | | | |
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Pediatric Fellows' Research in Progress takes place on the 4th Thursday of each month. Third and Second year fellows present their ongoing academic scholarship work. This month's presenters were:
Dr. Jheel Pandya (3rd Year Rheumatology Fellow)
Talk: The Clinical Relevance of Different Antiphospholipid Antibody Profiles in Pediatric Rheumatology Patients
Dr. Jennifer Schloss (2nd Year Hematology/Oncology Fellow)
Talk: Investigating Antigen Presentation and the Immune Microenvironment in Fusion-Driven Pediatric Sarcoma
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Farewell to the NewPubs report, hello to ReCiter Publication Manager!
NewPubs is replaced with a more advanced reporting tool: ReCiter Publication Manager. ReCiter is a web application that compiles publications from PubMed for a broad spectrum of our Weill Cornell Medicine community. This includes faculty, postdocs, residents, MD students, doctoral students, and members of the CTSC. Not only is the data updated daily, but the publication lists can also be filtered by first or last author, sorted according to the Journal Impact Factor, and exported as a spreadsheet or as a Word document. Moreover, it provides h-index, h5-index, and NIH citation metrics, and for our full-time faculty, an automatically generated bibliometric report is available. For those connected to the network or using VPN, you can access ReCiter here!
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Click here to view publications by faculty members published in the last 30 days! | | |
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Dr. Denis Donovan was featured in NewYork-Presbyterian Advances for stressing the importance of cardiovascular screening to help protect young athletes before they hit the court, rink, or field. Read full article here!
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Dr. Marisa Censani was highlighted on Yahoo! Life for her advice on how parents should discuss weight with their kids. By providing readers and parents with suggestions for an active, healthier lifestyle, Dr. Censani's advice was extremely beneficial. Read full article here!
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Dr. Marisa Censani served as the Keynote Speaker and presented on Childhood and Adolescent Obesity: Guidelines and Challenges at the 5th Annual Pediatric Advanced Practice Provider Conference: Best Practice, Best Care hosted by Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. | | | |
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Dr. Jane Chang was interviewed for NYP Health Matters regarding iron deficiency at every stage of life. She explains why people may need more of this essential mineral, how to recognize symptoms of iron deficiency, and ways to treat it. Read full article here!
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Dr. Joy Howell presented at the Department of Pediatrics Professors Rounds on Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Bias along with Ashley Rondini, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Franklin and Marshall College.
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Dr. Ducan Hau, gave Grand Rounds at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens on January 25, 2024, on Child Health and Mortality Around the World.
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Dr. Rebecca Miller's (Neonatology Fellow) project on Evaluating the Impact of Briefing on Neonatal Resuscitation Performance, Teamwork, and Cognitive Load has been accepted for Poster Presentation at the 24th International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH 2024). | | | |
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Harboring Hearts, a NYC-based organization, provides emergency housing, transportation, food, and emotional support programming to cardiac surgery as well as cardiac, liver, and pediatric kidney transplant patients and their families. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has been a proud partner of Harboring Hearts since 2009.
The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit have referred Harboring Hearts to both their pediatric cardiology patients and pediatric nephrology patients with financial and food insecurity. They ask that providers and staff spread the word to their patients about this service. To learn more, click here!
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9th Annual ITS SMARTFest
Date: February 1, 2024
Time: 10:30am-3:30pm
Location: Samuel J. Wood Library & Griffis Faculty Club
Read more HERE!
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State of the Department
Sallie R. Permar, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of PediatricsNancy C. Paduano Professor in Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine
Professor of Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis, Weill Cornell Graduate School
Pediatrician-in-Chief, NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Date: February 6, 2024
Time: 12-1pm
Location: Hybrid | Uris Auditorium | Zoom Link
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2024 Gale and Ira Drukier Lecture in Children's Health
Date: February 13, 2024
Time: 3-5pm
Location: Belfer Research Building
Register HERE!
Featured Speakers:
Carola Vinuesa, MD, The Francis Crick Institute
Sumit Gupta, MD, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, University of Toronto
The Gale and Ira Drukier Lecture in Children’s Health was established in 2014 by the Drukier Institute and highlights research and discoveries that have contributed to exceptional advances in the field of pediatric health.
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Valentine's Day Hot Coco Social
Join us for hot chocolate & music!
Date: February 14, 2024
Time/Locations: Peds Library (1-4pm)
DHK-15-15094 (3-4pm)
HT350 (1-4:40pm)
***First 10 guests at each site will receive a FREE mug****
Homemade or store bought snacks are welcome!
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Weill Cornell/NYP Pediatric IBD Transition to College Night
The Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology is asking physicians to inform their patients about this free event on how high school students with inflammatory bowel disease can manage their condition as they prepare to enter college.
Date: March 6, 2024
Time: 6:30pm-9:00pm
Location: Belfer Research Building 302A
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Pediatric Book Club:
The Covenant of Water
Date: March 11, 2024
Time: 12-1pm
Location: Zoom
Everyone Invited: Please join us for the next book club – The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret.
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Mentoring Meetings with MAC (MM&M)
Meet with senior faculty member, Dr. Katherine Hajjar for career guidance and mentorship.
The MAC member series aims to provide early-career faculty with an opportunity to meet with senior faculty for career guidance and to promote interdepartmental relationships between faculty.
Date: April 3, 2024
Time: 12-1pm
Location: TBA
Register HERE!
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This month we recognize Katherine Bergstrom (Senior Genetic Counselor) for being an exceptional colleague who has found her calling. She consistently demonstrates effective leadership, compassion for her patients, and always leads with empathy and understanding. Anyone who knows her feels lucky to be heard and understood by her! Thank you for all you do, Katie!
Share your appreciation for colleagues by submitting a shout-out for inclusion in the department newsletter here!
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