Dr. MacKenzi Preston will named Associate Director for the Margaret and Ian Smith Clinical Skills Center. She will be working alongside Dr. Sydney Katz, Director for the Margaret and Ian Smith Clinical Skills Center.

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. Stay tuned for next month's presenters.

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Dr. Zenna Solomon (Pulmonology Fellow) was awarded the 2024 Pediatric Pulmonary Training Directors Association (PEPTDA) Award at this year’s ATS International Conference in San Diego, California and presented her poster for her work on Blood Sphingolipids as an Early Predictor of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia.

The ECMO Program for Adults and Pediatrics has been awarded the ELSO Award for Excellence in Life Support – Gold Level for the second time around!

Dr. Omar Abdul-Rahman

Considering screening for hereditary cancer syndromes at the time of obstetrical prenatal carrier screening in Cancer 

Dr. Zeynep Bahadir

Pediatric intramedullary spinal cord tumors: A national cancer database analysis of demographics, patterns of care, and survival

Dr. Shipra Kaicker

What's in a name: defining pediatric refractory ITP

Dr. Nicole Kucine

Increased frequency of clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential in Bloom syndrome probands and carriers

Dr. Camilia Martin

Establishing feasibility and reliability of subcutaneous fat measurements by ultrasound in very preterm infants.

Dr. Sallie Permar

Longer interval between maternal RSV vaccination and birth increases placental transfer efficiency

Dr. Sujit Sheth

Anemia and iron overload as prognostic markers of outcomes in β-thalassemia

Dr. Patrick Wilson

Preliminary findings from the Dynamics of the Immune Responses to Repeat Influenza Vaccination Exposures (DRIVE I) Study: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Summer Wellness Initiatives

No Meetings on Fridays in August

We understand the importance of having uninterrupted time to focus on your tasks and personal development and well-being.

Professional Development Guidelines - Update for FY2025

To simplify the process for everyone, we will no longer require receipts for meals covered under the Professional Development allowance under the Professional Development Policy.

Complimentary Hotel Stays 

The department is excited to offer complimentary hotel rooms based on availability and with approval of their Division Chiefs to faculty who are in need an overnight stay in the city due to inpatient clinical duties. Any requests, approved by your Division Chief, need to be sent to PedsChairAdmin@med.cornell.edu one week in advance of the intended stay. If space is available (we have a limited number of rooms/month), you will be contacted with further details.

Faculty Wellness Survey

We kindly ask you to take a few moments to complete our Faculty Wellness Survey. Your insights will help us better understand your current needs and improve our wellness initiatives.

In an interview with PBS News, Dr. Sallie Permar discussed the persistent lack of pediatric specialists in fields such as neurology and pulmonology. She warns that missing early treatment and prevention of diseases can mean more problems and higher costs down the road. Watch the entire interview here!

Dr. Permar was also featured in Medscape in a live social media event to exchange information and opinions about where we are on the journey of protecting the fetus from congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV). Watch video here!

Dr. Miriam Samstein and Dr. Vivien Yap will begin their term as the early-career General Faculty Council representative for Pediatrics immediately. They will be in regular communication with faculty to share topics of interest and concern to solicit your opinion to communicate back to the Council and, through them, to the administrative leadership.

Dr. Jennifer Salant runs for NYP and Pediatric Palliative Care to raise support for palliative care programming. Read full article here!

Drs. Thomas Ciecierega, Robbyn Sockolow and Aliza Solomon presented at the prestigious international scientific congress in Oslo, Norway on June 21-22, 2024.

Dr. Katharina Graw-Panzer held the first virtual NYP Sleep Summit, featuring “Sleep Across All Ages,” a collaboration of the adult and pediatric sleep center at WCM, which was a great success with excellent speakers and attendees from all campuses.

Check out the international taskforce and action plan that Drs. Sallie Permar and Genevieve Fouda have been involved in to bring prophylactic immunization for HIV to infants across the globe. Read more here!

Dr. Catalina Acosta (Pulmonology Fellow) gave a podium presentation of her research on Untargeted Metabolomic Profiling Identifies Potential Disease-Specific Biomarkers in Urban Children with Obesity-related Asthma at the American Thoracic Society meeting in San Diego.

Dr. Zenna Solomon (Pulmonology Fellow) gave a podium presentation at the NY Academy of Medicine, one of two winning submission from WCM for the NYP Cornell Campus on Housestaff Quality Improvement Poster Session held in conjunction with the NYPH Quality in Care Symposium.