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Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Allergy, Immunology, and Sleep Medicine

Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Allergy, Immunology, and Sleep Medicine 2019

Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Allergy, Immunology, and Sleep Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
New York Medical College

Phone: (914) 493-7585
Fax: (914) 594-2350

The Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Allergy, Immunology, and Sleep Medicine provides comprehensive inpatient and outpatient consultation and management for children suffering from a broad variety of respiratory problems. The division is dedicated to teaching, research and patient care.

The Faculty Practice of the Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Allergy, Immunology, and Sleep Medicine, is part of Boston Children's Health Physicians (BCHP). Boston Children's Health Physicians, a proud member of the Boston Children's Hospital Community of Care, comprises the faculty of the Department of Pediatrics at New York Medical College and over 300 Primary Care Providers throughout the region.

Research

Research is essential to the Division of Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Allergy, Immunology, and Sleep Medicine. We have a large faculty and three research coordinators in our division. Our research portfolio and grant support have steadily grown every year, and reflect a wide variety of academic interests. Our focus has primarily been on clinical or translational research, particularly concerning childhood asthma, cystic fibrosis, and the respiratory mechanics of children with respiratory disease. We are particularly proud of our respiratory laboratories, where both bench research and clinical pediatric pulmonary function tests are performed. We perform dozens of extramurally funded projects at any one time, with funding primarily from NIH, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the American Lung Association, and the pharmaceutical industry. Our division has been an American Lung Association supported Asthma Clinical Research Center since the inception of that program in 1999. Our center is one of only 18 such centers in the nation, and one of only 5 such centers whose principal investigator is a pediatric asthma specialist. We also are a member of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics Development Network, funded by the CF Foundation to perform multicenter clinical trials. In the last five years, our division’s Children’s Environmental Health Center of the Hudson Valley has received many grants designed to study the impact of the environment on children’s health here in the Hudson Valley.

Staff

Physicians

Allen J. Dozor, M.D., Chief
Professor of Pediatrics and 
Professor of Clinical Public Health

Nikhil Amin, M.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Agnes Banquet, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Joseph T. Boyer, M.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

Amy Brown, M.D., M.Be.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Lai-Ming Lisa Chan, D.O.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Elizabeth DeLaRiva-Velasco, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Melissa Gans M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Allergy and Immunology

Bindu George, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Suzette T. Gjonaj, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Jillian Hochfelder, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Y. Cathy Kim, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Christy Kim, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Daniel Krich, D.O.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Sankaran Krishnan, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and
Associate Professor of Clinical Public Health

Alison Lennox M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Diana B. Lowenthal, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Lance Parton, M.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Yehudit Pollack, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics 

Priya S. Prashad, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Marilyn Sharbach, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Subhadra Siegel, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Nadav Traeger, M.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

John Welter, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics


Office Staff

  • Amanda Marshall
  • Lorraine Harper
  • Erin Rodriquez
  • Rita Vitagliano

Respiratory Therapist, Research Coordinator, Asthma Educator

  • Lisa Monchil RRT, CCRC, AE-C

Research Staff

  • LaToya Holness - Research Coordinator
  • Armando Ramirez, L.P.N. - Research Coordinator
  • Zachary Messer M.P.H. - Division Research and Grant Manager