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Asli S. Sucu
Martina Stehlikova
<p>In-patient internal medicine with a special interest in hematology. Anemia, thrombocytopenia and coagulopathy in hospitalised patients.</p>
Michele St. Louis
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">Michele St Louis received her MD from New York University School Of Medicine and completed her internship and residency in Family Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center. She completed fellowships in Developmental Disabilities and Faculty Development in the Department of Family Medicine at Montefiore. She is director of the Montefiore School Health Program and sees patients at the school-based health center in Theodore Roosevelt High School. Her clinical and research interests include health promotion and reproductive health care, including access to and satisfaction with long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) in adolescents. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Family Medicine.</span></p>
<p><strong>Education</strong></p>
<p>Undergraduate: Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, City College of New York, Bachelor’s Degree in Biomedical Science, Cum Laude<br />Medical School: New York University School of Medicine<br />Residency: Montefiore Medical Center (Family Medicine, Social Medicine)<br />Fellowships: Montefiore Medical Center (Developmental Disabilities Fellowship Program, Faculty Development Program)</p>
<p><strong>Professional Activity</strong></p>
<p>Dr. Michele St. Louis is Director of the Medical Division of the Montefiore School Health Program, and supervises residents and fellows in school-based health settings.</p>
<p>Her research focuses on teens' access to and acceptability of intrauterine devices in school-based health centers.</p>
<p>Patient Satisfaction with IUD Services in a School Based Health Center: A Pilot Study. Tara B Stein, MD, MPH, Aleza K Summit, MPH, Michele St Louis, MD, Marji Gold, MD Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, Vol 33, Issue 4, p 388-392 Jan 2020</p>
Brian D. Spund
Luke R. Sponholz
Olena Slinchenkova
Victoria Lynn Shulman
Victoria Shulman, MD, is an attending physician at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor, Pediatrics at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Shulman’s clinical focus is in pediatric emergency medicine, with a particular area of interest in resident and medical student education. <br /><br />After obtaining her Bachelor of Arts from the City University of New York, Queens College in 1986, Dr. Shulman earned her Doctor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1990. She completed her pediatrics internship and residency at Montefiore Einstein in 1994, where she was Chief Resident in her final year. <br /><br />Dr. Shulman’s research aligns with her clinical expertise. Her work has been published in the Journal of Adolescent Health and the Journal of Neurology, as well as chapters in scientific books. <br /><br />Dr. Shulman is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics. In 1994, she received the Leo M. Davidoff Society Certificate of Distinction for the teaching of medical students. In 2023, Dr. Shulman was inducted as a member of the Leo M. Davidoff Society.<br />
Mark Shlomovich
Albumin Dialysis
Care of children before and after solid organ transplantation
<p>Mark Shlomovich, MD, is Director, Extracorporeal Liver Support and Director, Pediatric Critical Care Transport at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore and Assistant Professor, Pediatrics at Montefiore-Einstein. Dr. Shlomovich’s clinical focus is on the care of critically ill children with abdominal organ failure, transplantation and post-surgical care. He also focuses on the safe transportation of critically ill children.</p><p>In 2006, Dr. Shlomovich earned his Bachelor of Science in biology from Towson University. He then attended University of Connecticut School of Medicine earning his Doctor of Medicine in 2010. His postgraduate training began at SUNY Downstate Medical Center with a four-year pediatric residency, where he was Chief Pediatric Resident in his final year. He then came to Children's Hospital at Montefiore for a pediatric critical care fellowship, which he completed in 2017.</p><p>Dr. Shlomovich’s research interests are in the use of artificial liver support technology, as well as the care of children in liver failure before and after transplantation. In addition, he investigates the safety and efficiency of the transportation of critically ill children. He has shared his research through peer-reviewed journals and abstracts, and is an ad hoc reviewer for BMC Nephrology.</p><p>Dr. Shlomovich is board certified in general pediatrics and pediatric critical care medicine. He is a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the American Academy of Pediatrics.</p>
Shlomo Shinnar
<p>Dr. Shlomo Shinnar is a neurologist, pediatrician and epidemiologist. His expertise focuses on comprehensive epilepsy management, child neurology and epilepsy with a focus on long term studies the prognosis of childhood seizures disorders. He is also an experienced clinical trialist and is the co-director of the Einstein NeuroNEXT cener of Excellence for Clinical Trials in Neurology.<br /><br />Dr. Shinnar conducts research on a variety of topics relating to childhood seizures, including when to initiate and discontinue antiepileptic drug therapy, prognosis following a first seizure, and prognosis following discontinuation of medications in children with seizures. He is also interested in the comorbidities of epilepsy and its impact on chilren and families. He current studies focus on status epilepticus, a life-threatening condition of persistent continuous and unremitting brain seizure lasting longer than 30 minutes. He is also involved in research in autism, an increasingly common neurological condition in childhood.<br /><br />His current research focuses on the consequences of prolonged febrile seizures, the most common seizure seen in children and on the long term outcomes of childhood absence (petit-mal) seizures which are the most common form of epilepsy in children. He is also on the executive commitee of the recentlyfunded ESETT (Established Status Epilepticus Treatment Trial) trial which seeks to determine the optimal therapy for convulsive status epilepticus inchildren and adults when first line therapy with a benzodiazepine has failed.</p>
<p>Dr. Shinnar is the senior editor of the book <em>Childhood Seizures</em> and co-editor of the book <em>Febrile Seizures</em>. He has published over 185 original papers and over 125 reviews and chapters. He is the recipient of the prestigious Research Recognition Award of the American Epilepsy Society and the CURE research award. His continuing research on the Consequences of Prolonged Febrile Seizures in Children (FEBSTAT) study was recently recognized with the prestigious Javits award by the NINDS.<br /><br /></p>
<p>Most recent publications:</p>
<p>ORIGINAL PAPERS:</p>
<p>Sillanpaa M, Shinnar S. SUDEP and other causes of mortality in childhood-onset epilepsy<span style="text-decoration: underline;">. Epilepsy & Behavior</span> 2013;28:249-255. PMID: 23746924</p>
<p> Hesdorffer DC, Shinnar S, Lewis DV, Nordli DR Jr, Pellock JM, Moshe SL, Shinnar RC, Litherand C, Bagiella E, Frank LM, BelloJA, Chan S, Masur D, Macfall J, Sun S and the Consequences of Prolonged Febrile Seizures (FEBSTAT) Study Team. Risk Factors for Febrile Status Epilepticus: A case control study. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">J Pediatr</span> 2013; 163:1147-1151. PMID: 23809042 PMCID: PMC3989363</p>
<p> Masur D, Shinnar S, Cnaan A, Shinnar RC, Clark P, Wang J, Weiss EF, Hirtz DG, Glauser TA, Childhood Absence Epilepsy Study Group. Pretreatment cognitive deficits and treatment effects on attention in childhood absence epilepsy. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Neurology</span> 2013; 81:1572-1580. PMID: 24089388. PMCID: PMC3980500</p>
<p> Brown FC, Westerveld M, Langfitt JT, Hamberger M, Hamid H, Shinnar S, Sperling MR, Devinsky O, Barr W, Tracy J, Masur M, Bazil CW, Spencer SS. Influence of anxiety on memory performance in temporal lobe epilepsy. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Epilepsy & Behavior</span> 2014; 31:19-24. PMID: 24291525 PMCID: PMC3946774.</p>
<p> Lewis DV, Shinnar S, Hesdorffer DC, Bagiella E, Bello JA, Chan S, Xu Y, MacFall J, Gomes WA, Moshe SL, Mathern GW, Pellock JM, Nordli DR Jr, Frank LM, Provenzale J, Shinnar RC, Epstein LG, Masur D, Litherand C, Sun S; FEBSTAT Study Team. Hippocampal sclerosis after febrile status epilepticus: The FEBSTAT study<span style="text-decoration: underline;">. Ann Neurol</span> 2014;75:178-185. PMID# 24318290 NIHMSID# 569823 PMCID: PMC3980500</p>
<p> Hussain SA, Shinnar S, Kwong G, Lerner JT, Matsumoto JH, Wu JY, Sields WD, Sankar R. Treatment of infantile spasms with very high dose prednisolone before high dose adrenocorticotropic hormone. Epilepsia 2014;55:103-107. PMID 24446954 OMCID: PMC3904676</p>
<p> Hamid H, Blackmon K, Cong X, Dziura J, Atlas LY, Vickrey BG, Berg AT, Bazil CW, Langfitt JT, Walczak TS, Sperling MR, Shinnar S, Devinsky O. Mood anxiety and incomplete seizure control affect quality of life after epilepsy surgery. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Neurology</span> 2014; 82:887-894. PMID 24489129 PMCID: PMC3959755.</p>
<p> Seinfeld S, Shinnar S, Sun S, Hesdorffer DC, Deng X, Shinnar RC, O’Hara K, Nordli DR Jr, Frank LM, Gallentine W, Moshe SL, Pellock JM and FEBSTAT Study Team. Emergency management of febrile status epilepticus: results of the FEBSTAT study<span style="text-decoration: underline;">. Epilepsia</span> 2014; 55:388-395. PMID 24502379 PMCID: PMC3937844.</p>
<p> Mendley SR, Matheson MB, Shinnar S, Lande MB, Gerson AC, Butler RW, Warady BA, Furth SL, Hooper SR. Duration of chronic kidney disease reduces attention and executive function in pediatric patients. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Kidney Int</span> 2014; 87:800-806.] PMID 25252026</p>
<p> Valicenti-McDermott M, Lawson K, Hottinger K, Seijo R, Schechtman M, Shulman L, Shinnar S. Parental Stress in Families of Children with Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">J Child Neurol</span> 2015 April 10 [epub ahead of print). PMID: 25862740.</p>
<p> Krumholz A, Wiebe S, Groseth GS, Gloss DS, Sanchez AM, Kabir AA, Liferidge AT, Martello JP, Kanner AM, Shinnar S, Hopp JL, French JA. Evidence-based guideline: Management of an unprovoked first seizure in adults: report of the Guideline Development Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Neurology</span> 2015;84:1805-1713. PMIDL 25901057</p>
<p>RECENT REVIEWS:</p>
<p> Gomes WA, Shinnar S. Prospects for imaging-related biomarkers of human epileptogenesis: A critical review. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Biomark Med</span> 2011;5:599-606. PMID:22003908. PMCID: 3235417.</p>
<p> Shinnar S. Prognostic factors for recurrence after a first unprovoked seizure in childhood. In Arts WF, Arzimanoglou A, Brouwer OF, Camfield C, Camfield P eds. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Outcome of Childhood Epilepsies.</span> Progress in Epileptic Disorders 2013;12:25-31.</p>
<p> Bleck T, Cock H, Chamberlain J Cloyd J, Connor J, Elm J, Fountain N, Jones E, Lowenstein D, Shinnar S, Silbergleit R, Treiman D, Trinka E, Kapur J. The established status epilepticus trial 2013. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Epilepsia</span> 2013 54 (suppl 6): 89-92. PMID 24001084 PMCID: PMC4048827</p>
<p> Patterson KP, Baram TZ, Shinnar S. Origins of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: Febrile seizures and Febrile Status Epilepticus. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Neurotherapeutics</span> 2014; 11:242-250. PMID: 24604424 PMCID: PMC3996115</p>