Olena Slinchenkova
Sumeet Singh-Tan
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>
Matthew D. Shaines
<p>Dr. Matthew Shaines completed a medical degree at SUNY Downstate Medical Center - Brooklyn and an internal medicine residency at Montefiore/Einstein. He was then recruited to the Einstein faculty at Montefiore and became one of the initial group of hospitalists who founded the Teaching Hospitalist Program at Montefiore in 2004.</p>
<p>Dr. Shaines has served as Assistant Director of the Hospitalist Service, managing the Moses Teaching Hospitalist Program; founding Director of the Medicine Consult Service, creating a dedicated medicine consult rotation for the housestaff, with a mission of high quality service and education on topics pertaining to consultative and perioperative medicine; Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program, serving as a liaison between the program and the Division of Hospital Medicine. In 2018 he was appointed as the Associate Chief of Hospital Medicine for Education.</p>
<p>His teaching and academic interests are in clinical reasoning, quality improvement and faculty development. He serves as the lead vignette reviewer for Montefiore’s annual Division of General Internal Medicine/Division of Hospital Medicine SGIM/SHM scholarly review process, which helps to review and critique abstracts, posters and oral presentations prior to submission.</p>
Adarsha Selvachandran
Scott J. Schafler
Alexander I. Sankin
<p>Dr. Sankin is an academic surgeon in the Department of Urology, at Montefiore Medical Center with a clinical focus on surgical approaches to the management of urologic malignancies of the upper urinary tract and bladder. His academic focus is divided between clinical and translational research studying emerging treatments and techniques central to the surgical care of patients with urologic cancers. </p>
<p>Dr. Sankin is the site-Principal Investigator for multiple clinical trials studying novel therapeutics for patients with bladder cancer who wish to avoid radical cystectomy. As an active member of multiple clinical trial consortiums including Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group and the Society of Urologic Oncology Clinical Trials Consortium, Dr. Sankin speardeaded the development of a bladder cancer clinical trials program at Einstein. </p>
<p>His translational research focuses on characterizing the tumor immune microenvironment of bladder tumors and the role of novel checkpoint molecules as relevant therpeutic targets. </p>
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<p align="left">Clark TW, Sankin A, Becske T, Nelson PK, Fox M. Stent-assisted Gugliemi detachable coil repair of wide-necked renal artery aneurysm using 3-D angiography. Vasc Endovascular Surg 2008 Jan; 41(6):528-32</p>
<p align="left">Tareen B, Sankin A, Godoy G, Temkin S, Lepor H, Taneja SS. Appropriate candidates for hemiablative focal therapy are infrequently encountered among men selected for radical prostatectomy in contemporary cohort<em>.</em> Urology. 2009 Feb;73(2):351-4</p>
<p align="left">Tareen B, Godoy G, Sankin A, Temkin S, Lepor H, Taneja SS. Laterality alone should not drive selection of candidates for hemi-ablative focal therapy. J Urol. 2009 Mar;181(3):1082-9</p>
<p align="left">Tareen B, Godoy G, Sankin A, Temkin S, Lepor H, Taneja SS. Can contemporary transrectal prostate biopsy accurately select candidates for hemi-ablative focal therapy of prostate cancer? BJU Int. 2009 Jul;104(2):195-9</p>
<p align="left">Marien T, Sankin A, Lepor H. Factors predicting preservation of erectile function in men undergoing open radical retropubic prostatectomy. J Urol. 2009 Apr;181(4):1817-22</p>
<p align="left">Sankin A, Tareen B, Lepor H. Side-specific factors associated with extracapsular extension and seminal vesicular invasion in men undergoing open radical retropubic prostatectomy. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis. 2009;12(2):204-8</p>
<p align="left">Mufarrij P, Sankin A, Godoy G, Lepor H. Pathologic outcomes of candidates for active surveillance undergoing radical prostatectomy. Urology. 2010 Sep;76(3):689-92</p>
<p align="left">Sankin A, Cohen J, Wang H, Macchia RJ, Karanikolas N. Rate of renal cell carcinoma subtypes in different races. Int Braz J Urol. 2011 Feb;37(1):29-32</p>
<p align="left">Sankin A, Sfakianos J, Schiff J, Sjoberg D, Coleman J. Assessing renal function following partial nephrectomy using renal nuclear scintigraphy and eGFR. Urology. 2012 Aug;80(2):343-6</p>
<p align="left">Ghavamian R, Hakimi AA, Williams SK, Kim PH, Chen L, Sfakianos JP, Keren-Paz GE, Sankin A, Ginzburg N, Coleman JA. Factors affecting proportional glomerular filtration rate following minimally invasive partial nephrectomy. J Endourology 2013 Nov;27(11):1371-5</p>
<p align="left">Sankin A, Hakimi AA, Mikkilineni N, Ostrovnaya I, Silk MT, Liang Y, Mano R, Chevinsky M, Motzer RJ, Solomon SB, Cheng EH, Durack JC, Coleman JA, Russo P, Hsieh JJ. The impact of genetic heterogeneity on biomarker development in kidney cancer assessed by multiregional sampling. Cancer Medicine 2014 Dec;3(6):1485-92</p>
<p align="left">Mano R, Vertosick E, Sankin A, Chevinsky M, Larish Y, Jakubowski CD, Hotker AM, Sjoberg D, Akin O, Russo P. The clinical significance of indeterminate pulmonary nodules in patients with renal cell carcinoma. J Urol 2014 Mar;193(3):776-82</p>
<p align="left">Chevinsky M, Imnadze M, Sankin A, Winer A, Mano R, Jakubowski C, Mashni J, Sjoberg DD, Chen YB, Tickoo SK, Reuter VE, Hakimi AA, Russo P. Pathologic stage T3a significantly increases disease recurrence across all tumor sizes in renal cell carcinoma. J Urol 2015 Aug;194(2):310-5</p>
<p align="left">Hakimi AA, Tickoo S, Jacobsen A, Sarungbam J, Sfakianos J, Sato Y, Morikawa T, Kume H, Fukayama M, Homma Y, Chen YB, Sankin A, Mano R, Coleman JA, Russo P, Ogawa S, Sander C, Hsieh JJ, Reuter VE. TCEB1-mutated renal cell carcinoma: a distinct genomic and morphologic subtype. Mod Pathol 2015 June;28(6):845-53</p>
<p align="left">Sankin A, Hakimi AA, Hsieh JJ, Molina AM. Metastatic non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma: an evidence based review of current treatment strategies. Front Oncol 2015 Apr 8;5:67</p>
<p align="left">Hakimi AA, Ostrovnaya I, Jacobsen A, Susztak K, Coleman JA, Russo P, Winer AG, Mano R, Sankin A, Motzer RJ, Voss MH, Offit K, Purdue M, Pomerantz M, Freedman M, Choueiri TK, Hsieh JJ, Klein RJ. Validation and genomic interrogation of the MET variant rs11762213 as a predictor of adverse outcomes in clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Cancer 2016 Feb 1;122(3):402-10</p>
<p align="left">Sankin A. Discovering biomarkers within the genomic landscape of renal cell carcinoma. J Kidney 2016 Feb 2(1) </p>
<p align="left">Sankin A, Tin A, Mano R, Chevinsky M, Jakubowski C, Cha E, Yee A, Friedman F, Sjoberg D, Ehdaie B, Coleman J. Impact of ureteroscopy prior to nephroureterectomy for upper tract urothelial carcinoma on oncologic outcomes. Urology 2016 Aug; 94:148-53</p>
<p align="left">Mano R, Hakimi AA, Sankin AI, Sternberg IA, Chevinsky MS, Russo P. Surgical treatment of tumors involving kidneys with fusion anomalies – a contemporary series. Urology 2016 Aug; 98:97-102</p>
<p align="left">Zhou TC, Sankin A, Porcelli SA, Perlin DS, Schoenberg MP, Zang XX. A review of the PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint in bladder cancer: from mediator of immune escape, to target for treatment. Urol Oncol 2017 Jan;35(1):14-20 </p>
<p align="left">Winer AG, Vertosick EA, Ghanaat M, Corradi RB, Carlsson S, Sjoberg DD, Sankin AI, Sfakianos JP, Cha EK, Dalbagni G, Coleman JA. Prognostic value of lymph node yield during nephroureterectomy for upper tract urothelial carcinoma. Urol Oncol 2017 April;35(4):151</p>
<p align="left">Sankin A, Narasimhulu D, John P, Gartrell B, Schoenberg M, Zang XX. The expanding repertoire of targets for immune checkpoint inhibition in bladder cancer: what lies beneath the tip of the iceberg, PD-L1. Urol Onc 2017 (Epub ahead of print)</p>
<p align="left">Milbar N, Kates M, Chappidi MR, Pederzoli F, Yoshida T, Sankin A, Pierorazio PM, Schoenberg MP, Bivalacqua TJ. Oncological outcomes of sequential intravesical gemcitabine and docetaxel in patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. Bladder Cancer 2017 Oct 27;3(4):293-303</p>
<p align="left">Daneshmand S, Patel s, Lotan Y, Pohar K, Trabulsi E, Woods M, Downs T, Huang W, Jones J, O’Donnell M, Bivalacqua T, DeCastro J, Steinberg G, Kamat A, Resnick M, Konety B, Schoenberg M, Jones JS, Flexible Blue Light Study Group Collaborators. Efficacy and Safety of Blue Light Flexible Cystoscopy with Hexaminolevulinate in the Surveillance of Bladder Cancer: A Phase III, Comparative, Multicenter Study. J Urol 2018 May;199(5):1158-65</p>
<p align="left">Fridman D, Abeshouse M, Sankin A. Paraurethral Leiomyoma as an Incidental Finding in a Patient with Fibroid Uterus. Case Rep Obstet Gynecol 2018 Feb 7;2018</p>
<p align="left">Adrianzen Hererra DA, Goldberg-Stein S, Sankin A, Sarungbam J, Sharma J, Gartrell BA. Synchronous Bone Metastasis From Multiple Myeloma and Prostate Adenocarcinoma as Initial Presentation of Coexistent Malignancies. Front Oncol, 2018 Apr 30;8:137</p>
<p align="left">Berstein A, Fram EB, Sankin A, Kovac E, Srivastava A, DiVito J, Stern JM. A Comparison of Perinephric Fat Surface Area and Mayo Adhesive Probability Score in Predicting Malignancy in T1 Renal Masses. Urol Onc 2018 Nov; 36(11):499</p>
<p align="left">Sun Y, Reuter VE, Magi-Galluzzi C, Sankin A, Epstein JI. Granular Cell Tumor of the Bladder: A Report of Six Cases. Urology 2018 Nov; 121:203 </p>
<p align="left">Leow JJ, Bedke J, Chamie K, Collins JW, Daneshmand S, Grivas P, Heidenreich A, Messing EM, Royce TJ, Sankin A, Schoenberg MP, Shipley WU, Villers A, Efstathiou J, Bellmunt J, Stenzl A. Recommendations From Joint SIU-ICUD Consultation On Bladder Cancer: Muscle-Invasive Presumably Regional Tumor. World J Urol 2019, Jan;37(1): 61-83</p>
<p align="left">Chand D, Dhawan D, Sankin A, Ren X, Lin J, Schoenberg M, Knapp DW, Zang X. Immune checkpoint B7x (B7-H4/B7S1/VtCN1) is overexpressed in spontaneous canine bladder cancer: the first report and its implications in a preclinical model. Bladder Cancer 2019, Jan 31;5(1)63-71</p>
<p align="left">Bernstein A, Barry E, Fram EB, Sankin A, Kovac E, Stern JM. Does Glomerular Filtration Rate at Discharge After Partial Nephrectomy Predict Long-Term Glomwerular Filtration Rate Stability?. J Endourol 2019, Jun;33(6):488-491</p>
<p align="left">Lotan Y, Bivalacqua TJ, Downs T, Huang W, Jones J, Kamat A, Konety B, Malmstrom PU, McKiernan J, O’Donnell M, Patel S, Pohar K, Resnick M, Sankin A, Smith A, Steinberg G, Trabulsi E, Woods M, Daneshmand S. Blue light flexible cystoscopy with hexaminolevulinate in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer: review of the clinical evidence and consensus statement on optimal use in the USA – update 2018. Nat Rev Urol 2019, Jun;16(6):377-386</p>
<p align="left">Sankin A, Chand D, Schoenberg M, Zang X. Human urothelial bladder cancer generates a clonal immune response: the results of T-cell receptor sequencing. Urol Oncol 2019, May 15 (epub ahead of print).</p>
<p align="left">Wang H, Kaur G, Sankin A, Chen F, Guan F, Zang X. Immune checkpoint blockade and CAR-T cell therapy in hematologic malignancies. J Hematol Oncol 2019, Jun 11;12(1):59</p>
<p align="left">Daniels MJ, Barry E, Schoenberg M, Lamm DL, Bivalacqua TJ, Sankin A, Kates M. Contemporary oncologic outcomes of second induction course BCG in patients with nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer. Urol Oncol 2019, Jun 26 (epub ahead of print)</p>
<p align="left">Daniels MJ, Barry E, Milbar N, Schoenberg M, Bivalacqua TJ, Sankin A, Kates M. An evaluation of monthly maintenance therapy among patients receiving intravesical combination gemcitabine/docetaxel for nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer. Urol Oncol 2019, Aug 28 (epub ahead of print)</p>
<p align="left">Khaki AR, Li A, Diamantopoulos LN, Bilen MA, Santos V, Esther J, Morales-Barrera R, Devitt M, Nelson A, Holmes CJ, Shreck E, Assi H, Gartrell BA, Sankin A, Rodriguez-Vida A, Lythgoe M, Pinato DJ, Drakaki A, Joshi M, Isaacsson Velho P, Hahn N, Liu S, Alonso Buznego L, Duran I, Moses M, Jain J, Murgic J, Baratam P, Barata P, Tripathi A, Zakharia Y, Galsky MD, Sonpavde G, Yu EY, Shankaran V, Lyman GH, Grivas P. Impact of performance status on treatment outcomes: A real-world study of advanced urothelial cancer treated with checkpoint inhibitors. Cancer 2019, Dec 12 (epub ahead of print)</p>
<p>Alexander I. Sankin, MD, is Associate Professor, Urology at Montefiore Einstein. His clinical specialty is surgical approaches to treating urological malignancies, including prostate, testicular, renal and bladder cancer.</p><p>After earning his Master of Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004, Dr. Sankin earned his Doctor of Medicine from New York University in 2008 and completed his residency in surgery and urology at the State University of New York Downstate in 2013. He then completed a fellowship in urologic oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2015.</p><p>Building on his clinical focus, Dr. Sankin’s research centers on bladder-preserving treatment options in patients with high-risk bladder cancer and the development of new immunotherapies for bladder cancer. He is the site-principal investigator for multiple clinical trials studying novel therapeutics for patients with bladder cancer who wish to avoid radical cystectomy. As an active member of multiple clinical trial consortiums, including Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group and the Society of Urologic Oncology Clinical Trials Consortium, Dr. Sankin spearheaded the development of a bladder cancer clinical trials program at Einstein. His translational research focuses on characterizing the tumor immune microenvironment of bladder tumors and the role of novel checkpoint molecules as relevant therapeutic targets. His work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals.</p><p>Dr. Sankin is board certified and a member of the American Urological Association and the Society of Urologic Oncology.</p>
Evelyn M. Rondinel
Kimberly J. Reidy
<p>Kimberly J. Reidy, MD, is Chief, Division of Pediatric Nephrology and Associate Professor at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM) and Montefiore Einstein. Her clinical focus is on the treatment of hypertension and childhood-onset kidney disease. She has particular interest in nephrotic syndrome and glomerular diseases, congenital abnormalities of the kidney and urinary tract, and genetic kidney diseases.</p><p>After earning her Bachelor of Arts in chemistry at Princeton University in 1997, Dr. Reidy attended Albert Einstein College of Medicine, earning her Doctor of Medicine in 2002. Her postdoctoral training began with a pediatric internship and residency at Children’s Hospital of New York, NewYork-Presbyterian from 2002 to 2005. She then pursued a three-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) supported fellowship in pediatric nephrology at CHAM, completing it in 2008.</p><p>Dr. Reidy’s clinical research focuses on children with glomerular and chronic kidney disease, including NIH funded Nephrotic Syndrome Study Network (NEPTUNE) and Cure Glomerulonephropathy (CureGN) studies of children with nephrotic syndrome. Her translational research focuses on the effect of APOL1 risk variants on preeclampsia and perinatal outcomes. Her bench research focuses on effects of developmental genes on kidney repair and fibrosis after injury. She has shared her work through many peer-reviewed journals, invited presentations, book chapters and abstracts. Dr. Reidy is also an ad hoc reviewer for many journals including <em>Pediatric Nephrology, Kidney International and the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology</em>.</p><p>Dr. Reidy is board-certified in pediatrics and pediatric nephrology. She is an active member of several professional organizations including the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Neonatal Kidney Collaborative. She currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Section of Nephrology for the AAP. From 2016 through 2021, she has been listed among Castle Connolly Top Doctors: New York Metro Area. In 2021, she was elected to membership in the Leo M. Davidoff Society, recognizing her long-term commitment to excellence in teaching medical students.</p>