Olena Slinchenkova
Sumeet Singh-Tan
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 />
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
Jacob F. Schulz
Childhood hip disorders such as SCFE and hip dsplasia
Pediatric fractures and trauma
Multicenter trial on the optimal treatment of bone cysts
Clubfoot and lower extremity deformity
<p>Pediatric orthopedic care, spinal deformity, neuromuscular disease and trauma</p>
<p>Early-onset and idiopathic scoliosis, fracture care, neuromuscular disease</p>
<p>Jacob F. Schulz, MD, is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon who provides comprehensive pediatric orthopedic care with an emphasis on spinal deformity, neuromuscular disease and trauma. He has a particular interest in the growing spine, with experience using the vertical expandable titanium rib (VEPTR) device and vertebral tethering through a thoracoscopic approach. At our Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he is an Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery.</p><p>He served both his internship and residency at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia where he was honored with the Frank Hammond Sivitz and Chief Resident Teaching Awards in 2011. During his residency, he traveled to Neustadt, Germany to study spine deformity at the Schoen Clinic, and to San Pedro Sula in Honduras to help CURE International provide world class orthopedic care to children. Dr. Schulz completed his fellowship in pediatric orthopedics and scoliosis at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, ranked second by <em>U.S. News & World Report</em> in 2012.</p><p>Dr. Schulz’s research has been published in The Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics (JPO) and presented at several national meetings. He is an active member of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) and the Pediatric Orthopedic Society of North America (POSNA).</p>