Michael Yee
Kathleen D. Whitney
Jacqueline Weingarten-Arams
Nutrition
Pulmonary hypertension
Sepsis
<p>Jacqueline Weingarten-Arams, MD, is an attending physician and Professor, Pediatrics at Montefiore Einstein. Dr. Weingarten-Arams’ pediatric critical care expertise focuses on cardiac critical care, acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, nutrition in critical illness and energy expenditure, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (quality CPR) and extracorporeal life support (ECMO).</p><p>After obtaining her Bachelor of Science in nutritional biochemistry at Cornell University in 1982, Dr. Weingarten-Arams earned her Doctor of Medicine at the same institution in 1986. She then completed her pediatric residency at Columbia University in 1990, where she was Chief Resident in her final year. Following this, Dr. Weingarten-Arams completed a fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine at New York Hospital Cornell University Medical College in 1996.</p><p>Dr. Weingarten-Arams research focus includes the use of deliberate simulated practice in improving outcomes in pediatric critical illness, pediatric resuscitation and pediatric airway management. Her other projects involve chronic critical illness, bioethics in pediatric critical care and oxidative injury in respiratory failure. She has been principal investigator and co-investigator on several research projects, and her work has been shared through numerous peer-reviewed publications and invited presentations.</p><p>Dr. Weingarten-Arams is a Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners and the American Board of Pediatrics. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Chest Physicians. She is also a member of several professional organizations, including the American Medical Association, the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society and the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Weingarten-Arams has been named in Castle Connolly’s “Top Doctors: New York Metro Area” for multiple years. In 2006, she was inducted into the Leo M. Davidoff Society and in 2019, Dr. Weingarten-Arams won the William Obrinsky Award for Excellence in Medical Student Education.</p>
Yanhua Wang
<p><strong>Areas of Research</strong>: Primary research areas are focused on identifying distinctive immunologic and molecular genetic diagnostic and prognostic markers of hematologic neoplasms.</p>
<p><strong>Professional Interests:</strong> Pathological diagnosis of hematopoietic abnormalities, including mature and immature lymphoma/leukemia; myeloproliferative/dysplastic myeloid neoplasms, plasma cell proliferative disorder and other hematological related abnormalities using flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, cytogentic/FISH and molecular diagnostic tools.</p>
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<p><strong>Selected Recent Publications:</strong></p>
<p><strong> 1.</strong><strong> </strong><strong>Yanghua Wang<sup>1</sup></strong>, Adam Gersten<sup>1</sup>, Susana Moleirinho<sup>2,3</sup>, Frank J. Gunn-Moore<sup>2</sup>, Paul A. Reynolds<sup>3</sup>, Michael B. Prystowsky<sup>1 </sup> Fibroblasts in Head Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Associated with Peri-neural Invasion Have High Level Nuclear Yap Expression Academic Pathology, 2015<strong>2. </strong></p>
<p><strong>2.</strong> Jose G.M. Arango, Shlomit Goldberg-Stein, <strong>Yanhua Wang</strong> Extranodal Rosai-Dorfman disease: Clinico-pathologic series of thirteen cases and review of the literature American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 2016; 0:1-11</p>
<p><strong>3. </strong>Monica Zell,*, Amer Assal,*, Olga Derman, Noah Kornblum, Ramakrishna Battini, <strong>Yanhua Wang</strong>, Deepa M. Narasimhulu, Ioannis Mantzaris, Aditi Shastri, Amit Verma, Hilda Ye, IraBraunschweig, Murali Janakiram Adult T-Cell leukemia/lymphoma in the Caribbean cohort is adistinct clinical entity with dismal response to conventional chemotherapy Oncotarget, June 2016<strong> <strong>DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.10223</strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>4. </strong>Goel S, Hall J, Pradhan K, Hirsch C, Przychodzen B, Shastri A, Mantzaris I, Janakiram M, Battini R, Kornblum N, Derman O, Gritsman K, Al-Hafidh J, <strong>Wang Y</strong>, Halmos B, Steidl U, Maciejewski JP, Braunschweig I, Verma A. High prevalence and allele burden-independent prognostic importance of p53 mutations in an inner-city MDS/AML cohort. Leukemia. 2016 Apr 29. doi: 10.1038/leu.2016.74. [Epub ahead of print]</p>
<p><strong>5. </strong>Monica Zell, Amer Assal, Olga Derman, Noah Kornblum, Ramakrishna Battini,<strong> Yanhua Wang</strong>, Deepa M. Narasimhulu, Ioannis Mantzaris, Aditi Shastri, Amit Verma, Hilda Ye, Ira Braunschweig, Murali Janakiram Adult T-Cell leukemia/lymphoma in the Caribbean cohort is a distinct clinical entity with dismal response to conventional chemotherapy. Oncotarget, Advance Publications 2016</p>
<p><strong>6. </strong> <strong>Yanhua Wang</strong>, Samer Khader, Yonatan Mehlman, Yungtai Lo, Joseph Albanese, Howard Ratech Loss of αII and βIII Spectrin Isoforms in Body Fluids is Associated with Metastasis. Advances in Cytology & Pathology, Volume 2 Issue 1 – 2017</p>
<p><strong>7. </strong>Etan Marks, Yang Shi, <strong>Yanhua Wang</strong> CD117 (KIT) Is A Useful Marker in The Diagnosis of Plasmablastic Plasma Cell Myeloma, Histopathology, 2017, <strong>DOI:</strong><strong> </strong>10.1111/his.13196</p>
<p><strong>8. </strong>Murali Janakiram , Amit Verma, <strong>Yanhua Wang</strong>, Anjali Budhathoki, Jaime Suarez Londono, Irina Murakhovskaya, Ira Braunschweig & Caterina P.Minniti Accelerated leukemic transformation after haploidentical transplantation for hydroxyurea-treated sickle cell disease, Leukemia & Lymphoma, DOI: 10.1080/10428194.2017.1324158</p>
<p><strong>9. </strong>Zhonghua Li, M.D., Ph.D., John G. Pizzolo, B.S., <strong>Yanhua Wang</strong>, M.D., Ph.D.Utility of Cytocentrifugation Slides in the Flow Cytometry Laboratory: a Single Institution experience, Clinical Pathology Diangosis, Journal of Hematopathology, online, 2017</p>
<p><strong>10. </strong>Michael J. Licata, MD<sup>1</sup>, Murali Janakiram, MD<sup>2</sup>, Yanan Fang, MD<sup>1</sup>, Urvi A. Shah, MD<sup>2</sup>, Amit Verma, MD<sup>2</sup> and <strong>Yanhua Wang</strong>, MD Diagnostic Challenges of Western Adult T-Cell Leukemia/Lymphoma with Unusual Clinical Presentation - Clinical, Histological and Immunophenotypic Analysis, Leukemia & Lymphoma, 2018 VOL. 59, NO. 5, 1188–1194 https://doi.org/10.1080/10428194.2017.1365862</p>
<p><strong>11. </strong>Evan Himchak, Etan Marks, Yang Shi, <strong>Yanhua Wang</strong>, Did I miss one? Discovering Hidden Co-existing Hematological with Non-Hematological Malignancies, A Single Institutional Review of 100 Collision Tumors, <a title="International journal of surgical pathology." href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29320898">Int J Surg Pathol.</a> 2018 Jan 1:1066896917752862. doi: 10.1177/1066896917752862. [Epub ahead of print]</p>
<p><strong>12. </strong>Jesus Anampa, Tamanna Haque, Irina Murakhovskaya, <strong>Yanhua Wang</strong>, Kimo Bachiashvili, Cristian Papazoglu, Kith Pradhan, Ulrich G. Steidl, Joseph A. Sparano, Amit Verma<sup> </sup>Macrocytosis And Dysplastic Anemia Is Associated With The Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 4/6 Inhibitor Palbociclib In Metastatic Breast Cancer, Haematologica , Published Ahead of Print on November 30, 2017, as doi:10.3324/haematol.2017.181941</p>
<p><strong>13. </strong>Shaomin Hu, James Szymanski, Zeina Khairy, Yungtai Lo, <strong>Yanhua Wang</strong> Breast pathology and mammography BI-RADS category correlation study – A single institute experience Annals of Diagnostic Pathology 35 (2018) 11-15</p>
<p><strong>14. </strong>Shah UA, Chung EY, Giricz O, Pradhan K, Kataoka K, Gordon-Mitchell S, Bhagat TD, Mai Y, Wei Y, Ishida E, Choudhary GS, Joseph A, Rice R, Gitego N, Parrish C, Bartenstein M, Goel S, Mantzaris I, Shastri A, Derman O, Binder A, Gritsman K, Kornblum N, Braunschweig I, Bhagat C, Hall J, Graber A, Ratner L, <strong>Wang Y, </strong>Ogawa S, Verma A, Ye BH, Janakiram M. North American ATLL has a distinct mutational and transcriptional profile and responds to epigenetic therapies. Blood. 2018 Oct 4;132(14):1507-1518. doi: 10.1182/blood-2018-01-824607. Epub 2018 Aug 13.</p>
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Preeti Viswanathan
Dr. Viswanathan received her Medical training at Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences in Bangalore, India. She then completed her Pediatric Residency at Miami Children?s Hospital and her fellowship at The Children?s Hospital at Montefiore. She has presented her research at national meetings and has received the Best Research Award at Pediatric Research Day Children?s Hospital at Montefiore 2011.
Esperanza Villanueva-Siles
Victoria Vapnyar
Berrin Ustun
Henry M. Ushay
Pediatric critical care medicine with a special emphasis on respiratory failure; shock resuscitation; cardiac intensive care; intensive care of pediatric oncology patients; extracorporeal support for children with respiratory and cardiovascular failure
Leadership and direction of the 16-bed Pediatric Critical Care Unit of The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore; improving medication safety; respiratory physiology; advances in the management of respiratory failure in children; shock; medical ethics
<p>Dr. Ushay is Professor of Clinical Pediatrics in the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics as well as a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine. </p><p>After obtaining a PhD in Chemistry from Columbia University, Dr. Ushay received his MD from UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School and completed a Pediatrics residency in the Montefiore-Jacobi-Einstein program. After serving as Chief Resident and a Fellow in Pediatric Pulmonology at Montefiore, he completed a Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship at New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center in 1993. He was a faculty member at NewYork-Presbyterian and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospitals from 1993 to 2005, and he served as Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program Director and Medical Director of the Pediatric Observation Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. </p><p>In 2005 Dr. Ushay became Director of the Pediatric Critical Care Unit in The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore. Dr. Ushay is involved in increasing pediatric ICU surge capacity through the New York City Pediatric Disaster Coalition, serving on its Central Leadership Council and teaching the Pediatric Fundamental Critical Care Support Course. Through the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Dr. Ushay works on employing medical countermeasures safely for children in the event of chemical, biological or radiological disaster. Sponsored by Surgeons of Hope and Children’s HeartLink, Dr. Ushay has worked as a cardiac intensivist in Cambodia, Africa, China and Nicaragua. </p>