Justin H. Johannesen
Robert J. Morgan
Mohammed M. Algodi
Carlos A. Gongora
<p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Carlos A Gongora MD is a Cardiologist, Cardio-Oncologist, Cardiac Imager, and Researcher at Montefiore Medical Center. He is a physician educated in Mexico and a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine at the Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla (BUAP). After studying at the BUAP he worked for 1 year as a primary care physician at a rural clinic in a small community in Puebla, Mexico. After that, he moved to the USA and worked as a program coordinator in a public health project in Boston, MA, promoting cardiovascular health and healthy eating. Then, he completed two years of cardiovascular research at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, where he published and presented his research in various international conferences and received an award of excellence for his research. He finished his Cardiology fellowship in June of 2020 at Mount Sinai West and Morningside Hospitals. During his residency and fellowship, he continued with his cardiovascular research and has worked in a public health program in the Bronx. Also, during his cardiology fellowship he developed, presented and published different cardiovascular research projects. Due to his hard work, he was chosen as Chief Cardiology Fellow. During the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, Dr. Gongora took care of critically ill COVID-19 patients with cardiac comorbidities in the Cardiac Care Unit. He participated in international conferences to discuss the latest observations, advances and therapies in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. He lastly finished an Advanced Cardiac Imaging and Cardio-Oncology Fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Also he completed courses in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health. While in Boston, Dr. Gongora has been involved in projects focusing on cardiotoxicity associated with immune therapies and anthracyclines among patients with cancer. Additionally, he has worked on projects focusing on medical therapy for patients with COVID-19 and their cardiac involvement.</span></p>
Aryeh Z. Abelow
Michael Yee
Samson Wiseman
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>
Heather A. Trivedi
<p>Non-invasive imaging including transthoracic and transesophageal  echocardiography; stress testing; clinical cardiology; women's health. </p>