Mastitis
Esperanza Villanueva-Siles
Ivy Tam
Pediatric Medicine
Dr. Tam’s research aims to improve care and communication for patients with limited English proficiency, as well as standardizing pain practices for children.
<p>Ivy Tam, MD, FAAP, is an Attending Physician and a Non-neonatal Emergency Transport Coordinator at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore. She is also an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. </p><p>In 2009, Dr. Tam received her Bachelor of Arts in Biological Sciences at Cornell University. She then attended SUNY Upstate Medical University, where she received her Doctor of Medicine in 2013. Dr. Tam began her postgraduate training with a residency in pediatrics at New York University School of Medicine, followed by a fellowship in pediatric hospital medicine in 2018 at the University of California San Diego. </p><p>Dr. Tam’s research aims to improve care and communication for patients with limited English proficiency, as well as standardizing pain practices for children. She has shared her work through presentations in academic forums and scientific meetings, and is currently in the process of being submitted for publication. </p><p>2017, Dr. Tam received the CARES Award from hospital staff at Rady Children’s Hospital for her support during the medical director’s absence. Dr. Tam is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics. </p>
Brian D. Spund
James M. Pullman
Advanced microscopy technology including computational microscopy
Jennifer M. Oliver-Krasinski
Joanne M. Nazif
<p>Pediatric hospital medicine. </p>
Pediatric Medicine
Dr. Nazif’s clinical research focuses on resource utilization in the inpatient management of pediatric respiratory illnesses.
<p>Joanne M. Nazif, MD, is an Attending Physician in the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Division at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM). She is also an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Nazif leads hospital-wide initiatives that prioritize patient and family-centered care.</p><p>Dr. Nazif graduated magna cum laude from Duke University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. She received her Doctor of Medicine from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and completed her residency training in Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Nazif joined Montefiore in 2008.</p><p>Dr. Nazif’s clinical research focuses on resource utilization in the inpatient management of pediatric respiratory illnesses. Her work has been published in multiple book chapters and reviewed journals. She has been invited to speak at presentations and workshops.</p><p>Dr. Nazif is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and has been a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics since 2006.</p>
Rouzan G. Karabakhtsian
Editor, “Selected Abstracts in Anatomic Pathology†section of CAP Today, the College of American Pathologists monthly pathology news magazine.
Laura J. Hodges
Women’s interventional procedures, specifically uterine artery embolization for fibroid disease.
Women’s interventional procedures, specifically uterine artery embolization for fibroid disease.
<p>Laura J. Hodges, MD, is Attending Physician at Montefiore and Assistant Professor of Radiology at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her practice specialty is breast imaging and interventional radiology, with a clinical focus on women’s interventional procedures, specifically uterine artery embolization for fibroid disease.</p><p>After receiving her Bachelor of Arts from University of Connecticut in 1985 and her Bachelor of Science from George Washington University in 1987, Dr. Hodges earned her Doctor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1994. Upon graduation, she then pursued postdoctoral training at Yale New Haven Hospital, completing a Radiology residency in 1999. She then attended Cornell Medical Center/Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center where she completed a fellowship in Interventional Radiology in 2000.</p><p>Dr. Hodges’s research interests build on her clinical focus. She has published a case study on preoperative transcatheter embolization of abdominal pregnancy, as well as a number of abstracts on women’s interventional procedures.</p><p>Dr. Hodges is board certified and is a member of several professional societies, including the Society of Interventional Radiology, the American College of Radiology and the American Roentgen Ray Society.</p>
Susan A. Fineberg
Dr Fineberg's clinical focus is on the study of breast disease both neoplastic and benign.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
Dr. Fineberg's research focus is on the development of new predictive and prognostic biomarkers to be used in breast cancer patients to optimize clinical outcomes, investigation of the role of immunotherapy and standardization of pathologic practices amongst breast pathologists.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
<p>Lanjewar S, Patil P, <strong>Fineberg S. </strong>Pathologic reporting practices for breast cancer specimens after neoadjuvant chemotherapy- A survey of pathologists in academic institutions across the United States. Modern Pathol. 2019 .(33), 91-98. <a title="Read article" href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41379-019-0326-5" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41379-019-0326-5</a></p>
<p>Kimberly J. Van Zee, MS, MD, Emily C. Zabor, MS, Rosemarie Di Donato, MD3, Bryan Harmon, MD, Jana Fox, MD, Monica Morrow, MD, Hiram S. Cody III, MD, <strong>Susan A. Fineberg, MD. </strong>A Comparison of Local Recurrence Risk Estimates After Breast-Conserving Surgery for DCIS: DCIS Nomogram Vs Refined Oncotype DX Breast DCIS Score. Annals of Sugical Oncology . 2019 (26), 212-213. <a title="Read article" href="https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-019-07537-4" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-019-07537-4</a></p>
<p>Didonato R, Shapiro N, Koenigsberg, D’Alfonso, T, Jaffer S, <strong>Fineberg S</strong>. Invasive Mucinous Carcinoma of the breast and Response Patterns After Neodjuvant Chemotherapy. Histopathology 2018 May; 72(6):965-973</p>
<p>Hazan, R, Suyamaa, K, Yao J, Liang H, Bernard , Loudig O Amgalm D, Mckimplson W, Phillops G, Segall J, Wang Y, <strong>Fineberg S,</strong> Norton L, Kitsis R. A paradoxical role for an Akt3 splice variant lacking serine 472 phosphorylation site in promoting apoptosis leading to suppression of mammary tumorigenesis. Cancer Research. 2018:78(1).103-114</p>
<p>Pearlman A, Upadhyay K, Cole K, Loke J, Suan K, <strong>Fineberg S,</strong> Freedland S, Shao Y, Ostrer H. Robust genomic copy number predictor of pan cancer metastasis. Genes and Cancer. 2018 <a title="Read article" href="https://doi.org/10.18632/genesandcancer.165" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.18632/genesandcancer.165</a></p>
<p>Guo Tianhua, Shapiro Nella, Wang Yihong, <strong>Fineberg Susan</strong>. Pleomorphic lobular carcinoma in situ diagnosed by breast core biopsy: Clinicopathologic features and correlation with subsequent excision.Clinical Breast Cancer 2018 (4) e449-454 DOI: /10.1016/j.clbc.2017.10.004</p>
<p>Mclemore L Janakiram M, Albanese J, Shapiro N, Lo Y, Zang X, <strong>Fineberg S.</strong> An immunoscore using PD-L1, CD68 and tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) to predict response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in invasive breast cancer. Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol.2018;26(9), 611-619. doi: 10.1097/PAI.0000000000000485</p>
<p>Maria-Vittoria Dieci, Nina Radosevic-Robin, <strong>Susan Fineberg</strong> et. al., on behalf of the International Immuno-Oncology Bio-marker Working Group* Update on Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TILs) in Breast Cancer, including recommendations to assess TILs in Residual Disease and DCIS: a report of the International Immuno-Oncology Biomarker Working group on Breast Cancer*. Seminars in Cancer Biology 2107:52.16-25. <a title="Persistent link using digital object identifier" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semcancer.2017.10.003" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semcancer.2017.10.003</a></p>
<p>Mantilla JG, Koenigsberg T, Reig B, Shapiro N, Villaneuva-Siles E, <strong>Fineberg S.</strong> Core biopsy of vascular neoplasms of the breast; Pathologic features , imaging and clinical findings. Amer J of Surg Pathol .2016; 40:1424-1434</p>
<p>Polley M, Leung S, Gao D, Mastropasqua M, Zabaglo L, Bartlett J, McShane L, Enos R, Badve S, Bane A, Borgquist S, <strong>Fineberg S</strong>, Lin M, Grabau A, Gutierrez C, Hugh J, Moriya T, Ohi Y, Osborne K, Penault-Llorca F, Piper T, Porter P, Sakatani T, Salgado R, Starczynski J, Lænkholm A, Viale G, Dowsett M, Hayes D, Nielsen T, on behalf of the International Ki67 in Breast Cancer Working Group of the Breast International Group and North American Breast Cancer Group (BIG-NABCG). An international study to increase concordance in Ki67 scoring. Modern Pathology .2015; 28 (6) :778. PubMed [citation] PMID 25698062</p>
<p>Diaz J, Stead L, Shapiro N, Newell R, Loudig O, Lo Y, Sparano J, <strong>Fineberg S</strong>. Mitotic counts in breast cancer after neoadjuvant systemic chemotherapy and development of metastatic disease. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 2013; 138 :91-97. PubMed [citation] PMID 23417359</p>
<p>Giricz, O, Reynolds P, Rammuauth A, Liu C, Wang T, Stead L, Childs G, Rohan T, Shapiro, N <strong>, Fineberg S,</strong> Kenny P, Loudig O. Has-miR375 is differentially expressed during lobular neoplasia and promotes loss of mammary acinar polarity. Journal of Pathology. 2012; 226 (1): 108-119 .PubMed [citation] PMID 21953071</p>
<p>Auerbach J, Kim M, <strong>Fineberg S</strong>. Can results of routine pathologic evaluation of lymph node-negative estrogen receptor-positive stage I or II invasive breast cancer be used to predict the Oncotype DX Assay Recurrence Score result? Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. 2010; 134, (11): 1697-1701. PubMed [citation] PMID 21043825</p>
<p>Tazebay UH, Wapnir IL, Levy O, Dohan O, Zuckier LS, Zhao QH, deng HF, Ament PS, <strong>Fineberg S,</strong> Pestell RG, Carasco N. The mammary gland iodide transporter is expressed during lactation and in breast cancer. Nature Medicine .2000; 6 (8): 871-878. PubMed [citation] PMID: 10932223</p>
<p>Casey M, Zimmerman J, Rosenblatt R, <strong>Fineberg S.</strong> Mastectomy without malignancy following carcinoma diagnosed by large core stereotactic breast biopsy. Modern Pathology.1997; 10 (12): 1209-1213. PubMed [citation] PMID: 9436965</p>
<p><strong>Fineberg S</strong>, Rosen P. Cutaneous angiosarcoma and atypical vascular lesions of the skin and breast after radiation therapy for breast carcinoma. Am J Clin Pathol. 1994; 102 (6): 757-762. PubMed [citation] PMID: 7801888</p>
<p>Susan Fineberg, MD, is an Attending Pathologist, Section Head Breast Pathology and Associate Professor, Pathology at Montefiore Einstein. An integral member of the multidisciplinary breast program leadership team, Dr. Fineberg’s clinical focus is the study of tissue to diagnose breast disease, both neoplastic and benign.</p><p>After receiving her Bachelor of Arts in chemistry from State University of New York (SUNY) Binghamton in 1983, Dr. Fineberg pursued her medical degree at SUNY Stonybrook School of Medicine, earning her Doctor of Medicine in 1987. She completed her anatomic and clinical pathology residency training at New York University Medical Center in 1992, followed by an oncologic surgical pathology fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 1993.</p><p>Dr. Fineberg's research focus includes biomarker development in invasive breast cancer, particularly in the neoadjuvant setting, prognostic and predictive markers for ductal carcinoma in situ progression and recurrence, the role of immune response in breast cancer progression, and standardization of practice among breast pathologists. She has over 60 peer-reviewed publications on breast disease, has authored book chapters on the subject and has presented her work at national meetings.</p><p>Dr. Fineberg is board certified and is an active member of many national and international pathology organizations including the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, the International Society of Breast Disease and the International TILs Immuno-Oncology Biomarker Working Group for Breast Cancer.</p>