Martina Stehlikova

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Martina

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Stehlikova

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<p>In-patient internal medicine with a special interest in hematology. Anemia, thrombocytopenia and coagulopathy in hospitalised patients.</p>

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Tihomir Stefanec

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Tihomir

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Stefanec

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1396729976

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<p>I am interested in Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine. &nbsp;My current interest is Critical Care Medicine. &nbsp;</p>

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Multidisciplinary Critical Care Medicine (Medical, Surgical, Neurologic, Cardiothoracic).<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>

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Role of the endothelium and its progenitors in the pathogenesis of disease.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>

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<p>Tihomir Stefanec, MD, is Attending Physician, Critical Care Medicine, Assistant Professor, Medicine and Neurology at Montefiore Einstein. His clinical focus is multidisciplinary critical care medicine including medical, surgical, neurologic and cardiothoracic critical care.</p><p>After earning his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Zagreb Medical School in Zagreb, Croatia in 1992, Dr. Stefanec completed an internal medicine internship and residency at Long Island College Hospital in 1997. He then completed a critical care medicine fellowship at Saint Vincent&rsquo;s Hospital and Medical Center in 1999. Following this, Dr. Stefanec completed a pulmonary medicine fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2001.</p><p>Dr. Stefanec&rsquo;s past research focuses on the role of the endothelium and its progenitors in the pathogenesis of disease. His work has been published in peer-reviewed original publications, reviews, editorials and abstracts, and he has presented nationally.</p><p>Dr. Stefanec is board certified in Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine, as well as in Neurocritical Care by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties. He has been a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians since 2003, and is a member of the American Thoracic Society, the American College of Chest Physicians and the European Respiratory Society.</p>

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Brian D. Spund

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Brian

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Spund

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Luke R. Sponholz

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Luke

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Sponholz

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Olena Slinchenkova

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Olena

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Slinchenkova

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Sumeet Singh-Tan

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Sumeet

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Singh-Tan

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1215318001

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Victoria Lynn Shulman

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Victoria

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Shulman

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Victoria Shulman, MD, is an attending physician at the Children&rsquo;s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor, Pediatrics at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Shulman&rsquo;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&rsquo;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 />

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Mark Shlomovich

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Mark

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Shlomovich

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<p>Mark Shlomovich, MD, is Director, Extracorporeal Liver Support and Director, Pediatric Critical Care Transport at Children&rsquo;s Hospital at Montefiore and Assistant Professor, Pediatrics at Montefiore-Einstein. Dr. Shlomovich&rsquo;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&rsquo;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>

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Shlomo Shinnar

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Shlomo

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Shinnar

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<p>Dr. Shlomo Shinnar is a neurologist, pediatrician and epidemiologist. His expertise focuses on comprehensive epilepsy management, child neurology and epilepsy with a focus on long term studies&nbsp; the prognosis of childhood seizures disorders. He is also an experienced clinical trialist and is the co-director of the Einstein NeuroNEXT cener of Excellence for Clinical Trials in Neurology.<br /><br />Dr. Shinnar conducts research on a variety of topics relating to childhood seizures, including when to initiate and discontinue antiepileptic drug therapy, prognosis following a first seizure, and prognosis following discontinuation of medications in children with seizures.&nbsp;He is also interested in the comorbidities of epilepsy and its impact on chilren and families.&nbsp;He current studies focus on status epilepticus, a life-threatening condition of persistent continuous and unremitting brain seizure lasting longer than 30 minutes.&nbsp; He is also involved in research in autism, an increasingly common neurological condition in childhood.<br /><br />His current research focuses on the consequences of prolonged febrile seizures, the most common seizure seen in children and on the long term outcomes of childhood absence (petit-mal) seizures which are the most common form of epilepsy in children. He is also on the executive commitee of the recentlyfunded ESETT (Established Status Epilepticus Treatment Trial) trial which seeks to determine the optimal therapy for convulsive status epilepticus inchildren and adults when first line therapy with a benzodiazepine has failed.</p>
<p>Dr. Shinnar is the senior editor of the book <em>Childhood Seizures</em> and co-editor of the book <em>Febrile Seizures</em>. He has published over 185 original papers and over 125 reviews and chapters. He is the recipient of the prestigious Research Recognition Award of the American Epilepsy Society and the CURE&nbsp; research award. His continuing research on the Consequences of Prolonged Febrile Seizures in Children (FEBSTAT) study was recently recognized with the prestigious Javits award by the NINDS.<br /><br /></p>

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<p>Most recent publications:</p>
<p>ORIGINAL PAPERS:</p>
<p>Sillanpaa M, Shinnar S. SUDEP and other causes of mortality in childhood-onset epilepsy<span style="text-decoration: underline;">. Epilepsy &amp; Behavior</span> 2013;28:249-255.&nbsp; PMID: 23746924</p>
<p>&nbsp;Hesdorffer DC, Shinnar S, Lewis DV, Nordli DR Jr, Pellock JM, Moshe SL, Shinnar RC, Litherand C, Bagiella E, Frank LM, BelloJA, Chan S, Masur D, Macfall J, Sun S and the Consequences of Prolonged Febrile Seizures (FEBSTAT) Study Team.&nbsp; Risk Factors for Febrile Status Epilepticus: A case control study. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">J Pediatr</span> 2013; 163:1147-1151. PMID: 23809042 &nbsp;PMCID: PMC3989363</p>
<p>&nbsp;Masur D, Shinnar S, Cnaan A, Shinnar RC, Clark P, Wang J, Weiss EF, Hirtz DG, Glauser TA, Childhood Absence Epilepsy Study Group. Pretreatment cognitive deficits and treatment effects on attention in childhood absence epilepsy. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Neurology</span> 2013; 81:1572-1580. PMID: 24089388. PMCID: PMC3980500</p>
<p>&nbsp;Brown FC, Westerveld M, Langfitt JT, Hamberger M, Hamid H, Shinnar S, Sperling MR, Devinsky O, Barr W, Tracy J, Masur M, Bazil CW, Spencer SS. Influence of anxiety on memory performance in temporal lobe epilepsy. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Epilepsy &amp; Behavior</span> 2014; 31:19-24. PMID: 24291525 PMCID: PMC3946774.</p>
<p>&nbsp;Lewis DV, Shinnar S, Hesdorffer DC, Bagiella E, Bello JA, Chan S, Xu Y, MacFall J, Gomes WA, Moshe SL, Mathern GW, Pellock JM, Nordli DR Jr, Frank LM, Provenzale J,&nbsp; Shinnar RC, Epstein LG, Masur D, Litherand C, Sun S; FEBSTAT Study Team. Hippocampal sclerosis after febrile status epilepticus: The FEBSTAT study<span style="text-decoration: underline;">. Ann Neurol</span> 2014;75:178-185.&nbsp; PMID# 24318290&nbsp;&nbsp; NIHMSID# 569823&nbsp; PMCID: PMC3980500</p>
<p>&nbsp;Hussain SA, Shinnar S, Kwong G, Lerner JT, Matsumoto JH, Wu JY, Sields WD, Sankar R. Treatment of infantile spasms with very high dose prednisolone before high dose adrenocorticotropic hormone. Epilepsia 2014;55:103-107.&nbsp; PMID 24446954&nbsp; OMCID: PMC3904676</p>
<p>&nbsp;Hamid H, Blackmon K, Cong X, Dziura J, Atlas LY, Vickrey BG, Berg AT, Bazil CW, Langfitt JT, Walczak TS, Sperling MR, Shinnar S, Devinsky O.&nbsp; Mood anxiety and incomplete seizure control affect quality of life after epilepsy surgery. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Neurology</span> 2014; 82:887-894. PMID 24489129&nbsp; PMCID: PMC3959755.</p>
<p>&nbsp;Seinfeld S, Shinnar S, Sun S, Hesdorffer DC, Deng X, Shinnar RC, O&rsquo;Hara K, Nordli DR Jr, Frank LM, Gallentine W, Moshe SL, Pellock JM and FEBSTAT Study Team. Emergency management of febrile status epilepticus: results of the FEBSTAT study<span style="text-decoration: underline;">. Epilepsia</span> 2014; 55:388-395. PMID&nbsp; 24502379 PMCID: PMC3937844.</p>
<p>&nbsp;Mendley SR, Matheson MB, Shinnar S, Lande MB, Gerson AC, Butler RW,&nbsp; Warady BA, Furth SL, Hooper SR. Duration of chronic kidney disease reduces attention and executive function in pediatric patients. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Kidney Int</span>&nbsp; 2014; 87:800-806.] PMID 25252026</p>
<p>&nbsp;Valicenti-McDermott M, Lawson K, Hottinger K, Seijo R, Schechtman M, Shulman L, Shinnar S. Parental Stress in Families of Children with Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">J Child Neurol</span> 2015 April 10 [epub ahead of print). PMID: 25862740.</p>
<p>&nbsp;Krumholz A, Wiebe S, Groseth GS, Gloss DS, Sanchez AM, Kabir AA, Liferidge AT, Martello JP, Kanner AM, Shinnar S, Hopp JL, French JA. Evidence-based guideline: Management of an unprovoked first seizure in adults: report of the Guideline Development Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Neurology</span> 2015;84:1805-1713. PMIDL 25901057</p>
<p>RECENT REVIEWS:</p>
<p>&nbsp;Gomes WA, Shinnar S. Prospects for imaging-related biomarkers of human epileptogenesis: A critical review.&nbsp; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Biomark Med</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2011;5:599-606. PMID:22003908.&nbsp; PMCID: 3235417.</p>
<p>&nbsp;Shinnar S. Prognostic factors for recurrence after a first unprovoked seizure in childhood. In Arts WF, Arzimanoglou A, Brouwer OF, Camfield C, Camfield P eds. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Outcome of Childhood Epilepsies.</span> Progress in Epileptic Disorders&nbsp; 2013;12:25-31.</p>
<p>&nbsp;Bleck T, Cock H, Chamberlain J Cloyd J, Connor J, Elm J, Fountain N, Jones E, Lowenstein D, Shinnar S, Silbergleit R, Treiman D, Trinka E, Kapur J. The established status epilepticus trial 2013. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Epilepsia</span> 2013 54 (suppl 6): 89-92. PMID 24001084 PMCID:&nbsp; PMC4048827</p>
<p>&nbsp;Patterson KP, Baram TZ, Shinnar S. Origins of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: Febrile seizures and Febrile Status Epilepticus. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Neurotherapeutics</span> 2014; 11:242-250. PMID: 24604424&nbsp; PMCID: PMC3996115</p>

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Theresa M. Serra

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Theresa

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<p class="MsoNormal">Theresa Serra, MD, joined the CHAM hospitalist division in 2014 after working as a pediatric hospitalist at New York Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital. Her interests include clinical research and medical education. She has conducted an IRB approved retrospective chart review examining readmission rates in pediatric patients diagnosed with osteomyelitis. Dr. Serra is currently developing a medical Spanish curriculum for faculty members in order to improve communication between patients, families and providers. Along with Courtney McNamara, MD, Dr. Serra is a co-leader of a multidisciplinary committee dedicated to standardizing and improving quality of care for patients hospitalized with the diagnosis of failure to thrive. Dr. Serra is also working on an initiative to identify vaccine delinquency in the inpatient setting through the use of SMART reports.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Serra is also collaborating with Lindsey Douglas, MD, MSCR, in an IRB approved quality improvement (QI) project to improve transition-of-care communication between hospitalists and primary care providers and to facilitate the establishment of medical homes. Dr. Serra is also a member of a subcommittee that leads monthly journal clubs/case conferences for pediatric hospitalists.</p>

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