Trans-Departmental Children’s Council (TDCC)

The NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital Trans-Departmental Children’s Council (TDCC) brings together the many clinical departments and divisions at Columbia that collectively provide care to children. The purpose of the TDCC, established this year by Jordan Orange MD, PhD, chair of pediatrics and hospital physician-in-chief, is to strategically combine efforts and share ideas as well as identify new potential opportunities to advance children’s health at Columbia and NewYork-Presbyterian.

The TDCC’s accomplishments over the past year include:

• The creation of a shared internal resource that maps all children’s health services and scheduling information
• A hospital-wide comprehensive transition medicine initiative to ensure that patients with chronic illness experience a seamless transition from pediatric caregivers to adult medical subspecialists. (The proposal was developed by the TDCC transition medicine committee, chaired by Gary Schwartz, MD, chief of medical hematology and oncology, and is supported by the dean of the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and NewYork-Presbyterian executive leadership.)
• A branding strategy to optimize multidisciplinary programs on social media and enhance the web presence of these programs. (The strategy was developed by the TDCC marketing committee, led by Steve Stylianos, MD, chief of pediatric surgery, and is endorsed by hospital leadership.)

Membership of the TDCC

• Anesthesiology
  • Lena S. Sun, MD, Chief, Division of Pediatric Anesthesia
• Biomedical Informatics
  • Soumitra Sengupta, PhD, Vice Chair, Dept of Biomedical Informatics
• Dermatology
  • Laura E. Levin, MD
• Emergency Medicine
  • John Babineau, MD, Chief, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
• Family Medicine
  • Richard Younge, MD, Director, Center for Family & Com Med
• Medicine
  • Gary Schwartz, MD, Division Chief, Hematology/Oncology
• Neurology
  • Cigdem Akman, MD, Chief, Division of Child Neurology
• Neurosurgery
  • Neil Feldstein, MD, Director, Pediatric Neurological Surgery
• Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Mary D’Alton, MD, Chair, Dept of Obstetrics & Gynecology
• Ophthalmology
  • Steven Rosenberg, MD, Chief, Pediatric Opthalmology
• Orthopedics
  • Joshua Hyman, MD, Clinical Director, Weinberg Fam Cerebral Palsy 
• Otolaryngology
  • Eli Grunstein, MD, Chief, Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology
• Pathology
  • Larisa Debelenko, MD, PhD (Anatomical)
  • Brie Stotler, MD, MPH (Clinical)
• Pediatrics
  • Jordan S. Orange, MD, PhD, Chair, Department of Pediatrics
  • George Hardart, MD, MPH, Vice Chair for Intra-Hospital Clinical Affairs
• Psychiatry
  • Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, MD, Director, Division of CAH Psychiatry
  • Yiu Kee Warren Ng, MD, Director of Clinical Services, CAH Psychiatry
• Radiology
  • Sheryl Tulin-Silver, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiology at CUIMC
  • Carrie Ruzal Shapiro, MD, Professor of Radiology at CUIMC
• Radiation Oncology
  • Cheng-Chia Wu, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology
• Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Heakyung Kim, MD, Director, Pediatric Physical Med and Rehab
• Russ Berrie Institute
  • Natasha Leibel, MD, Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center
• Surgery
  • Emile Bacha, MD, Chief, Div of Cardiac, Thoracic & Vascular
  • Steven Stylianos, MD, Chief, Division of Pediatric Surgery
• Urology
  • Christina Carpenter, MD, Assistant Professor of Urology at CUIMC