Over the past two years, the Department of Pediatrics has engaged in efforts to coalesce clinical, research, community, and educational endeavors at Columbia focused on pediatric obesity.
Members of our pediatric palliative care team work to ease children's pain and facilitate communication and decision-making to ensure that families' values and preferences are heard and respected.
Stephanie Lovinsky-Desir, MD researches disparities in health outcomes for underrepresented minorities and the link between air pollution exposure and physical activity patterns among young people.
Dr. Rebecca Hough is both a compassionate clinician and a lung biologist with a special interest in the molecular mechanisms of acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
Columbia University chief of pediatric critical care medicine Dr. Steve Kernie explains the rare, new inflammatory syndrome in children and symptoms parents should look for.
Columbia’s adoption of telemedicine offerings has enabled us to rapidly pivot to video visits amid the pandemic, making a critical difference for patients and providers at a time of great need.
Born with the rare congenital heart defect Ebstein anomaly, Mahdi Islam had a heart transplant in 2018. “We always knew our son was in good hands,” his father says.
