Columbia pediatricians are active in our surrounding communities, promoting sexual health and the prevention and management of obesity, two of the challenges faced by the neighborhood’s young people.
Francisca Kwakye left Ghana as a young child to receive life-changing treatment for sickle cell disease. Now cured, her dream is to improve health care access for others.
In a first-of-its-kind “domino” transplant in infants, our cardiac surgeons performed a heart transplant in one baby, and then transplanted valves from her old heart into another infant.
Columbia’s chief of pediatric critical care and hospital medicine, Hülya Bayır, MD, is researching ways to protect brain tissue and prevent disability or death, after a child suffers a head injury.
Father-daughter team Drs. Natasha and Rudolph Leibel work in parallel at the forefront of science and medicine to improve the treatment of patients with diabetes and obesity.
Columbia's Jocelyn Brown, MD, is among a small number of pediatricians in the US trained to evaluate potential child abuse patients, and her goal is not to find abuse but to protect the child.
