Richard Deckelbaum, MD believed in promoting health care for all and spent his career traveling the world as an advocate for communities in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Pediatrics Department chair Jordan Orange, MD, PhD was recently awarded prestigiousa MERIT (Method To Extend Research in Time) Award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia is collaborating with the REACH Institute to equip pediatric residents and faculty with essential mental health skills.
On Steve Miller Medical Education Day we continue Dr. Miller’s tradition of integrating humanism into the practice of medicine and creating innovative ways to teach future generations.
Transplant specialist Dr. Olatundun Williams is innovating potentially curative treatments for children with rare, sometimes debilitating or deadly immune deficiencies and disorders.
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.