Dr. Bill Speck's two guiding passions were the care and welfare of babies, children, and young adults, and a commitment to provide excellent training to young pediatricians.
Lewis Silverman, MD will join the Department of Pediatrics as director of the Hope and Heroes Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation.
Our inaugural Columbia Children's Health Innovation and Learning Day showcased the depth and breadth of research conducted by Columbia physician-scientists to improve the care of children.
The most commonly used asthma inhaler was taken off the market and replaced with a generic version that is more costly for many patients, impacting doctors and the children with asthma they care for.
Maureen Licursi, NP cares for children with lifelong genetic diseases and long-term chronic illnesses, such as sickle cell disease, helping them throughout all stages of their treatment.
Columbia’s multidisciplinary Vascular Anomalies Group has provided specialized care to infants, children, and adolescents with complex vascular problems for more than 15 years.
Through new research studies Dr. Stergios Zacharoulis hopes to impact the currently dismal outlook for the 4,000 children in the US diagnosed each year with a brain or spinal cord tumor.
Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center has been named the Northeast’s only Level I Pediatric Surgery Center - only 18 US hospitals have reached Level I status.
Pediatrician and neuroscientist Dani Dumitriu, MD, PhD is researching the developmental origins of resilience. Her goal: to design interventions that prevent disease by increasing resilience.
Columbia has launched the Center for Children’s Digital Health Research. Participating researchers will use the most cutting edge tools to have a positive impact child health.
A variety of factors are behind the recent upsurge in measles cases. Understanding these factors could point to a way to stop future outbreaks from taking hold.
Public health experts at a recent adolescent health symposium noted that rates of sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise, and teens have a higher risk of acquiring a STI than any other group.