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This Month In Pediatrics
May 2025
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COVID Shots for Kids Are Over
Dr. Sallie Permar comments on the FDA’s new approach to COVID-19 vaccines—a shift that could significantly impact pediatric immunization. The new strategy may limit or delay access to updated COVID vaccines for children, raising concerns among health professionals about protecting younger populations from emerging variants. Read more about what this could mean for families and the broader public health here!
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Dr. David Lyden Awarded Special Achievement Award
Dr. David Lyden was awarded the esteemed Special Achievement Award from the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles. This distinguished honor, voted on by over 2,000 ISEV members, recognizes Dr. Lyden’s groundbreaking contributions to the field of extracellular vesicle research. Read more here!
| | | Appointments & Promotions | | Dr. Genevieve Fouda Amou'ou has been appointed as the Brine Family Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology effective May 1, 2025. This professorship recognizes Dr. Fouda’s leadership field of pediatric immunology and her groundbreaking research on vaccine-elicited antibody responses for critical diseases such as HIV. Dr. Fouda’s accomplishments in the field and her commitment as leader and mentor bring distinction to Weill Cornell Medicine. | | Dr. Katharina Graw-Panzer has been appointed to Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics on the pathway recognizing Clinical Excellence effective May 1, 2025. We look forward to her future achievements at Weill Cornell Medicine. | | |
Dr. Adin Nelson has been appointed to Associate Professor of Teaching in Pediatrics on the Pathway Recognizing Excellence in Teaching effective May 1, 2025. We look forward to his future achievements at Weill Cornell Medicine.
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| | Drs. Duncan Hau and Dr. Freda Auyeung were selected to serve on the WCM Office of International Medical Student Education International Electives Committee for a 2-year term from 2025-2027. | | | |
| | Dr. Adin Nelson was elected to be the inaugural co-chair of the Scholarly Community on Pediatric Education (SCoPE) or the Research and Scholarship Learning Community of the Association of Pediatrics Program Directors. SCoPE is a brand-new virtual community of practice designed to provide mentorship and mutual support to education scholars working in pediatric GME. | | | |
| | Dr. Jane Chang was awarded the Jeanne and Herbert Siegel Faculty Development Award. This prize recognizes an early-career faculty member for exemplary clinical and research contributions, as well as teaching and mentoring medical students. | | | |
| | Dr. Jaclyn Rosenzweig received the 2025 Hyundai Young Investigator grant of $300,000 for her project titled "Combination studies of the LSD1 inhibitor IMG-7289 in pediatric relapsed and refractory acute myelogenous leukemia." | | | |
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Dr. Nitya Gulati was awarded the Ritu Banga Healthcare Disparities Research Award in the amount of $50,000 for her project titled "Investigating the biological factors behind racial and ethnic differences in tumor microenvironment and clinical outcomes in pediatric Hodgkin Lymphoma."
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Pediatric Fellows' Research in Progress takes place on the first Thursday of each month. Third- and second-year fellows present their ongoing academic scholarship work. This month's presenters were:
Gabriela Ulloa MD (2nd Year Neonatology Fellow)
Topic: A Quality Improvement Project- Oxygen Saturation Targets in Preterm Infants
Alex Nanchanatt, MD (2nd Year Hematology/Oncology Fellow)
Topic: Prognostic Significance of Circulating Cytokines/Cytokine Receptors in Pediatric ALK+ Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma
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Advocacy in Action at the Department Retreat
Thank you to everyone who participated in our recent Department of Pediatrics Advocacy Retreat featuring Dr. Glenn Flores. Your engagement, ideas, and candor are the driving force behind our shared mission to champion children’s health and the pediatric workforce.
As a reminder, Ilina Ewen is available to attend your division meetings to help craft your advocacy plan!
To stay informed on the issues impacting the children and families we serve, we encourage you to explore these trusted resources:
AAP Voices Blog
AAP Advocacy Action Center
The 19th
Georgetown Center for Children and Families
We look forward to hearing from you as each division shares its advocacy plan during
Division Chief meetings throughout the year.
Let’s keep the momentum going; stay informed, be engaged, and continue to use your OUTSIDE voice!
New Proposed Federal Rule
There is a new proposed federal rule that could significantly impact the independence of NIH and other research funders by reclassifying scientific leadership roles as political appointments, meaning future administrations can appoint and remove NIH Institute and Division Directors based on political preference rather than scientific expertise and experience.
The proposal (click here) would treat grantmaking as a political function. Public comments are open until June 7, 2025.
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Dr. Joy Howell was selected for the Senior List Excellence in Teaching award at the 2025 Weill Cornell Medicine Commencement.
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| | Dr. MacKenzi Preston has been selected for an Excellence in Medical Education Award. This award recognizes educators and key staff who have made outstanding contributions to the education mission and who continue to make the Weill Cornell Medical College experience exceptional for our students. | | | |
| | Dr. Zachary Grinspan has been selected for an Excellence in Medical Education Award. This award recognizes educators and key staff who have made outstanding contributions to the education mission and who continue to make the Weill Cornell Medical College experience exceptional for our students. | | | |
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Dr. Khaled Musallam is a recipient of the European Hematology Association Clinical Excellence Award that will be delivered with a special address during the Presidential Symposium of the EHA Congress in Milan, Italy, next month.
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| | Dr. Marisa Censani was named a 2024 New York Metro Top Doctor (New York Magazine) and a 2025 Super Doctor (New York Times Magazine). She was also honored as a Master Fellow of the Obesity Medicine Association for exceptional contributions to the field and leadership within the organization. Additionally, she was officially installed as President-Elect of the Obesity Medicine Association at the recent conference. | | | |
| | Dr. Michelle Loy was invited to join the BraveNet Practice-Based Research Network, a prominent academic network committed to advancing integrative medicine. | | | |
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Our Pediatric nurses won awards at the Annual Cornell Nursing Awards:
Mentorship Award: Kristine Demen, RN, Pediatric Allergy
Rising Star Award: Sophia Gutierrez, RN, Pediatric Endocrinology
| | | | Click here to view publications by faculty members published in the last 30 days! | | |
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Dr. TJ Jirasevijinda participated in two workshops at the World Federation of Medical Education (WFME) in Bangkok, Thailand: Addressing Bias and Reducing Discrimination in Health Professions Education and Developing OSCE Stations for Intra- and Interprofessional Conflict Resolution. He also delivered a presentation titled Medical Education Journal Club: A Simple Strategy for Faculty Development.
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Dr. Oksana Lekarev delivered a talk at the 2025 Pediatric Endocrine Society meeting during the Symposium on Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, titled “Challenges in Managing Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia in Pediatrics.”
She also presented a poster, “Crinecerfont Enables Reduction of Glucocorticoid Doses While Maintaining or Improving Androstenedione in Pediatric Patients with Classic Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia: Subgroup Analyses from the CAHtalyst™ Pediatric Phase 3 Study,” which won the Presidential Poster Award.
Additionally, Dr. Lekarev presented another poster titled “Near Final Height in Males Treated with Aromatase Inhibitors.”
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Dr. Adin Nelson was invited to give a faculty development seminar at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center titled, “Evidence-Based Education; treating our learners the way we treat our patients”.
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| | Dr. Perdita Permaul was an invited speaker for the Post-Graduate Course: Asthma: Allergies, Biologics, and Control, Oh My: Fundamentals of Asthma Biology & Management at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting held in Honolulu, Hawaii. | | | |
| | Dr. Marianne Nellis was invited to give two talks at EuroELSO in Milan entitled, "How to Transfuse A Child Supported by ECMO” and “Results from the ECSTATIC Trial." | | | |
| | Dr. Cynthia Isedeh and Lauren Garcia, Pediatric Physician Assistant, at the Weill Cornell Quality Improvement Academy Poster Symposium. | | | |
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Dr. Laurie Gordon was an invited speaker for a Community Pediatrics Training Institute-Networking & Collaboratives Webinar entitled "Enhancing Resident Education Via a Collaborative."
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| | Dr. Maria Thanjan was featured in a NewYork-Presbyterian Queens commercial and printed advertisement featuring her and her patient who underwent Tetralogy of Fallot repair and subsequent placement of an innovative new heart valve called the Autus valve. | | | |
| | Dr. Nicole Kucine was an invited speaker at the Western Blood Conference meeting in Utah. | | | |
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The Pediatric Pulmonology team presented the following posters at ATS 2025 International Conference in San Francisco:
Metabolomic Dysregulations in Severe Obesity-Related Asthma: Insights from a New York City Pediatric Urban Cohort
Altered Lung-Gut Microbiome in Premature Infants with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
Asthma-associated 17q21 Genotype Affects Sphingolipid Metabolism in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells but Not in Primary Nasal Epithelial Cells
Improving Inhaled Corticosteroid Prescribing Practices for Children Admitted to the Hospital with an Acute Asthma Exacerbation
Challenges of Implementing a Standardized Asthma Clinical Pathway Across a Pediatric Department
Recurrent Hemoptysis: A Rare Case of Chronic Cavitary Pulmonary Aspergillosis in an Immunocompetent 20-year-old Man
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The Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine presented posters at the Pediatric Academic Society conference:
Dr. Alexander Stephan on respiratory pathogen testing and pediatric ED return visits
Dr. Vincent Uy on key physical exam findings by pre-hospital providers in children with respiratory distress
Dr. Deborah Levine on discrepancies between documented and self-reported concussion symptoms in the pediatric ED
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| | Dr. Lilian Cohen, a member of the Blackwell Society, organized a highly successful mentoring mixer that brought together faculty, trainees, and students. | | | |
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Dr. Rachel Kowalsky delivered the keynote, “The Kitchen Table: Identity, Universality, and Welcoming Our Patients in Times of Trouble,” at George Washington University’s Geriatric Medicine Poetry and Literature Fest.
Her AOC student presented their abstract, “Decolonizing Asylum Medicine: The Ethics of Representation in Forensic Medical Affidavit Writing,” at the Health Humanities Consortium National Conference in Philadelphia.
Dr. Kowalsky also gave Grand Rounds on “The Role of Health Humanities in Medicine” at the University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine.
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| | Nina Friedman’s (Child Life Specialist) research on MBH patients’ quality of life in the pediatric ED was published in Pediatric Emergency Care. Her study found that MBH patients boarding in the ED showed no improvement or worsened quality of life, emphasizing the need to enhance their emergency care. | | | |
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Department of Pediatrics summer interns involved in Dr. Osorio’s Quality Improvement Program won second place for their biomedical engineering project, the “Neogrip Endotracheal Tube Holder,” designed to prevent unplanned neonatal extubations. Jonathan Colaco and his Cornell engineering teammates are now pursuing a provisional patent. Congratulations to the team on this impressive achievement!
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| | Incoming pediatrics intern Nell Borys performed on stage with the WCM Music in Medicine Program at the WCM commencement held at Carnegie Hall. | | | |
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Seventh Annual Meeting of the Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Society of Greater New York
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 6-9 PM
Location: Belfer Research Building, Room 204
Register HERE!
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Pediatrics Research Day 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics and Drukier Institute for Children’s Health are pleased to host the 4th Annual Weill Cornell Medicine Pediatrics Research Day highlighting pediatric research conducted by faculty, fellows, residents, graduate students, postdocs, medical students, and other researchers!
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 8AM-6PM
Location: Belfer Research Building
Register HERE!
Submit an Abstract HERE!
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Department of Pediatrics Fellows' Acknowledgement & Department Awards Celebration
This celebration honors colleagues for advancing children's health and highlights outstanding contributions across clinical care, education, research, and administration.
Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Time: 12-1:30PM
Location: Weill Greenberg Building, 2nd Floor Conference Room
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Pediatrics Summer Internship Lunch & Learn Series
The learning series for summer interns features 30-minute talks by speakers on their area of expertise or career journey, followed by a 30-minute Q&A session.
Date: Wednesdays, June 11 - August 6
Time: 12-1PM
Location: Conference Room M614
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Shout out to Dr. Shipra Kaicker for her invaluable pillar of support to the Hemophilia Society-Noida. She consistently guided and mentored their team, enhancing the quality of care provided to their patients. Her compassion, dedication, and unwavering commitment towards the hemophilia community has had a profound impact on the lives of patients and families.
Dr. Zachary Grinspan and the Child Life team have been acknowledged by a patient for providing wonderful patient care!
Drs. Manoj Chhabra, Oksana Lekarev and Katherine Graw-Panzer were among the top pediatric physicians with stellar Google review ratings this month!
Share your appreciation for colleagues by submitting a shout-out for inclusion in the department newsletter here!
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