Pediatric Interest Group: Mentors in Pediatrics
If you don’t find a mentor that fits your interests please email julia.lubsen@yale.edu. We will help you find someone.
If you have good experiences with mentors who are not on the list, please let us know so that we can add them!
NAME
CONTACT INFO
CLINICAL AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Child Abuse
Andrea Asnes
andrea.asnes@yale.edu
Medical evaluation of child maltreatment and inpatient general pediatrics
Child Psychiatry
Andres Martin andres.martin@yale.edu
Critical Care
Clifford Bogue
Megan McCabe
Mental health issues in pediatrics
clifford.bogue@yale.edu
Office phone: 203-785-4651
Lab phone: 203-737-4241
My clinical interests are acute respiratory failure and patient safety and
my research is the molecular and genetic control of organogenesis. My
lab is currently focused on genetic mechanisms of liver and
cardiovascular development.
megan.mccabe@yale.edu
Office phone: 203-785-4651
Clinical: Stabilization, diagnosis and management of critically ill children,
transport medicine, extracorporeal life support
Research: Pediatric palliative and end-of-life care, medical education
Emergency Medicine
Karen Santucci karen.santucci@yale.edu
I do work in Quality and Safety and Clinical Forensic Medicine.
Kirsten
Bechtel
kirsten.bechtel@yale.edu
I would be willing to speak to students about opportunities in pediatrics
and research opportunities. (Not currently available for shadowing.)
Lei Chen
lei.chen@yale.edu
My clinical practice is in the children's emergency department. My
research interests include simulation, the application of novel
technologies to children in the ED, and international child health.
Linda Arnold
linda.arnold@yale.edu
My clinical interests are Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Global Health.
My research interests include use of hypnosis for relief of procedural pain
and anxiety in children and global health topics within the realm of child
health and safety.
Mark Cicero
mark.cicero@yale.edu
Office phone: 203-688-7970
Clinically, I do pediatric Emergency Medicine. My research interests are
disaster planning and education, as well as respiratory viruses in febrile
young babies.
Melissa
Langhan
melissa.langhan@yale.edu
My clinical/research interests include patient safety, end-tidal carbon
dioxide monitoring, and emergency medical services.
Endocrinology
Scott Rivkees
scott.rivkees@yale.edu
203-737-5975
Gastroenterology
Dinesh
dinesh.pashankar@yale.edu
Pashankar
General Pediatrics
Ada Fenick
ada.fenick@yale.edu
Office phone: 203-688-4552
Office address: DCB14F
Clinical: Thryoid disorders, adrenal disorders, endocrinology
Research: Fetal programming, brain injury prevention in premature
infants, circadian rhythm disorders
Inflammatory bowel disease, gastroesophageal reflux, obesity. I have
worked with two medical students on research projects successfully.
Clinical: general pediatrics including well newborn nursery
Research: obesity education & obesity prevention, lactation group well
child care, medical education, and systems (quality improvement – for
example how to fit developmental screening into a clinical practice, how
to fit in group well child care, how to design a schedule so that providers
are running on time)
Marjorie
Rosenthal
marjorie.rosenthal@yale.edu
Clinical: caring for young vulnerable families--pediatric PCC (primary
care center) and premature infant follow-up clinic
Research: I conduct research on decreasing inequities in health
education and health behavior for young, vulnerable families. Specifically,
I study barriers (such as parental literacy and maternal mental health) as
well as facilitating factors (such as group well-child care, co-locating
developmental services with primary care, and child care providers as lay
health educators). I also conduct research on teaching community-based
participatory research.
Paul McCarthy
paul.mccarthy@yale.edu
Phone 6882475
I am a generalist pediatrician and a pediatric rheumatologist. Most of my
research is in the area of clinical judgment.
Office phone: 688-6533
(leave a message)
david.hersh@yale.edu
I'm not currently working on any research projects, but there are a
couple percolating in my head. My interests are pretty varied and all boil
down to assessing the care we give to patients on the general inpatient
units and the education we provide housestaff, students, patients and
families.
Hospitalist
David Hersh
Infectious Disease
Eugene
eugene.shapiro@yale.edu
Shapiro
Phone: 203-688-4555
I am interested in clinical epidemiologic research on pediatric infectious
diseases, especially vaccines, Lyme disease but many other things as
well. Also education and mentoring.
George Miller
george.miller@yale.edu
Infectious diseases/virology
Marietta
marietta.vazquez@yale.edu
Pediatric vaccines and respiratory viruses
Vazquez
Rick
Martinello
richard.martinello@yale.edu
Infection control, MRSA, respiratory viruses (primarily influenza, RSV &
hMPV), pathogen transmission (primarily respiratory viruses)
I primarily perform clinical research though I do maintain a lab and work
on the use of nucleotide sequences to identify respiratory virus strain
type and support research on the epidemiology of respiratory viruses.
Warren
Andiman
warren.andiman@yale.edu
5-4730 or 5-4762
Pediatric infectious diseases, especially clinical and diagnostic virology.
Pediatric and adolescent HIV/AIDS. Long-term outcomes of kids with
perinatally acquired HIV infection who have become long-term survivors.
Challenges to transitioning HIV-infected young adults into internal
medicine venues.
Margaret
Hostetter
anna.cuomo@yale.edu or
phone 203-785-4638
Available for research opportunities:
Among the fungi, the yeast Candida albicans is the leading cause of death
in susceptible hosts including premature newborns, patients with cancer,
and other immunocompromised hosts. Expanding upon our prior
characterization of functions of the Int1 protein in adhesion, filamentous
growth, and virulence (Science 279:1355-8, 1998), we have defined new
functions for this protein in superantigen-mediated injury (Journal of
Infectious Diseases 197:981-9, 2008) and in biofilm formation. Recent
work has mapped a heparin-binding site on Int1 that is the trigger for
expression of the Int superantigen, the first fungal superantigen to be
identified; surprisingly, mutation of this site renders the yeast incapable
of biofilm formation. Other work on candidal biofilms has identified the
statins as potent inhibitors of Candida albicans biofilm by virtue of their
effects on synthesis of ergosterol, the cholesterol-like compound that is
the major sterol of the yeast cell membrane (Pediatric Research 2009).
Multiple aspects of these projects are open to interested medical
students.
Newborn Nursery
Eve Colson
eve.colson@yale.edu
Rheumatology
Paul McCarthy paul.mccarthy@yale.edu
Phone 6882475
Clinical: Pediatrics, well newborns
Research: Public health interventions, qualitative research, sudden infant
death syndrome (SIDS) prevention
I am a generalist pediatrician and a pediatric rheumatologist. Most of my
research is in the area of clinical judgment.