Staff and Fellows

Current Fellow

Amanda Cantor, MD
Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

Hepatologist

Steven Lobritto, MD
Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center
Pediatric Medical Director, Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia

Mercedes Martinez, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center
Medical Director of Pediatric Intestinal Transplant Program
Associate Program Director of Advance Transplant Hepatology Fellowship
Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York

Dana Goldner, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center

Surgeons

Jean Emond, MD
Thomas S. Zimmer Professor of Surgery at Columbia University Medical Center
Vice Chair and Director of Transplantation
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

Tomaki Kato, MD, MPH
Edwin C. and Anne K. Weisskopf Professor of Surgical Oncology in Surgery at Columbia University Medical Center
Chief, Division of Abdominal Transplantation
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

Physician Extenders

Ana Rundle, NP
Monica L. Velasco, DNP
Sheila C. Bradley, FNP-C
Laurel Stanley Glynn, MSSW
Faith Tierney, PA–C
Megan Nowosad, RN, BSN
Genevieve Williams, RN, BSN
Justin Chen, Clinical Pharmacy Manager
Nadine Breslin, Clinical Pharmacy Manager

Advance Transplant Hepatology

Graduates

2022
Pooja Reddy, MD
Graduation Position: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Columbia University. New York, NY

2020
Stefany Hernandez Benabe, MD
Graduation Position: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. University of Arizona

2018
Johanna Ferreira, MD
Graduation Position: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Weil Cornell. New York, NY

2017
Vania Kasper, MD
Graduation Position: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Brown University. Providence, RI

2016
Dana Goldner, MD
Graduation Position: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at University of Miami. Pediatric Transplant Hepatologist. Pediatric Miami Transplant Institute. Jackson Health System

2015
Nagaraj Kasi, MD
Graduation Position: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics University of South Carolina. Medical Director, Liver Transplant Program. Charleston, SC

Sarah Taylor, MD
Graduation Position: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Northwestern University. Pediatric Transplant Hepatologist Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

2014
Jennifer Vittorio, MD
Graduation Position: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center. Pediatric Transplant Hepatologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. New York, NY

2013
Jumana Shammout, MD

2012
Katherine Orellana, DO.
Graduation Position: Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology Attending at Valley Hospital. Ridgewood, NJ

Program Coordinator

Nicholas Suarez

Divisional Administrator

Megan Neville