Team Leader — Samuel Weinstein, MD
Samuel Weinstein, MD, is director of pediatric cardiothoracic surgery at The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore. He is also director of adult congenital cardiac surgery within the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Montefiore Medical Center. He is an associate professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
His clinical areas of expertise include all areas of pediatric heart surgery, congenital heart disease, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, hybrid congenital heart surgery (minimizes the side effects of surgery by maximizing the skills of a multidisciplinary team) and aortic valve-sparing surgery in children.
CHAM Pediatric Cardiology
Christine A. Walsh, MD — chief of pediatric cardiology in the Department of Pediatrics and board certified in pediatric cardiology.
Christine Tracy, MD — pediatric cardiologist in the Department of Pediatrics, board certified in pediatric cardiology.
Rajesh Upendra Shenoy, MD — pediatric cardiologist in the Department of Pediatrics and board certified in pediatric cardiology.
Nicole Jampol Sutton, MD — pediatric cardiologist in the Department of Pediatrics and board certified in pediatrics and pediatric cardiology.
CHAM Critical Care
Lewis P. Singer, MD — chief, pediatric critical care medicine and a neo-natal-perinatal medicine specialist in the Department of Pediatrics, board certified in pediatric critical care medicine and neonatal-perinatal medicine.
Henry Michael Ushay, MD, PhD — pediatric critical care medicine specialist in the Department of Pediatrics and board certified in pediatric critical care medicine.
Jacqueline Sue Weingarten-Arams, MD — pediatric critical care medicine specialist in the Department of Pediatrics and board certified in pediatric critical care medicine.
Chhavi Katyal, MD — pediatric critical care medicine specialist in the Department of Pediatrics and board certified in pediatrics.
CHAM Pediatric Anesthesiology
Carlene H. Broderick, MD — chief of pediatric anesthesiology in the Department of Anesthesiology and board certified in anesthesiology.
Galina Leyvi, MD — pediatric cardiology anesthesiologist in the Department of Anesthesiology and board certified in anesthesiology.
CHAM Pediatric Perfusion
Nick Mellas, CCP — director of perfusion services.
Kenneth Shann, CCP — assistant director of perfusion services.
Perfusion Services — specializing in the management of cardiopulmonary bypass for neonatal, pediatric and adult cardiac surgery patients.
CHAM Pediatric Cardiothoracic OR
Anne Roberts, RN, Team Leader
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Chief, Critical Care Medicine
We treat the most fragile patients in Montefiore’s medical, surgical, neurological and cardiothoracic intensive care units, but critical care at Montefiore also extends beyond those areas. Our unique "ICU Without Walls" service is a rapid response team of intensivists and respiratory therapists who are on call 24/7 to evaluate and treat patients in need of critical care in other areas of the hospital.
