Current Fellow
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
Amanda Cantor, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center
Adriana Perez, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Cente
Pooja R. Spector, 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
Jason Hawksworth, MD
Surgical Director, Adult Liver Transplantation
Chief, Hepatobiliary Surgery, Division of Abdominal Organ Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery
Director of Robotic Liver Surgery Program, Division of Abdominal Organ Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery
Associate Professor of Surgery
Peter Liou, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Nathaly P. Llore, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Physician Extenders
Catherine Balsitis, PA-C
Danielle Case, PA-C
Paige Gorodetzky, LMSW
Megan Nowosad, RN, BSN
Dana Park, PA-C
Ana Rundle, NP
Emmanuel Serrano, RN
Monica L. Velasco, DNP
Genevieve Williams, RN, BSN
Heather Corbo, Clinical Pharmacy Manager
Maria Sedetsky, Clinical Pharmacy Manager
Advance Transplant Hepatology
Graduates
2024
Shilpa Sood, MD
Graduation Position: Pediatric Gastroenterologist. Westchester Medical Center
2023
Amanda Cantor, MD
Graduation Position: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Columbia University. New York, NY
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