Pediatrics

Dr. Katherine Valois, MD is a pediatrics specialist in San Leandro, CA. Dr. Valois completed a residency at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. She currently practices at Kaiser Permanente Hayward Medical Center. Dr. Valois is board certified in Pediatrics. Born in Canada, Katherine was raised for the most part in Minnesota. She attended Reed College in Oregon and then moved to New York where she spent two years working and exploring the Big Apple. Katherine...

I am a pediatrician who has been in practice for 30 years.I will be retiring 12/31/20. I received my undergraduate degree from Fordham University and then my MD degree from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine.I completed my pediatrics residency at Maine Medical Center in Portland ME and then established a private practice in Portland. I am one of the founding physicians of a large multispecialty group called InterMed which is a physician owned group...

Dr. Tracey Agnese has been a practicing physician in NYC for over ten years. She is a board certified Pediatrician and a partner in private practice on the Upper West Side in Manhattan. Dr. Agnese received her BA from the University of Delaware. She graduated from from SUNY Downstate medical school in 2008 and completed her pediatrics residency at NYU.

Dr. Theresa Scott is a pediatric hospital medicine fellow in New York City. She has a focus in medical education and plans to work at a teaching hospital and medical school after training. On the side she also runs a blog about life as a pediatric hospital medicine fellow and how to find happiness and fulfillment as a resident trainee or pre-med/med student. Her talk will focus on how to get the most out of...

Passionate about Pediatrics and Breast Cancer

The son of an Air Force pilot and elementary school teacher, Dr. Lincoln had the opportunity to live internationally and across the country during his childhood. He continued sampling life in various locales throughout his education, majoring in biology at Brown, and then attending medical school at Tulane University, where he also received his Master of Public Health. In medical school he met his wife, who is now an OB/GYN, and together they fell in...

Lisa Warren, DO MBA is a board-certified osteopathic pediatrician who is the Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education at Western University of Health Sciences/College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Designated Institutional Official for OPTI West GME Consortium. She was the former Chair of Pediatrics and Director for Career and Professional Development at Western University of Health Sciences/COMP, though still serving her teaching and mentoring roles. She received her medical school degree in 2001 at Western...

Originally from Hawai'i, lived in Utah for most of my life. Received a BS in Mathematics at BYU-Hawaii and then an MD at the University of Utah School of Medicine. I love working with students, going on humanitarian trips, cooking, traveling, eating, and doing anything outdoors.

Emily: I am a female entrepreneur, mother of two beautiful girls, pediatric physical therapist, and social media educator using the platform KinActive_Kids. Since 2010, I have worked in various pediatric settings teaching children birth-18yo how to move and function in an efficient and effective way. Matt: Majored in exercise science and prior to Chiropractic school was a PT Intern for the Texas Rangers, Strength and conditioning coach in California, New York, and Boston, and Played...

Dr. Krohn is an internal medicine and pediatric hospitalist and Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota. She completed medical school and residency at the University of Minnesota in internal medicine and pediatrics. She completed the Stanford University - NBC News Fellowship in Global Health and Media in 2013 and spent two years working with Health Frontiers in Laos, teaching in the country's internal medicine and pediatric residency programs.

Dr. Alkhouri completed her medical school at Jordan University for Science and Technology, Irbid-Jordan. Following this, she completed her Pediatric Residency and Pediatric Gastroenterology Fellowship at the University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.

Natasha Ramsey MD, MPH is a board certified pediatrician who is currently in training in New York to become an adolescent medicine specialist. She obtained her medical degree and masters in global public health from New York University School of Medicine and completed her pediatric residency at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. She has dedicated her career to serving diverse populations and expanding the adolescent medicine workforce both here...

Dr. Megan Oberle Bensignor is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and in the Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes as well as a Core Faculty in the University of Minnesota Center for Pediatric Obesity Medicine. She is a board-certified obesity medicine specialist and a board-certified pediatric endocrinologist. She also holds an early career development grant from the National Institute of Health. Dr. Bensignor's area of research involves evaluating the effects of eating patterns...

Margaret L.P. Adam, MD, is an attending physician at Seattle Children's Hospital and a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Adam's clinical interests include the diagnosis and management of infants, children, and adolescents with a variety of genetic conditions. Dr. Adam has a special interest in Mowat-Wilson syndrome, for which she has conducted clinical research in the past. She is currently involved as the primary geneticist...

Dr. Linda Mayes is the Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology and Director of the Yale Child Study Center. She is also Special Advisor to the Dean in the Yale School of Medicine. Trained as a pediatrician, Dr. Mayes’s research focuses on stress-response and regulatory mechanisms in young children at both biological and psychosocial risk. She has especially focused on the impact of prenatal substance use on children’s long-term outcomes. She has...

Dr. Sarah Cairo is a pediatric surgeon with training in minimally invasive procedures for newborns and children. She is interested in improving access to care for pediatric patients with complex colorectal diseases and creating teams to meet their needs. She is part of the UCSF Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia. Cairo's research focuses on improving access – both domestically and internationally – to general medical care and surgery as well as improving...

Dr. Kendall Carpenter, MD, MPH is a pediatric chief resident in the Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center. Her work focuses broadly on medical education, implementation science, and global pediatric oncology, with an emphasis on improving training environments and advancing equitable care delivery for children with cancer worldwide. This summer she will start her fellowship training in pediatric hematology-oncology at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center.

Dr. Maria M. Oliva-Hemker is the Stermer Family Professor of Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include gastrointestinal diseases, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and pediatric gastroenterology. She serves as the director of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. In 2021 Dr. Oliva-Hemker was named Vice Dean for Faculty. Dr. Oliva-Hemker received her...

Dr. Miya Bernson-Leung is Program Director of the Child Neurology Residency Training Program at Boston Children's Hospital and Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, where she is the Child Neurology Specialty Advisor. She majored in neuroscience at Harvard College and obtained her MD at Harvard Medical School. She completed pediatrics residency in the Boston Combined Residency in Pediatrics, and child neurology residency and a fellowship in pediatric stroke and cerebrovascular disorders at Boston...

Brenda I. Anosike, MD, MPH, is Director, Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore and Assistant Professor, Pediatrics at Montefiore-Einstein. Dr. Anosike’s clinical focus is on the treatment of various infectious diseases in healthy children, adolescents and young adults as well as those with complex medical conditions and the immunocompromised. She is co-lead for the pediatric COVID-19 monoclonal antibody program, antimicrobial/diagnostic stewardship program and global health. After completing her Bachelor of Arts in 2002...

Kelsey Armusewizc, PhD is a clinical psychologist licensed in New York State currently in private practice with experiences working with a broad range of diagnoses across hospital, outpatient, and community-based settings. She currently holds a faculty position as an Assistant Professor in Department of Pediatrics (Developmental Medicine) at Montefiore Hospital and has held previous roles as Assistant Director of a trauma based intervention tasked with training clinical staff in the effective implementation of evidence based...