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The Department of Pediatrics welcomes Elizabeth Fiorino, MD to the Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Allergy & Immunology.   An Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and an Assistant Attending Pediatrician at NewYork-Presbyterian Phyllis and David Komansky Children's Hospital, Dr. Fiorino is board certified in Pediatric Pulmonology and General Pediatrics. 

Dr. Fiorino has special interest in pediatric asthma, cystic fibrosis, interstitial and restrictive lung disease, and rare lung diseases in general.  She also has expertise in diagnostic procedures such as flexible bronchoscopy and pulmonary function testing.

She received her medical degree at New York Medical College and completed her residency at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, where she also served as Chief Resident. She then focused on her sub-speciality, completing a pulmonary fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Dr. Jeffrey Perlman grew up in South Africa and attended medical school there. But by 2006, when he was tasked with helping set up the pediatrics program at Tanzania’s Weill Bugando Medical Centre—then newly affiliated with Weill Cornell Medicine—he’d been living and working in the United States for decades. So coming face to face with the reality of how many newborn lives are lost in Africa’s medically under-resourced nations was both shocking and heartbreaking. “I saw all these babies dying unnecessarily,” says Dr. Perlman, a professor of pediatrics who directs the neonatal ICU at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. In America overall, according to figures released by the CDC in 2015, the neonatal mortality rate averages four for every 1000 births—and at a state-of-the-art hospital such as NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, Dr. Perlman says, the number is just .7 per 1000. In Tanzania, by contrast, Dr. Perlman encountered a rate of 39 per 1000 births—or roughly two newborns dying every hour. Dr. Perlman resolved to change that.

Thank you for your interest in donating toys to the Department of Pediatrics! Play is a child’s work. In the hospital where children are separated from most of what is familiar, play and activities become valuable and safe outlets for their feelings. Toys and games from our community friends help keep the hospital playrooms and waiting areas well stocked. They help turn special occasions such as birthdays and holidays into happy celebrations.

Toy donations to the Department of Pediatrics are managed by the Child Life Services team at our affiilate, NewYork-Presbyterian Phyllis and David Komansky Children's Hospital, who ensure toys are safe and appropriate for our young patients.

Thank you for your interest in supporting our program and the patients we serve!

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The Rajadhyaksha Lab, led by Dr. Anjali Rajadhyaksha, is focused on how calcium signaling mechanisms in the brain contribute to cocaine- and mood-related behaviors. This is of particular importance and high significance given the link in patients between the Cav1.2 and Cav1.3 genes, CACNA1C and CACNA1D, and neuropsychiatric disorders including bipolar disorder accompanied with high incidence of substance abuse.  The lab is utilizing animal models in combination with highly innovative genetic, cellular and molecular techniques to identify the neural circuitry and molecular mechanisms to better understand how genetic predisposition can contribute to addiction and neuropsychiatric illness. Her group’s hope is that a better understanding of the brain at the molecular level will aid in therapeutic strategies for treating addiction and co-occurring mood-related conditions.

Learn more 

Meet the lab team and learn more about their work at the Lab's newly launched webpage:

Rajadhyaksha Lab