Faculty
Course Co-Directors

Camille Sabella, MD
Director, Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Professor of Pediatrics
Cleveland Clinic Children’s

Charles Kwon, MD
Vice Chair of Education, Children’s Institute
Staff, Pediatric Nephrology
Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Cleveland Clinic Children’s

Rita Pappas, MD
Interim Chief, Children’s Institute
Interim Chair, Integrated Hospital Care, Children’s Institute
Staff, Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Children’s Institute
Medical Director, Medical Operations, Cleveland Clinic
Planning Committee
Cheryl Cairns, DNP CPNP
APP Manager Pediatric Primary Care
Cleveland Clinic Children's
Anika Kumar, MD, FAAP, SFHM
Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of CWRU
Director, Cleveland Clinic Children’s Grand Rounds
Rebecca Stallsmith, MMS, PA-C
APRN/PA Coordinator, Pediatric Emergency Department
Cleveland Clinic Children's
Guest Faculty
George Tiller, MD, PhD
Southern California Permanente Medical Group
Kaiser Permanente
Los Angeles, CA
Cleveland Clinic Faculty
Peter Aziz, MD
Medical Director, Division of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Jessica Barry, MD
Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
Raed Bou Matar, MD
Section of Pediatric Nephrology
Ilia Buhtoiarov, MD
Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
Joshua Coleman, MD
Primary Care Pediatrics
Carrie Cuffman, MD
Section of Developmental Pediatrics
Rahul Damania, MD
Division of Pediatric Critical Care
Kshama Daphtary, MD
Division of Pediatric Critical Care
Kelly Davidson, MD
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Anthony DeRoss, MD
Division of Pediatric Surgery
Frank Esper, MD
Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Purva Grover, MD
Section of Emergency Medicine
Mahwish Irfan, MD
Section of Pediatric Dermatology
Veronica Issac, MD
Section of Pediatric Adolescent Medicine
Jacob Kurowski, MD
Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
Andrew Lavik, MD, PhD
Section of Pediatric Endocrinology
Kylie Liermann, DO
Primary Care Pediatrics
Parevi Majmudar, DO
Section of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine
John McDonnell, MD
Section of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
Kara McNamara, MD
Section of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
Sudeshna Mitra, MD
Section of Pediatric Neurology
Katherine Myers, DO, MPH
Section of Developmental Pediatrics
Ahsan Moosa Naduvil Valappil, MD
Section of Pediatric Epilepsy
Sumana Narasimhan, MD
Section of Pediatric Endocrinology
Kadakkal Radhakrishnan, MD
Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
Senthilkumar Sankararaman, MD
Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
Kevin Serdahely, MD
Section of Pediatric Orthopedics
Heidi Szugye, DO
Section of Breastfeeding Medicine
Ravi Talati, DO
Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
Roopa Thakur, MD
Primary Care Pediatrics
Stefanie Thomas, MD
Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
Karen Vargo, MD
Primary Care Pediatrics
Anuradha Viswanathan, MBBS
Section of Pediatric Endocrinology
Lynn Woo, MD
Section of Pediatric Urology
Malek Yaman, MD
Division of Pediatric Cardiology & Cardiovascular Medicine
Natalie Yeaney, MD
Division of Neonatology
Andrew Zeft, MD
Head, Section of Pediatric Rheumatology and Immunology

