Biography

i am Professor of Pediatrics, Chief of Hepatology and Vice Chair of Pediatrics for Faculty Affairs at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.Until 2018, I was Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati and attending physician at Cincinnati Childrens Hospital. I served as Director of the Integrated Solid Organ Transplant Program at Cincinnati Childrens Hospital from 2012 to 2016.. My undergraduate and medical education was at Harvard University. I completed my fellowship in Gastroenterology at Cincinnati Childrens and joined the faculty in 1986. I have a broad background in transplant hepatology, with specific expertise in key research areas for this application. I have published on areas related to organ allocation, socioeconomic determinantsof outcome, adherence in the field of transplant hepatology and am co-investigator for a study designed to study the Etiopathogenesis and clinical outcome for Medical Adherence in Liver Transplant Recipients, Immunosuppression Withdrawal in Stable Pediatric Transplant Recipients, and Calcineurin Inhibitor Minimization and Foxp3+ Tregs Post-Transplant. I have significant experience in quality improvement efforts and serve as one of the senior leaders in the outcomes arm of the CCHMC strategic plan. I have established strong ties with pediatric liver transplant community that permits me to develop and implement and achieve the goals of these efforts.