Announcing New Physicians to UH Rainbow
Pediatric Clinical Update | September 2019
The following pediatricians and pediatric specialists have recently joined the faculty and staff of UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital.
2019 NEW FACULTY
Emily Joyce, MD
Division of Pediatric Nephrology
UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Start date: November 1, 2019
Rita Ryan, MD
Neonatology
UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
State date: October 1, 2019
Sally Ibrahim, MD
Pediatric Pulmonology
UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
State date: September 1, 2019
Katherine Lipman, MD
Division of Pediatric Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics
UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Start date: October 1, 2019
Jessica Hannick, MD
Division of Pediatric Urology
Start date: August 16, 2019
Renee Devor, MD
Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Start date: August 1, 2019
Edward Davidson, MD
Division of Pediatric Plastic Surgery
UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Start date: August 1, 2019
Jennifer Giesel, PhD, LICDC-CS
Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Start date: August 1, 2019
Michael Glotzbecker, MD
Chief, Division of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Start date: August 1, 2019
Charles Macias, MD, MPH
Chief, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Vice Chair of Quality & Safety/Chief Quality Officer
UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Start date: August 1, 2019
Ganga Lakshmi Srinivas, MD
Director, UH Nurseries
Division, General Academic Pediatrics
UH Rainbow Center for Women & Children
Start date: August 1, 2019
Hayley Klein, MD
Division of Pediatric Ophthalmology
UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Start date: August 16, 2019
Nathaniel Robbins, MD
Pediatric Cardiology
UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
State date: August 1, 2019
Silvestre (Tito) Duran, MD
Pediatric Cardiology
UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
State date: August 1, 2019
Kristen VanHeyst, MD
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
State date: August 1, 2019
Julia Liebner, MD
Pediatric Hospitalist
UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
State date: July 1, 2019
Dania Safi, MD
Pediatric Hospitalist
UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
State date: July 1, 2019
Verania Huerta Urrutia, MD
Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Start date: July 1, 2019
Bennet Smith, MD
UH Rainbow Kids in the Sun – Broadview Hts. & Strongsville
UH Rainbow Asthabula Pediatrics
Start date: July 1, 2019
Lauren Beene, MD
Olga Guzovsky, MD
UH Rainbow Suburban Pediatrics – Shaker Hts, Solon and *Mayfield Hts - opening July 22
Start date: July 15, 2019
Jeffrey Lobas, MD, EdD, MPA
Division of Pediatric Pulmonology
UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Start date: July 16, 2019
Christina Nguyen, MD
Chief, Division of Pediatric Nephrology
UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Start date: June 1, 2019
FACULTY PROMOTIONS
Steven Shein, MD
Chief, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Interim Chief, Cardiothoracic Intensive Care
Director, Pediatric Critical Care Clinical & Translational Research Program
Associate Director, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program
UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Lynn Woo, MD
Interim Chief, Division of Pediatric Urology
UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Asim Shahid, MD
Chief, Division of Pediatric Neurology
UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
FACULTY DEPARTURES
Andrew Dodgen, MD
Pediatric Cardiology
June 2019
Ben Gaston, MD
Pediatric Pulmonology
June 2019
Atiye Aktay, MD
Pediatric Gastroenterology
July 2019
Jonathan Ross, MD
Chief, Division of Pediatric Urology
UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Accepted leadership role at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
June 2019
Carissa Wentland, DO
Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology
UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Completing Fellowship in Otology at University of Missouri, Columbia Missouri
June 2019