Department Faculty

Childrens

Our faculty provide a supportive and nurturing environment for you to pursue your training. In addition to their role as teachers and mentors, they have busy clinical practices which serve as a venue for our residents to learn both inpatient and outpatient management skills. Our residents also interact with several large and small pediatric practices that admit patients to Advocate Children's Hospital - Park Ridge. Many of these practices hire our residents upon graduation.

Pediatrics and pediatric subspecialty

Adolescent Medicine
Cathy Joyce, MD, PhD
Sejal Danawala, MD
Mutimbwa Anaene, MD

Behavioral and Mental Health
Laura Chang, DO
Malcolm Vandrevala, MD

Child Abuse Pediatrics 
Anna Pesok, MD
Emily S. Siffermann, MD

Cardiology
Waseem Cossor, MD
David Gamboa, MD
Joan Hoffman, MD
Melissa Nater, MD
Stephen Neuberger, MD
Marc Ovadia, MD
Michael Paul, MD
Jamie Penk, MD
David Roberson, MD
Eleanor Ross, MD
Imran Sajan, MD
Ira Shetty, MD
Saad Siddiqui, MD
David Thoele, MD
Joshua Wong, MD
Frank Zimmerman, MD

Critical Care
Deanna Behrens, MD
Chetan Bhupali, MD
Joanne Claveria, MD
Amanda D. Ellis-Pelletier, DO
Rani Ganesan, MD
Varsha Gharpure, MD
Vinod Havalad, MD
Nekaiya Jacobs, MD
Nadia Khan, MD
Maureen Quaid, MD 
Fasiha Saeed, MD

Dermatology 
Liborka Kos, MD

Developmental Pediatrics
Marjorie Getz, PhD
James Weedon, MD

Emergency Medicine
Michael Chan, MD
Madhuri Dave, DO
Benjamin Heilbrunn, MD
John Howard, DO
Natalie Joseph, MD
Tim Ketterhagen, MD
Amanda Mulcrone, MD
Ariella Nadler, MD
Anne Marie Orescanin, MD
Adriana Orozco, MD
Joseph Persak, MD
Clifford Spanierman, MD

Endocrinology
Liliana Burdea, MD
Magdalena Dumin, MD
Kanika Ghai, MD
Mary Kay Heneghan, MD

Gastroenterology  
James Berman, MD 
Vincent Biank, MD
Rebecca Cassini, DO
Jonathan Cordova, DO
Kirin Gorla, MD
Thirumazhisai Gunasekaran, MD
Hector Hernandez, MD
Samuel Leung, MD
Alexis Rodriguez, MD

General Academic Pediatrics
Nisha Hakhu, DO
Akanksha Hanna, MD
Michelle Hanna, DO
Frances Kobiernicki, DO
Christopher Jamerson, MD
Joanna Lewis, MD
Jeanne Lovett, MD
Vivian Liu, APN
Jamie Novales, MD
Gina Palm, APN
Sanaa Qamar, MD
Susan Unfer, MD
Linda Vassmer, MD
Tracy Winger, MD

Genetics
Brad Angle, MD
Jillene Kogan, MD 

Hematology/Oncology
Caitlin Agrawal, MD
Daniel Choi, MD
William Goodell, MD
Amir Siddiqui, MD

Infectious Disease
Jean O. Kim, MD
Ronda Oram, MD
Elaine Rosenfeld, MD
Kathryn Weedon, MD

Neonatology
Aarti Amlani, MD
Michael Cappello, MD
Jeffrey George, DO
Amina Habib, MD
Ramesh Muthukumar, MD
Preetha Prazad, MD
Miriam Rajpal, MD
David Sheftel, MD
Gospodin Stefanov, MD
Duane Stich, MD
Ramesh Vazzalwar, MD

Nephrology
Patricia Arroyo-Parejo Drayer, MD
Richard Kaplan, MD
Jurat Rajpal, MD
Priya Chandra, MD

Neurology
Mohammad Ikramuddin, MD
Nishant Shah, MD
Farha Tokarz, MD

Pediatric Hospitalists 
Johnathan Ballard, MD 
Anne Doran, MD
Lisa Cheng, MD
James Crooks, MD
Saira Doja, DO
Heidi Greening, DO
Theresa He, MD
Elizabeth Henschen, DO
Ann Marie Houser, DO
Svetlana Kravtchenko, MD
Mallory Logsdon, DO
Melanie Marsh, MD
Madalina Mindrut, MD
Anna Pesok, MD
Yasser Said, MD
Carly Senescu, MD, MPH
Archana Shukla, DO

Palliative Care
Rani Ganesan, MD

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Amy Sun, MD

Pulmonology
Gabriel Aljadeff, MD
Lauren Camarda, MD
Kimberly Watts, MD

Psychology
Marjorie Getz, PhD
Kris Umfress, PhD

Radiology
Marina Doliner, MD
Joshua Finkle, MD
Natalie Mathieu, MD
Thang Ngo, MD

Rheumatology
Joseph McDonald, MD
Melissa Tesher, MD

Sleep Medicine
Innessa Donskoy, MD
Darius Loghmanee, MD
Ayelet Snow, MD

Sports Medicine
Anthony Savino, MD

Pediatric surgical subspecialty

Cardiothoracic Surgery
Chawki El-Zein, MD
Michel Ilbawi, MD

General Pediatric Surgery 
Brian Jones, MD
Jessica Kandel, MD
Deborah Loeff, MD
Bethany Slater, MD
 
Neurosurgery 
Daphne Li, MD
John Ruge, MD

Ophthalmology
Kathy Anderson, MD
Dana Kolton, MD
Deena Leonard, MD
Michael Shapiro, MD
Thao Tran, MD

Orthopedic Surgery
Albert Knuth, MD
Andrea Kramer, MD
Steven Mardjetko, MD
Todd Simmons, MD

Otolaryngology 
Martin Anderson, MD
Katherine Hamming, MD
David Walner, MD

Plastic Surgery
Sanjay Naran, MD
Frank Vicari, MD

Urology 
Mark Faasse, MD