Anne Marie Ferris, MD

Dr. Joni Rabiner is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics (in Emergency Medicine) at Columbia University Medical Center. She earned her medical degree from NYU School of Medicine and completed a residency in pediatrics at NYU Langone Medical Center followed by a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Children's Hospital at Montefiore. Dr. Rabiner has a focus and expertise in pediatric emergency point-of-care ultrasound. She is Director for both the Pediatric Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellow Ultrasound Education. She is actively involved in research and has authored papers on musculoskeletal, lung, and soft tissue ultrasound. Dr. Rabiner is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine and practices as an attending physician in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital.

As a pediatric gastroenterologist, I am dedicated to improving the lives of children and adolescents with complex disorders of the gastrointestinal system. I have a special interest and clinical expertise in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. These diseases, which involve the multifaceted relationship between the immune system and GI tract, greatly affect children’s and families’ quality of life and impact children’s growth and development. They are also often difficult to identify and treat. As director of Columbia’s Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Diseases (EGIDs) Program, my team and I offer the highest quality care to children with EGIDs, which include eosinophilic esophagitis, eosinophilic gastritis, eosinophilic enteritis, eosinophilic colitis, and oral immunotherapy associated EGIDs. I also treat children with food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome and food protein-induced allergic proctocolitis of infancy. Through the multi-disciplinary EGIDs program, gastroenterologists, allergists, nutritionists, psychologists, pathologists, and social workers, as well as language pathologists, child life specialists, endocrinologists, and ENT specialists, work together to provide personalized care for each child. We incorporate the latest evidence-based advances, state-of-the-art procedures for diagnosis and management, and offer the potential to participate in clinical trials for treatment of these disorders. Our team believes in creating a medical home for each child within our center of excellence for patients, families, and providers. In addition to directing the EGIDs Program, I am a clinician-scientist and principal investigator studying esophageal development and eosinophilic esophagitis at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. It is my vision to further our understanding of eosinophilic esophagitis and to develop novel therapeutics using novel 3D organoid model systems and innovative murine models of pediatric eosinophilic esophagitis. I also have had the privilege of mentoring future physicians and junior scientists on their journey toward academic success. Several of my mentees have pursued degrees in medicine and philosophy, and have been recipients of prestigious awards.

Dr. Matthew Crystal, MD FACC FSCAI is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York, NY. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Western Ontario in 2001 before completing a Pediatrics residency, Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship and Pediatric Interventional Cardiology Fellowship at Sick Kids Hospital, University of Toronto in 2008. He worked as an attending in the Pediatric Catheterization Laboratory at Texas Children's before joining the team at NYP Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital in 2012. He serves as the Associate Director of the Pediatric Catheterization Laboratory at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital New York Presbyterian and is the Director of the recently created Fetal Cardiac Intervention Team at NYP.