Zahra Ghiassi-Nejad, MD, PhD

Dr. John Babineau is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (in Emergency Medicine) at the Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Babineau is the Vice-Chair and Chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine for the Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Babineau completed undergraduate education at the University of Pennsylvania followed by medical school at Robert Wood Johnson-Rutgers where he graduated with AOA and Gold Humanism Society Honors. After medical school, he completed a Pediatrics residency and then a chief resident year here at NYP-Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital during which he received the NYP Physician of the Year - Spirit of Collaboration Award. Dr. Babineau completed a Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship at NYP as well, and in 2013 was awarded the Pediatric Fellow of the Year Award. Following fellowship, he joined the faculty at Columbia and then completed the Greater NY Hospital Association and United Hospital Fund Clinical Quality Fellowship Program in 2016. Dr. Babineau is board certified in pediatrics and pediatric emergency medicine and practices at New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital.

Russell Miller, MD is the Sloane Hospital for Women Professor of Prenatal Pediatrics (in Obstetrics and Gynecology) at the Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Miller's clinical and research interests include prenatal diagnosis, sonographic evaluation of fetal malformations, evaluation and management of complicated twin pregnancies, Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome, and performing invasive fetal therapies. Dr. Miller completed his medical school education as well as residency and subspecialty fellowship training in Maternal Fetal Medicine (MFM) at Columbia University Medical Center. Among his many clinical and research awards and recognitions, he has been nominated as the Children's Hospital of New York Physician of the Year in three different years.

Dr. Shimbo received a B.S. from the Johns Hopkins University in Biomedical Engineering and a M.D. from Albany Medical College. He then completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, and was selected as Chief Resident. He subsequently completed a fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine, also at the Mount Sinai Hospital, before joining the faculty at Columbia University in September 2003. Currently, Dr. Shimbo is a board-certified cardiologist and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology in the Department of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He co-directs the Columbia Hypertension Center, a multi-disciplinary center of excellence that provides high quality care and state-of-the-art diagnostic testing for patients with hypertension. Dr. Shimbo’s clinical interests include the accurate diagnosis and treatment of hypertension, and evaluating the cardiovascular manifestations of hypertension. Dr. Shimbo conducts rigorous, innovative, interdisciplinary research that increases the understanding of the behavioral, psychosocial and biological processes in the pathogenesis of the increased cardiovascular disease risk associated with hypertension.