About Us
Meet the Steering Committee behind v-SYMPHONY!
Mission Statement
The overall mission of v-SYMPHONY is to enhance knowledge, wellness, and career development skills among the NYC tristate region’s Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation fellows in an environment that models and promotes inter-institutional collaboration. Specific goals include:
- Enrich educational opportunities and ABP Board Exam preparation for the region’s fellows through conferences (or virtual sessions) presented by local experts in the field.
- Improve wellness by building a rich regional community through enhanced fellow-fellow and fellow-attending interactions across institutions and states.
- Develop collaborative research studies across institutions, including cross-institution Mentee-Mentor relationships.
Steering Committee
Prakash Satwani, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Columbia University
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Jennifer Levine , MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Children's National Hospital
Joanna Pierro, DO
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra
Staten Island University Hospital - Northwell Health
Kayleen Bailey, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Icahn School of Medicine
Mt. Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital
kayleen.bailey@mssm.edu
Alexander Chou, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Weill Cornell Medical Center
NewYork-Presbyterian
Kavitha Ramaswamy, MD
Assistant Attending Pediatrician
MSK Kids, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Adit Tal, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Children's Hospital at Montefiore
Scott Moerdler, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Andrea Orsey, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Connecticut Children's Hospital
Gabriel Robbins, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
NYU Langone Health
Katharine Offer, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Hackensack University Medical Center
katharine.offer@hmhn.org
Jeremy Rosenblum, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
New York Medical College
Westchester Medical Center
Anshul Vagrecha, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra
Cohen Children's Medical Center
Northwell Health
avagrecha@northwell.edu
Viviana Vidal-Anaya, MD
Hospitalist, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Farzana Pashankar, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Yale University School of Medicine
farzana.pashankar@yale.edu
Jessica Briggs, DO
Fellow, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Children's Hospital at Montefiore
Danielle Wolfe Cohen, MD
Fellow, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
NYU Langone Health
danielle.cohen2@nyulangone.org
v-SYMPHONY Steering Committee Alumni
We are forever grateful for their hard work and dedication to our mission!
Pallavi Madhusoodhan Pillai MD (Founding Member, 2020-2021), Bradley Gampel MD (Founding Member, 2020-2021), Stephen Roberts MD (Member, 2021-2022), Megan Askew MD (Member, 2021-2022)