Meet Our Faculty and Fellows
Ginger Janow, M.D., M.P.H
Attending, Division of Pediatric Rheumatology
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Residency: Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Children’s Hospital at Montefiore
Fellowship: Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Children’s Hospital at Montefiore
Research/Clinical Interest: Graduate Medical Education, Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, Certified in USSONAR musculoskeletal ultrasound, Currently co leading the CARRA medical education workgroup
Yikiko Kimura, M.D.
Chief, Division of Pediatric Rheumatology
Professor of Pediatrics, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Residency: Babies Hospital, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Fellowship: Babies Hospital, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Research/Clinical Interest: JIA, systemic JIA and observational registry and comparative effectiveness research
Suhas Ganguli, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University
Residency: Flushing Hospital Medical Center, New York; Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Calcutta, India
Fellowship: Cohen Children's Medical Center, Northwell Health
Research/Clinical Interest: Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, Lupus, Quality and Outcome Improvement, Patient Reported Outcome tools
Anna Carmela Sagcal Gironella, M.D.
Attending, Pediatric Rheumatology
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Residency: The Children’s Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center
Fellowship: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Research/Clinical Interest: Childhood-onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, Very early onset of lupus and other autoimmune diseases, Pharmaceutical sciences with specialization in drug development
Sivia K. Lapidus, M.D.
Attending, Pediatric Rheumatology
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Residency: Schneider Children's Hospital North Shore-Long Island
Fellowship: A.I. duPont Hospital for Children
Research/Clinical Interest: Periodic Fever Syndromes, Autoinflammatory syndromes, CRMO (Chronic Recurrent Multifocal Osteomyelitis), ANCA-Associated Vasculitis, and Refractory Kawasaki Disease
Suzanne C. Li, M.D., PH.D.
Attending, Pediatric Rheumatology
Professor of Pediatrics, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Residency: Babies Hospital - Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
Fellowship: Babies Hospital - Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
Research/Clinical Interest: Scleroderma, Vasculitis, Autoinflammatory Syndromes
Jennifer E. Weiss, M.D.
Attending, Pediatric Rheumatology
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Residency: Schneider Children’s Hospital North - Shore Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Fellowship: Schneider Children’s Hospital North - Shore Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Research/Clinical Interest: Pain syndromes in pediatrics, Quality and outcomes improvement, Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Tresa Ambooken, M.D., MBA
Fellow, Division of Pediatric Rheumatology Class of 2024
Residency: Bronxcare Health System Research/Clinical
Interests: Immunology, quality improvement, and resident education