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Department of Pediatric Medicine

About the Department

The Department of Pediatric Medicine at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital ensures that patients receive the best quality of subspecialty care available. To achieve this goal, the department’s aim is to equip the clinical staff with the resources and support necessary for offering cutting-edge treatments in a safe, compassionate, family-centered environment.

The Pediatric Medicine staff, in partnership with our colleagues at the University of Tennessee and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, takes a multidisciplinary approach to caring for patients; this involves a host of specialties including anesthesia, critical care medicine, endocrinology, neurology, and quality of life, and rehabilitation. Recognized internationally for our world-class patient care, the members of the Pediatric Medicine staff at St. Jude are each experts in treating children diagnosed with catastrophic diseases. In collaboration with our research faculty who are engaged in developing clinical trials, experts on the Pediatric Medicine team benefit from state-of-the-art facilities, as well as the latest St. Jude-generated research that support their life-saving work.

The Department of Pediatric Medicine seamlessly aligns with St. Jude research efforts in achieving the hospital’s mission of finding cures and saving the lives of children by providing unsurpassed comprehensive patient care.

Divisions

Faculty

Anita V. Arias, MD

Instructor, St. Jude Faculty

Research/clinical interests: Capacity building in pediatric critical care

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Shannon M. Dean, MD, MMM, FAMIA

Member, St. Jude Faculty
VP and Chief Medical Information Officer

Research/clinical interests: applied clinical informatics, EHR and provider wellbeing

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Angela Delaney, MD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Director, Division of Endocrinology

Research/clinical interests: hypothalamic/pituitary dysfunction in childhood cancer survivors

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Lama Elbahlawan, MD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Research/clinical interests: pediatric critical care, acute lung injury

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Andrew Elliott, MD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Director, Psychiatry Division

Research/clinical interests: psychiatric effects of cancer and its treatment

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Richard Finkel, MD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Director, Center for Experimental Neurotherapeutics
George J. Pedersen Endowed Chair in Neurotherapeutics

Research/clinical interests: pediatric neurologic and metabolic diseases

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Michael J. Frett, MD, FASA

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Director, Division of Anesthesiology

Research/clinical interests: pediatric pain

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Amar Gajjar, MD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Chair, Department of Pediatric Medicine
Scott and Tracie Hamilton Endowed Chair in Brain Tumor Research

Research/clinical interests: novel treatments for children with brain tumors

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Saad Ghafoor, MD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Director, Quality and Education

Research/clinical interests: pediatric critical care outcomes improvement

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Emily Hanzlik, MD

Instructor, St. Jude Faculty
Department of Oncology
Neuro-Oncology Division

Research/clinical interests: Improving the overall outcomes and supportive care of patients during and after oncology treatment

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Melissa Hines, MD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Director, Histiocytosis and Immune Dysregulation Team

Research/clinical interests: Diagnosis and treatment of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis

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Caitlin Hurley, MD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty

Research/clinical interests: Onco-critical care; HSCT/immunotherapy patients; long-term outcomes of crtical care illnesses

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Raja Khan, MD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Chief, Neurology Division

Research/clinical interests: Effect of cancer and its treatment on central and peripheral nervous systems

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Belinda Mandrell, PhD, RN, PNP

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Director, Nursing Research Division

Research/clinical interests: Mechanisms of cancer-related symptoms

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Jennifer McArthur, DO

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Research/clinical interests: Improving outcomes for oncology and transplant patients with critical illness

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Ray Morrison, MD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Chief, Critical Care Division

Research/clinical interests: Pediatric critical care, myocardial protection

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Kirsten Ness, PT, PhD, FAPTA

Member, St. Jude Faculty
PI, Human Performance Lab
Co-Leader Cancer Control and Survivorship Program

Research/clinical interests: Functional limitations among cancer survivors

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Ellis Neufeld, MD, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Executive Vice President
Clinical Director
Physician-in-Chief

Research/clinical interests: Patient-oriented studies in nonmalignant hematology

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Kavitha C. Raghavan, MBBS, FRCA

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Research/clinical interests: Safety and quality in pediatric anesthesia

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Michael G. Rossi, DO, FAAP

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Research/clinical interests: Quality management and patient safety, congnitive effects of anesthesia

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Luis A. Trujillo Huaccho, MD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Research/clinical interests: Regional anesthesia & anesthetic approach in high-risk cases

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Christine YU, MD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Research/clinical interests: Improving metabolic outcomes in cancer survivors

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Tzipa Zweig, MD, MS

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty

Research/clinical interests: Pediatric pain, palliative care and anesthesiology education

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