Pediatrics Faculty

Children’s Hospital of New Jersey & Saint Barnabas Medical Center

Our faculty comes from a variety of backgrounds and experiences to provide an educational environment that nurtures while it educates. Faculty has appointments from a combination of Rutgers University, Saint George’s University, and NY College of Osteopathic Medicine.


  • Joshua S. Rosenblatt, M.D.

    Joshua S. Rosenblatt, M.D.
    Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of New Jersey

    Vice President, Academic Affairs, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center

Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics since 2009, Dr. Rosenblatt is a graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. He attended the Rutgers University-New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School in Newark and was a resident and chief pediatric resident at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and later served as residency program director. He has overseen medical education at NBMIC since 1997.

Dr. Rosenblatt is an academic general pediatrician with fellowship training in primary care faculty development at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. He has an interest in and is pursuing graduate studies in population health.


  • Timothy S. Yeh, MD, FAAP, FCCM

    Timothy S. Yeh, M.D., F.A.A.P., F.C.C.M.
    Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, Saint Barnabas Medical Center

Dr. Yeh, Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at Saint Barnabas Medical Center joined RWJBarnabas Health in 2001 after more than 14 years at the Children’s Hospital of Oakland in Oakland, California. There he served as Director of Critical Care and Co-Director of the Children's Hospital Oakland/University of California, San Francisco Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship Program and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics for the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. His current faculty appointment is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers in Newark and Professor of Pediatrics, St. Georges School of Medicine, Grenada.

Dr. Yeh has authored numerous abstracts, articles and book chapters in the area of pediatric critical care. He is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Critical Care Medicine and a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. He has served as the Chancellor of the American College of Critical Care Medicine. He continues to serve on and chair national committees within these organizations as well as the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Sub-board of the American Board of Pediatrics.


The following is the listing of faculty instructors in the Pediatric Residency Program:

  • Allergy-Immunology

Mendelson, Joel

  • Anesthesia

Blank, Jonathan
Fisher, Emery
Hausdorff, Mark
Patankar, Srikanth

  • CHNJ Cardiac Center

Malhotra, Sunil (Pediatric CT Surgery)
Michael, Mark
O'Connor, Brian
Peshkovsky, Courtney
Verma, Rajiv
Walsh, Rowan

  • Critical Care

Das, Sumon
Kalyanaraman, Meena
Morparia, Kavita
McQueen, Derrick
Costello, Frank (SBMC)
Yeh, Tim (SBMC)

  • Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics

Goyal, Vinod

  • Emergency Medicine

Amaefuna , Steven
Harris , Matt
Osei , Charles
Scarfi , Catherine
Shah , Vaishali
Sivitz, Adam
Tejani, Cena
Thamburaj, Ravi

  • Endocrinology

Maresca, Michelle
Brenner, Dennis (SBMC)
Mamkin, Irene (SBMC)
Oppenheimer, Ellen (SBMC)

  • Gastroenterology

Foglio, Jazmin
Sabel, Svetlana
Ton, Mimi

  • General Pediatrics (CHNJ)

Bustillo, Jose (Med-Peds)
Gururajarao, Lakshmi
Jaffery, Fatema
Kumta, Jayshree (Hospitalist)
Rosenblatt, Joshua
Sicat, Jon (Med-Peds)
Wallach, Melissa (Med-Peds)

  • General Pediatrics (SBMC-Hospitalists and Ambulatory)

Glick, Sarah
Lipstyn, Tatyana (SBMC Site Director)
Patel, Mansi
Ibrahim, Nardin
Setya, Shilpy
Salyer, Rob
Coleman, Steve
Jines, Patricia
Keyburn, Hanh

  • Hematology and Oncology

Debenedictis, Mariana
Kamalakar, Peri
Narang, Shalu
Rao, Harini

  • Human Genetics

Despostio, Franklin

  • Infectious Diseases

Espiritu-Fuller, Maria
Hasan, Uzma (SBMC)

  • Neonatology

Antonio, Elsie
Cohen, Morris
Dermendjian, Mariette
Fisher, Joie
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Irakam, Anitha
Kansagra, Ketan
Lim, Anita
Pande, Sumati
Patel, Shalini
Plaza, Lorna
Quizon, Cecile
Rai, Bellipady
Tulsyan, Vasudha

  • Nephrology

Roberti, Isabel
Vyas, Shefali

  • Neurology

Hashim, Anjum
Salam, Misbah

  • Ophthalmology

Wagner, Rudolph

  • Orthopedics

Edobor-Osula, Folorunsho

  • Otolaryngology

Levitt, Joel

  • Pathology

D’cruz, Cyril

  • Psychiatry

Frederickson, Anne

  • Pulmonary

Bisberg, Dorothy (SBMC)
Montalvo, Evelyn (SBMC)

  • Radiology

Phatak, Tej
Llanos, Rob (SBMC)

  • Regional Diagnostic Treatment Center (Child Abuse)

Weiner, Monica

  • Rheumatology

Chalom, Elizabeth

  • Surgery

Bethel, Colin
Bhattacharyya, Nishith

  • Toxicology

Calello, Diane

  • Urology

Cambareri, Gina
Hanna, Moneer
Stock, Jeffrey


For any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at (973) 926-7040.