The Pediatric Liver Program 

Our Team

The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein’s Pediatric Liver Program looks forward to helping you and your family. Here are some of the faces that you will meet: 

• Transplant Surgeons
  • Sarah Bellemare, MD, FRCS 
    Director, Pediatric Transplantation Surgery
  • Dominique M. Jan, MD, PhD
    Chief, Division of Pediatric Surgery
  • Alexandre N. Darani, MD MSc 
• Hepatology and Gastroenterology
  • John Thompson, MD
    Chief, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
  • Debra H. Pan, MD
  • Katarzyna Bigaj, MD 
  • Preeti Viswanathan, MD 
• Infectious Disease
  • Marc D. Foca, MD
• Interventional Radiology
  • Kapil Wattamwar, MD
    
• Financial Coordinator
• Transplant Coordinator
  • Abimbola Laniyan, NP 
• Social Worker
  
  • Alana Cooper, LMSW 
• Nutritionist
  
  • Gabriela Gonzalez, RD
• Clinical Pharmacist
  
  • Katherine Myers, Transplant PharmD
• Quality Improvement Specialist