Meet Our Faculty
Ilana Torine, D.O.
Program Director
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Residency/Fellowship: IU Health – Riley Hospital for Children, Pediatrics; IU Health – Riley Hospital for Children, Neonatology
Research/Clinical Interests: Graduate Medical Education, Neonatal Nutrition
Katherine Beckwith-Fickas, M.D., MPH
Associate Program Director
Associate Clerkship Director, Pediatrics, Hackensack Meridian SOM
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Residency/Fellowship: Johns Hopkins, Pediatrics; Johns Hopkins, Pediatric Endocrinology
Research/Clinical Interests: Graduate Medical Education, Diabetes Mellitus, Depression and Substance Use in Adolescents with Chronic Disorders
Alan Cabasso, M.D.
Associate Program Director
Professor of Pediatrics
Residency/Fellowship: NYU – Bellevue Medical Center; NYU – Bellevue Medical Center
Research/Clinical Interests: Evidence based care in the normal newborn nursery
Srividya Naganathan, M.D.
Vice Chair, Pediatric Education
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Residency/Fellowship: Metro Health Medical Center; PHM – Board Certified through the practice pathway
Research/Clinical Interests: Graduate medical education, antibiotic stewardship, dermatologic conditions, high value care, physician wellness
Harpreet Pall, M.D., MBA, CPE
Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Professor of Pediatrics
Residency/Fellowship: Memorial University in Canada; Gastroenterology; Boston Children’s Hospital of the Harvard Medical School
Research/Clinical Interests: Liver disease, inflammatory bowel disease, celiac disease and endoscopy
Chairman
Cardiology
Child Abuse
Child Psychiatry
Critical Care
Development
Emergency Medicine
Endocrinology
Margarita Smotkin-Tangorra, DO
Marianna Nicoletta-Gentile, DO
Gastroenterology
General Pediatrics
Genetics
Hematology-Oncology
Hospitalists
Infectious Disease
Neonatology
Nephrology
Neurology
Neurosurgery
Orthopedics
Palliative Care
Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Pulmonology
Rheumatology
Sedation and Transport Medicine
Surgery
Urology
From left to right: Dr. Srividya Naganathan, Dr. Harpreet Pall, Dr. Kate Beckwith-Fickas, Ms. Lory Cotangco, and Dr. Ilana Torine