Our Faculty
Program Directors
Rita Dadiz, D.O.Dr. Dadiz is the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine fellowship program director. Her clinical and research expertise focuses on the applications of educational innovation and simulation-based learning to improve patient safety, patient care and the clinical learning environment. She collaborates with educators and researchers across professions and disciplines, serving as the co-director of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry’s Dean’s Teaching Fellowship for faculty educators. In addition, she directs the Neonatal Innovation and Safety Simulation Program and is an associate editor of the American Academy of Pediatrics journal, NeoReviews.
Dr. Prelipcean serves as an Associate Program Director of the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship. Her area of academic interest is integrated monitoring and improvement of outcomes in critically ill neonates. She is training in Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography (TnECHO) and developing her research in hemodynamics and biomarkers involved in the neonatal brain and adrenal dysfunction. She is a member of the Neonatal Clinical Research Group and Neonatal Hemodynamics Research Centre.
Dr. Burris serves as an Associate Program Director of the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship as well as the Associate Director of the Neonatal-Perinatal Complex Delivery Service. His clinical and research interests encompass delivery planning and immediate post-delivery care of neonates with complex conditions, improving pulmonary clinical outcomes through less invasive surfactant therapy, multidisciplinary collaboration in infants with congenital cardiac disease, and investigating the utility of biomarkers in allergic proctocolitis. Integral to Dr. Burris’ academic and teaching interests is graduate medical education where he strives to support and foster the individualized growth of residents and fellows in becoming compassionate and strong leaders within pediatrics and neonatology.
Division Chief
Carl T. D’Angio, M.D.Dr. D'Angio is Chief of the Division of Neonatology. He attended medical school at Johns Hopkins University and received his Pediatric training at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia before completing the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship at the University of Rochester. His research focuses on clinical trials in the newborn. He is principal investigator for a combined University of Rochester-University of Buffalo site in the NICHD Neonatal Research Network, a 15-center consortium performing research in newborns. He has particular interests in immunizations, infection, and clinical and research ethics. He is an attending neonatologist at both URMC and Rochester General Hospital.
Clinical and Research Faculty
Gal Barbut, M.D.
Assistant Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Michele Burtner, M.S.
Senior Associate - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology - Joint
Melissa Carmen, M.D.
Associate Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Patricia R. Chess, M.D., M.S.
Professor and Vice Chair for Education - Department of Pediatrics
Divya Chhabra, M.B.B.S., M.M.Sc.
Senior Instructor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Ethan David Cohen, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
David A. Dean, Ph.D.
Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Andrew Dylag, M.D.
Associate Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Fabeha Fazal, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Associate Professor - Department of Pharmacology and Physiology - Joint
Jacob N. Finkelstein, Ph.D.
Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology Professor - Department of Environmental Medicine - Joint
Ronnie Guillet, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor (Part-Time) - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Sema Hart, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Carl J. Johnston, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Lynnette Johnson, D.O.
Assistant Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Igor Khodak, M.D.
Assistant Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Nirupama Laroia, M.D.
Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Ruth A. Lawrence, M.D.
Professor Emeritus - Departments of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology
William M. Maniscalco, M.D.
Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Thomas J. Mariani, Ph.D.
Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Professor - Department of Environmental Medicine - Joint
Jeffrey Meyers, M.D.
Associate Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Ravi Misra, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Gary J. Myers, M.D.
Professor - Neurology, Pediatrics, and Environmental Medicine
Olachi Mezu-Ndubuisi, M.D., O.D.
Interim Associate Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Robert H. Notter, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Michael A. O'Reilly, Ph.D.
Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Professor - Department of Environmental Medicine - Joint
Mallory Prideaux, M.D.
Assistant Medical Director for the Golisano Children's Hospital NICU
Gloria S. Pryhuber, M.D.
Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Arshad Rahman, Ph.D.
Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Professor - Department of Pharmacology and Physiology - Joint
Julie E. Riccio, M.D.
Associate Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Colby L. Day, M.D.
Assistant Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Casey Rosen-Carole, M.D.
Assistant Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Assistant Professor - Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology - Joint
Gillian M. Schiralli Lester, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Kristin Scheible, M.D.
Associate Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Laurie A. Steiner, M.D.
Associate Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Timothy P. Stevens, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Angela K. Tyson, D.O.
Assistant Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
