Faculty

Leadership

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  • Matilde Irigoyen, MD
  • Title: Chairman, Pediatrics
  • Message

  • The Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine at Einstein Medical Center is committed to providing excellent care for infants, children and adolescents in need of primary, subspecialty, inpatient or outpatient care. The department’s focus is largely primary care for those in the surrounding neighborhoods and subspecialty care for patients throughout North, Northeast and Northwest Philadelphia. Patient care service is contemporary in technical expertise and provided through a compassionate family-oriented model.
     
    Our department continues a long tradition of over 50 years of teaching medical students and pediatric residents and regularly contributes to new medical knowledge through research sponsored by various groups including the Albert Einstein Society and federal government agencies. The Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine is strongly committed to the patient community it serves through Einstein Community Health Associates, our primary care network, and to our graduating pediatric residents for employment opportunities in pediatrics.

    In 2003, an innovative collaborative patient care model for clinical services was developed with St. Christopher's Hospital for Children. The "Einstein Inpatient Unit" is housed and operates at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children under the direction of Einstein faculty.  Einstein residents complete their inpatient rotations on this Einstein service and are supervised by our pediatric faculty.  In addition, subspecialty physicians from St. Christopher's Hospital for Children complement our department’s array of subspecialties. The combination of clinical resources from Einstein Medical Center, Einstein Community Health Associates and St. Christopher's Hospital for Children provides our resident physicians with rich opportunities for clinical experience and education.

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  • Matilde Irigoyen, MD is Chair of the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.  Dr. Irigoyen received her medical degree from Buenos Aires University School of Medicine and completed her pediatric residency and pediatric ambulatory care fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York.

    Dr. Irigoyen has published extensively in the areas of medical education, immunizations, and the care of inner city children.  She has a strong background in quality primary pediatric care, medical education and community service, with special interests in integrating medical education through service learning models that are responsive to the child health needs of the community.  Dr. Irigoyen previously served as Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Population and Family Health and Director, Division of General Pediatrics and Program Director, General Pediatrics Fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center, New York. 

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  • Allan M. Arbeter, MD
  • Title: Associate Chairman for Research, Pediatrics
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  • Dr. Arbeter is former Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University.  Recently, Dr. Arbeter stepped down as Chairman but continues his infectious disease practice and serves as Associate Chair for Research and as a research mentor to pediatric residents. He has been a member of the Albert Einstein Society Research Subcommittee since 1986 and Past Chairman from 1989 to 1994. 

    Dr. Arbeter has been recognized repeatedly for excellence in research and education.  He was cited in Newsweek Magazine for his contributions to the development of the chicken pox vaccine (1983) and featured in the "Top Docs for Kids" issue of Philadelphia Magazine (1992, 2001, 2004). Dr. Arbeter has received numerous Resident Teacher of the Year awards from Einstein Medical Center's Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Naval Regional Medical Center. He is the recipient of the 1995 J. Stanley Cohen, MD Research Career Award, the 2001 Albert Einstein Society Physician Leadership Award, the 2005 Leon A. Perris Memorial Award for Excellence in Student Teaching and Superior Patient Care, Thomas Jefferson University and the 2005 Chief Resident Committee Educator of the Year Award, Einstein Medical Center. 

    Dr. Arbeter is a graduate of Jefferson Medical College. He completed his pediatric residency at Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston and his fellowship in infectious disease at the University of Colorado Medical Center. His interests continue to be in the area of infectious disease and the control of childhood asthma.

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  • Allan M. Arbeter, MD
  • Title: Associate Chairman for Research, Pediatrics
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  • Dr. Arbeter is former Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University.  Recently, Dr. Arbeter stepped down as Chairman but continues his infectious disease practice and serves as Associate Chair for Research and as a research mentor to pediatric residents. He has been a member of the Albert Einstein Society Research Subcommittee since 1986 and Past Chairman from 1989 to 1994. 

    Dr. Arbeter has been recognized repeatedly for excellence in research and education.  He was cited in Newsweek Magazine for his contributions to the development of the chicken pox vaccine (1983) and featured in the "Top Docs for Kids" issue of Philadelphia Magazine (1992, 2001, 2004). Dr. Arbeter has received numerous Resident Teacher of the Year awards from Einstein Medical Center's Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Naval Regional Medical Center. He is the recipient of the 1995 J. Stanley Cohen, MD Research Career Award, the 2001 Albert Einstein Society Physician Leadership Award, the 2005 Leon A. Perris Memorial Award for Excellence in Student Teaching and Superior Patient Care, Thomas Jefferson University and the 2005 Chief Resident Committee Educator of the Year Award, Einstein Medical Center. 

    Dr. Arbeter is a graduate of Jefferson Medical College. He completed his pediatric residency at Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston and his fellowship in infectious disease at the University of Colorado Medical Center. His interests continue to be in the area of infectious disease and the control of childhood asthma.

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  • Anna Marie Carr, MD
  • Title: Associate Program Director, Inpatient Director at SCHC, Pediatrics
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  • Dr. Carr is Associate Program Director of the Pediatric Residency Program and the Einstein Inpatient Service Unit Director at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children (SCHC).  She is the recipient of the AEMC Pediatric Faculty Teacher of the Year Award for 2000-2003 and the Institutional Einstein Faculty Teacher Award in 2004. Dr. Carr was also awarded the Thomas Jefferson University Blocker-Osley/Dean’s Teaching Award by the TJU medical student class of 2003.  She completed her residency and chief residency at Cook County Children’s Hospital. Prior to joining the Einstein faculty in 1999, Dr. Carr served as the Pediatric Inpatient Unit and PICU Educational Coordinator for the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center - El Paso. She also served on the faculty of the Chicago Medical School/Cook County Children’s Hospital as the pediatric medical student clerkship director. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Her interests include inpatient pediatrics, international health and medical education.

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  • Robert S. Wimmer, MD
  • Title: Program Director, Pediatrics
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  • Dr. Wimmer is Associate Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics and Residency Program Director.  Dr. Wimmer is Chairman of Einstein's Institutional Review Board and is a member of the Graduate Medical Education Subcommittee at Thomas Jefferson University. He is the recipient of an American Cancer Society Award and a Dean's Cancer Research Fund Grant for his research in monoclonal antibody therapy of hematologic malignancy. Dr. Wimmer completed his pediatric residency at Boston City Hospital, his hematology/oncology fellowship at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children and pediatric oncology research fellowship at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He is a member of the American Society of Hematology and the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

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  • Cynthia W. DeLago, MD
  • Title: Associate Program Director, Director of the Ambulatory Care Center

Faculty

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  • Dexter O. Ang, MD
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  • Kelly Bethea, MD
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  • Michael J. Janeczko, MD
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  • Barbara A. Kelly, MD
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  • Rachel Porat, MD
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  • Clarice A. Robinson, MD
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  • Wendy J. Ross, MD
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  • Agnes S. Salvador, MD
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  • Eyda S. Samuels, MD
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  • Alan M. Schindler, MD
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  • Adele S. Schneider, MD
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  • David L. Schutzman, MD
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  • Neil N. Tran, MD
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  • Louis I. Weisberg, MD