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Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland is proud to have Northern California's finest pediatricians and pediatric specialists in the area's only independent children's hospital.  Our accomplished clinical staff is renowned for its excellent patient care and is dedicated to responding to the needs of children everywhere.

News media organizations that wish to contact or interview our experts, or any other nurse caregiver, patient or other staff member at Children's Hospital Oakland, must first contact our Media Relations team:  Diana Yee (email:dyee@mail.cho.org)
Phone:(510) 428-3120     Fax: (510) 654-8474

Please review our media relations policy.

CONDITION/DEPARTMENT PHYSICIAN/EXPERT

Adolescent Medicine

 

Barbara Staggers, MD

AIDS, HIV-infection

 

Ann Petru, MD

Anesthesiology

Jonathan Clarke, MD

Maurine Heard, MD

Richard Rowe, MD

Asthma

 

Karen Hardy, MD

Lydia Tinajero-Deck, MD

Claudia Morris, MD

Blood and Marrow Transplantation

 

Mark Walters, MD

 

Cancer/Leukemia
(Hematology/Oncology)

 

James Feusner, MD

Caroline Hastings, MD

Joseph Torkildson, MD

Elliott Vichinsky, MD

Mark Walters, MD

Cardiology

(Heart defects)

 

Kishor Avasarala, MD

Hitendra Patel, MD

Ziad Saba, MD

Cardiothoracic Surgery

 

Olaf Reinhartz, MD

Child Abuse

 

Jim Crawford, MD

Childhood Obesity

 

Lydia Tinajero-Deck, MD

Craniofacial Surgery

 

Bryant Toth, MD

 

Critical Care Medicine

 

Heidi Flori, MD

James Hanson, MD

Cystic Fibrosis

 

Karen Hardy, MD

 

Diabetes
(Endocrinology)

 

Tariq Ahmad, MD

Jennifer Olson, MD

Ear, Nose & Throat

 

Frederick Rosen, MD

Robert Wesman, MD

Emergency Medicine

Claudia Morris, MD

Mary Rutherford, MD

Gastroenterology

Elizabeth Gleghorn, MD

Paul Harmatz, MD

General Pediatrics

Pat Chase, MD

Gena Lewis, MD

Hospitalists

(manage hospitalized patients)

Theodore Chaconas, MD

Kidney Diseases (Nephrology)

Rose Ellen Morrell , MD

Lung Disease (Pulmonology)

Karen Hardy, MD

 

Medical Education

(Residency & Fellowships)

James Wright, MD

Neonatology

 

Art D'Harlingue, MD

David Durand, MD

Priscilla Joe, MD

Neurology

Daniel Birnbaum, MD

Candida Brown, MD

 

Neurosurgery

Peter Sun, MD

 

Nutrition

Karen Amorde-Spalding, RD

Orthopedics

 


Scott Hoffinger, MD

James Policy, MD

Plastic Surgery

Stephen Daane, MD

 

Psychiatry

Andrew Giammona, MD

Herb Schreier, MD

Radiology
(Diagnostic Imaging)

Ronald Cohen, MD

Rehabilitation Medicine

Robert Haining, MD

Jacob Neufeld, MD, MSPH

Sickle Cell Disease

Keith Quirolo, MD

 

Spina Bifida

 

Peter Sun, MD

 

Stem Cell Research

 

Mark Walters, MD

 

Surgery

 

James Betts, MD

 

Trauma

 

James Betts, MD

 

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