Physician Appointments at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
Wilmington, Delaware
Tuesday, October 02, 2007 @ 04:24 PM EDT
by: Alison Burris
(302) 651-6396
Wilmington, DE – We are pleased to announce the following physicians have accepted new positions at Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children.
Jay S. Greenspan, MD, MBA, has been appointed The Robert L. Brent Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Jefferson Medical College and Nemours Children’s Clinics, Delaware Valley. He has served as Acting Chair since 2006 and Professor of Pediatrics at Jefferson since 1997. Dr. Greenspan earned his medical degree at Case Western University in Cleveland, OH and his postgraduate training at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In 2005, he completed a Masters in Business Administration at Capella University.
E. Anders Kolb, MD, was appointed the new Director of the Blood and Bone Marrow Transplant Program. Dr. Kolb graduated from Jefferson Medical College, his completed residency at St. Christopher's Hospital and received his fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Prior to joining Nemours, he worked at Children's Hospital at Montefiore and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York where he directed both the stem cell transplantation and the leukemia/lymphoma services.
Udayan K. Shah, MD, FAAP, FACS, is a pediatric otolaryngologist at the duPont Hospital for Children. He is a graduate of the Boston University School of Medicine, where he completed his residency in Otolaryngology and served as Administrative Chief Resident. He completed his Fellowship in Pediatric Otolaryngology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia where he practiced for nine years. He is active with professional societies and currently holds leadership positions in the American Society for Pediatric Otolaryngology and the Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Advances in Children.
Patrick C. Barth, MD, is a pediatric otolaryngologist at the duPont Hospital for Children. He is a graduate of the Medical College of Pennsylvania/Hahnemann School of Medicine. Dr. Barth completed his residency at Geisinger Medical Center and a fellowship in Pediatric Otolaryngology at duPont Hospital for Children. He was a visiting fellow at the Hospital for Sick Children in London.
Raquel Tapia, MD has joined the Division of Nephrology at Nemours. Dr. Tapia is a graduate of the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo. She completed her pediatric residency at Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center, in Brooklyn, NY and received her Pediatric Nephrology training at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore/AECOM of Yeshiva University in Bronx, NY.
The Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
The Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children is a division of Nemours, which operates one of the nation’s largest health systems devoted to pediatric patient care, teaching and research. Set on a beautiful 300-acre campus near Wilmington, Delaware, the 200-bed duPont Hospital for Children offers all the specialties of pediatric medicine, surgery and dentistry.
The Nemours Children’s Clinic provides the physician services of the hospital at its main campus, and at pediatric primary and specialty care locations throughout Delaware, southeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey. Together the duPont Hospital for Children and Nemours Children’s Clinic are the academic partner of Thomas Jefferson University and the pediatric provider to the Jefferson Health System and its members and affiliates. For more information, please visit www.Nemours.org.
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About Nemours
Nemours, one of the nation’s largest pediatric health systems, is dedicated to achieving higher standards in children’s health. Nemours offers an integrated spectrum of clinical treatment coupled with research, advocacy, and educational health and prevention services extending to all families in the communities it serves. Starting with Alfred I. duPont’s bequest over seventy years ago, Nemours has grown into a multi-dimensional organization offering personalized clinical and preventive care focused on children.
Nemours owns and operates the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware and major children’s specialty clinics in Delaware (Wilmington), Florida (Jacksonville, Orlando and Pensacola), Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Bryn Mawr) and New Jersey (Atlantic City and Voorhees). Having recently received preliminary approval from the State of Florida, Nemours will establish a new full-service children’s hospital as part of an integrated pediatric health campus in Orlando. KidsHealth.org, the world’s most visited pediatric health care Web site for parents, kids and teens, is a project of Nemours.
Nemours employs over 4,400 individuals, including 430 pediatric physicians, specialists and surgeons who cared for approximately a quarter of a million children in 2007. The organization’s goal is to align with parents, physicians, community leaders, children’s advocates and elected officials to ensure optimal wellness for every child. Additional information about Nemours can be found at www.nemours.org.
