Our Team

We are a multidisciplinary group of professionals with specialized training and expertise in providing supportive care to children and teens. We work with the existing doctors, nurses, social workers and other health care providers to improve a child’s quality of life.

Bereavement Coordinators

• Melissa Gaspard
• Elise Marcello

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

• Barbra Murante, M.S., R.N., P.N.P.-B.C.
   

Physicians

• Rachel E. Diamond, M.D.
  Chief, Palliative Care - Associate Professor of Pediatrics
• David Korones, M.D.
  Professor of Pediatrics, Oncology and Neurology
• Erin Denney-Koelsch, M.D.
  Assistant Professor of Medicine & Pediatrics
• Kathryn Palumbo, M.D.
  Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Pediatrics
• Shalom Natan Schlagman, M.D., M.A.
  Assistant Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Health Humanities and Bioethics
• Paul Vermilion, M.D.
  Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
   

Social Worker

• Carla LeVant, L.M.S.W.
   

Chaplaincy 

• Rev. Patti Blaine, Chaplain
   

Division Administrator

• Claudia Burcke

Secretary

• Nikita Boone-Kachur