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Born December 31, 1953 (age 70) ( 1953-12-31 ) Washington, DC, USA | ||
Charles Lawrence Schleien (born December 31, 1953) is the Chair of Pediatrics and Pediatrician-in-Chief at Northwell Health as of May 1, 2012.
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Previously, Dr. Schleien served as Director of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine; Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology; and Vice Chair for Administration, Department of Pediatrics, at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Biography
Schleien was born in Washington, D.C. He grew up in Flushing, New York.
He received his BA from Queens College, City University of New York in 1974 and his MD from the Mt. Sinai School Of Medicine in 1979. He did his pediatrics residency at Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas and Johns Hopkins University in Maryland which is also where he did his critical care fellowship and anesthesiology residency which he completed in 1985. He remained on the faculty at Hopkins until 1990.
He held NIH funding in pediatric CPR and areas of brain metabolism and blood flow.
In 1990 he became the division director at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine where he stayed until 1999 when he was recruited to Columbia University as division director of pediatric critical care medicine and Vice Chair of the Dept of Pediatrics where he ran the clinical service, recruitment and served as liaison to Presbyterian Hospital.
In 2008, he received an MBA from the Columbia Business School.
In 2012 he became the Chairman of Pediatrics at Cohen Children's Medical Center, part of Northwell Health. Dr. Schleien is the executive director for Cohen Children's Medical Center, chairman of the Department of Pediatrics, senior vice president for the Pediatric Service Line, and Professor of Pediatrics at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine.
Charity
Schleien is on the Board of Directors, Ronald McDonald House of Long Island.