Meet the Emergency and Pediatric Trauma Team
Emergency Department Medical Leadership
Jahn Avarello, MD
System Chief, Emergency Medicine Services
Biwo Prensipal: Miami
Additional Offices: Coral Springs, Miami, Homestead, Jupiter, Fort Lauderdale
Leopoldo Malvezzi, MD
Chief, Department of Pediatric Surgery
Biwo Prensipal: Miami
Additional Offices: Aventura, Miami
Michelle Dawn Blumstein, MD
Director, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Program
Biwo Prensipal: Miami
Paul A Khalil, MD
Medical Director, Point-of-Care Ultrasound Program
Biwo Prensipal: Miami
Anthony D Liberti, MD
Co-Lead Pediatrician, Emergency Department
Biwo Prensipal: Miami
David Alexander Lowe, MD
Medical Director, Emergency Department Quality
Biwo Prensipal: Miami
Additional Office: Jupiter
Raquel Martinez, MD
Co-Lead Pediatrician, Emergency Department
Biwo Prensipal: Miami
Emergency Department Leadership
- Peter Cruz - Director, Emergency Services
- Lisbeth Mosquera - Nurse Manager
- Jonathan Ponce - Nurse Manager
- Kassandra Ramos - Assistant Nurse Manager
- Justina Iglesias - Assistant Nurse Manager
- Diana Gomez - Clinical Practice Specialist
- Kristina Valiente - Clinical Education Specialist
Emergency Department Clinical Coordinators
- Franco Figueroa
- Jackeline Diaz
- Kessoon Dilloon
- Samuel Lachterman
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physicians
Emergency Department Pediatricians
Nicklaus Children's Hospital, understands the critical role that ED nurses have in the handling of emergencies.
All nursing staff must be certified in:
- ACLS (Advance Cardiac Life Support)
- BLS (Basic Life Support)
- PALS (Pediatric Advance Life Support)
- CPI (Crisis Prevention Intervention)
- and attend the Pediatric Trauma Course
In addition, most of the RN staff are certified in ENPC (Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course),and TNCC (Trauma Nursing Core Curriculum). Several of the staff are certified to teach PALS, ACLS, ENPC and TNCC.
