Professional Advisors have been selected by the PTN Board of Directors and have agreed to support Pull-thru Network’s mission by speaking at PTN conferences,
writing articles for PTN publications, referring families to the PTN, etc. Professional Advisors serve three-year terms.

Andrea Bischoff, MD

Director, International Center for Colorectal and Urogenital Care at Children’s Hospital Colorado Professor of Surgery
Denver, Colorado

Lesley Breech MD

Division Director, Division of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
Cincinnati Children’s
Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio

Daniel Dajusta, MD

Division of Pediatric Urology
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
 Clinical Assistant Professor of Urology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Columbus, Ohio

Belinda Dickie MD

Director, Colorectal and Pelvic Malformation Center
Boston Children’s Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

hollie filce PHD

Associate Professor Curriculum Instruction and Special Education
The University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Jason Frischer MD

Director, Colorectal Center
Pediatric Surgeon, Division of General and Thoracic Surgery
Professor, UC Department of Surgery
Cincinnati, Ohio

laura Judd glossy PHD

Pediatric Mental Health Institute
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Denver, Colorado

Marc LEVITT, MD

Chief, Division of Colorectal & Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery Children’s National Hospital
Washington, DC

Erin Mcnamara MD

Associate Director, Colorectal & Pelvic Malformation Center
Boston Children’s Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

rebecca rentea
MD, MS, MBA, FACS, FAAP

Section Chief, Colorectal and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery; Medical Director, Colorectal Surgery and the Comprehensive Colorectal Center; Program Director
Kansas City, Missouri

Donald Shaul MD

Pediatric General / Thoracic  Surgery
CHOC Children’s Specialist Hospital
Orange County, California

Richard Wood MD

Associate Director of the Center for
Colorectal & Pelvic Reconstruction
Nationwide Children’s Hospital 
Columbus, Ohio

Institutional Members

The following hospitals have an Institutional Membership with Pull-thru Network. The staff members included in this membership are listed below their hospital name.  
Pull-thru Network does not officially endorse these institutions and professionals, but provides this information to members as a courtesy.

Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children
Orlando, FL
Cristine Velazco, MD, Director
Marc Levy, MD
Donald Plumley, MD
Brenna Fullerton, MD

Boston Children’s Hospital
Boston, MA
Belinda Dickie, MD-Director
Erin McNamara, MD-Associate Director
Prathima Nandivada, MD
Paula Cruz, MSN, RN, FNP-C
Yrag Daphnis, RN, MSN, FNP-C
Eddie Liao, RN, BSN, CPN
Devin Wolfe, MSW, LCSW

Children’s Health 
Dallas, TX
Barbara Gaines, MD
Charles Hong, MD
Steve Megison, MD
Sharon Kluger, APRN, CPNP-PC/AC
Michele Phelan, RN-Program Manager

Children’s Hospital Colorado
Aurora, CO
Andrea Bischoff, MD
Luis De la Torre, MD
Dan Wood, MD
Veronica Alaniz, MD
Laura Judd-Glossy, PhD
Anne Merritt, RN, BSN, CPN

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Christopher Gayer, MD, PhD
Jaya Punati, MD
Simona Zagrean, RN
Elizabeth Moua, LCSW
Irene Austria-Ramos, RN

Children’s Mercy 
Kansas City, MO
Rebecca Rentea, MD-Director
Kristen Meier, MD
Iris Lim-Beutel, MD, MPH
Ashli Lawson, MD
John Gatti, MD
Margaret Martin McLain, MSN
Christine Feira, MSN, CPNP-PC
Rachel Foutz, APRN
Wendy Lewis, MSN, APRN-FNP
Mary Langston, APRN
Adelaide O’Toole, APRN

Children’s National Hospital
Washington, DC
Marc Levitt, MD-Chief
Julie Choueiki, MSN-Program Manager
Andrea Badillo, MD-Director
Erin Teeple, MD-Director
Christina Feng, MD
Katherine Worst, CPNP-AC
Lindsay Clarke, PA-C
Krystal Aris, PA-C
Lindsay Pesacreta, FNP
Jessica McAuliffe, APN
Janel Talley, RN
Justine Gagnon, RN, BSN, CPN
Meghan Mesa, RN, BSN, CPN
Olivia Cleckley, RN, BSN, CPN
Emily Rice RN, BSN, CPN

Children’s Hospital of Orange County
Orange, CA
Donald Shaul, MD
Hira Ahmad, MD
Ashish Chogle, MD
Mayam Gholizadeh, MD
Ashley Bone, ARNP

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Cincinnati, OH
Jason Frischer, MD
Aaron Garrison, MD
Nelson Rosen, MD
Beth Rymeski, DO
Maria Obermeyer, APRN-CNP
Monica Holder, RN
Marybeth Kenny

Golisano Children’s Hospital
Rochester, NY
David Darcy, MD
Sheena Snelgrove, APRN
Ajay Rana, MBBS, MS

Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital
New York, NY
Jason Fisher, MD-Chief Pediatric Surgery
Jordan S Gitlin, MD-Chief Pediatric Urology
Melanie K Greifer, MD
Elise Mckenna, MD- Associate Professor
Linda Fang, RN-Clinical Coordinator

Intermountain Healthcare Primary Children’s
Salt Lake City, UT
Michael Rollins, MD
Chad Wallis, MD
Scott Short, MD
Katherine Hayes, MD
Katherine Gaddis, APRN
Sarah Zobell, APRN

Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Columbus, OH
Richard Wood, MD
Ihab Halweish,MD
Alessandra Gasior, DO
Kristina Booth, APRN
Jessica Thomas RN, BSN
Stephanie Vyrostek, RN
Daniel DaJusta, MD

Nemours Children’s Health
Orlando, FL
Hadeel Haddad, MD
Pablo Palomo, MD
Adela Casas-Melley, MD, MBA
Roberto Gomez Suarez, MD
Robert Dorman, MD
Teerin Meckmongkol, MD

Phoenix Children’s Hospital
Phoenix, AZ
Kathleen Van Leeuwen, MD
Jamie Harris, MD
Justin Lee, MD
Ricardo Medina, MD
Gwen Grimbsy, MD
Tara Goesch, DNP, APRN-PNP

Seattle Children’s Hospital
Seattle, WA
Jeffrey Avansino, MD
Caitlin Smith, MD- Director
Clarissa Lindley, Social Worker
Samuel Rice-Townsend, MD
Autumn Wunderlich, RN, BSN
Lissa Yu, MD
Angela Hernandez
Lucia Rostomily, RN
Jessica Sutton, RN
Laura Brazer, DNP

Shriners Children’s Hospital
Sacramento, Northern CA
Payam Saadai, MD- Director of Peds Colorectal
Jamie Anderson, MD
Maheen Hassan, MD- Director of GI Motility
Kendall Ouzts, APRN
Kevin Henson, APRN

Stanford Children’s Hospital
Stanford, CA
Stephanie Cizek, MD
Julie Fuchs, MD
Daniel Han, MD
Claudia Mueller, MD, PhD

SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Brooklyn, NY
Carlos Reck, MD
Panagiotis Kougias, MD
Francisca Velcek, MD
Sumanth Suresh, MD
Michelle Fried, ACNP-BC

Texas Children’s Hospital
Houston, TX
Lily Cheng, MD
Kristy Rialon, MD
Timothy Lee, MD
Felicia Denner, NP
Veronica Victorian, PA-C

UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Kelly Austin, MD- Program Director
Kevin P Mollen, MD
Ward Richardson, MD
Stefan Scholz, MD
Vibha Sood, MD
Serena Chan, MD
Paul K Waltz, MD
Sarah M Shumate, PA-C

UTHealth Houston
Houston, TX
Akemi Kawaguchi, MD
Danielle Hsu, MD
Dianna Schmeda, FNP
Rachel Barton, PNP
Lawrence Cisek, MD

INDIVIDUAL PROFESSIONAL MEMBERS

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Cincinnati, OH
Lesley Breech, MD
Brian Vanderbrink, MD
Pramod Reddy, MD

Cohen Children’s Hospital
New Hyde Park, NY
Diane Napoli, MSN, CPNP

Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, ON
Jacob Langer, MD

In Control Physical Therapy
Tucson, AZ
Monica Duran, PT, CAAP-Pelvic

Kaiser Permanente-
Los Angeles
Burbank, CA
Karen Rodriguez RN, MSN, CPNP-PC/AC

Kufa University, College of Medicine
Najaf, Iraq
Haidar Mohammad Muhssein,MD

McGill University 
Montreal, QC
Hussein Wissanji, MD

Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Columbus, OH
Daniel Dajusta, MD


Prisma Health
Greenville, SC
Keith Webb, MD, FACS

Shriners Children’s Hospital
Auburn, CA
Kari Coye, RN, MSN

Taipei Veterans General Hospital
Taipei, Taiwan
David Yi-Ting Yeh, MD

Texas Children’s Hospital
Houston, TX
Madison Fitzgerald MPAS, PA-C

Zalnoel Abidin Hospital
Sylah Kuala Univesity

Banda Aceh, Indonesia
Muntadhar Muhammad Isa, MD

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