Clinical Staff

With more than 200 physicians, psychologists, physician assistants, rehabililation therapists and nurse practitioners on staff, Franciscan Hospital for Children is proud to offer many pediatric services. Our physicians and therapists provide expertise in pediatrics, rehabilitation, psychiatry, neurology, pulmonary medicine, genetics and more.

Franciscan Hospital for Children is a teaching facility for Boston University's School of Medicine, its Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Tufts Medical School, other colleges and universities, and is a required rotation (on the psychiatry unit) for the MGH-Harvard Medical School-McLean Hospital residency program. For more information on our individual physicians, please follow the links below.

Anesthesia

Charles Kendrick, MD

Peter Lief, MD

Catherine Miller, MD

Dental

Wendy Cheney, DMD, BDSc, Director, Department of Dentistry

Genetics

Jane O'Brien, MD
Chief Medical Director

Neurology

Linda Specht, MD

Nursing

Mary Lou KelleherVice President of Nursing

Cameron DeMarche, Operating Room Nurse Manager

John Solman, CRN

Deb Iovanna, CPN

Mary "Laurette" Hughes, RN

Julie Jankun, RN, BSN, NM

Lilly Gillan, RN

Otolaryngology (ENT)

Christopher Hartnick, MD

Donald Kearney, MD

Pediatrics (Inpatient)

C.Coe Agee, MD/PhD

David Leslie, MD

Jane O'Brien, MD

Pediatrics (Outpatient)

Dr. Alanna Burke, MD

Doreen Karoll, MD

Joseph Oren, MD

Varuna Tuli, MD

 

Pulmonology

Virginia Kharasch,MD

Psychiatry

Mark Alexakos, MD

Thrassos Calligas, MD

Robert Doyle, MD

John Julian, MD

Saori Murakami, MD

Andrew Stromberg, MD 

Psychology

Eric Benson, PhD

Ralph Buonopane, PhD

Christopher Morton, PhD

Mary Ann Mullin, PhD

Rehabilitation Medicine

Jeffrey Forman, MD
Director of Rehabilitation Medicine 

Ruth Crowley

Director, Rehabilitative Therapies & Speech-Language-Hearing Department

 

Carrie Barlow PT PCS

Director, Physical & Occupational Therapy

 

Radiology

Ilse Castro, MD

William Cranley, MD

Johanne E. Dillon, MD

Surgery

Neil Feins, MD