Professor of Pediatrics
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Lisa Saiman MD MPH is a Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center and Hospital Epidemiologist for NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital. She is particularly interested in the impact of community-onset and healthcare-associated respiratory tract infections across the spectrum of healthcare including in acute care, the neonatal ICU population, the cystic fibrosis (CF) population, and residents of pediatric long-term care facilities. Dr. Saiman is a member of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS), Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA, fellow), Infectious Disease Society of America, Society of Pediatric Research (elected), and American Academy of Pediatrics (fellow). She currently serves as the liaison between PIDS and SHEA and is a consultant to the CF Foundation and NYS Department of Health.