Dr. Charles Schleien is the Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics for the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center and Professor of Pediatrics at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He is past Executive Vice Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons as well as Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology. Prior to that, he was Director of the division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, which he founded on his arrival to Columbia in 1999, and served as medical director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of Columbia University.   Dr. Charles Schleien is the Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics for the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center and Professor of Pediatrics at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He is past Executive Vice Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons as well as Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology. Prior to that, he was Director of the division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, which he founded on his arrival to Columbia in 1999, and served as medical director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of Columbia University.  

Dr. Schleien has a long history of research in cardiopulmonary resuscitation where he developed the first infant model of CPR in a porcine animal model published in Circulation in 1986, followed by numerous publications on drug effects, brain blood flow and metabolism as well as mechanics of CPR.  He has remained active in clinical trials, publishing in the realm of pediatric CPR and the recent Hypothermia study following cardiac arrest in children.  He has also published on areas of clinical bioethics in children as well as other critical care topics.