Administering anesthesia is a highly precise art whose top priority is safety. Our pediatric anesthesiologists combine their unique skills, judgment and compassion to the benefit of children whose physical and emotional needs are much different from those of adults. Anesthesia is routinely administered for neonatal surgical emergencies, open- and closed-heart procedures, major burns, spinal fusion, direct laryngoscopy and bronchoscopy, intracranial procedures and renal and liver transplantation.

In the operating room, healthy children receive the same standard of anesthesiological care provided on a daily basis to critcally ill children. As the Department of Anesthesia staff members help prepare and protect delicate infants and children undergoing surgical and diagnostic procedures, they also devote their attention and skill to comforting both patients and family members.

Roy E. Schwartz, MD

Director, Department of Anesthesia

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics

Medical School: The Albany Medical College, Albany, NY

Special Training:

Residency: New York Hospital, New York, NY

Fellowship: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Staff Appointment: 1985

Special Interests: Pediatric anesthesia, pediatric critical care

Office: 215-427-5220

Colette Bellwoar, DO

Medical School: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

Special Training:

Residency: Hahnemann University Hospital

Fellowship: St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children

Staff Appointment: 2003

Special Interests: Pediatric anesthesia

Office: 215-427-5220

Doron Feldman, MD

Medical School: Technion Faculty of Medicine – Haifa, Israel

Special Training:

Residency: Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY; Schneider Children’s Hospital, New Hyde Park, NY

Fellowship: The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Staff Appointment: 2005

Special Interests: Pediatric anesthesia

Office: 215-427-5220

James M. T. Foster, MBBS, FRCPC

Medical School: The London Hospital Medical College, London, England

Special Training:

Residency: University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada; University of Saskatchewan, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Fellowship: The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

Staff Appointment: 2005

Special Interests: Pediatric anesthesia

Office: 215-427-5220