IgMDeficiency near Philadelphia, PA

Biography: Dr. Minnie John MD, FAAP is Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Attending Pediatric Infectious Disease physician at New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. Dr John is board certified in General Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Disease and over25 years of experience in pediatrics. She is a member of AAP and IDSA. Dr. John graduated from Christian Medical College, Vellore, India. She was always interested in Pediatrics and Infectious Disease. Shortly after finishing medical school, Dr. John got the opportunity to be a part of the landmark 076 AIDS clinical trial that showed how a single drug could change the face of global pediatric HIV. This work only reaffirmed her decision to pursue a career in Pediatric Infectious disease. She completed her residency from Bronx Lebanon Hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and a fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Disease from Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. John enjoys working with children and following these children into adulthood. Her practice is based on compassionate high quality patient focused family centered care grounded in evidence-based medicine. Her passion lies in solving complicated medical conundrums. Her areas of expertise include congenital infections (especially congenital CMV and herpes infections), bone and joint infections, skin and soft tissue infections, pneumonia, fever of unknown origin, HIV, tuberculosis, travel medicine. Dr. John recently received an NIH grant to manage congenitally infected CMV newborns with NYP Brooklyn Methodist Hospital being designated as one of the Wadsworth Center Infectious Disease Specialty Care Center.

Biography: Dr. Abdalgani is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC). She completed her MBBS medical degree at the University of Jordan, Pediatric residency at University at Buffalo, NY, fellowship in Allergy and Immunology at Virginia Commonwealth University, and fellowship in Clinical Immunology and Diagnostic Immunology Laboratory at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. In 2018, Dr. Abdalgani joined Children's Minnesota as a Pediatric Clinical Immunologist, and also worked as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota for two years. She was involved in teaching medical residents and fellows. Dr. Abdalgani's primary interest is primary immunodeficiency diseases, immune regulatory disorders, pre and post-transplant care of primary immune deficiency patients, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and immunomodulatory treatment. She is a member of the Clinical Immunology Society (CIS) and has served as a member of the CIS Continuous Medical Education Committee since 2020. She has reviewed for the Journal of Clinical Immunology since 2019. Dr. Abdalgani participated in research in diagnostic laboratory immunology, immune dysregulation and cytopenia. She presented some of her work in national meeting. Dr. Abdalgani was chosen as one of the Minnesota Monthly Magazine top doctors in 2021 and 2022.