CINCINNATI CHILDREN - Key Persons


Alexander Yastrebenetsky

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board

Alicia Bond-Lewis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Trustees

Allen Zaring, IV

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board

Alvin Crawford

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board

Barb Tofani

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Team

Beth Guttman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board

BK Rachford

Job Titles:
  • BK Rachford Professor & Chair of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati / Director, Cincinnati Children 's Research Foundation / Chief Medical Officer, Cincinnati Children 's Hospital Medical Center

Bradley B. Keller

Job Titles:
  • about Education and Training Locations Insurance Information Publications Patient Ratings and Comments
  • Medical Director, Greater Louisville and Western KY Practice, Heart Institute / Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Dr. Keller is a clinician-investigator who provides care to children and adults with congenital heart disease throughout Kentucky. He is also an expert in the causes of congenital heart disease and in the development and testing of novel technologies for children and adults with heart disease. On March 1, 2020, Dr. Brad Keller joined the Cincinnati Children's Heart Institute and Dr. Juan VillafaƱe, as co-director of Cincinnati Children's Heart Institute - Greater Louisville and Western Kentucky practices, and is at our offices throughout the region. He brings more than 30 years of clinical and administrative congenital heart care experience including prior roles as division chief of Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Kentucky and at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.

Bret Caller

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board

Brian Veith

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board

Bryan Hamilton

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board

Caroline Joseph

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board

Cheng Begins

Job Titles:
  • Research Foundation Director, Chair of Pediatrics

Christy White

Job Titles:
  • Medical Director

Cindy Burger

Job Titles:
  • Kindervelt President

Conrad R. Cole

Job Titles:
  • about Education and Training Locations Insurance Information Publications from the Blog Patient Ratings and Comments
  • Medical Director, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition / Medical Director, Intestinal Rehabilitation Program / Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Craig Alexander

Job Titles:
  • about Education and Training Locations Insurance Information from the Blog Patient Ratings and Comments
  • Attending Physician, Adult Congenital Heart Disease / Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Dr. Alexander practices in Louisville, Kentucky and in Cincinnati, focusing on care of adults with congenital heart disease or pediatric cardiology patients who have reached adulthood. He thoroughly enjoys this patient population and has been honored to care for these patients for many years. He also enjoys education of other healthcare team members and seeks ways to educate others on his passion of the care of patients with congenital heart disease.

Daniel von Allmen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • Surgeon - in - Chief

David Cassady

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board

Diane Herzog

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Director
  • Member of the Leadership Team

Donald Korengal

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board

Evaline A. Alessandrini - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer
  • about Education and Training Publications

Evie Alessandrini - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer
  • Member of the Executive Team

Gary "Doc" Huffman

Job Titles:
  • Co - Chair of the Foundation Board

Ilan Goldman

Job Titles:
  • International Patient Coordinator

Iten Elyassaki

Job Titles:
  • International Patient Coordinator

J. Scott Robertson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board

Jean Luchini

Job Titles:
  • Care Manager

Jenna DeBord

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board

Joan Biggs

Job Titles:
  • Operative Society President

Joanna Casey

Job Titles:
  • International Patient Coordinator

John Atkinson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board

John Perentesis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board
  • Physician Ambassadors

Kathy Cassady - President

Job Titles:
  • President

Kelly Brown

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board

Kevin Jones

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board

Kit Andrews

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board

Liliana Ballesteros

Job Titles:
  • International Patient Coordinator

Liza D. Smitherman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board of Trustees
  • Member of the Foundation Board

Mark Biegger

Job Titles:
  • Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees

Michael A. Hirschfeld

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board
  • Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees

Michael Barnes

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board

Michael McGraw

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board

Mona Eljouzi

Job Titles:
  • International Patient Coordinator

Norhan Gomaa

Job Titles:
  • International Patient Program Specialist

Oliver Rhine

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning / Chief Strategy Officer

Osama Tawfik

Job Titles:
  • International Patient Coordinator

Paul Jenny - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • Senior Vice President, Finance

Ranjit Chima

Job Titles:
  • Associate Medical Director
  • Member of the Leadership Team

Robert Gramann

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board

Robert Herman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board

Robert Kahn

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board

Rosanne Cahill

Job Titles:
  • Social Worker

Rosland Fisher McLeod

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • Senior Vice President, Legal & Public Affairs / Chief Legal Officer

S. Kay Geiger

Job Titles:
  • Co - Chair of the Foundation Board

Sheila Spradlin Reich

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Senior Director, US & International Business Development & Destination Excellence

Stacy Eversole

Job Titles:
  • Care Manager

Stephanie Ebken

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • Senior Vice President, Marketing & Communications / Chief Marketing & Communications Officer / Chief of Staff, President 's Office

Steve Davis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Trustees
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • Member of the Foundation Board
  • Vice Chair
  • MMM / President & Chief Executive Officer
  • MMM about Education and Training from the Blog Patient Ratings and Comments
  • Named Next CEO
Steve Davis, MD, has been president and CEO of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center since Nov. 22, 2021. He previously served six years as chief operating officer. Dr. Davis was the driving force behind the medical center's largest expansion ever, a $600 million Critical Care Building that opened in 2021 for patients with cancer, heart ailments, or other complex conditions. It also features a state-of-the-art emergency department, which serves residents of Cincinnati and surrounding neighborhoods.

Tatyana (Tanya) Yurlova

Job Titles:
  • International Patient Program Specialist

Thomas M. Finn

Job Titles:
  • Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees

Timothy Wittenbrook

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board

Tina L. Cheng

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • about Education and Training Publications from the Blog Patient Ratings and Comments
  • BK Rachford Professor & Chair of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati / Director, Cincinnati Children 's Research Foundation / Chief Medical Officer, Cincinnati Children 's Hospital Medical Center
  • Chairman, Department of Pediatrics / Director, Research Foundation / Chief Medical Officer
  • Community Health / Pediatric Policy Council Calls for Action to Support Life Course Research
  • Health Inequities / Coalition for Pediatric Medical Research Lays Out Priorities

Tony Johnston

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • Senior Vice President, Information Services / Chief Information Officer

Wendy Ritch

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board

William Sherman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Foundation Board