Charlotte AHEC

Amina Ahmed, MD

Amina Ahmed, MD is a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Levine Children's Hospital at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is a graduate of Duke University and received her medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Ahmed completed her residency at the University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill, followed by a pediatric infectious disease fellowship at University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, Texas. She has been a member of the faculty at Carolinas Medical Center since 1997. Dr. Ahmed's clinical and research interests include congenital infections and tuberculosis. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Jason Dranove, MD

Jason Dranove, MD attended medical school at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Georgia and completed his residency in Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. He also completed a fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition at James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Currently, Dr. Dranove is a faculty physician in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatolgy, and Nutrition at Carolinas Medical Center, Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina. His special interests include General Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Neurogastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders (including pH monitoring and performance of manometry studies), Functional Bowel Disorders, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Leonard Feld, MD

Leonard Feld, MD, PhD, MMM, FAAP, is the Sara H. Bissell & Howard C. Bissell Endowed Chair in Pediatrics and Chief Medical Officer at the Levine Children's Hospital at Carolinas Medical Center, and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at UNC School of Medicine The Levine Children's Hospital is the largest children's hospital between Washington DC and Atlanta with 12 floors and 234 beds.

David Fisher, MD

David Fisher, MD completed medical school and residency at the Medical College of Virginia and completed his fellowship at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, Connecticut. Currently, he is the Director of Neonatology for Carolinas HealthCare System Neonatal Services at Levine Children’s Hospital at Carolinas Medical Center. Dr. Fisher also serves as Chairman for the Perinatal Quality Assurance Committee at Carolinas HealthCare System.

Andrew C. Herman, MD

Andrew C. Herman, MD is faculty at Levine Children’s Hospital at Carolinas Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatology. He completed medical school at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, and completed his residency in General Pediatrics at the University of Virginia where he also completed a fellowship in Neonatal/Perinatal Pediatrics.

Currently, Dr. Herman is involved in several quality improvement initiatives in the NICU including improving outcomes for extremely low birth weight infants as well as reducing catheter related bloodstream infection. He also has a particular interest and research history in acquired bowel disease in the premature infant.

Daniel R. Neuspiel, MD, MPH

Daniel R. Neuspiel, MD, MPH is Director of Ambulatory Pediatrics at Levine Children's Hospital. He received his BA from Rutgers University and his MD from UMDNJ: New Jersey Medical School. Dr. Neuspiel completed his pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, followed by a fellowship in epidemiology at the Graduate School of Public Health of the University of Pittsburgh, where he received a MPH degree. He is board certified in pediatrics and preventive medicine. Dr. Neuspiel is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Kasey Scannell, MD

Kasey Scannell, MD currently serves as Chief Resident at Carolinas Medical Center, Levine’s Children Hospital in the Department of Pediatrics. She received her Doctor of Medicine from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Molecular Biology from Vanderbilt University. She has also been involved with a departmental quality improvement project to establish a standard admission order set for children with complicated pneumonia.

Laura Sinai, MD

Dr. Laura Sinai is a pediatrician and currently practices with William Hayes Jr. MD & Associates in Gastonia, North Carolina. Dr. Sinai has over fifteen years of clinical experience in suburban and urban hospital settings. She received her MD from the University of Medicine & Dentistry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey; completed her residency in pediatrics at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; finished a fellowship in general pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; and received a Masters in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

In addition to direct patient care, she is the founder and facilitator of the Gaston County Breastfeeding Coalition, is an active member of both the North Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition and the Academy of the Breastfeeding Medicine, and serves as the North Carolina State Breastfeeding Coordinator American Academy of Pediatrics. She is also the mother of two daughters.