I Can Do It with a Broken Heart
Hail to the Chief
The Hurt Locker: NYC Sports Edition
...Baby One More Time
CHONY Spelling Bee
200
"I'm so obsessed with him but he avoids me like the plague"
So does all the albumin with increased GI losses in this serious complication of a Fontan Procedure that is a result of increased central venous pressure and increased venous congestion.
Protein Losing Enteropathy
200
This current section chief was also a chief resident at Yale where he learned to always ask residents if they've eaten.
Dr. Max Lindeman
200
This New York Knick got a little bloody when he was elbowed in the face during Game 5 of the 2025 Eastern Conference Semifinals (but bounced back)!
Josh Hart
200
This famous aardvark taught children important life lessons over 25 years on PBS and shares his name with the most recently delivered residency baby.
Arthur
200
Vomiting blood
Hematemesis
400
"All the pieces of me shattered as the crowd was chanting 'More'"...
Tachypnea, hepatomegaly, and poor feeding with this acyanotic lesion, which commonly presents in the first few weeks of life when PVR drops.
large VSD
400
This NICU attending was the last CHONY Chief in the era where we had three CHONY chief residents.
Dr. Kathleen Brennan
400
This Yankees shortstop suffered a fractured ankle during the 2012 ALCS, ending his postseason and marking a turning point in his career.
Derek Jeter
400
This 2007 coming-of-age movie about a pregnant teenager shares a name with a new addition to the adolescent fellows' office.
Juno
400
This is a genus of bacteria of the spirochete phylum
Borrelia
600
"I cry a lot but I am so productive, it's an art"
But crying doesn't help a newborn with this condition causing a heart rate of 55 bpm, a wide QRS, and complete AV dissociation on ECG. The mother's labs later revealed anti-Ro (SSA) antibodies.
Congenital complete heart block due to neonatal lupus
600
Both of next year's chief residents come from this undergraduate institution (though they didn't know each other at the time) favored to win the NCAA tournament this past March.
Duke University
600
Aaron Rodgers tore this 4 snaps into his first regular season game with the Jets.
Achilles
600
This legendary singer, actress, and civil rights activist became the first Black woman to sign a long-term contract with a major studio and starred in her own one-woman show on Broardway, now sharing her name with the new baby of one of our PICU fellows.
Lena (Horne)
600
This is a group of skin disorders with dry, itchy skin
Ichthyosis
800
"I'm so depressed, I act like it's my birthday every day"
Can we go back to this newborn's birthday? Because they're now profoundly hypothermic and hypotensive after an uneventful delivery. Femoral pulses are weak and metabolic acidosis is worsening. The murmur you heard earlier has vanished.
Critical coarctation of the aorta
800
This Interim Division Chief is working on a new cellulitis pathway with their other half when not directing ECMO cannulations.
Dr. Bill Middlesworth
800
Last year’s NFL Offensive Player of the Year tore his ACL against the Chicago Bears in 2020 while playing for the Giants.
Saquon Barkley
800
This actor earned an Emmy for playing Roman Roy on Succession and shares a name with one of the newest members of the hospitalist division.
Kieran (Culkin)
800
This is a gram negative rod genus
Escherichia
1000
"They said, 'Babe, you gotta fake it till you make it' and I did..."
Until you're talking to cath because this neonatal emergency requiring mixing physiology has a restrictive atrial septum that needs urgent balloon atrial septostomy.
Transposition of the Great Arteries (with intact septum)
1000
This current Division Chief was chief resident with Dr. Steve Caddle at Montefiore.
Dr. Ali Mencin
1000
This 2024 championship team recently lost their starting forward for the 2025 season due to a meniscus tear.
New York Liberty
1000
This French fashion house is known for its romantic, bohemian style and has dressed icons like Jackie O and Marion Cotillard and shares its name with TWO (!) of the CHONY newborns this year.
Chloe
1000
This is the sound of a digesting stomach
Borborygmi