Background
Schleien was born in Washington, District of Columbia He grew up in Flushing, New New York
Schleien was born in Washington, District of Columbia He grew up in Flushing, New New York
He did his pediatrics residency at Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children"s Hospital in Houston, Texas and Johns Hopkins University in Maryland which is also where he did his critical care fellowship and anesthesiology residency which he completed in 1985.
He received his Bachelor from Queens College, City University of New York.in 1974 and his Doctor of Medicine from the Mountain. Sinai School Of Medicine in 1979. He remained on the faculty at Hopkins until 1990.
He held prestigious National Institutes of Health funding in pediatric Code of Professional Responsibility and areas of brain metabolism and blood flow.
His medical interests include: Code of Professional Responsibility, brain ischemia, neurologic monitoring of high risk patients, brain cooling after trauma or cardiac arrest, congenital heart disease. in 2008, he received an Master of Business Administration from the Columbia Business School. In 2012 he became the Chairman of Pediatrics at Cohen Children"s Medical Center of the Hofstra/North Shore-LIJ Health System and Chair of the medical school Department of Pediatrics.
He serves as Pediatrician-in-Chief for the entire health system, a 17-hospital system in the New York area. He resides in Larchmont, New York is married to Debra and has two sons: Zach & Eric.
Schleien is on the Board of Directors, Ronald McDonald House of Long Island.