Faculty Profile

Dr. Noé Romo is an attending physician, and pediatric hospitalist. He is the Director of the Pediatric Inpatient Service. Dr. Noé Romo is the medical director of the Bronx Stand Up to Violence (S.U.V) program which is the NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi hospital-based community violence prevention initiative. He is also a member of both the pediatric trauma task force and pediatric and adult trauma peer review committees. Dr. Noé Romo is a member of the department’s education committee and is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics with an additional Subboard of Pediatrics Hospital Medicine. His research interests include the epidemiology of violence and the design, implementation, and evaluation of violence prevention strategies to improve morbidity and mortality in young victims of violent trauma. Dr. Romo contributes to the medical literature with original research and narrative medicine perspectives publications.

• NYC Health+Hospitals/Jacobi in The Bronx, New York (internship, residency, chief resident)
• Primary Care Clinical Research Fellowship in Community Health in the Division of Child & Adolescent Health at Columbia University
• M.S in Epidemiology from The Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Peer Reviewed Publications

1. Noé D. Romo, Catherine Castillo, Jaylen Green, Juan Lin, Erika Mendelsohn, Carjah Dawkins-Hamilton, Srinivas H. Reddy, Stephen M. Blumberg; Improving Adolescent Violent Trauma Outcomes With a Hospital-Based Violence Prevention Initiative. Hosp Pediatr 2023; e2021006428. https://doi.org/10.1542/hpeds.2021-006428
2. Romo, ND. The Persistent Effect of Violent Trauma on Urban Communities 25 Years After Tupac Shakur's Murder. Hosp Pediatr. 2022 Feb; 12(2):93-95. Hosp Pediatr e2021006384. https://doi.org/10.1542/hpeds.2021-006384
3. Mahon M, Romo ND, de Vos G, Levanon D. Race-specific characteristics in pediatric eosinophilic esophagitis in an urban inner-city clinic. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2021 May 15:S1081-1206(21)00358-6. doi: 10.1016/j.anai.2021.05.010.
4. Romo ND, et al. (2020). The Implications of a Housing Famine on Public Health. Mathews J Pediatr. (5) 2:24.
5. Romo, ND. Running On COVID-19 Time. Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. Field Notes, Fall 2020.
6. Mahon, Mark; Tarshish, Penina; Gershel, Jeffrey; Romo, Noé D. Isolated Hyponatremic Dehydration in the setting of COVID-19 Associated Gastroenteritis in a Toddler. JPGN Reports: November 2020 - Volume 1 - Issue 2 - p e002. doi:10.1097/PG9.0000000000000002.
7. Silver AH, Andrews AL, Azzarone G, Bhansali P, Hjelmseth E, Hogan AH, O'Connor KM, Romo N, Parikh K. Engagement and Leadership in Firearm-Related Violence Prevention: The Role of the Pediatric Hospitalist. Hosp Pediatr. 2020 Jun;1-(6):523-530.
8. Romo ND (2020) Gone but Not Forgotten: Violent Trauma Victimization and the Treatment of Violence Like a Disease. Hosp Pediatr. 2020 Jan;10(1):95-97.
9. Romo ND, Pont-Reyes MD, Fry D, Stockwell MS, Davidson LL. The Association of Regular Exercise with Violence Related Behaviors in Urban Adolescents. Ann Public Health Res 4(3): 1064. 2017.
10. Adin Nelson, MD; Noe Romo, MD, MS; Daniela Levanon, MD; Einat Blumfield, MD; Jeffrey Gershel, MD. Gastric Bezoar Treatment Using Oral Coca-Cola. Clin Pediatr (Phila), 2017 May; 56(5):495-7

Chapters in Textbooks

1. Romo ND. Sickle Cell Disease. In Gershel JC, Rauch DR (eds.): Caring for the Hospitalized Child: A Handbook of Inpatient Pediatrics (3rd ed), Elk Grove, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics, 2022; 359-369.
2. Romo ND. Deep Venous Thrombosis. In Gershel JC, Rauch DR (eds.): Caring for the Hospitalized Child: A Handbook of Inpatient Pediatrics (3rd ed), Elk Grove, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics, 2022; 345-352.
3. Romo, N. "Adolescent violent trauma prevention and intervention." In N Dodson, editor, Adolescent gun violence prevention: clinical and public health approaches, New York, NY, Springer Science+Business Media, 2021.
4. Hui-Yuen J, Romo N. Rheumatologic Emergencies. In Crain EF, Gershel, JC (eds.): Clinical Manual of Emergency Pediatrics (6th ed). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2018; 697-711.
5. Romo ND. Deep Vein Thrombosis. In Gershel JC, Rauch DR (eds.): Caring for the Hospitalized Child: A Handbook of Inpatient Pediatrics (2nd ed), Elk Grove, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics, 2017; 35-42.
6. Rivlin K, Romo ND. Sickle Cell Disease. In Gershel JC, Rauch DR (eds.): Caring for the Hospitalized Child: A Handbook of Inpatient Pediatrics (2nd ed), Elk Grove, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics, 2017; 319-29.