Larisa Debelenko, MD, PHD

Overview
Email: ld2863@cumc.columbia.edu
Areas of Expertise / Conditions Treated
- Pediatric Solid Tumors
- Perinatal Pathology
- Placental Pathology
Academic Appointments
- Associate Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology at CUMC
Hospital Affiliations
- NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
Languages
- Russian
- Ukrainian
Gender
- Female
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Location(s)
Insurance Accepted
Cigna
- EPO
- Great West (National)
- HMO
- POS
- PPO
Emblem/GHI
- Medicare Managed Care
- PPO
Emblem/HIP
- ConnectiCare
- EPO
- Essential Plan
- HMO
- Medicaid Managed Care
- Medicare Managed Care
- POS
- PPO
- Select Care (Exchange)
- Vytra
Local 1199
- Local 1199
MagnaCare (National)
- MagnaCare
Medicare
- Railroad
- Traditional Medicare
Multiplan
- Multiplan
RiverSpring
- Special Needs
UnitedHealthcare
- Compass (Exchange)
- Empire Plan
- HMO
- Medicare Managed Care
- POS
- PPO
Credentials & Experience
Education & Training
- MD, 1983 Kiev A A Bogomolets (Ukraine)
- PhD, 1986 Kiev A A Bogomolets (Ukraine)
- Residency: 2001 NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center
- Fellowship: 2002 University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
- Fellowship: 2004 Children's Hospital - Boston
Board Certifications
- Pathology - Anatomic
- Pathology - Pediatric
Research
Research Interests
- Molecular pathogenesis of pediatric solid tumors.
- Tumor predisposition syndromes.
Selected Publications
Olson K, Debelenko L, Stringel G, Dong XD. Early onset colon cancer affected by Lynch syndrome. JPS case reports 2018;36:13-15.
Kim F, Desiraju S, Joseph J, Debelenko L, Rubenstein SD. Incidental finding of hydrops fetalis in a full-term infant. Neoreviews 2020 Jun;21(6):e421-e424.
Smithgall MC, Liu-Jarin X, Hamele-Bena D, Cimic A, Mourad M, Debelenko L, Chen X. Third Trimester Placentas of SARS-CoV-2-Positive Women: Histomorphology, including Viral Immunohistochemistry and in Situ Hybridization. Histopathology 2020;77:994-999.
Valk JE, Chong AM, Uhlemann AC, Debelenko L. Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in placental but not fetal tissues in the second trimester. J Perinatol. 2020 Nov 30. doi: 10.1038/s41372-020-00877-8.
Debelenko L, Katsyv I, Chong AM, Peruyero L, Szabolcs M, Uhlemann AC. Trophoblast damage with acute and chronic intervillositis: disruption of placental barrier by SARS-CoV-2. Hum Pathol 2020 Dec 12:S0046-8177(20)30256-2. doi: 10.1016/j.humpath.2020.12.004.