Our Team

Our pediatric social workers are NYS licensed, master’s prepared social workers (LMSW). They have the knowledge and skill to help children and families by providing support around new medical conditions or ongoing health issues, care coordination, preadmission and discharge planning, and connections to important resources. They work closely with the other members of the child’s health care team as well as involved community services and schools to support the health and wellbeing of our pediatric patients.

Social Work Leadership Team

• Mardy Sandler, LMSW
  Associate Director
  Pediatrics and OB/GYN, Social Work Division
• Carla LeVant, LMSW
  Clinical Manager
  Pediatrics, Social Work Division

Inpatient Social Work Team

Within Golisano Children's Hospital, there is a social worker assigned to each inpatient unit.

• Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU) GCH 3 and SMH 3- 3400
• Cardiac and Pediatric Intensive Care (PICU, PCICU)  GCH 6N and 6S
• General Pediatric units 7N, 7S, 8N, and 8S 

Outpatient Social Work Team

A pediatric social worker is assigned to the following outpatient sites:

• Adolescent Medicine
• Allergy/Immunology
• Cardiology
• Craniofacial Anomalies Center
• Cystic Fibrosis Center
• Development and Behavioral Pediatrics
• Eastman Institute of Oral Health
• Endocrinology
• Flaum Eye Institute
• Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
• Genetics
• General Pediatric Practice
• Hematology/Oncology
• Nephrology
• Neurology
• Neuromuscular Disease Center
• Orthopedics
• Pulmonology
• Referral and Evaluation Service for Abused Children (REACH)
• Rheumatology