Dr. Eleny C. Romanos

Eleny Romanos-Sirakis, MD, MS, FAAP is a board-certified specialist in pediatric hematology/oncology and is the Director of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH). She has advanced and expanded the care for patients undergoing evaluation and treatment for cancer and blood disorders at SIUH. She provides comprehensive care to patients from infancy to 21 years of age. Dr. Romanos provides clinical evaluations and treatments for a wide variety of hematology and oncology concerns, including anemia, low or high white blood cell counts, low or high platelet counts, bleeding disorders, clotting disorders, sickle cell disease, thalassemia, hemoglobinopathies, enlarged lymph nodes, bone tumors, histiocytosis, leukemia, lymphoma, and solid tumors.

Dr. Romanos came to SIUH from NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan, where she specialized in pediatric cancers and blood disorders. She brings this expertise to Staten Island and provides this high-quality specialty care locally, removing the need for patients to leave Staten Island for evaluations and treatments. She understands that all children have unique needs and is dedicated to providing personalized care to meet the individualized needs of her patients and their entire families. She has specialized and extensive training in the care of children with special needs; Dr Romanos and her entire team work to ensure that the needs of each family are met in this personalized approach to treating each child. Families' specific needs or requests should be communicated to the office staff when scheduling appointments; every effort will be made to accommodate each patient and family.

Providing optimal care and assessments, while maximizing patient and family quality of life, is of highest priority for Dr. Romanos. She has additional training in pediatric pain management and was actively involved in developing the SIUH Pediatric Comfort Campaign to minimize pain for children undergoing procedures and improve overall pain management for pediatric patients. She is committed to education and research at SIUH; she is actively involved in further advancing research at SIUH as the chair of the pediatric research and scholarship committee. She is also an active committee member of the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Dr. Romanos is a native New Yorker and is dedicated to providing personalized and high-quality care to all of her patients.

Dr. Romanos is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hemolytic Anemia. Her top areas of expertise are Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome, Infantile Neutropenia, Sickle Cell Disease, and Febrile Neutropenia.

Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 16 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, she has co-authored 3 articles in the study of Hemolytic Anemia.