General Info

Dr. Kumari completed her residency in pediatrics at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, New Jersey. After completion of her residency, she worked with well known private pediatric practices in New York and New Jersey. She was also an Attending Physician in Emergency Department at Richmond University Medical Center, Staten Island, New York. After several years of experience in Pediatrics, Dr Kumari became the founder and medical director of Rise & Shine pediatrics, PC. Her founding vision has been to provide exemplary high quality personalized medical care to her patients. She desires for Rise & Shine Pediatrics to be a comprehensive medical home for her patients and their families. She currently holds hospital privileges at John F Kennedy Medical Center in Edison, NJ and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ and has in the past held privileges at St. Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ that she will reinstate. Dr. Kumari is a proud mother of two children whose upbringing adds immense value to her experience. Due to her personal experience in dealing with autism with her son, whom she has been able to successfully mainstream into high school, she is well networked into parents and caregivers networks for children with disabilities and also with healthcare specialists working with autism spectrum disorders, both in NY and NJ. Additionally, Dr Kumari has also obtained training in childhood autism spectrum disorders and ADHD and has applied it to the benefit of her patients. . Her areas of special interest include childhood obesity, in addition to Autism and ADHD.