Neonatology

Our neonatologists in the Division of Newborn Medicine provide optimal care for newborns with all types of illnesses, including prematurity, congenital anomalies and newborn chronic lung disease. Our neonatologists care for infants at 8 medical centers in the Lower Hudson Valley, including the 58-bed Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital, a Level IV Regional Perinatal Center which provides the most advanced care in the region for babies.

Our catchment area includes 23,000 annual births yielding nearly 19,000 Regional NICU patient days, ~100 ELGANs admitted annually, ECMO, open heart, neurologic, urologic, & general surgery, body cooling, plus every form of advanced ventilatory support (A/C, jet, HFOV, NAVA, Bronchotron®/VDR4, and various CPAPs). We have a well-established helicopter/ground neonatal transport program, a Perinatal Network to improve access to health care before birth plus our own six-person High Risk Neonatal Follow-up Program as well as every pediatric subspecialty available including a NY State designated Metabolic-Genetics Center.

We actively care for infants born as early as 22 weeks gestation and have an experienced and mature bioethics program.

We also train our fellows in sub-acute care-transition to home for complex services at Blythedale Children’s Hospital in Valhalla with a rotational Level II contrasting experience at St John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers to broaden their perspective of hospital networking.

Our research programs include:

• stem cell therapies for IVH/HIE
• transfusion therapy and oxygen delivery sufficiency
• SNP screening & cytokine mediated mechanisms of lung injury
• catecholamine biology and hypoglycemia stress-responsiveness
• child advocacy programs and other public health, access to care and environmental toxins research initiatives

We are developing a neonatal hemodynamics and neonatal pulmonary function testing program. Our nutrition team opened a Premature Baby Donor Milk Bank in 2018 and we have a robust lactation program. This team developed the Golden Moments Lactation Consultants Group plus conduct research in breast milk and its impact on gut function and development. Other opportunities exist on campus and at the Medical School or as a Site-PI for multicenter clinical trials.

The Department of Pediatrics has over 195 physicians and is a member of the Boston Children’s Health Physician Network (BCHP) in New York. We are grant funded to expand our Perinatal Telemedicine Program for rural hospitals.

Our clinical research, innovative techniques, research and high-quality patient care make us a referral source for some of the most complex infants in New York and Connecticut. All of our neonatologists also hold academic appointments at New York Medical College and provide state-of-the-art instruction to the next generation of pediatricians and neonatologists.