BCHP Specialty: Neonatology (Division of Newborn Medicine)
Phone: 914-493-8558
Fax: 914-493-1488
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.
Chief of Newborn Medicine
Read more about Edmund Lagamma, MD, FAAP
Chief of Neonatology, Boston Children’s Health Physicians, Director of Neonatal-Perionatal Medicine Fellowship Training Program
Neonatology (Division of Newborn Medicine) Staff
Read more about Alpa Basu, MD
Neonatologist, Boston Children’s Health Physicians, Resident Education Coordinator
Read more about Heather Brumberg, MD, MPH, FAAP
Neonatologist, Boston Children’s Health Physicians, Director of Neonatal Public Health Program
Read more about Dennis Davidson, MD
Neonatologist, Boston Children’s Health Physicians (BCHP)
Read more about Manuel De Castro, MD, FAAP
Neonatologist, Boston Children’s Health Physicians, Site Director – Garnet Health Medical Center
Read more about Soheir Haram-Mourabet, MD, FAAP
Neonatologist, Boston Children’s Health Physicians (BCHP)
Read more about Karen Hussein, MD
Neonatologist, Boston Children’s Health Physicians, NNP/PA Team Coordinator for Stem Cell Therapies
Read more about Jordan Kase, MD, FAAP
Neonatologist, Boston Children’s Health Physicians, Director of Neonatal Follow-Up Program
Read more about Martin Katzenstein, MD, FAAP
Neonatologist, Boston Children’s Health Physicians, Site Director at Good Samaritan Hospital
Read more about Prabakar Kocherlakota, MD, FAAP
Neonatologist, Boston Children’s Health Physicians, site director at Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall
Read more about Melanie Leong, MD, MS
Neonatologist, Boston Children’s Health Physicians (BCHP)
Read more about Cosmina Mandru, MD
Neonatologist, Boston Children’s Health Physicians (BCHP)
Read more about Bistra Nankova, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, New York Medical College
Read more about Ben Numpang, MD
Neonatologist, Boston Children’s Health Physicians
Read more about Lance Parton, MD, FAAP
Boston Children’s Health Physicians, Associate Chief of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Director of Pulmonary Medicine Section
Read more about Boriana Parvez, MD, IBCLC, FAAP
Neonatologist, Boston Childrens Health Physicians, Associate Director of Fellowship Program, Medical Director of Preterm Milk Bank
Read more about Laura Perretta, MD
Neonatologist, Boston Children’s Health Physicians (BCHP); Transport Coordinator at NYP-Hudson Valley Hospital Center
Read more about Matthew Rainaldi, MD
Neonatologist, Boston Children's Health Physicians (BCHP)
Read more about Amy Reichlin, MD
Neonatologist, Boston Children’s Health Physicians; Neonatal Follow-Up Program
Read more about Shetal Shah, MD, FAAP
Neonatologist, Boston Children’s Health Physicians (BCHP); Stem Cell Therapy Liasion
Read more about Meenakshi Singh, MBBS
Neonatologist, Boston Children’s Health Physicians (BCHP); Director of NICU Quality Improvement
Read more about Sonya Strassberg, MD, FAAP
Neonatologist, Boston Children’s Health Physicians (BCHP)
Read more about Govindaiah Vinukonda, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics New York Medical College, Director of stem Cell Laboratory Research
Read more about Anita Ware, DO
Neonatologist, Boston Children’s Health Physicians, Site Director at St. John’s Riverside Hospital
Read more about Muhammed Zia, MBBS, FAAP
Neonatologist, Boston Children’s Health Physicians; Site Director at NYP-Hudson Valley Hospital
Read more about Kristen O'Dell, FNP
Family Nurse Practitioner, Boston Children’s Health Physicians (BCHP)
Read more about Rachel Landres, PA
Physician Assistant, Boston Children’s Health Physicians (BCHP)
Furong Hu
Research Associate, New York Medical College
Jenny Stavropoulos-Leis
Office Manager, Boston Children’s Health Physicians; NICU Administrator