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BCHP Specialty: Neonatology (Division of Newborn Medicine)

Phone: 914-493-8431

 

Our physicians in the Division of Newborn Medicine at New York Medical College are focused on finding ways to improve care for newborns through clinical research and innovative techniques. We are dedicated to delivering the highest-quality patient care and research to our patients and the greater community.

We are especially interested in improving care for premature infants — including those born as early as 23 weeks gestation. Our research projects at the Regional Neonatal Center give these tiny patients and their families an opportunity to receive new treatments not available at community hospitals, or even at other major medical centers. We run a network of neonatal intensive care programs at 11 hospitals and coordinate the largest High Risk Neonatal Follow-up Program in New York State.

Through our formal collaboration with the Lower Hudson and Mid-Hudson Valley Perinatal Networks, to improve access to care we have treated for more than 20,000 sick or premature newborns since 1985.

Chief of Newborn Medicine

Edmund Lagamma, MD, FAAP

Chief, Division of Newborn Medicine

Neonatology (Division of Newborn Medicine) Staff

Heather Brumberg, MD, PhD, FAAP

Pediatrician, Maria Fareri Children's Hospital

Jean Chelala, MD

Newborn Specialist, Maria Fareri Children's Hospital

Lauren Cox, PsyD

Psychologist, Maria Fareri Children's Hospital

Dennis Davidson, MD

Pediatrician, Blythedale Children's Hospital

Manuel De Castro, MD, FAAP

Pediatrician, Maria Fareri Children's Hospital

Soheir Haram-Mourabet, MD, FAAP

Attending Neonatologist

Kamilah Heywood-Gregory, FNP

Family Nurse Practitioner, Boston Children's Health Physicians

Karen Hussein, MD

Neonatologist, Maria Fareri Children's Hospital

Mary Jackson, RN

Registered Nurse, Maria Fareri Children's Hospital

Jordan Kase, MD, FAAP

Director, Neonatal Follow-Up Program

Martin Katzenstein, MD, FAAP

Director of Neonatology, Good Samaritan Hospital

Prabakar Kocherlakota, MD, FAAP

Site Director, St. Luke's Hospital

Melanie Leong, MD, MS

Neonatologist, Maria Fareri Children's Hospital

Bistra Nankova, PhD

Director, Developmental Neuroscience Research Laboratory

Lance Parton, MD, FAAP

Chief, NICU Pulmonary Medicine

Boriana Parvez, MD, IBCLC, FAAP

Associate Director of the Fellowship Program, Maria Fareri Children's Hospital

Matthew Rainaldi, MD

Pediatrician, Maria Fareri Children's Hospital

Shetal Shah, MD, FAAP

Attending in Newborn Medicine, Maria Fareri Children's Hospital

Meenakshi Singh, MBBS

Attending Neonatologist, NICU Director of Quality Improvement

Sonya Strassberg, MD, FAAP

Attending in Newborn Medicine

Govindaiah Vinukonda, PhD

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics-Neonatology, Westchester Medical Center

Anita Ware, DO

Pediatrician, Maria Fareri Children's Hospital

Muhammed Zia, MBBS, FAAP

Attending in Newborn Medicine