The Section of Neonatal Medicine provides a comprehensive program of tertiary care for critically ill newborns. Staffed by a team of neonatologists, the 30-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) provides individualized care for the complex needs of each neonate. Pediatric medical and surgical generalists and subspecialists are available 24 hours a day to respond to problems requiring medical, general surgical, or surgical subspecialty intervention.

The Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery integrates advanced respiratory support technologies for critically ill newborns into a continuum and offers the following critical-care modalities: mechanical ventilation, including high-frequency jet and oscillation ventilation, nitric oxide therapy, surfactant replacement therapy, and ECMO.

The Newborn Brain Center provides a multi-disciplinary team of experts including: neonatologists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, and developmental pediatricians who diagnose and treat brain injury in the neonatal period. In addition, as leaders in neonatology, the faculty conducts continuing education programs for physician and nursing staffs across the region.

For Information: 215-427-5202

Maria Delivoria-Papadopoulos MD
Chief, Section of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Professor of Pediatrics and Physiology
Office: 215-427-5202, 215-842-4960

Medical School: National University, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
Training
Residency: Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn and King's County Hospital, Downstate University, Brooklyn, NY, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
Fellowship: University of Colorado Medical Center
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Staff Appointment: 1996
Special Interests: High-risk infants, neonatal brain injury, respiratory dysfunctions, very low birth weight

Endla K. Anday, MD
Clinical Director of Neonatal Services
Professor of Pediatrics
Office: 215-427-5202

Medical School: Medical College of Pennsylvania
Special Training: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Staff Appointment: 1995
Special Interests: Cocaine abuse and neonatal brain injury; vertical HIV-1 transmission in the neonate

Harbhajan S. Chawla, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Office: 215-762-6516, 215-427-5202

Medical School: Institute of Medicine I, Rangoon, Myanmar (Burma)
Special Training: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Staff Appointment: 1997
Special Interests: Follow-up of neurodevelopment in preterm and high-risk infants

Daniel H. Conway, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Office: 215-427-5202

Medical School: Temple University School of Medicine
Special Training: St. Christopher's Hospital for Children
Staff Appointment: 2000
Special Interests: HIV disease pathogenesis in pediatrics; prevention of vertical transmission of HIV; immunology; novel vaccine strategies

Karen I. Fritz, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Office: 215-427-5202

Medical School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Training
Residency: St. Christopher's Hospital for Children
Fellowship: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Staff Appointment: 1997
Special Interests: Mechanisms of cerebral injury and programmed cell death in newborns, developmental care in newborns, effect of hypocapnia on brain injury in newborns

Jan M. Goplerud, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Office: 215-427-5202, 215-762-6516

Medical School: Medical College of Virginia
Training
Residency: Medical College of Virginia
Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Staff Appointment: 1997
Special Interests: Regional distribution of hypoxic cerebral injury. Neurodevelopment and non-invasive cerebral function monitoring

Jeanette R. Pleasure, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neonatology
Office: 215-427-5202, 215-762-4367

Medical School: College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY
Training
Residency: Mt. Sinai, New York, NY, Children's Hospital of District of Columbia
Fellowship: Children's Hospital of District of Columbia
Staff Appointment: 1997
Special Interests: Follow-up of neurodevelopment in preterm and high-risk infants

Alan B. Zubrow, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Office: 215-427-5202

Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Special Training: Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Staff Appointment: 1992
Special Interests: The mechanism of hypoxic cerebral injury during the perinatal period