The Division of Newborn Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine is comprised of basic investigators, clinical investigators, outstanding educators, master clinicians and neonatal-perinatal fellows. The research in the division can be divided into three areas: molecular and cellular regulation of development, whole organ physiology and clinical investigations. The division currently maintains approximately $2 million in direct cost extramural funding from a variety of sources, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The educational focus of the division includes a fellowship program of nine fellows, active participation in pediatric residency teaching (the most popular portion of the required third-year pediatric rotation for Washington University medical students), a consistently sought after subinternship for fourth-year students, and summer programs for medical, college and high school students.
The clinical services of the division are anchored in the 75-bed level III neonatal intensive care unit at St. Louis Children's Hospital, a physician-nurse staffed transport team, the delivery service at Barnes-Jewish Hospital (4,000 deliveries annually), a 20-bed level II special care nursery and a 30-bed normal nursery at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. In addition, newborn medicine faculty provide coverage to the newborn nursery at Progress West Hospital. These services are carefully coordinated with an eight-member division of maternal-fetal medicine in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, a full range of pediatric medical and surgical subspecialty services, primary care pediatricians, three beds for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, an active antenatal consultation service, an infant follow-up clinic, and delivery services at Missouri Baptist Medical Center (approximately 15 minutes west of the medical center) and Progress West Hospital (approximately 30 minutes north of the medical center). From these clinical services have come several important clinical observations, including the description, diagnosis and successful treatment by lung transplantation of infants with surfactant protein B deficiency and the previously unrecognized racial disparity in population-based impact of surfactant replacement therapy.
The Division of Newborn Medicine has provided physician leadership in the development of a health partnership with the Children's Hospital and the Maternity Hospital in Riga, Latvia. This project was sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development with a three-year grant to permit exchanges of personnel between the division and other departments of the medical school with hospitals in Riga.
The Division of Newborn Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine is comprised of basic investigators, clinical investigators, outstanding educators, master clinicians and neonatal-perinatal fellows. The research in the division can be divided into three areas: molecular and cellular regulation of development, whole organ physiology and clinical investigations. The division currently maintains approximately $2 million in direct cost extramural funding from a variety of sources, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The educational focus of the division includes a fellowship program of nine fellows, active participation in pediatric residency teaching (the most popular portion of the required third-year pediatric rotation for Washington University medical students), a consistently sought after subinternship for fourth-year students, and summer programs for medical, college and high school students.
The clinical services of the division are anchored in the 75-bed level III neonatal intensive care unit at St. Louis Children's Hospital, a physician-nurse staffed transport team, the delivery service at Barnes-Jewish Hospital (4,000 deliveries annually), a 20-bed level II special care nursery and a 30-bed normal nursery at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. In addition, newborn medicine faculty provide coverage to the newborn nursery at Progress West Hospital. These services are carefully coordinated with an eight-member division of maternal-fetal medicine in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, a full range of pediatric medical and surgical subspecialty services, primary care pediatricians, three beds for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, an active antenatal consultation service, an infant follow-up clinic, and delivery services at Missouri Baptist Medical Center (approximately 15 minutes west of the medical center) and Progress West Hospital (approximately 30 minutes north of the medical center). From these clinical services have come several important clinical observations, including the description, diagnosis and successful treatment by lung transplantation of infants with surfactant protein B deficiency and the previously unrecognized racial disparity in population-based impact of surfactant replacement therapy.
The Division of Newborn Medicine has provided physician leadership in the development of a health partnership with the Children's Hospital and the Maternity Hospital in Riga, Latvia. This project was sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development with a three-year grant to permit exchanges of personnel between the division and other departments of the medical school with hospitals in Riga.