Birth Asphyxia

Our Experts

The Intensive Care Nursery (ICN) is staffed by a team of health professionals who work to provide the best care possible for your baby and you. Please read Intensive Care Nursery Team to learn more about the different team members and use the links below to find bios and addition information about our doctors.

Our neonatalogists, neurologists and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) experts at UCSF Children's Hospital performed some of the first research looking at markers of brain injury in newborns with birth asphyxia, and are continuing to work to increase our understanding in this area of research.

Doctors

• Dr. Ronald I Clyman, neonatologist

• Dr. Diana L Farmer, chief of Pediatric Surgery

• Dr. Nalin Gupta, chief of Pediatric Neurological Surgery

• Dr. Michael R Harrison, director, Fetal Treatment Center

• Dr. Samuel Hawgood, neonatologist

• Dr. Roberta L Keller, neonatologist, director of ECMO

• Dr. Joseph A. Kitterman, neonatologist, clinical director of Intensive Care Nursery

• Dr. Hanmin Lee, pediatric surgeon

• Dr. Kerilyn K Nobuhara, pediatric and fetal surgeon

• Dr. J. Colin Partridge, neonatologist

• Dr. Roderic H Phibbs, neonatologist

• Dr. Robert E Piecuch, director of Infant Follow-up Program

• Dr. Sally A Sehring, neonatologist