Current Faculty & Fellows

 

Faculty:

Robert A. Sinkin, MD, MPH
Professor of Pediatrics
Chief, Division of Neonatology
Medical Director, Newborn Intensive Care Unit   

Interests: surfactant therapy, regionalization of care, transport medicine
Robert J. Boyle, MD
Professor of Pediatrics  
Director, Neonatal Follow-up Clinic

Interests: perinatal ethics, neonatal outcomes                       
Karen Fairchild, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Fellowship Program Director

Interests: apnea, dysregulation of breathing, heart rate characteristics and infection, therapeutic hypothermia
John Kattwinkel, MD
Professor of Pediatrics

Interests: apnea, cardiorespiratory predictive monitoring
David A. Kaufman, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Medical Director, Newborn Intensive Care Unit

Interests: fungal infections, fungal resistance patterns, capillary leak syndrome
Alix Paget-Brown, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Clinical Medical Director, Newborn Emergency Transport              

Interests: chronic lung disease, neonatal lung physiology
Jonathan R. Swanson, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Interests: quality improvement, intestinal physiology and disease
Brooke Vergales, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Interests: quality improvement, apnea of prematurity
Santina Zanelli, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Interests: hypoxic-ischemic brain injury
Sripriya Sundararajan, MD
Instructor of Pediatrics

Interests: red blood cell degradation

Current Fellows:

Lacey Colligan, MD, MSc
PGY-5
Residency: Babies Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian
                New York, NY
email: rlc7z@virginia.edu 
Fara Davalian, MD
PGY-5
Residency: University of Vermont
                Burlington, VT
email: ffd5v@virginia.edu                                                  
Andrew Bowe, DO, MS
PGY-5
Residency: Greenville Hospital System University 
                Medical Center, Greenville, SC                                                                  
email: acb7x@virginia.edu
Manisha Patel, MD
PGY-4
Residency: University of Maryland
                Baltimore, MD
email: mp4fb@virginia.edu
Spencer Rodgers, MD
PGY-4
Residency: University of Tennessee
               Chattanooga, TN
email: sr2wj@virginia.edu