The Division of Neonatology at Women & Children's Hospital and the University at Buffalo is an academic division with a busy, thriving clinical neonatal intensive care service, active research interests, and a long-standing commitment to fellows and residents. As the Regional Perinatal Center for critically ill newborns, we service the eight counties of Western New York and beyond. Our 64-bed NICU admits over 740 babies each year and has an average daily census of 50 babies each day. Approximately one-third of our admissions are transported from an outlying hospital by our active Neonatal Transport Team which consists of neonatal nurse practitioners and specially trained neonatal respiratory therapists, readily available to provide stabilization and transport to WCHOB for any infant in our region.
 Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo is the only center in the region with Pediatric Surgery, Pediatric Surgical Subspecialists, a full complement of Pediatric Medical Subspecialists, and Obstetricians with Board Certification in Maternal-Fetal Medicine (High-Risk Obstetrics). Our NICU admits approximately 150 infants each year less than 1500 grams at birth. As the regional referral center we provide support to 18 other hospitals in our region, including our own Level I unit at Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital.
Research is ongoing in the areas of pulmonary biology including study of the pulmonary vasculature, cell and molecular biologic studies of acute and chronic lung injury of the newborn, pulmonary hypertension, oxidant lung injury, inflammation, and nitric oxide.
 Our Mission Statement:
We are an academic health care service which delivers, teaches, and advances the international standards of care for the newborns and families of our community. We do this by fostering a collegial environment in which division members develop their strengths to achieve professional excellence.
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Clinical research areas of interest include the role of breast milk in preventing nosocomial infection, varying oxygen concentrations levels for premature infant resuscitation, post-PPHN systemic hypertension, the effect of dexamethasone on nitric oxide pathway metabolites, osteopenia of prematurity, aspiration and gram negative pneumonia in the development of bronchopulmonary dysplasia, booster surfactant during the development of bronchopulmonary dysplasia, and the use of HVAC ultraviolet germicidal irradiation in decreasing nosocomial infection.
Faculty
Rita M. Ryan, MD
Mahesh Bommaraju, MD
Vivien Carrion, MD
Vasanth H. Kumar, MD
Satyan Lakshminrushimha, MD
Corinne Lowe Leach, MD, PhD
Bobby Mathew, MD
Anne Marie Reynolds, MD, MPH
James A. Russell, PhD
Daniel D. Swartz, PhD
Ralph John Wynn, MD
William A. Zorn, PhD
Contact Information for the Division of Neonatology:
Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo
219 Bryant Street
Buffalo, NY 14222
Phone: (716) 878-7673
Fax: (716) 878-7945
Department of Pediatrics:
www.smbs.buffalo.edu/peds
Department of Pediatrics Residency Program:
www.smbs.buffalo.edu/peds/pediatri.htm
Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo:
www.wchob.org
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