Specialty Neonatology Facility Santa Clara Medical Center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Address 700 Lawrence Expressway 3rd Floor, Dept. #302 Santa Clara CA 95051 Map & Directions Telephone Office: (408) 851-7100 E-mail your doctor Act for a Family Member View your preventive services

I was born and raised in San Francisco, California. I graduated with high honors from Yale University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology. After receiving my medical degree from the University of California, San Diego, I completed a pediatric residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital and a neonatology fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. I joined The Permanente Medical Group at the Kaiser Santa Clara Medical Center in 1996 as a hospital-based neonatologist and am a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Neonatology is a subspecialty of pediatrics that focuses on the care of critically ill infants in the immediate newborn period. Neonatologists care for both premature and full term infants in the Intensive Care Nursery (ICN). I feel privileged to be able to help our smallest patients at a critical time in their lives. It is truly rewarding to see these tiny babies grow up and "graduate" from the ICN.

When I am not working I enjoy spending time with my husband and two children, cooking and going to the opera.

The menu at left provides links to information concerning our intensive care nursery. I have included a link "Learn more about Neonatology" that gives information about conditions that commonly are found in our intensive care nursery patients.

My Credentials

Medical school	UC San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, CA
Internship	Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
Residency	Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
Fellowship	UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Board certification	Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, American Board of Pediatrics

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