The Neonatal Perinatal Medicine Fellowship at St Christopher's Hospital for Children/Tower Health is located at the heart of Philadelphia, PA. Our fellows are trained to excel in the various facets of fellowship training, with a particular emphasis on clinical excellence and robust academic and research experience. Our fellows practice in two core sites: our Level IV NICU at St. Christopher's, which serves as the program's home and offers a robust tertiary referral academic experience, and the Level III NICU at Abington Memorial Hospital, which provides a comprehensive perinatal center experience.
Fellows become proficient in caring for all types of patients, ranging from premature to critically ill newborns, transferred to our hospital for complex surgery, subspecialty care or ECMO. Applying evidence-based medicine and understanding research techniques and strategies will provide essential tools for fellows to critically appraise the medical literature and develop a sound approach to answer clinically significant questions, thereby advancing newborn care.
The fellowship training program in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine is a three-year program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). There is full salary support for all three years. Dr. Alison Carey is Director of the Division of Neonatology and Dr. Vilmaris Quinones Cardona is the training Program Director. Our program accepts three first-year fellows each year.
Mission Statement
The Fellowship Program's mission is to prepare trainees for a career in academic Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. We accomplish this goal by offering exposure to a large, diverse population of patients along with in-depth training in research design, techniques, and hypothesis generated experiments. If interested, fellows are guided through the steps in preparing a grant.
Leadership
Program Facts
| Program Accreditation | ACGME |
|---|---|
| Program Accreditation ID# | 3294121082 |
| Program Size | 9 |
| Program Founded | 1984 |
| Program Success Rate | 100% |
Program Location
Training Sites
St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children
The 39-bed Level IV NICU at St. Christopher’s Hospital is a referral center. All of our infants are transferred in, mainly from Level III NICUs in Philadelphia and the tri-state area. We provide care for all types of patients ranging from preterm infants to critically ill newborns who are transferred to our hospital because they require surgical intervention or ECMO. Many of our patients have complex medical problems and need multidisciplinary attention. We work closely with our subspecialists in neurology, neurosurgery, urology, nephrology, cardiology, metabolic and genetic diseases, immunology, pulmonology, and gastroenterology.
Abington Hospital Jefferson Health
Abington Hospital has a very busy maternal-fetal medicine service and approximately 5,000 deliveries per year. The involvement of our fellows starts with perinatal consults and the attendance of high-risk deliveries. Almost half of our fellows’ service time throughout the three-year fellowship takes place in their challenging 32-bed level 3 NICU. Mentored by an excellent team of attendings, nurse practitioners, nurses, and technicians, our fellows become proficient in the care of extremely low birth weight infants.
