Bijan Siassi MD

• Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Cardiology
• Director, Developmental Cardiovascular Research Program
• Director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Good Samaritan Medical Center

Research Interests

• Perinatal factors influencing development of RDS
• Neonatal cardiopulmonary distress without congenital heart disease
• Persistent pulmonary hypertension of newborn
• Patent ductus arteriosus in premature infants
• Significance of heart murmurs in the neonate
• Shock in the neonate
• Fetal echocardiography
  

Degrees

• University of Indiana, BA, l96l
• Medical School: University of Michigan, MD, l965

Residency

• Internship: Kings County Hospital, New York, Pediatric Intern, 1965-l966
• Residency: Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, l966-l967

Fellowship

• Pediatric Cardiology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, l968-l970
  

• American Board of Pediatrics, 1970
• American Board of Pediatric Cardiology, 1970
• American Board of Pediatrics - Sub-board of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine; 1977