| Ivette
Peña MD
- Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Research Interests
- Long term neurodevelopmental outcome of very low birth
weight infants, with special interest in the extremely low
birthweight infants.
- Infant development across cultures
- Neurodevelopment of the premature and full term infants,
with special interest in the hispanic population.
- Longitudinal follow-up of infants with birth asphyxia,
intracraneal hemorrhage and small for gestational age.
- Parents response to the delivery of a premature infant
and infants with a disability.
Degrees
- School of Medicine Central University, Madrid, Spain,
MD, 1951-1956
Internship and Residency
- Fajardo District Hospital Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,
Pediatrics, 1956-1959
- Los Angeles County USC Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics,
1966-1967
Fellowship
- UCLA School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics: Fellowship
in Neurodevelopment with Arthur H. Parmelee, MD, Los Angles,
California, 1976-1979
- Certification of Reliability on the Administration and
Scoring of the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment
Scale
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