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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.
HISTORY & EDUCATION

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
 

CONTACT INFORMATION

Division of Neonatology

LAC+USC Women's & Children's Hospital
1240 N. Mission Road
Room L-919
Los Angeles, CA 90033
Phone (323) 226-3406
FAX (323) 226-3440
E-mail: ipena@usc.edu


BOARD CERTIFICATION

  • American Board of Pediatrics, 1968
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Dr. Peña's publications are available for review in PDF format.

 

 

 
 
 



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