Smeeta Sardesai, MD

• Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Research Interests

• Indocin Therapy for Patent Ductus Arteriosus
• Prevention of Acute and Chronic Lung Injury
• Neonatal Nutrition and Its Effects On Development of Preterm Infants.
• Pulmonary Hypertension and Use of Nitric Oxide
• Feeding Disorders in Neonates

Degrees

• Chowgule College, Goa, India, 1975-1977
  
• University of Bombay, Medical Degree, M.B.B.S., 1984

Residency

• Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital, Pediatrics, Los Angeles, California, 1986-1989

Fellowship

• LAC+USC Medical Center Women's Hospital, Neonatology, Los Angeles, California, 1989-1992

• American Board of Pediatrics, 1991; recertification, 1998
• Sub-board of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine – 1995; recertification, 2002