Neonatology - Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU): Staff

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Neonatology - Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU): Staff

David Durand, MD is the Director of the Division of Neonatology. He completed his residency in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Oakland, and his neonatology fellowship at Mt. Zion Hospital Medical Center in San Francisco, before joining the group in 1984. He is the Medical Director of the Neonatal-Pediatric Research Group, and has an appointment as clinical scientist in the Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI). In addition to his clinical, research, and teaching work, he is a technical consultant to California Children’s Services, and is an active member of the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative. He is the vice-president of the California Association of Neonatologists.

Arthur D’Harlingue, MD is the Medical Director of the NICU. He joined the group in 1983 after he completed his pediatric residency and fellowship in neonatal/perinatal medicine at Stanford University Medical Center. In addition to his clinical and administrative duties, he is a member of the Board of Directors at Children’s Hospital. He has a special interest in neonatal nutrition.

Priscilla Joe, MD is the Associate Director of the NICU and the Medical Director of the ECMO program. She joined our group in 1992 after she completed her residency at Children’s Hospital Oakland and her fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Joe is Director of our ECMO Program, Associate Director of the ICN and Director of MQIC. Dr. Joe is also the Neonatal team leader for Project Vietnam and medical advisor to East Meets West, which provides state-of-the-art supplies, equipment and teaching to neonatal physicians and nurses in Vietnam.

Stacie Bennett, MD joined our group in 2005. She completed her residency in pediatrics at Children's Hospital Oakland and her fellowship in neonatal/perinatal medicine at the University of California, San Diego. During her fellowship she was featured on Discovery Health Channel’s “Babies: Special Delivery”.	Margarita Berrios, MD joined our group in 2005. She completed her residency in Pediatrics at Nassau County Medical Center, Health Science Center at SUNY, and her fellowship in neonatal/perinatal medicine at the University of California San Francisco.
Goldie Dudell, MD joined our group in 2006. She completed her residency in pediatrics at St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York and fellowships in neonatal/perinatal medicine at NYU Medical Center and Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, New York. She also completed a pediatric cardiology fellowship at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. She has a wide range of neonatal research interests and has contributed to over 40 articles, four neonatal texts and manuals, and has designed software applications for use in the NICU.	Alex Espinoza, MD joined our group in 1987. He completed his residency at Children’s Hospital Oakland and his fellowship at Mt. Zion Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco, CA. Dr. Espinoza is the Director of our Neonatal Follow-Up Clinics at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center and John Muir Mt. Diablo Medical Center, where state-of-the-art follow-up is provided for High-Risk NICU graduates.
Thomas Eusterbrock, MD joined our group in 1990. He completed his residencies at the University of Florida and Kaiser Permanente Hospital Oakland, CA and also, a Pediatric Intensive Care Residency at the University of Westphalia, Muenster, Germany. He completed his Fellowship in neonatal perinatal medicine at Children’s Hospital San Francisco.	Joanna Halkias, MD joined our group in 2007. She completed her residency at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and her fellowship in neonatal/perinatal medicine at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California. Joanna is concurrently a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley working on the development of T cells from cord blood stem cells.
Lily Kao, MD joined our group in 1980. She completed her residency at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and her fellowship in Neonatal-Respiratory Disease division at the University of Southern California School of Medicine.	Jennifer Levy, MD joined our group in 2005. She completed her pediatric residency at State University of New York and her fellowship at Schneider Children’s Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Jeff Merrill, MD joined our group in 2007. He completed his residency at the University of California, San Francisco and his fellowship in neonatology at the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco. Prior to joining our group, he was Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania where he was involved extensively in clinical trials. He is a clinical scientist at CHORI, is actively involved in clinical research with our Neonatal-Pediatric Research Group, and is currently pursuing an advanced degree in medical informatics.	Nick Mickas, MD joined the group in 2001. He completed his residency at Children’s Hospital Oakland and his fellowship at Stanford/Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital, Palo Alto. He is Assistant Medical Director at John Muir/Mt. Diablo Medical Center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and works closely with community hospitals to insure quality care is available to infants born at risk.
William Murphy, MD, PhD joined our group in 1986. He completed his residency at Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Boston, his fellowship in Newborn Medicine/Genetics at Harvard Medical School, and his PhD in Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology.	Amarjit Sandhu, MD was a founding member of the group in 1976. He completed his residency at St. Joseph’s Infirmary and Norton Children’s Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky and his fellowship in the Department of Pediatrics at The University of Louisville. Dr. Sandhu is the Medica Director of Alta Bates/Summit Medical Center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Charles Scott, MD joined the group in 1984. He completed his residency at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and his fellowship in the Neonatal-Respiratory Disease Division of Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. Dr. Scott is the Medical Director at the John Muir/Mt Diablo Medical Center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.	Jaime Tannenbaum, MD joined the group in 1994. She completed her residency at Children’s Hospital Oakland and her fellowship in Neonatology at the University of California San Francisco. She has been instrumental in developing tools for resident education at Children’s Hospital.
Anna Usowicz, MD joined the group in 1989. She completed her residency at the Valley Medical Center in Fresno, California and Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, and her fellowship at Children’s Hospital of San Francisco. She is a team member for humanitarian aid missions to India and Africa, advising on state-of-the-art neonatal care.	H. Faith Wu, MD, MPH joined the group in 1991. She completed her residency at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore and Rutgers Medical School, and her neonatology fellowship at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Dr. Wu also obtained her Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.