The neonatal team includes board-certified or board-eligible attending neonatologists, neonatal fellows, neonatal nurse practitioners, more than 110 dedicated neonatal nurses, a discharge coordinator, a neonatal social service worker, a dedicated neonatal nutritionist and lactation consultant, a bereavement counselor, chaplaincy services, an ethicist, nurse educators, dedicated respiratory therapists, and other ancillary support staff. All are committed to delivering compassionate, family-centered, medically advanced, and developmentally sensitive care to the smallest and sickest babies. For complex neonatal disorders, we have full-time attending consultants in every subspecialty of pediatrics available, such as cardiology, neurology, infectious disease, surgery, and whatever else the baby may need.
To ensure optimal patient safety and best outcomes, we use a strategy called Team STEPPS. This evidence-based success story from the US Department of Health teaches staff leadership skills, meticulous monitoring of patients, and mutual support and communication techniques. The Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine also provides the highest level of quality and safety for the best outcomes by having attending neonatologists in-house 24/7. All of our attending neonatologists are faculty of the Stony Brook School of Medicine. This means our attending neonatologists remain on the leading edge of advancements in their areas of expertise and they conduct both laboratory and clinical research.
Thomas Diacovo, MD - Division Chief
Surabhi Aggarwal, MD
Jennifer Favre, MD (Stony Brook Southampton Hospital)
Carly I. Gomes, MD
Tomas Havranek, MD
Echezona Maduekwe, MD
Hormuz Nicolwala, MD
Aruna Parekh, MD
Margaret O Pearce, MD
Jennifer Pynn, MD
Esther Speer, MD
Shanthy Sridhar, MD - NICU Medical Director
Neonatal Nurse Practitioners:
Danielle Blackmore, NNP
Siobhan Cassidy, CNNP, MS
Tram Dang, MS, NNP-BC
Nancy Enterlin, MS, NNP-BC
Kristin Ferrara, NNP-BC (Stony Brook Southampton Hospital)
Annemarie Folken, MS, NNP-BC
Jennifer Haas, MS, NNP-BC
Susan Katz, DNP
Charlene Lyons, MS, NNP-BC
Pamela Minett, MS, NNP-BC
Elizabeth Perri, NNP Kerry A. Walsh, MS, PNP, NNP-BC
Marianna Lawrence, RNC (Regional Perinatal Center Coordinator)