LAC+USC Division of Neonatology
LAC+USC Medical Center
The neonatal intensive care unit at the LAC+USC Medical Center has 39 licensed beds and the faculty and hospital staff care for neonates with disease complexity and severity ranging from very high-risk, often extremely premature critically ill neonates born at the LAC+USC Medical Center to less premature and more stable infants requiring care during the immediate transitional period and beyond. In addition, the unit accepts critically ill patients transferred in from different NICUs and the hospital’s emergency room who benefit from the highly specialized and developmentally oriented patient care provided in the NICU at LAC+USC Medical Center. This LAC+USC NICU also offers specialized neonatal care including treatment of neonatal surgical conditions, Therapeutic Hypothermia Program for neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and a CCS-accredited comprehensive high-risk neonatal follow-up at the LAC+USC Medical Center. USC Division of neonatology runs the Molecular Biology laboratory located at the Keck School of Medicine focuses on preterm lung injury and repair mechanisms. Basic and translational research with active funding from federal and private foundations are conducted in this laboratory. Additionally several multicenter clinical trials are conducted in this NICU.
PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital
The level II NICU at PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital has 23 beds and provides comprehensive care for critically ill and often extremely premature neonates born at PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital. Many pregnant women with complex medical conditions are treated at PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital and their babies often need intensive care in the unit highly specialized to provide state-of-the-art services for this patient population.
Dream it.
Build it.
Grow it.
Melinda Star Guido
One of the world's smallest surviving babies born anywhere in the world
24 Weeks, 270g born at LAC+USC Medical Center
FACULTY
Neonatal Database/Neonatal Quality Improvement Program
Point of Care Echocardiography in the Neonate
Mahmood (Mac) Ebrahimi, RDCS
Instructor in Clinical Pediatrics
Bijan Siassi, MD
Medical School: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Residency: Pediatrics, CHLA
Fellowship, Pediatric Cardiology: UCLA
Description of Current Position:
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics & Cardiology, Keck School of Medicine
Director of Point of Care Echocardiography in the Neonate
Director of Program for development of Neonatal Echocardiographic Simulation
Basic Science Research
Changgong Li, PhD
Graduate School:
1987 - B.S., Cell Biology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
1990 - M.S., Biochemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
1996 - Ph.D., Chemistry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
Postdoctoral Training:
1996-2000 - Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pediatrics, Women's & Children's Hospital, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles
Description of Current Position:
2016 - Associate Professor of Research Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Women's & Children's Hospital, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles
Grants:
NIH, NHLBI
Wnt5a Regulates Lung Maturation $1,849,960
RO1, HL144932, Changgong Li & Parviz Minoo, Co-PIs
March 2019 – February 28, 2023.
NIH, NHLBI
Postnatal Alveolar Formation $2,195,048
RO1, HL143059, Parviz Minoo, PI, Changgong Li, co-Investigator
August 2018 – July 30, 2022.
Parviz Minoo, PhD
Graduate School: University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Postdoctoral Training: Mayo Graduate School of Medicine
Description of Current Position:
Hastings Professor of Pediatrics
Director of Research, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
Section Editor, Journal of Pediatric Research
Grants:
NIH, NHLBI
Postnatal Alveolar Formation $2,195,048
RO1, HL143059, Principal Investigator
August 2018 – July 30, 2022.
NIH, NHLBI
Wnt5a Regulates Lung Maturation $1,849,960
RO1, HL144932, Co-Principal Investigator
March 2019 – February 28, 2023.
NIH, NHLBI
Beyond the barrier: alveolar epithelial cell $4,200,000
biology in health and disease
R35 HL135747, Co-Investigator
July 2017- June 2024