Co-director of the Neurointensive Care Nursery
Dr. Thomas Shimotake is a neonatologist in the William H. Tooley Intensive Care Unit, where he cares for newborns ranging from extremely premature infants to full term babies with severe birth defects. He also is co-director of the Neurointensive Care Nursery (NICN), where he and the NICN team have developed new protocols, based on research, to treat babies at risk for brain injuries that were previously thought to be untreatable.
His research interests include neonatal lung diseases such as respiratory distress syndrome, a condition that afflicts premature babies; brain injury and repair in newborns; and simulation-based training in pediatrics for medical students and residents. He is an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at UCSF and the fellowship training director for Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. He's a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of their Perinatal Section. He's also a member of the California Association of Neonatologists.
Intensive Care Nursery
505 Parnassus Ave., Fifteenth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143-0210
Phone: (415) 353-1565
Neurointensive Care Nursery
505 Parnassus Ave., 15th floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-1565
Japanese
University of Illinois School of Medicine 1997
University of Chicago Medical Center, Pediatrics 2000
University of Chicago Medical Center, Neonatology 2003