
Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery
UCSF is a national leader in the field of neonatal care. Each of our locations has a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) devoted to providing the most advanced available care to critically ill newborns and infants. Our San Francisco NICU, the William H. Tooley Intensive Care Nursery, established in 1964, was one of the first of its kind in the world, and our doctors have pioneered a range of diagnostic techniques, treatments and methods for care of the sickest, smallest, most fragile of babies. As a certified regional NICU, the San Francisco nursery provides all levels of newborn intensive care. Our Oakland location is the only Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in the East Bay and also serves patients from across the region.
Our patients include babies born prematurely or with life-threatening birth defects, such as heart and lung problems, gastrointestinal disorders, neurological disorders and other conditions requiring advanced life support, as well as newborns awaiting or recovering from surgery. The NICU is staffed by doctors and nurse practitioners who are specialists in newborn care, along with nurses in other specialties, respiratory therapists, social workers and developmental therapists – all working together to provide care that lasts beyond the initial intervention and recovery period. We also collaborate closely with the specialists treating each infant's particular condition. In Oakland, we have multi-disciplinary teams with expertise in the care of newborns with severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and severe gastrointestinal conditions.
In addition to our emphasis on leading-edge medicine, we recognize the importance of tending to our patients' and their families' emotional and psychological needs. We encourage parents to spend as much time with their baby as possible, and we welcome visits from siblings after they've been screened by our unit services coordinator. Because the NICU is an advanced, high-tech, medically intense environment, developmental specialists team with physicians, nurses and other care providers to reduce the stress of illness or prematurity on each infant in our care. Our developmental specialists also work with parents to teach them how to hold and touch a medically fragile infant and to help them understand a premature or ill baby's signals and cues. To support breastfeeding mothers, board-certified lactation consultants are available seven days a week at our San Francisco ICN. At our Oakland NICU, physicians, nurses, occupational therapists and registered dietitians provide lactation support as needed. Other services for families include spiritual care, a parent support group and a social worker.
Our locations (2)
Our team
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Yao Sun
MD, PhD
Neonatologist and perinatologist -
Arthur E. D'Harlingue
MD
Neonatologist -
Jessica Alsofrom
MD
Neonatologist -
James Anderson
MD
Neonatologist -
Stacie Bennett
MD
Neonatologist -
Margarita Berrios
MD
Neonatologist -
William Binder
MD, FAAP
Neonatologist -
Carlos Botas
MD
Neonatologist -
Rebecca Carter
MD
Neonatologist -
Lilia Chang De Jesus
MD
Neonatologist -
Ronald I. Clyman
MD
Neonatologist -
Elizabeth Crouch
MD
Neonatologist -
Adam DeTora
MD
Neonatologist and perinatologist -
Golde Dudell
MD
Neonatologist -
Fernando Gonzalez
MD
Neonatologist -
Kimberly Grelli
MD
Neonatologist -
Steven Gwiazdowski
MD
Neonatologist -
Kristin Elizabeth Hubert
MD
Neonatologist -
Priscilla Joe
MD
Neonatologist -
Luke M. Judge
MD, PhD
Neonatologist -
Lily Kao
MD
Neonatologist -
Roberta Keller
MD
Neonatologist -
Genevieve Kinsey
MD
Neonatologist -
Kimberly Larson
MD
Neonatologist -
Jennifer Levy
MD
Neonatologist -
Leslie Lusk
MD
Neonatologist -
Spencer Magargal
MD
Neonatologist -
Emin Maltepe
MD
Neonatologist -
Nandita Mandhani
MBBS
Neonatologist -
James McGuire
MD, MPH
Neonatologist -
Jeffrey Merrill
MD
Neonatologist -
Brian L. Montenegro
MD
Neonatologist -
Vidya Pai
MD
Neonatologist -
J. Colin Partridge
MD, MPH
Neonatologist -
Shilpa Patil
MD
Neonatologist -
Mark Petersen
MD
Neonatologist -
Xianhua Piao
MD, PhD, MS
Neonatologist -
Kathryn Ponder
MD
Neonatologist -
Amber Pope
MD
Neonatologist -
Srujana Rallabandi
MBBS, MPH
Neonatologist -
Jayalakshmi Ravindran
MD
Neonatologist -
Elizabeth E. Rogers
MD
Neonatologist -
Nahid Rostami
MD, FAAP
Neonatologist -
Laura Rubinos
MD
Neonatologist -
Janet Shimotake
MD
Neonatologist -
Thomas Shimotake
MD
Neonatologist -
Martina A. Steurer
MD, MAS
Neonatologist and pediatric cardiac critical care specialist -
Kristina Stillwell
MD
Neonatologist -
Sarah Styles
DO
Neonatologist -
Anna Usowicz
MD
Neonatologist -
Sandra Wai
MD
Neonatologist -
Katherine Y. Wu
MD
Neonatologist -
Robin Bisgaard
RN, MSN
Nurse -
Elana Curry
LCSW, MSW
Social worker -
Madeleine Dreyfus
MSW
Social worker -
Monica Ibarra-Yaquian
LCSW, MSW
Clinical social worker -
Sharon Nomburg
LCSW, MSW
Social worker -
Stacie Rohovit
NP, MSN
Nurse practitioner -
Stephanie Smith
NP, MSN
Nurse practitioner -
Maricar Aguilar Tabios
LCSW
Social worker
Awards & recognition
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Best in California and No. 5 in the nation for neonatology
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Ranked among the nation's best in 10 specialties
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