Yao Sun, MD, PhD

Chief of Neonatology

Dr. Yao Sun, chief of Neonatology, is medical director of the William H. Tooley Intensive Care Nursery at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital. His expertise includes medical informatics, a field that combines medicine and computer science, which he uses to keep the intensive care nursery on the cutting edge. Sun came to UCSF from Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center, where he was director of neonatology.

Sun earned his medical degree at UCLA and a doctorate in computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed a residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in neonatology at Boston Children's Hospital.

Fetal Treatment Center
1855 Fourth St., Second Floor, Room A-2432
San Francisco, CA 94158
Phone: (800) 793-3887
Fax: (415) 502-0660

Intensive Care Nursery
1975 Fourth St., Third Floor
San Francisco, CA 94158
Phone: (415) 353-1565
Fax: (415) 353-1202

Neuro-Intensive Care Nursery
1975 Fourth St., Third Floor
San Francisco, CA 94158
Phone: (415) 353-1565
Fax: (415) 353-1202

• Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum
• Amniotic Band Syndrome
• Apnea
• Birth Asphyxia
• Chronic Lung Disease
• Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
• Congenital Heart Defects
• Congenital High Airway Obstruction Syndrome
• Congenital Pulmonary Airways Malformation
• Fetal Anemia

• Fetal Bowel Obstruction
• Gastroschisis
• Inherited Genetic Diseases Treatable with Stem Cells
• Intraventricular Hemorrhage
• Jaundice
• Meconium Aspiration Syndrome
• Monochorionic Twins
• Necrotizing Enterocolitis
• Omphalocele
• Periventricular Leukomalacia

• Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn
• Pulmonary Sequestration
• Retinopathy of Prematurity
• Sacrococcygeal Teratoma
• Spina Bifida
• Twin Reversed Arterial Perfusion (TRAP) Sequence
• Twin-To-Twin Transfusion Syndrome
• Unequal Placental Sharing
• Urinary Tract Obstruction
• Ventriculomegaly