Neonatology
On staff since December 2003
Children's Title: Medical Director, Overlake Hospital Medical Center NICU
Academic Title: Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Research Center: Center for Clinical and Translational Research
"Caring for the youngest and tiniest patients is a blessing to me and training residents/fellows in neonatology is priceless. I am dedicated to the care of babies born with complex medical conditions and I strive to provide family-centered care while partnering with parents of the babies."
Shilpi Chabra, MD, is Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She is the medical director of the NICU at Overlake Hospital.
She is passionate about teaching and mentoring fellows during their training and journey in the neonatal intensive care unit, and also helps medical students and pediatric residents through bedside teaching. Her scholarly interests include bronchopulmonary dysplasia, Vitamin A status, epidemiology and management of gastroschisis, congenital diaphragmatic hernia and other birth defects. As the medical director of the NICU at Overlake, she is involved in empowering parents to be a partner of the medical team with a goal to provide family-centered care for our young patients. She helped start the nutrition clinic for premature infants at Overlake Hospital with a focus on post-discharge growth and is involved in several quality improvement projects. She is a member of the Seattle Children's Hospital Clinical Effectiveness Program for Gastroschisis guideline development and is involved in developing protocols for prenatal and postnatal management of the fetus with gastroschisis. Nationally, she successfully petitioned for establishment of separate ICD-9 codes for gastroschisis and omphalocele to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Pediatrics, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington Pediatrics, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia Pediatrics, Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, NSW
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Translational Research
Primary Office
University of Washington UW Box 356320 - Neonatology 1959 NE Pacific St Seattle, WA 98195-6320
206-543-3200
Additional Offices
Providence Regional Medical Center - Everett NICU - 2nd Floor PO Box 1067 Everett, WA 98026
425-304-6040
Seattle Children's FA.2.113 - NICU Administration 4800 Sand Point Way NE Seattle, WA 98105
206-987-2041
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