Newborn Jaundice (cont.)

Medical Author:

David Perlstein, MD, MBA, FAAP

David Perlstein, MD, MBA, FAAP

Dr. Perlstein received his Medical Degree from the University of Cincinnati and then completed his internship and residency in pediatrics at The New York Hospital, Cornell medical Center in New York City. After serving an additional year as Chief Pediatric Resident, he worked as a private practitioner and then was appointed Director of Ambulatory Pediatrics at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx.

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Medical Editor:

Bhupinder Anand, MD

Author and Editor

Author: David Perlstein, MD, FAAP

Medical Editor: Bhupinder Anand, MD

REFERENCE:

American Academy of Pediatrics, Subcommittee on Hyperbilirubinemia. Management of hyperbilirubinemia in the newborn infant 35 or more weeks of gestation. Pediatrics. 2004;114 :297– 316.

Previous contributing authors and editors: Author: Colby D Mayo, DO, Clinical Instructor of Emergency Medicine & Pediatrics, Department of Emergency Medicine, Hermann Memorial Hospital, University of Texas at Houston Medical School. Coauthor(s): Brent R King, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Memorial Hermann Hospital and LBJ Hospital. Editors: Scott H Plantz, MD, FAAEM, Research Director, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; James Ungar, MD, Medical Director, Chair Department of Emergency Medicine Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.