Our state-of-the-art, 17-bed Infant Cardiac Unit is dedicated to infants up to three months old who undergo surgery for complex congenital heart disease. It is the first of its kind in the world.
Anna Penn, MD, PhD, a leading clinical neonatologist and developmental neuroscientist, has been named chief of the Division of Neonatology in the Department of Pediatrics at Columbia.
Mothers whose infants end up in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) after delivery say their most difficult moment is when they are discharged from the hospital—without their baby.