Dr. Fayez M. Bany-Mohammed, a Health Sciences Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at University of California, Irvine School of Medicine and a staff Neonatologist at University of California, Irvine Medical Center. He also worked as the Program Director for the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine (NPM). His primary clinical responsibility include care of sick newborns, particularly premature infants, and infants with congenital diseases, including complex congenital heart disease and congenital malformations. On the average, He spends 15-20 hours per week in fellow and resident clinical supervision and teaching. In addition, He involves in clinical and quality improvement research within the NICU and has mentored fellows towards graduation and published several peer-reviewed papers.
Dr. Fayez M. Bany-Mohammed interests include oxygen radical diseases of neonatology like retinopathy of prematurity and bronco pulmonary dysplasia.
He is also interested in clinical research in neonatal hematology and how to preserve neonatal blood and prevent blood transfusion. Examples of recent clinical research include IRB approved study to utilize placental venous blood as a substitution for neonatal blood in admission laboratory evaluation of NICU patients and delayed cord clamping to boost neonatal red blood cell mass.
