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Dr. Richard Polin is the Director of the Division of Neonatology at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian, and Professor of Pediatrics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is board certified in neonatal-perinatal medicine.
After earning BA and MD degrees from Temple University, Dr. Polin completed a pediatric internship and residency at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and a pediatric residency and neonatology fellowship at Children's Hospital of NY. He was Pediatric Chief Resident there, from 1974-'75 and Rustin McIntosh Fellow in Pediatrics from 1975-'77.
An Associate Pediatrician at Children's Hospital from 1975-'77, he was named Outstanding Pediatric Attending for 1976-'77. He won similar honors for 1978-'79 and 1982-'83 at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where he held the positions of Director of the Housestaff Training Program, Assistant and Associate Physician-in-Chief, Academic Coordinator of Pediatrics, and Acting Director, Neonatology. Temple University's Medical School named Dr. Polin its outstanding alumnus in 1995. In 1998, Dr. Polin returned to Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian as the Director of Neonatology.
Dr. Polin has published more than 95 original papers, 55 editorial reviews and chapters, 17 books (including Fetal and Neonatal Physiology, Workbook in Practical Neonatology, Pediatric Secrets, Fetal and Neonatal Secrets, Current Pediatric Therapy, Pocket Neonatology) and more than 150 abstracts. He is an editor of the American Academy of Pediatrics' publication, "Grand Rounds." |
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