Department of
Pediatrics

About Us

West Virginia University is located in Morgantown, WV. Our main clinical training site is a 50-bed, Level IV NICU at WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital with a full range of pediatric and surgical subspecialists available for consultation. We have a nearby community hospital training site that offers additional delivery room stabilization experience. 

We care for nearly 1,000 critically ill newborns of all gestations per year as well as infants requiring therapeutic hypothermia, high frequency oscillatory ventilation, inhaled nitric oxide, subspecialist consultation, and general, neurological, and cardiac surgery. As the only tertiary NICU in West Virginia, we support a pediatric transport team to transport neonates from all over the state, as well as surrounding counties in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Ohio. We also offer a focused care team for infants with established chronic lung disease of prematurity and a developmental follow up clinic for NICU graduates.

Fellows have 20 months over the course of their training to focus on research under the guidance of a Scholarship Oversight Committee (SOC). They also participate in a quality improvement project, which may be coordinated with current national Vermont Oxford Network Quality Collaborative Initiatives. Fellows are guided through this process by program leadership, SOC members, and the Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Pediatrics. The West Virginia Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute also offers resources including biostatistical support and pilot grants. Fellows are strongly encouraged to present their research and quality improvement work at regional and national conferences.  Graduates of our program have entered both academic and clinical practice.

Who we are

Get to know our fellowship leadership team below.