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NEONATOLOGY SECTION SERVICE

The Neonatology Section provides its services, principally, at the University Pediatric Hospital, which is located at the Puerto Rico Medical Center in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Section provides state of the art, comprehensive specialty care to neonates with a wide range of congenital and acquired conditions and diseases. Our team of professionals provides supportive, family centered care in a technological environment. The Section’s expertise spans the care of extremely premature infants to the care of infants with a variety of medical and surgical illnesses.

We have a tertiary Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and an Intermediate Care Unit that provides intensive medical, surgical and nursing care, life support systems, electronic monitoring and a complete range of diagnostic capabilities.

The Section has expertise in the following areas, among others:

• Congenital anomalies

• Genetic disorders

• Hyperbilirubinemia

• Hypoglycemia in the newborn

• Metabolic Disorders

• Pre or perinatal acquired infections

• Prematurity

• Pulmonary hypertension

• Respiratory distress/chronic lung disease

• Surgical conditions

Faculty of the Neonatology Section

Dr. Marta Valcárce3
marta.valcarcel@upr.edu                                                     

Dr. Inés García
ines.garcia@upr.edu    

                                                         
Dr. Lourdes Garcia
lourdes.garcia1@upr.edu                                          

Dr. Gloria Reyes
gloria.reyes1@upr.edu                                              

Dr. Juan Rivera
juan.rivera49@upr.edu                                             

Dr. Luis Rodriguez
luis.rodriguez78@upr.edu                                         

Dr. Amarilis Rivera                                                                                                    

Dr. Norma Claudio                                                                                                     

Dr. Israel Matías                                                                                                        

CONTACT US:

Department of Pediatrics
Neonatology Section
University Pediatric Hospital
Sixth Floor
University of Puerto Rico
School of Medicine
Medical Sciences Campus
PO Box 5067, San Juan, PR 00936-5067
Telephone: 787-777-3225
Fax: 787-758-5307