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Toby Yanowitz, MD, MS

Job Title Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Job Title Assistant Investigator, Magee-Womens Research Institute

UPMC Newborn Medicine Program

300 Halket St.

Pittsburgh, PA 15213

412-692-5030 Phone

412-692-56076 Fax

Email tyanowitz@mail.magee.edu

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Education and Training

Graduate School:	2008 Master of Science, Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Medical School:	1991 Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Residency:	1994 The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Fellowship:	1997 Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, Providence, RI

Memberships

Alpha Omega Alpha
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Academy of Pediatrics, Perinatal Section
American Federation for Medical Research
Midwest Society for Pediatric Research
Society for Pediatric Research
Perinatal Research Society

Board Certifications

American Board of Pediatrics, General Pediatrics
American Board of Pediatrics, Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine Certification
DEA

Awards

Recipient, Janet M. Glasgow Memorial Citation for Scholastic Achievement, American Medical Women’s Association
Participant, 7th Annual NICHD Aspen Conference on Maternal-Fetal-Neonatal Reproductive Medicine: Preparing for a Research Career in Perinatology
NIH Young Investigator Award Recipient, Perinatal Research Society
2005-2007 Pittsburgh Mind-Body Center Clinical Scholar
2007-2008 Recipient, John F. Watchko Fellow Mentoring Award

Publications

Yanowitz TD, Potter DM, Baker R, Bowen A, Roberts JM. Variability in Cerebral Oxygen Delivery is Reduced in Premature Neonates Exposed to Chorioamnionitis. Pediatric Research, 59(4): 299-304, 2006.
Henry J, Baker R, Yanowitz TD. The In-Utero Passage of Meconium by Very Low Birth Weight Infants: A Marker for Adverse Outcomes. Journal of Perinatology. 26(2): 125-129, 2006.
Krimmel G, Baker R, Yanowitz TD. Blood Transfusion Alters the Superior Mesenteric Artery Blood Flow Velocity Response to Feeding in Premature Infants. Journal of Perinatology 25(12), 2008. In press.

View Dr. Yanowitz's full list of publications from PubMed.

Research Interests

Using Near Infrared Spectroscopy to measure cerebral oxygenation in premature newborns
Investigating the role of hemodynamic alterations in mediating chorioamnionitis-associated brain injury among premature infants (Including the use of an animal model)
Heart rate variability among premature infants with infections and those at risk for brain injury
Cardiovascular and neurodevelopmental implications of meconium staining of the amniotic fluid in premature newborns
Effects of psychological stress on immune function and neonatal outcomes in women with preterm premature rupture of the fetal membranes
Database creation and analysis (currently in school for a master’s in Epidemiology to help accomplish this goal)

Biography Summary

Toby Yanowitz, MD, MS, is a member of the UPMC Newborn Medicine Program at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. She also is an assistant professor of pediatrics, obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. In addition, she is an assistant investigator at Magee-Womens Research Institute and a staff neonatologist in the Transitional Infant Care Unit at The Children's Home in Pittsburgh.

Dr. Yanowitz received her bachelor's degree from Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. She received her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N.Y. She completed her pediatrics residency at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and her neonatology fellowship at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island.

Dr. Yanowitz's research has focused on the use of noninvasive techniques to study cerebral blood flow and cardiac function in premature newborns and fetuses in order to determine if there is a hemodynamic basis to perinatal brain injury, in general, and periventricular leukomalacia (PVL) specifically. Currently, Dr. Yanowitz is the site-PI for 3 multicenter clinical studies in the NICU at Magee-Womens Hospital – 1) “should very low birth weight infants feed during indomethacin or ibuprophen treatment of a patent ductus arteriosus”, a randomized study of feeding vs NPO during medical treatment of a patent ductus arteriosus; 2) a Phase III study of the use of an anti-staphylococcal antibody (Pagibaximab) to prevent late-onset sepsis in very low birth weight infants, and 3) “Prophylactic Phenobarbital after Resolution of Neonatal Seizures” (PROPHENO), a randomized study testing short term efficacy and the long term neurodevelopmental effects of maintenance Phenobarbital for 4 months following neonatal seizures. Dr, Yanowitz is the physician responsible for the Vermont-Oxford Network Database for Magee Women’s Hospital and she will be working to create a system wide neonatology database for the UPMC Newborn Medicine Division. Dr. Yanowitz represents the Division of newborn medicine on the University of Pittsburgh’s Istitutional Review Board.