Dr. Sudeep Kukreja, Neonatology

A leading expert in neonatology, Dr. Kukreja serves as medical director of the newborn hearing screening program and the associate medical director of the neonatal intensive care unit at CHOC. Dr. Kukreja provides the full spectrum of neonatal care, with special interests in the management of high-risk infants, apnea and newborn hearing. He is board certified in neonatal-perinatal medicine. Dr. Kukreja is president-elect of the Orange County Medical Association.

Dedicated to clinical excellence, Dr. Kukreja served his fellowship and residency at UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange and at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, respectively. He completed his internship and medical training at King George’s Medical College in Lucknow, India.

Locations

CHOC Hospital
1201 W. La Veta Ave.
Orange, CA 92868

CHOC at Mission Hospital
27700 Medical Center Rd.
Mission Viejo, CA 92691

Western Medical Center
1001 N. Tustin Ave.
Santa Ana, CA 92705

St. Jude Medical Center
101 E. Valencia Mesa Dr.
Fullerton, CA 92835

Administrative Appointments

• Associate Medical Director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, CHOC
• Director, Quality Improvement NICU CHOC
• Medical Director, Newborn Hearing Screening Program, CHOC Hospital in Orange and CHOC at Mission Hospital
• Neonatology, CHOC Specialists

Education

• Fellowship
  UCI Medical Center in Orange and at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
• Internship
  King George’s Medical College in Lucknow, India
• Medical School
  King George’s Medical College in Lucknow, India
• Residency
  UCI Medical Center in Orange and at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

Lectures and Presentations

Centralized Preperation & Barcode Scanning of Breastmilk Reduces Breastmilk Administration Errors
European Congress on Perinatal Medicine, Florence, Italy, June 2014
Extremely LBW Infants- Our Experience
The First West Lake International Forum on Advanced Pediatric Care, Hangzhou, China, April 18, 2011
Late Preterm Infants- Unique Problems
The First West Lake International Forum on Advanced Pediatric Care , Hangzhou, China, April 16, 2011
Necrotizing Enterocolitis: Pathogenesis, Prevention and Management
The First West Lake International Forum on Advanced Pediatric Care, April 15, 2011
Nutritional Care of Preterm Infants
Riverside Community Hospital, Riverside CA May 5, 2011
Therapeutic Hypothermia for Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy in Newborns
The First West Lake International Forum on Advanced Pediatric Carte, Hangzhou, China, April 16, 2011

Professional Organizations

• Immediate Past President of American Academy of Pediatrics Chapter 4
• Orange County Medical Association, President

Publications

Impact of Intra-Abdominal Pathology in Late Onset Blood Stream Infections in Neonatal Intensive Care Patients- Abstract at the Annual Meeting of European Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases 2010.

Once weekly Liposomal Amphotericin B as Candida Prophylaxis in Very Low Birth Weight Premature Infants: A Report of Pilot Study- Clinical Therapeutics 2010

Our neonatologists commonly treat the following conditions in newborns and babies:

• Apnea
• Bradycardia
• Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD)
• Coarctation of the aorta
• Gastroschisis
• Heart valve abnormalities
• Hypoglycemia
• Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR)
• Intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH)
• Jaundice
• Macrosomia
• Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)
• Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)
• Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN)
• Pneumonia
• Respiratory distress syndrome (RDS)
• Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)
• Sepsis
• Septal defects
• Tetralogy of Fallot
• Transposition of the great arteries
• Trouble keeping warm