General Info

Dr. Stellwagen is a general pediatrician, neonatal hospitalist, and the Medical Director of the Newborn Service. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine. She has been a pediatrician for 25 years, both in the community and hospital settings. Her areas of interest are infant nutrition, jaundice, the care of the late preterm infant, management of prenatal ultrasound findings after birth, torticollis and plagiocephaly, and teaching families, medical students, pediatric residents and neonatal fellows all about newborn care. She led the team that resulted in Baby Friendly Certification in 2006 and recertification in 2011; she continues to work on quality improvement in the breastfeeding program. Dr. Stellwagen and colleagues started the UC San Diego SPIN Program (Supporting Premature Infant Nutrition) in 2008 which brings together the lactation service, dietary service, OT/PT, NICU nurses and physicians in a multidisciplinary team to improve neonatal nutrition and human milk feeding in the NICU setting (spinprogram.ucsd.edu). Her research interests include human milk quality and storage, maternal milk production, and promoting human milk feeding in term and preterm infants to improve infant outcomes.UC San Diego Health LinksFor more information on UC San Diego's care of infants, see http://health.ucsd.edu/specialties/obgyn/maternity/newborn/Pages/default.aspx.