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Shahana Perveen

Shahana Perveen MD, MBBS

Pediatrics, Neonatal and Perinatology
New Hyde Park, New York, United States of America

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Dr. Perveen received her MBBS degree from Karachi University Pakistan in 1991. After that, she came to the USA and joined the New York Medical College/ Metropolitan Hospital and did her residency in pediatrics. Dr. Perveen then received her subspecialty training in neonatal/perinatal medicine at North Shore University Hospital, NY. She started her career as a neonatologist in 2001 in the Metropolitan Hospital/Westchester Medical Center. As an active pediatric faculty member, Dr. Perveen was involved with residents and medical students, teaching and receiving several Best Teacher awards from the department. She was also appointed as the associate residency program director and was involved in curriculum development and implementation. Dr. Perveen has participated in a few multicenter clinical studies during this time period. She has also mentored the resident for their clinical project/research study.

In 2010, Dr. Perveen joined the Cohen Children's Medical Center/Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. She joined the research group of neonatal perinatal lab at the Feinstein Institutes and started working as an investigator in the lab along with her full time commitment as a neonatologist in neonatal intensive care unit at Steven & Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center. Dr. Perveen is actively involved in basic science research as well as with several QI projects with neonatal fellows and is a chair on the BPD QI Committee. She is also a PI and Co-PI in several ongoing clinical multicenter studies in the neonatal intensive care unit.
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