Iyalla E. Peterside, MD, MRCP, FAAP

Locations: Main Hospital
Phone: 215-662-3228
Iyalla Peterside, MD, MRCP, FAAP, is the medical director of the Intensive Care Unit at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. His areas of interest are care of the complex neonatal patient, infection control with emphasis on catheter-related blood stream infections. He has expertise on the use of ECMO to treat critically ill patients in respiratory and cardiac failure.
He is a member of the Royal College of Physicians of London and Ireland. He is the president of the Philadelphia Perinatal Society.
After receiving his primary medical education in Nigeria, Dr. Peterside trained in pediatrics, pediatric surgery and neonatology at the Booth Hall Children's Hospital in Manchester, England, and The Bolton General Hospital in Bolton, England. He continued his training at the Brooklyn Medical Center in New York and completed a fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
MD - University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Nigeria
Booth Hall Children's Hospital, Manchester, England
University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Nigeria
Booth Hall Children's Hospital, Manchester, England
Bolton General Hospital, Bolton, England
The Brooklyn Hospital Center, NY
Cornell Medical Center, NY
University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Nigeria
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Member, Royal College of Physicians of IrelandMember, Royal College of Physicians of LondonNeonatal-Perinatal Medicine – American Board of PediatricsPediatrics – American Board of Pediatrics
Attending Neonatologist
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Binenbaum G, Bruno CJ, Forbes BJ, Snyder MA, Mollen TJ, Schmidt B, Peterside I. Periocular ulcerative dermatitis associated with gentamicin ointment prophylaxis in newborns. J Pediatr 2010;156:320-321. Cited in PubMed: PMID 20105641. Read the article
Garland JS, Alex CP, Uhing MR, Peterside IE, Rentz A, Harris MC. Pilot trial to compare tolerance of chlorhexidine gluconate to povidone-iodine antisepsis for central venous catheter placement in neonates. J Perinatol. 2009 Dec;29(12):808-13. Epub 2009 Oct 8. Cited in PubMed: PMID 19812587. Read the abstract
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