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MICHAEL PETRELLA, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at New York Medical College



EDUCATION:
College: Boston College, 1993
Medical School: St. George’s University School of Medicine, Grenada, WI, 1998
Residency: Jersey Shore University Medical Center, NJ, 2002
Fellowship: Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of NY, Columbia University Medical Center, 2008

Pediatric Boards: 2002
Neonatal-Perinatal Board Eligible


Michael Petrella, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at New York Medical College, who is board certified in Pediatrics and board eligible in Neonatology.

Dr. Petrella is currently an Attending Neonatologist at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, NY, which is part of the regional network of the Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital and Westchester Medical Center.

His research interests include perfusion and alterations of blood flow and oxygen delivery to the tissues in premature infants and term newborns. He has studied perfusion post-operatively using newer technologies, such as near-infrared spectroscopy and visible light spectroscopy in term neonates with congenital heart disease, who have undergone surgical repair.

Dr. Petrella hopes to expand his studies of perfusion and hypoxia to include late pre-term and term newborns in an effort to monitor alterations in blood flow and predict hypoxic events non-invasively and before significant neurodevelopmental impairments occur.


OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES:
Good Samaritan Hospital Pharmacy Committee