The Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship at the University of Iowa is a three-year, ACGME-accredited program that provides exceptional training opportunities and experience in clinical care, research and teaching.
Fellows receive training from a world-class group of faculty in an unmatched clinical environment abound with research opportunities.
A wide range of patient conditions offers fellows an education that will prepare them for any clinical situation. Upon completion of the program, fellows are ready to excel in the highest level NICUs, caring for the most critically ill infants.
The new University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital, with eight state-of-the-art operating rooms, is the only comprehensive children’s hospital and academic medical center in the state of Iowa.
Quick Facts
- Number of fellows accepted each year: 3
- Total number of fellows in the program: 9
- Three-year fellowship
- 88-bed NICU, and expansion in 2025-2026
- Iowa's only nationally ranked Level IV NICU
- National leaders in the care of periviable infants
- Patient volume: 1,000+ patients
- Extreme prematurity
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Patent ductus arteriosus
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
- Vein of Galen malformation
- Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
- Surgical problems such as trachesophageal fistula, gastroschisis and/or omphalocele.
"The NICU at Iowa has really outstanding outcomes and routinely resuscitates babies born less than 23 weeks, which is not necessarily something that every hospital does, and not only do they resuscitate those babies, doctors have quite good outcomes for them. That was a really big clinical contributor for why I chose Iowa for fellowship.
The Iowa Difference
Iowa's Neonatal-Perinatal fellows train in one of the world's best hospitals for extremely premature infants. Our survival rate for infants born at 22 weeks is around 60% compared to 10-15% nationally. Fellows receive unmatched clinical experience.
The University of Iowa established the first neonatal hemodynamics program in the United States. This unique team provides an excellent opportunity to learn about the complexities of neonatal cardiac physiology.
We are Iowa's only Level IV NICU and are nationally ranked in neonatology by U.S News & World Report. At Iowa's No. 1 children's hospital, a large tertiary care center, we have a broad patient population to provide an excellent clinical environment.
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Department Honors/Recognition
2024 U.S. News and World Report rankings:
- No.1 children's hospital in Iowa
- No. 21 in neonatology
- Highly ranked in nine pediatric specialties
Iowa’s Only Nationally Ranked Neonatology Program and Level 4 NICU.
View some of our other distinctions and designations.
Pediatric researchers at the University of Iowa have a long history of breakthrough discoveries in both the clinical and laboratory setting. Explore our research.
