IMFH | About Us | Our Team | Maternal-Fetal Health Team | Istvan Seri, MD, PhD
Istvan Seri, MD, Ph.D., is the Director of the Center for Fetal and Neonatal Medicine. A Professor of Pediatrics, Dr. Seri is also the Division Chief for the University of Southern California Division of Neonatal Medicine. He is board-certified in Pediatrics and Neonatology by the American Board of Pediatrics and its Sub-board of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, respectively.
Originally from Hungary, Dr. Seri received his medical degree from the Semmelweis University School of Medicine in Budapest in 1976, where he also completed his residency training in Pediatrics and received his Ph.D. in Cardiovascular Physiology. After further training in Developmental Cardiovascular and Renal Physiology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Masschuttetts, respectively, Dr. Seri also completed his training in Neonatology at Harvard Medical School in 1991.
Dr. Seri remained on the neonatology faculty at the Brigham & Women's Hospital and The Children’s Hospital Boston at Harvard Medical School until 1994, when he became the Clinical Director of Newborn Services at Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. At the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, Dr. Seri was also a member of the fetal surgical program.
He was recruited to the University of Southern California (USC) as the Chief of the USC Division of Neonatal Medicine in 2001. Dr. Seri is a nationally and internationally renowned expert of Developmental Cardiovascular and Renal Physiology and Pathophysiology with more than 80 publications in scientific medical journals and textbooks. He is an acknowledged teacher who has a faculty teaching award in Neonatology named after him at the at Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania.
