Penn Medicine Provider
Neonatology and Newborn Services
Soraya Abbasi, MD
Accepting new patients
Sees newborns through age 1 month
Neonatology and Newborn Services Pennsylvania Hospital

About me

  • Emeritus Professor CE of Pediatrics (Neonatology & Newborn Services)

Education and training

  • Medical School: Pahlavi University
  • Residency: The Children's Hospital at OU Medical Center
  • Residency: The Waterbury Hospital Health Center
  • Fellowship: Yale-Pediatrics
  • Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Pennsylvania Hospital: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Abbasi is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Sivieri EM, Rub DM, Abbasi S, Eichenwald EC. Preserved pressure delivery during high-frequency oscillation of bubble CPAP in a premature infant lung model with both normal and abnormal lung mechanics. , Pediatr Pulmonol. , 56(5): 2021,1136-1144


Scott Gordon, Lakshmi Srinivasan, Deanne M Taylor, Stephen Master, Dustin Flannery, Julie Fitzgerald, Soraya Abbasi, Mary Catherine Harris Derivation of a metabolic signature associated with bacterial meningitis in infants: A pilot study , Pediatric Research , 88(2): 2020,184-191


Kelley Z Kovatis, MD, Juliann Di Fiore, BS, Richard J. Martin, MD, Soraya Abbasi, MD, Aasma S. Chaundhary, RRT, Stephen Hoover, MS, Zugui Zhang, PhD, Haresh Kirpalani, MD Effect of blood transfusions on intermittent hypoxic episodes in a prospective cohort of Very Low Birth Weight Infants , The Journal of Pediatrics, 2020 Pediatrics, 222, P65-70, July, 2020, 222: 2020,65-70


Sivieri EM, Eichenwald EC, Rub DM, Abbasi S. Carbon dioxide clearance using bubble CPAP with superimposed high-frequency oscillations in a premature infant lung model with abnormal lung mechanics. , Pediatr Pulmonol., 55(11): 2020,3189-3196


Haresh Kirpalani, BM, MSc1; Sarah J. Ratcliffe, PhD2; Martin Keszler, MD3; et al Effect of Sustained Inflations vs Intermittent Positive Pressure Ventilation on Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia or Death Among Extremely Preterm Infants , JAMA, 321: 2019


Sivieri EM, Eichenwald E, Bakri SM, Abbasi S. Effect of high frequency oscillatory high flow nasal cannula (HFNC) on carbon dioxide clearance in a premature infant lung model: A bench study. , Pediatr Pulmonol , 54(4): 2019,436-443


Rub DM, Sivieri EM, Abbasi S, Eichenwald E Effect of high-frequency oscillation on pressure delivered by high flow nasal cannula in a premature infant lung model , Pediatr Pulmonol, 54: 2019


Enlow E, Gray M, Wallace-Keeshen S, D'Agostino J, Abbasi S, Lorch SA Health Literacy of Parents of Very Preterm Infants at NICU Admission and Discharge: a Prospective Cohort Study. , J Perinatol: 2019


Sivieri EM, Eichenwald EC, Rub DM, Abbasi S. An In-Line High Frequency Flow Interrupter Applied to Nasal CPAP: Improved Carbon Dioxide Clearance in a Premature Infant Lung Model. , Pediatr Pulmonol, 15(12): 2019


Sivieri E, Wolfson MR, Abbasi S. Pulmonary Mechanics Measurements by Respiratory Inductive Plethysmography and Esophageal Manometry: Methodology for Infants on Non-Invasive Respiratory Support , J Neonatal Perinatal Med, 12(2): 2019,149-159