The Children's Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center

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Kirby D. Rekedal, MD

Kirby D. Rekedal, MDBoard certified in both Pediatrics and Neonatology, Dr. Rekedal is a graduate of St. Olaf College in Minnesota, where he majored in philosophy and spent time studying classical philosophy at Oxford. Dr. Rekedal obtained a graduate degree in philosophy at Johns Hopkins, and then went on to the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He did his internship and residency in Pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Yale. He has been a member of the department since 1986, serving as chief of neonatology from 1989 to 1998, as acting chair from 1999 to 2000, and as residency program director from 1999 to 2004. He is currently active as an attending neonatologist, and his special interests include faculty level training in the Brazelton Touchpoints model and ethics. He is actively involved in research regarding the long term outcomes of extremely premature newborns. Dr. Rekedal is responsible for the pediatric medical ethics curriculum.

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