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Dr. Fayez M. Bany-Mohammed is a board-certified UCI Health neonatologist who specializes in neonatal and perinatal medicine and the care critically ill newborns and premature infants.

Fayez M. Bany-Mohammed, MD

Specialties

Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, General Pediatrics

Clinical Interests

brain and whole body cooling, neonatal infection, newborn respiratory diseases, perinatology

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Certifications
  • American Board of Pediatrics, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
  • American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatrics
Language
  • English
Gender
Male
Medical School
University of Jordan
Internship
Cleveland Clinic FoundationPeds
Residency
Cleveland Clinic FoundationPeds
Jordan University HospitalPeds
Fellowship
UCI Medical CenterNeonatology
Professional Positions
  • Professor — Division of Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, UCI School of Medicine
  • Program Director, Neonatal Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program — Department of Pediatrics, UCI School of Medicine
  • Member — American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Member — California Association of Neonatologists
Awards and Recognition
  • Physicians of Excellence, Orange County Medical Association — 2009, 2013-2023
  • Outstanding Program Leadership Award, 2016 — UCI School of Medicine Graduate Medical Education
More Information

Dr. Fayez M. Bany-Mohammed is a board-certified UCI Health neonatologist who specializes in neonatal and perinatal medicine and the care of critically ill newborns and premature infants. His clinical interests include thermal regulation in premature infants, lung development, respiratory disorders, thyroid function, infectious diseases and placental transfusion.

He earned his medical degree at the University of Jordan School of Medicine in Amman, Jordan, where he also completed a residency in pediatric medicine. He completed a second pediatrics residency at Cleveland Clinic Children's in Cleveland, Ohio, followed by a fellowship in neonatology at UCI Medical Center and the UCI School of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics.

Bany-Mohammed's research interests include neonatal hematology, neonatal infectious diseases and strategies to minimize blood loss and anemia in fragile neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) patients. He and the NICU team are also participating in multisite clinical trials on the impact of early neonatal interventions. He is the author or co-author of numerous papers published in prominent peer-reviewed journals, He also is the associate editor of the eighth edition of the influential textbook Gomella's Neonatology. He has consistently been named a Physician of Excellence by the Orange County Medical Association.

He sees patients at UCI Medical Center in the City of Orange.

UCI Medical Center
101 The City Drive South
Orange, CA 92868
Phone: 714-456-6933