Lamia Mohamed Soghier, MD, MED, MBA

Associate Division Chief, Operations

Medical Unit Director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Medical Director, Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Team, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Neonatologist

Lamia Soghier, MD, MEd, MBA, is a professor of pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (GWSMHS). Dr. Soghier is a board-certified neonatologist and the Associate Division Chief for NICU operations, the medical unit director of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), and the NICU Quality and Safety Officer at Children’s National. She earned a medical degree from the University of Alexandria in Egypt and completed a pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and a neonatology fellowship at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx, New York. She oversees the quality and safety initiatives in the Children’s National Level IV NICU and leads its Quality and Safety team. She has collaborated in multiple multi-center quality improvement projects. She serves on the Executive committee of the Children’s Hospitals Neonatal Consortium and leads their Educational Advisory Committee.

Dr. Soghier is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in both pediatrics and neonatology. She is an active clinician and researcher with multiple neonatology publications, articles, and book chapters. She has been funded by federal grants and awards from the National Institute of Health, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Patient-Centered Outcomes and Research Institute, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, in addition to multiple philanthropic grants. Dr. Soghier serves as the editor of the “Reference Range Values in Pediatrics” and the “Neonatal Simulation” guidebook published by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Her current research and education focus on improving screening, treatment, and referral for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders in parents of hospitalized infants in the NICU and the Emergency Department through systems-based approaches and her educational research is directed at applying novel technology in skill acquisition by pediatric trainees.

• Neonatology

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Outside Interests

• American Academy of Pediatrics