Dr. Abieyuwa Iyare Appointed as Medical Director of the Well Newborn Nurseries

The Weill Cornell Medicine Department of Pediatrics is pleased to announce the appointment of Abieyuwa Iyare, M.D. as Medical Director of the Well Newborn Nurseries as of July 5, 2022. In this new role, Dr. Iyare will work closely with nursing leadership to ensure high quality equitable care for newborns in the well nurseries at Alexandra Cohen (ACH) and Lower Manhattan (LMH) campuses. We would like to thank Jennifer DiPace, M.D. for her outstanding service and dedication as Medical Director for the newborn nurseries, where among many other accomplishments she oversaw a very successful move to ACH and the integration of the LMH nursery.

 Dr. Iyare was recruited from Montefiore Medical Center where she had been the director of the newborn nursery of the Weiler Campus to Weill Cornell in 2020 as Associate Director of the newborn nurseries at NYP/ACH and NYP/WC.  She has been very involved in quality initiatives, including updating the newborn toxicology protocols, use of dextrose gel in newborns with hypoglycemia and others, and teaching as the leader for the medical students’ experience in the nursery.

 Dr. Iyare is an assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and an assistant attending pediatrician at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, and associate medical director of the Newborn Nurseries at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital. After earning a B.S. in Psychology at City College of New York, Dr. Iyare received her medical degree at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.  She completed her residency training at New York University.

 Board-certified in general pediatrics, Dr. Iyare worked for eleven years as an Instructor and Assistant Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she also served as the Medical Director of the Newborn Nursery and Co-Chair of the Breastfeeding Committee at The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore/ Montefiore Medical Center-Weiler Division. She received an award of recognition for her work and contribution to the Breastfeeding Committee at Montefiore Medical Center in 2017.

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