Dr. Shilpi Chabra, MD

Shilpi Chabra, MD, has a keen interest in teaching residents and fellows and is passionate about it. Her scholarly interests include chronic lung disease in preterm infants and its association with Vitamin A; postnatal growth retardation and neonatal growth outcomes; challenges of the late preterm infant; management and epidemiology of gastroschisis and other birth defects. She is a member of the Seattle Childrens Hospital Clinical Effectiveness Program for Gastroschisis guideline development. She is also involved in developing protocols for stabilization of neonates with gastroschisis and has served as a consultant for the production of a video for family education of parents of infants with gastroschisis. She is also involved in quality improvement projects in the Overlake Hospital NICU and has led its late-preterm Task Force that has developed recommendations and guidelines for the late preterm infant. She has also helped establish the post-discharge nutrition clinic at Overlake …Hospital. Nationally, she proposed and assisted the American Academy of Pediatrics in successfully petitioning for establishment of new ICD-9 codes for gastroschisis and omphalocele to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.