Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics,
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Dr. Sahni is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Director of the Infant Physiology Laboratory at the Children’s Hospital of New York. After earning his medical degree from Maulana Azad Medical College, University of Delhi in India, he did pediatric residency training in India, United Kingdom and United States. He further completed fellowship training in neonatal-perinatal medicine at Columbia University in 1993 and has been on faculty since. He is board certified in Pediatrics and Neonatology.
Dr. Sahni’s major area of interest is neonatal physiology and behavior. The broad goals of research in his laboratory are to understand the physiological basis of various processes during the neonatal period. Investigations of long-term effects of early nutritional experiences in very low birth weight infant pertaining to cardiovascular, metabolic, and cognitive alterations at the resting level and stimulus responsiveness of the maturing sympathetic nervous system are of his special interest. Working in collaboration with researchers from the Department of Developmental Psychobiology, he is studying the effects of sleeping position (prone versus supine) in the developing low birth weight infants in efforts to understand the genesis and to predict at risk for sudden infant death. He has published 40 original papers and over more than 50 abstracts and is a recipient of several grant awards.
In additions to his research endeavors, Dr. Sahni’s clinical activities revolve around the care of critically ill newborn infants in the neonatal intensive care unit at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York. He is also actively involved in the teaching of Columbia University medical students during their Pediatric Clerkship as well as Pediatric house staff and neonatology fellowship didactics.
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