Department of Neonatology and Neonatal Intensive Care

Prof. Amir Kugelman is the Director of the Neonatal Department in Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital, Rambam Health Care Campus. He specialized in Pediatric Pulmonology and Neonatology at Children's Hospital in LA, California.

Prof. Kugelman is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics in The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. His main research interest is in neonatal pulmonology, focusing on non-invasive ventilation, non-invasive respiratory monitoring in the NICU and the Pediatric Department, and in the prevention and treatment of chronic lung disease in premature infants. Other areas of interest and research are Iatrogenesis in NICUs, late preterm infants, outcome of VLBW infants, and delayed cord clamping in the delivery room.