Newborn Medicine/Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

Scott Saunders, MD, PhD

Dr. Saunders treats children in the neonatal intensive care unit during hospitalization only.

Practice Name: Division Of Newborn Medicine

Gender: Male

Specialties:

Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine - certified
*Pediatrics

Hospitals:

Barnes-Jewish Hospital
St. Louis Children's Hospital

Academic Profile:

Washington University School of Medicine

For Patients:
To request an appointment, call 800.678.KIDS (5437) or fill out our online form.

For Referring Physicians:
To refer a patient, call Children's Direct at 800.678.HELP (4357).

Public transportation available | Handicap accessible

One Children's Place
NICU 5Th Floor
Saint Louis, MO 63110
314.454.6148

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Education

Medical School: Stanford University Connecticut
Internship: Children's Hospital Boston
Fellowship: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fellowship: Harvard Medical School Cambridge Massachusetts

Health Plans Accepted

Admar	Aetna Medicare HMO
Aetna Medicare Open Access (HMO/POS	Aetna Medicare PPO
Aetna PPO	BCBS of IL HMO
BCBS of IL PPO	BCBS/Anthem(Blue Access Choice PPO
BCBS/Anthem(Blue Access PPO)	Cigna Open Access HMO/POS
Cigna PPO	CMR (Care Management Resources)
Community Care Network PPO	CorVel PPO
Coventry HMO/POS	Coventry PPO
First Health	Great Rivers Network
Great-West HMO/POS	Great-West PPO
Health Alliance HMO & PPO	Healthlink Open Access/HMO/POS
Healthlink PPO	Home State-MC+
Humana Gold Choice PFFS - Medicare	Humana PPO/ChoiceCare Network
HumanaChoice PPO-Medicare	IPA Secondary to Medicare
Medicaid MO/ Missouri HealthNet	Medicare
PPO Next/HealthStar	Preferred Plan of MO PPO/Takecare
Primrose Tertiary/Quarternary	Private Health Care Systems PPO
ProAmerica PPO	Providers Network of America
Tricare/Triwest Prime HMO/POS	Tricare/Triwest Standard/ Extra PPO
Union Pacific RR Emp. Health System	United Healthcare Choice/Choice+
United Healthcare PPO/ Options	United Healthcare Select/Select+POS
United Payors & Provider	USA Managed Care Org
Wellborn HMO

Recurrent deletions and reciprocal duplications of 10q11.21q11.23 including CHAT and SLC18A3 are likely mediated by complex low-copy repeats.Stankiewicz P, Kulkarni S, Dharmadhikari AV, Sampath S, Bhatt SS, Shaikh TH, Xia Z, Pursley AN, Cooper ML, Shinawi M, Paciorkowski AR, Grange DK, Noetzel MJ, Saunders S, Simons P, Summar M, Lee B, Scaglia F, Fellmann F, Martinet D, Beckmann JS, Asamoah A, Platky K, Sparks S, Martin AS, Madan-Khetarpal S, Hoover J, Medne L, Bonnemann CG, Moeschler JB, Vallee SE, Parikh S, Irwin P, Dalzell VP, Smith WE, Banks VC, Flannery DB, Lovell CM, Bellus GA, Golden-Grant K, Gorski JL, Kussmann JL, McGregor TL, Hamid R, Pfotenhauer J, Ballif BC, Shaw CA, Kang SH, Bacino CA, Patel A, Rosenfeld JA, Cheung SW, Shaffer LG.Hum Mutat. 2012 Jan;33(1):165-79. doi: 10.1002/humu.21614. Epub 2011 Nov 2.

PMID:: 21948486; [PubMed - in process]

Related citations Loss of glypican-3 function causes growth factor-dependent defects in cardiac and coronary vascular development.Ng A, Wong M, Viviano B, Erlich JM, Alba G, Pflederer C, Jay PY, Saunders S.Dev Biol. 2009 Nov 1;335(1):208-15. Epub 2009 Sep 4.

PMID:: 19733558; [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Free PMC Article Related citations Self-limited erythema multiforme with risperidone.Burke GV, Wong DA, Saunders CS, Pierre JM.Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2009 May-Jun;31(3):295-6. Epub 2008 Oct 2. No abstract available.

PMID:: 19410111; [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Related citations Bone density ligand, Sclerostin, directly interacts with LRP5 but not LRP5G171V to modulate Wnt activity.Ellies DL, Viviano B, McCarthy J, Rey JP, Itasaki N, Saunders S, Krumlauf R.J Bone Miner Res. 2006 Nov;21(11):1738-49.

PMID:: 17002572; [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Related citations The rare occurrence of absent adrenals in a term infant: a case report and review of the literature.Vachharajani A, Bethin K, Mouillet JF, Sadovsky Y, Saunders S.Am J Perinatol. 2006 Feb;23(2):111-4. Review.

PMID:: 16506117; [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Related citations Allelic variation in the serotonin transporter (5HTT) gene contributes to idiopathic pulmonary hypertension in children.Vachharajani A, Saunders S.Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2005 Aug 26;334(2):376-9.

PMID:: 16009349; [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Related citations Altered hematopoiesis in glypican-3-deficient mice results in decreased osteoclast differentiation and a delay in endochondral ossification.Viviano BL, Silverstein L, Pflederer C, Paine-Saunders S, Mills K, Saunders S.Dev Biol. 2005 Jun 1;282(1):152-62.

PMID:: 15936336; [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Related citations Adjunctive risperidone in the treatment of chronic combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder.Bartzokis G, Lu PH, Turner J, Mintz J, Saunders CS.Biol Psychiatry. 2005 Mar 1;57(5):474-9.

PMID:: 15737661; [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Related citations Domain-specific modification of heparan sulfate by Qsulf1 modulates the binding of the bone morphogenetic protein antagonist Noggin.Viviano BL, Paine-Saunders S, Gasiunas N, Gallagher J, Saunders S.J Biol Chem. 2004 Feb 13;279(7):5604-11. Epub 2003 Nov 25.

PMID:: 14645250; [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Free Article Related citations Sexual side effects of novel antipsychotic medications.Wirshing DA, Pierre JM, Marder SR, Saunders CS, Wirshing WC.Schizophr Res. 2002 Jul 1;56(1-2):25-30.

PMID:: 12084416; [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Related citations Delusions associated with quetiapine-related weight redistribution.Wirshing DA, Boyd JA, Pierre JM, Saunders CS, Wirshing WC, Azizian K, Patel KR, Ashcraft JC, Darmandjian H, Feusner J.J Clin Psychiatry. 2002 Mar;63(3):247-8. No abstract available.