John Colin Partridge (born November 1949) is an American

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and

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, and an expert on neonatal intensive care, perinatal

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, international medical education and neonatal

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. He is a Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at the

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and held the Academy Chair in Pediatric Education, an endowed chair at the same university, from 2007 to 2013. According to

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, his work has been cited over 6,700 times in scientific publications, and his

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is 37. He earned his MD at the

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in 1976 and joined the faculty of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco in 1982. He has focused on newborn care in developing countries, and he has worked with newborn care in

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, and

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. In 2011 he received the "For People’s Health" Medal by the Vietnamese Ministry of Health "in recognition of his great contribution to pediatric retinal surgery and resuscitation." He is a trustee of Newborns Vietnam.Trustees
newbornsvietnam.org

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Partridge, J. Colin American neonatologists Medical ethicists University of California, San Francisco faculty Living people 1949 births