Anna Lijowska, MD
Current Position
Instructor, Pediatrics
Division of Newborn Medicine
Specialty Areas
Newborn Medicine - Neonatology
Patients Seen At
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St. Louis Children's Hospital
One Children's Place
St. Louis,
MO
63110
314-454-6148
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Mailing Address
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Washington University School of Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
660 So. Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8116
St. Louis ,
MO
63110
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Areas of Clinical Interest
Immunology, vascular trauma and inflammation, maintaining homeostasis, Inherited lung diseases of infancy, surfactant protein-B deficiency, newborn immunity, newborn infections, complement biosynthesis
Board Certification
Pediatrics
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Certified
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
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Certified
Medical Education
Medical Degree: Jagiellonian University of Collegium Medicum (six year program), Krakow, Poland, 1988
Residency: Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, 1994
Fellowship: Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, 1997
Hospital Affiliations
Barnes-Jewish Hospital
Missouri Baptist Medical Center
St. Louis Children's Hospital
Major or Recent Publications/Awards
Peer Reviewed Articles
McNamara F, Lijowska A, Thach BT. Spontaneous arousal activity in infants during NREM and REM sleep. J of Phys 2002; 263-269
Lijowska A, Reed NW, Thach BT. The relation of spontaneous motor activity to hypercapneic arousal in sleeping infants. Ped Res 1997; 41:A304
Lijowska A, Reed N, Chiodini BA, Thach BT. Sequential arousal and airway defensive behavior of infants in asphyxial sleep environments. J of App Phys. 1997; 83(1):219-228
Lijowska A, Thach BT. A stereotyped sequence of brain stem reflexes preceding arousal from sleep in infants. Ped Res 1996; 39:A389
Lijowska A, Bridges L, Thach BT. Refles airway protective responses to mild asphyxia in sleeping infants and adults. Am J Res Crit Care Med 1996; 153:A691
Reed N, Lijowska A, Chiodini B, Kemp J, Thach B. Protection of the external airway (AW) during hypercapneic rebreathing in sleeping infants: competence and initiating stimuli. Am J Res Crit Care Med 1995; 151:A 151
Lijowska A, Reed N, Chiodini B, Thach B. Sequential reflex behavior leading to airway defensive maneuvers and arousal from sleep in infants. Am J Res Crit Care Med 1995; 151:A 151
Invited publications
Thach BT, Kemp J, Lijowska A. How does prone sleeping increase prevalence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome? Ped Pul (Supp) 1997; 16:115-116
Thach BT, Lijowska A. Arousal in infants. Sleep 1996; 19:S271-S273