Bridget DiPrisco, MD

Attending Neonatologist

Co-Director, CHLA Infant Chronic Lung Disease Program

Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine of USC

Dr. Bridget DiPrisco is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and an Attending Neonatologist at CHLA, where she serves as the Co-Director of CHLA’s Infant Chronic Lung Disease Program. She is also the physician lead of the Tracheostomy Committee and the Small Baby Group.

Dr. DiPrisco received her BA in Biology from Dartmouth College and earned her MD from New York University School of Medicine. She completed her pediatric internship and residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and her neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship at Harvard’s Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Training Program.

Clinical Interests

Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD), tracheostomy, prematurity

Education

Medical School

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Internship

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Residency

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Fellowship

Harvard Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Training Program

Accomplishments

Certifications

Pediatrics: American Board of Pediatrics
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine: American Board of Pediatrics

Professional Memberships

American Academy of Pediatrics
Society for Pediatric Research
American Medical Association
BPD Collaborative
CHNC Severe BPD Focus Group

Publications

DiPrisco BE, Chhabria S, Forem SL, Rosenberg RE. Ten-week-old girl with lethargy, weakness, and poor feeding. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2013. PMID: 23117238.

DiPrisco B, Kumar A, Kalra B, Savjani GV, Michael Z, Farr O, Papathanasiou AE, Christou H, Mantzoros C. Placental proteases PAPP-A and PAPP-A2, the binding proteins they cleave (IGFBP-4 and -5), and IGF-I and IGF-II: Levels in umbilical cord blood and associations with birth weight and length. Metabolism. 100:153959. 2019. PMID: 31401027

DiPrisco B, Kumar A, Kalra B, Savjani GV, Michael Z, Farr O, Papathanasiou AE, Christou H, Mantzoros CS. Glycosylated fibronectin and inhibin are lower and anti-mullerian hormone is higher in umbilical cord blood when mothers have preeclampsia. Endocr Pract. 2020 Mar;26(3):318-327. PMID: 31859547