Lisa M. Stellwagen MD, FAAP

Dr. Stellwagen is a general pediatrician, neonatal hospitalist, and the Medical Director of the Newborn Service. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine. She has been a pediatrician for 30 years, both in the community and hospital settings. Her areas of interest are infant nutrition, breastmilk feeding, common medical issues in the newborn period, and teaching families, medical students, pediatric residents and neonatal fellows all about newborn care.

Dr. Stellwagen led the team that resulted in Baby Friendly Certification in 2006 and recertification in 2011; she continues to work on quality improvement in the breastfeeding program. Dr. Stellwagen and colleagues started the UC San Diego SPIN Program (Supporting Premature Infant Nutrition) in 2008, which brings together the lactation service, dietary service, OT/PT, NICU nurses and physicians in a multidisciplinary team to improve neonatal nutrition and human milk feeding in the NICU setting (spinprogram.ucsd.edu). In 2017.

Dr. Stellwagen and colleague Dr. Jae Kim launched the development of a milk bank in San Diego; the San Diego Mothers’ Milk Bank. In 2018 they launched an app; MothersMilk to educate San Diego families about breastfeeding for term and preterm infants as well as milk donation for infants in our region. Dr Stellwagen is on the Executive Board of the Section on Breastfeeding for the American Academy of Pediatrics.