Jack Sills, M.D. - UCI School of Medicine

FACULTY

Academic Address:
UCI Medical Center
101 The City Drive
Bldg 56, Suite 600
Orange, CA 92868

Email:
jhsills@uci.edu

Jack Sills, M.D. - Faculty Profile

Dr. Sills graduated from Northwestern University Medical School in 1979. He completed training in pediatrics at the University of California, Irvine in 1982 and the Neonatal/Perinatal Fellowship at the University of San Diego in 1982. He has taught at the University of California, Irvine since 1984 and is currently a clinical professor in the Department of Pediatrics. He is the NICU Medical Director and is actively involved in critical bedside teaching. Dr. Sills serves as the Director of the Perinatal-Neonatal Transport, Program Director for the neonatal nurse practitioners, and plays an active role in community based outreach education. Dr. Sills has coordinated neonatal management programs for managed care organizations, advancing cost containment through best practice management. His expertise is in bedside teaching and clinical research in the areas of risk management, evidence-based outcomes, pulmonary disease processes, and neonatal nutrition and pharmacology. In 2005, Dr. Sills was selected as one of the best physicians in Orange County as voted on by the Orange County Medical Association.

Peer Reviewed Journal Publications:
1. Cvetnic WG, Sills JH. "Neonatal Lung Disease." In: Bailliere's Clinical Anesthesiology. Intensive Care: Developments and Controversies. Webster NR, Bodenham A, eds. Bailliere Tindall, London, 1992.

2. Turbow R, Waffarn F, Yang L, Sills J, and Hallman M. Variable oxygenation response to inhaled nitric oxide in severe persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn. Acta Pediatr; 84: 1305-81, 1995.

3. Sills J. Neonatal Drug and Nutrition Manual: Neonatal Medications & Nutrition: A Comprehensive Guide with Karin E Zenk, PharmD, FASHP, and Robin M, Koeppel, RNC, MC, CPN. NICU Ink Book Publishers, Santa Rosa, California.

4. Sills J. "Perinatal Asphyxia". In: Neonatology: Management, Procedures, On-Call Problems, Diseases, and Drugs. 5th Edition. Edited by Gromella TL, Cunningham MD, Eyal FG, and Zenk KE. Lange Medical Books, McGraw Hill, 2004.