Dr. Felix A Okah MD
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Specialist | Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
2401 Gillham Rd Kansas City MO, 64108About
Dr. Felix Okah is a Neonatal-Perinatal Physician practicing in Kansas City, MO. Dr. Okah cares for the critically ill newborn and premature infants. Neonatal-Perinatal Physicians treat conditions such as breathing disorders, birth defects, infections, and any other life-threatening medical problems. They coordinate with their young patients families and other physicians to determine appropriate treatment.
Education and Training
Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen Faculty of Medicine MD
University of Ibadan College of Medicine 1982
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The autopsy: experience of a regional neonatal intensive care unit.
- Term-gestation low birth weight and health-compromising behaviors during pregnancy.
- Are fewer women smoking during pregnancy?
- The effect of health compromising behaviors on preterm births.
- Cumulative and residual risks of small for gestational age neonates after changing pregnancy-smoking behaviors.
- Changes in smoking behavior between first and second pregnancies.
- Risk factors for recurrent small-for-gestational-age birth.
- Pre-pregnancy overweight status between successive pregnancies and pregnancy outcomes.
- Excess Hispanic fetal-infant mortality in a midwestern community.
- Ponderal index of the newborn: effect of smoking on the index of the small-for-gestational-age infant.
- Demographic risk factors affecting emergency room visits caused by benzodiazepine poisoning in Kansas City, Missouri, from 2001 to 2007.
- Smoking during pregnancy rates trends in a high smoking prevalence state, 1990-2009.
- The neonatal autopsy: can it be revived?
- Primiparous outcomes and future pregnancy health behaviors.
- Community violence and pregnancy health behaviors and outcomes.
Treatments
- Birth Defects
- Congenital Heart Disease
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