Albert Antonio

Dr. Antonio is the southern California Clinical Implementation Director at Infinant Health. He also serves as Director of Neonatal Transport and Outreach and Associate Medical Director of the regional NICU at Miller Children's & Women's Hospital in Long Beach, California, where he oversees the operations, program development, and staff training specific to critically ill neonates in transport. His commitment to improving clinical and patient outcomes comes from his designation as a master training in TeamSTEPPS®, designed to optimize the use of information, clinicians, and resources to achieve optimal outcomes. He brought this experience to many referring hospitals and established Neonatal Transport service lines across southern California. As Associate Director, he cofounded the Extremely Low Birth Weight (ELBW) program. Dr. Antonio has a DO from the University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey and completed his residency in pediatrics at the Goryeb Children's Hospital in Morristown, NJ. He completed a fellowship in neonatology at Cohen's Children's Medical Center in New York, known for its level IV NICU. Dr. Antonio was a research fellow at the NIH, where his population health research focused on drug abuse and immune deficiency. His scholarly research during his fellowship included newborn screening for primary immune deficiencies. Dr. Antonio's research interests include neonatal transport medicine, high-frequency ventilation, pulmonary hypertension, chronic lung disease, neonatal resuscitation, newborn screening, and point-of-care ultrasound.