Rate My Professor Philippe Friedlich

Philippe Friedlich, MD, MSEpi, MBA, is a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Surgery at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. He is Chief of the Division of Neonatology and Co-Director of the Fetal and Neonatal Institute at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), holding the Teresa and Byron Pollitt Family Chair in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine. Friedlich obtained his MD from the University of Southern California School of Medicine, completed his internship and residency in pediatrics at CHLA, and his fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine at the University of Southern California Women’s and Children’s Hospital. He further earned a Master of Science in Applied Biostatistics and Epidemiology from USC in 2004 and an MBA in Medical Management from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2006. Since joining the USC Division of Neonatal Medicine faculty in 1998, he has led the Laboratory in Fetal and Neonatal Healthcare Research at CHLA, promoting interdisciplinary collaborations in clinical, translational, and basic science research.

Friedlich’s research interests encompass the epidemiology of congenital malformations, neonatal healthcare delivery, and outcomes, with clinical expertise in respiratory failure of the newborn, persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. He has published over 150 abstracts, peer-reviewed articles, and book chapters, including “Neonatal and 3-month cerebrovascular oxygenation, stability, and extraction in congenital heart disease versus control infants” (Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2025), “Does early prostacyclin therapy decrease extracorporeal life support use in infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia?” (Journal of Perinatology, 2024), “Cerebrovascular responses to a 90° tilt in healthy neonates” (Pediatric Research, 2024), and “Cost-effectiveness analysis of extended extracorporeal membrane oxygenation duration in newborns with congenital diaphragmatic hernia in the United States” (Pediatrics and Neonatology, 2022). His contributions have been recognized with awards such as the Western Society for Pediatric Research Travel Award, the Mead Johnson Perinatal and Developmental Medicine Symposium award, the Merle Carson Lectures Southwestern Pediatric Society First Prize, the Victor E. Stork Award, and the Morris and Mary Press Humanism Awards. A Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, he is a member of the Society for Pediatric Research, the AAP Section on Perinatal Pediatrics, the California Children’s Services NICU Technical Advisory Committee, and the California Association of Neonatologists.