Fredrick Dapaah-Siakwan, MD

Dr. Fredrick Dapaah-Siakwan is an Attending Neonatologist at Valley Children’s Hospital in Madera, CA, an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Affiliated) at the Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, and an Associate Program Director of the Valley Children’s Healthcare Pediatric Residency Program. Dr. Dapaah-Siakwan completed his medical education at the University of Ghana Medical School in Accra, Ghana, followed by residency training at Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital in Philadelphia, PA, and Neonatal-Perinatal fellowship at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, FL. Dr. Fredrick Dapaah-Siakwan was awarded the Society for Pediatric Research Fellows Basic Research Award in 2018 for his fellowship research project on ‘Caspase-1 inhibition attenuates hyperoxia-induced lung and brain injury in neonatal mice’. Dr. Dapaah-Siakwan’s research interests focus on the use of large, population-based, nationally representative databases to understand the changes in the epidemiology of pediatric (including neonatal) conditions and outcomes. Some of his most recent research projects have focused on outcomes of periviable preterm infants, the impact of neonatal abstinence syndrome on birth defects, the relationship between decreasing birthweight and gestational age on short-term neonatal outcomes in the US, as well as trends in mortality related to hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy in the United States. His research has been presented orally and as posters at national meetings such as PAS, AAP National Conference, IDWEEK, and the Western Medical Research Conference. He has published his research in high-impact peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Dapaah-Siakwan is passionate about mentoring the next generation of pediatric researchers and has guided multiple pediatric residents who have gone on to present their research at national meetings and publish their research manuscripts. Dr. Dapaah-Siakwan is an active member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Association of Pediatric Program Directors.