Loc Le, MD, MPH

Neonatology

Loc Le, MD is a neonatalogist in the Pediatrics Department at Cedars-Sinai.  He is board certified in pediatrics.

Dr. Le’s research interests include international health, public health, neonatal care, hyperbilirubinemia (jaundice) and kernicterus (a form of brain damage caused by excessive jaundice).  He has presented abstracts and been invited to speak at conferences on the subject of neonatal care in Viet Nam.

Dr. Le earned a bachelor’s in history with high distinction in general scholarship from the University of California, Berkeley.    He concurrently earned his medical degree and his master’s in public health at Tulane University, and during medical school, spent an additional year in a fellowship at the Rockefeller Public Health School Without Walls Program at the Hanoi School of Public Health in Hanoi, Vietnam.  He then completed residency at Children’s Hospital Oakland and fellowship training in neonatalogy at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).  

In addition to being a mentor to residents and medical students while at UCSF, Dr. Le’s volunteerism has taken him to Viet Nam on multiple occasions where he lectured on neonatal and pediatric critical care and helped develop a level III neonatal intensive care unit.