Desmond, Murdina MacFarquhar
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Desmond, Murdina MacFarquhar
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Murdina MacFarquhar Desmond, M.D., FAAP (Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics) was a member of a 1950s team that developed an infection control plan for hospital- acquired staphylococcous infection for newborns. Dr. Desmond began the first neonatal intensive care unit in the nation at the former Jefferson Davis Hospital and worked with affected babies at the hospital during the 1963-64 rubella outbreak. In 1973, she became director of the Leopold Meyer Center for Developmental Pediatrics at Texas Children's Hospital. Dr. Desmond received the Apgar Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics; the Stanley Kalinski Award from the Texas Pediatric Society
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Fetal Mortality
Infant, Newborn
Infants
Intensive Care, Neonatal
Neonatology
Nurseries, Hospital
Pediatrics
Perinatal Mortality
Perinatology
Staphylococcal infections