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Lisa Stellwagen, MD, FAAP

Lisa Stellwagen, MD, FAAP

Lisa Stellwagen MD, FAAP attended Tufts University School of Medicine and completed her Pediatric training and Chief Residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She has spent 35 years caring for children in clinic, outpatient, NICU, and neonatal hospital settings.  She led the team at UC San Diego to Baby Friendly Hospital designation in 2006 and was the lead on the team that developed the Supporting Premature Infant Nutrition (SPIN) Program in 2009.  In 2020, she cofounded the UC Health Milk Bank, a regional HMBANA milk bank owned and operated by UC San Diego Health.  She currently serves as President of HMBANA, and is a member of the Standards Committee. Dr. Stellwagen has been involved in medical education, policy development, and quality improvement at her institution for the last 26 years and is a Professor Emerita of Clinical Pediatrics at the UC San Diego School of Medicine.