USA Health expands staff with addition of neonatologist Bianca Vamesu, M.D.

Known for her passion for caring for premature infants, Bianca M. Vamesu, M.D., joined the staff of USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital this month as a neonatologist working in the region’s only level III neonatal intensive care unit.

USA Health’s exceptional outcomes for premature infants treated in the NICU were a big part of why she joined the staff. Helping infants born too soon was another.

“Neonatology is challenging and rewarding,” she said. “And I love working with babies.”

Typically, about 1,000 babies a year are cared for in the NICU. In 2019, a small baby unit known as “The Cove” opened inside the intensive care unit where extremely premature infants born at 26 weeks gestation or weighing less than 2.2 pounds are grouped together for better outcomes.

As a faculty member of the only academic health system on the upper Gulf Coast, Vamesu also will serve as an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine.

“I really enjoy working with residents, fellows and medical students,” Vamesu said. “It keeps me up to date on the latest advances in neonatal medicine, which ultimately improve outcomes for our young patients.”

A native of Romania, Vamesu attended Ovidius University of Constanta, in Constanta, Romania, followed by a residency in neonatology at the Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Bucharest, Romania. After working at hospitals in France and England, she moved to the United States in 2015 for a position at Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas. In 2018, she began a three-year perinatal/neonatal fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham that ended in June 2021.

Vamesu is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She is fluent in English, French and Romanian.