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Cheryl A. Milford, Ed.S. received her Specialist in Education Degree from Western Michigan University in Educational Psychology. She worked for five years as a school psychologist. For the last 23 years, she has worked in NICU’s in Oklahoma, California and Pennsylvania as a Neonatal Psychologist. Cheryl worked with Louis Gluck, MD in developing a comprehensive developmental program at the University of California Irvine. For the last 13 years, she has been the Neonatal Psychologist at Magee-Womens Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Her responsibilities include development and implementation of the developmentally supportive, family-centered care program in the NICU, supervision of the Neonatal Developmental Follow-up Clinic, education of medical students, residents and fellows from the University of Pittsburgh Medical School, training of developmental and educational graduate students from the Universityof Pittsburgh and Duquesne University.
Cheryl is the staff liaison for the Parent Advisory Council to the NICU, the Chair of the Developmentally Supportive, Family-Centered Care Committee, Chair of the Infant Pain CQI Committee and Facilitator for the PCS Breast Feeding Practice Council. Cheryl was the Chair of the Family-Centered Care Transition Team for the design and move into the new NICU. She is the tour coordinatorfor the new NICU.
In March of 2005, Cheryl was awarded the Pittsburgh Business Times Health Care Hero Award in the Non-Physician Category. Cheryl is involved in the March of Dimes Campaign for Prematurity Awareness and is one the Board of Directors for Sheldon Calvary Camp
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