Nayef Chahin, MD, MEd

Dr. Chahin is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, a NBME Strategic Educators Enhancement Fellowship (SEEF) second cohort fellow, and an Academic Pediatric Association Research Scholar cohort 6 scholar.  He serves as Associate Program Director of Intern Recruitment for the Department of Pediatric Residency Program and Program Director of the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship. 

Dr. Chahin served a two-year term as the Richmond delegate for the Virginia AAP Chapter and currently serves as Co-Chair for the APA region IV planning committee, Co-Chair of the ONTPD planning committee and member of the National Neonatal Bootcamp Planning Committee.

Clinically, Dr. Chahin serves as attending faculty in our level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, the Neonatal Continuing Care Program Regional Neonatal Follow-up Program and on the CHoR Air and Ground NICU Transport Team. Dr. Chahin leads the CHOR NICU Unplanned Extubation Committee and the Research Committee for the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. 

Dr. Chahin enjoys skiing, playing the guitar, mountain and road biking and spending time with his wife and two daughters.

Peer-reviewed articles:

• Chahin N, Yitayew M, Shaver L, Reed J, Ridore M, Santoro J, Moores Jr R, Soghier L, Short B, Hendricks-Muñoz K. A quality improvement strategy to reduce unintended extubation in the verylow birth weight infant-A case report. Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine . 2023 Dec 31;PMID: 38457156
• Hendricks-Muñoz KD, Darwish N, Chahin N, Newman-Lindsay S, Shaver L, Dollings M, Xu J, Coleman V. Successes of a Focused Mothers' Own Milk (MOM) Program in Counteracting Unintended Effects of a Donor Milk Program on MOM Rates at Discharge. Breastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine . 2023 Nov 29; PMID: 38016149
• Brito S, Williams A, Fox J, Mohammed T, Chahin N, McCarthy K, Nubayaat L, Nunlist S, Brannon M, Xu J, Hendricks-Muñoz KD. Lactation Support as a Proxy Measure of Family-Centered Care Quality in Neonates with Life-Limiting Conditions-A Comparative Study. Children (Basel, Switzerland) . 2023 Sep 30; Volume: 10 Issue: 10 PMID: 37892298
• Chahin N, Rozycki HJ. New modes of surfactant delivery. Paediatric respiratory reviews . 2022 Sep 01; Volume: 43 Pg: 38-43 PMID: 34933823
• Chahin N, Yitayew MS, Richards A, Forsthoffer B, Xu J, Hendricks-Muñoz KD. Ascorbic Acid and the Premature Infant. Nutrients . 2022 May 24; Volume: 14 Issue: 11 PMID: 35683989
• Hazboun RG, Darwish N, Rotyliano-Sykes G, Chahin N, Xu J, Miller J, Calaritis C, Thacker L, Moores R, Hendricks-Muñoz KD. Publisher Correction: Predictors of circuit health in neonatal patients receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Scientific reports . 2022 Feb 14; Volume: 12 Issue: 1 Pg: 2805 PMID: 35165377
• Yitayew M, Chahin N, Rustom S, Thacker LR, Hendricks-Muñoz KD. Fenton vs. Intergrowth-21st: Postnatal Growth Assessment and Prediction of Neurodevelopment in Preterm Infants. Nutrients . 2021 Aug 18; Volume: 13 Issue: 8 PMID: 34445001

Book chapters:

• Springel, E., Karuppiah, A., Yitayew, M., Chahin, N., Fox, J. R., & Khoury, J. A. (2025). Preterm birth. In Pharmacology, Physiology, and Practice in Obstetric Anesthesia (pp. 563-569). Elsevier.
• Yitayew, M., Mueller, G., Bender, W., Khoury, J. A., Kromah, F., & Chahin, N. (2025). Diagnosis and treatment of fetal/newborn asphyxia and respiratory failure. In Pharmacology, Physiology, and Practice in Obstetric Anesthesia (pp. 651-663). Elsevier.
• Neonatal Simulation: A Compilation of Team-Based Scenarios. 2024 Apr 19
• Obstetric Anesthesia Practice-Neonatal Assessment and Resuscitation. 2020 Jul 01