Dr. James Edward Sumners MD
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Specialist | Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
7120 Clearvista Dr Suite 5900 Indianapolis IN, 46256About
Dr. James Sumners is a Neonatal-Perinatal Physician practicing in Indianapolis, IN. Dr. Sumners cares for the critically ill newborn and premature infants. Neonatal-Perinatal Physicians treat conditions such as breathing disorders, birth defects, infections, and any other life-threatening medical problems. They coordinate with their young patients families and other physicians to determine appropriate treatment.
Education and Training
Univ of Tn, Memphis, Coll of Med, Memphis Tn 1969
Board Certification
Obstetrics and GynecologyAmerican Board of Obstetrics and GynecologyABOG- Maternal and Fetal Medicine
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Evaluation methods for intrauterine growth using neonatal fat stores instead of birth weight as outcome measures: fetal and neonatal measurements correlated with neonatal skinfold thicknesses.
- Neonatal functional lung maturity relative to gestational age at delivery, fetal growth, and pregnancy characteristics in triplet births.
- Physiologic evaluation of the anorectum. A new ultrasound technique.
- Operative complications and fetal morbidity encountered in 300 prophylactic transabdominal cervical cerclage procedures by one obstetric surgeon.
- Robotic-assisted transabdominal cerclage (RoboTAC) in the non-pregnant patient.
- Congenital abdominal aortic aneurysm.
- Transabdominal cerclage placement in patients with prior uterine incisions: risk of scar disruption.
- Robotic-assisted prophylactic transabdominal cervical cerclage in singleton pregnancies.
- Feeding the low birth weight infant: orally or parenterally? Preliminary results of a comparative study.
- Childhood leukemic heart disease. A study of 116 hearts of children dying of leukemia.
- A noninvasive approach to body composition in the neonate: dynamic skinfold measurements.
- A method for assessing carbohydrate energy absorption and its application to premature infants.
- Feeding the low-birthweight infant: orally or parenterally?: II. Corrected bromide space in parenterally supplemented infants.
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