Aimee Telsey MD

Aimee M. Telsey, MD was the Director in the Division of Newborn Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics, at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center where she was an attending neonatologist since 1988.  She is a consultant on the team's new NIH study on The Impact of a Culturally-based Live Music Intervention on the Metabolites and Metabolic Pathways Associated With Chronic Stress and the Risk of Pre-term Birth in Black Women. Dr Telsey has  been interested in applying integrative medical therapies into the neonatal intensive care practice for over 20 years and has lectured nationally and internationally. She was part of the original team that helped integrate music therapy into the NICU.  She received her undergraduate and medical degrees from Brown University and did neonatal fellowship training at Columbia University Medical Center and University of California, San Diego.