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Drifa Freysdottir

Drifa Freysdottir, MD

Neonatology

Highlights

Languages

  • Icelandic
  • Danish
  • English

Gender

Female

Johns Hopkins Affiliations:

  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
  • All Children's Specialty Physicians

About Drifa Freysdottir

Primary Academic Title

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Background

Dr. Freysdottir specializes in neonatology with the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Maternal, Fetal & Neonatal Institute. She serves as the medical director of neonatology at HCA Florida Trinity Hospital, through an affiliation with Johns Hopkins All Children’s. She joined the hospital staff in 2020.

Before joining Johns Hopkins All Children’s, Dr. Freysdottir was clinical medical director of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola.

Her clinical and research interests include quality and safety, hypoxic respiratory failure and intestinal failure.

Dr. Freysdottir earned her medical degree from the University of Iceland in Reykjavík, Iceland. She completed her internship and residency in the Department of Pediatrics at University of Connecticut/Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. She also completed a fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine in the neonatology department of Baylor College of Medicine health care affiliates in Houston.

Locations

  1. Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
    • 501 6th Avenue South, Saint Petersburg, FL 33701

    Expertise

    Education

    Baylor College of Medicine

    Fellowship, Neonatology, 2004

    UConn Health and Hospitals

    Residency, Pediatrics, 2001

    Landspitali University Hospital

    Residency, Multidisciplinary, 1998

    University of Iceland School of Health Sciences

    Medical Education, MD, 1993

    Board Certifications

    Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

    American Board of Pediatrics, 2005

    Pediatrics

    American Board of Pediatrics, 2001

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