Roger G. Faix

Roger G. Faix, MD

Languages spoken: English

Academic Information

Departments Primary - Pediatrics

Divisions: Neonatology

Board Certification

  • American Board of Pediatrics (Sub: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine)
  • American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics)

Roger G. Faix, M.D. is a Professor in the Division of Neonatology at the University of Utah, School of Medicine. He provides neonatology services at three facilities, the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at University of Utah Hospital, Primary Children's Hospital and Intermountain Medical Center. Among his responsibilities is educating Pediatric Residents, Neonatology Fellows and Neonatal Nurse Practitioners.

Research Statement

Dr. Faix has had a longstanding interest in clinical aspects of neonatal, perinatal and nosocomial infectious diseases, with particular interest in those caused by Candida, cytomegalovirus, group B streptococcus and coagulase-negative staphylococcus. More recently, he was the PI for the Utah center of the NICHD Neonatal Research Network and has devoted much of his research time to implementation and design of clinical trials in high-risk newborns, addressing prevention and/or amelioration of chronic lung disease, retinopathy of prematurity, hypoxic-ischemic brain injury and necrotizing enterocolitis. He is also actively involved in development of protocols and practice for prevention of nosocomial infection in the NICU.

Education History

Undergraduate Dartmouth College
 AB
Professional Medical Cornell University Medical College
 MD
Internship University of Michigan
 Intern
Residency University of Michigan
 Resident
Fellowship Duke University Medical Center
 Fellow

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Gantz MG, Carlo WA, Finer NN, Rich W, Faix RG, Yoder BA, Walsh MC, Newman NS, Laptook A, Schibler K, Das A, Higgins RD, SUPPORT Study Group of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network (2019). Achieved oxygen saturations and retinopathy of prematurity in extreme preterms. Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition, 105(2), 138-144. (Read full article)
  2. Anderson-Berry A, Brinton B, Lyden E, Faix R (2011). Risk factors associated with development of persistent coagulase-negative staphylococci bacteremia in the neonate and associated short-term and discharge morbidities. Neonatology, 99(1), 23-31. (Read full article)
  3. Laptook AR, Shankaran S, Barnes P, Rollins N, Do BT, Parikh NA, Hamrick S, Hintz SR, Tyson JE, Bell EF, Ambalavanan N, Goldberg RN, Pappas A, Huitema C, Pedroza C, Chaudhary AS, Hensman AM, Das A, Wyckoff M, Khan A, Walsh MC, Watterberg KL, Faix R, Truog W, Guillet R, Sokol GM, Poindexter BB, Higgins RD, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Networ (2021). Limitations of Conventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging as a Predictor of Death or Disability Following Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy in the Late Hypothermia Trial. The Journal of pediatrics, 230, 106-111.e6. (Read full article)
  4. Arrington CB, Bleyl SB, Matsunami N, Bowles NE, Leppert TI, Demarest BL, Osborne K, Yoder BA, Byrne JL, Schiffman JD, Null DM, DiGeronimo R, Rollins M, Faix R, Comstock J, Camp NJ, Leppert MF, Yost HJ, Brunelli (2012). A family-based paradigm to identify candidate chromosomal regions for isolated congenital diaphragmatic hernia. American journal of medical genetics. Part A, 158A(12), 3137-47. (Read full article)
  5. Bell EF, Hintz SR, Hansen NI, Bann CM, Wyckoff MH, DeMauro SB, Walsh MC, Vohr BR, Stoll BJ, Carlo WA, Van Meurs KP, Rysavy MA, Patel RM, Merhar SL, Sánchez PJ, Laptook AR, Hibbs AM, Cotten CM, D'Angio CT, Winter S, Fuller J, Das A, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Networ (2022). Mortality, In-Hospital Morbidity, Care Practices, and 2-Year Outcomes for Extremely Preterm Infants in the US, 2013-2018. JAMA, 327(3), 248-263. (Read full article)
  6. Duncan AF, Bann CM, Dempsey A, Peralta-Carcelen M, Hintz S, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development Neonatal Research Networ (2019). Behavioral Deficits at 18-22 Months of Age Are Associated with Early Cerebellar Injury and Cognitive and Language Performance in Children Born Extremely Preterm. The Journal of pediatrics, 204, 148-156.e4. (Read full article)
  7. Vohr BR, Heyne R, Bann CM, Das A, Higgins RD, Hintz SR, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health, and Development Neonatal Research Networ (2018). Extreme Preterm Infant Rates of Overweight and Obesity at School Age in the SUPPORT Neuroimaging and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes Cohort. The Journal of pediatrics, 200, 132-139.e3. (Read full article)