Nazifa Rahman, MD

Nazifa Rahman, MD, is an attending physician at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor, Pediatrics at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Rahman’s clinical interests include high-risk neonatal follow-up, growth and development and breastfeeding promotion. She is particularly interested in neonates undergoing therapeutic hypothermia for hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy.

After earning her Bachelor of Science in neuroscience at Barnard College of Columbia University in 2014, Dr. Rahman earned her Doctor of Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine in 2019. She then completed her residency in pediatrics at Mount Sinai Hospital in 2022, followed by a fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in 2025.

Dr. Rahman’s research interests include neurodevelopmental outcomes of very preterm or very low birth weight infants. She is exploring the relationship between sibling presence among preterm infants and its influence on future cognitive, language and motor outcomes. She has shared her work through several poster presentations at national conferences.

Dr. Rahman is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of its sections on Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and Trainees and Early Career Neonatologists.