Dr. Corryn Siegel Greenwood, MD, MEd

1998 Sandburg High School graduate Dr. Corryn Siegel Greenwood is the first Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Medical Director at Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox. Silver Cross is the first and only level 3 NICU in Will County. She led Silver Cross as they launched the level 3 NICU bringing the highest level of neonatal care to the area. Highlights of this project include the neonatal surgical program, with their first surgery in May 2023 and the therapeutic hypothermia program in October of 2023. The therapeutic hypothermia program is an intervention that may reduce death or disability in infants with moderate to severe brain dysfunction noted after birth. There was substantial coordination among many groups to bring these plans to fruition.

One of the proudest moments in Dr. Greenwood’s career was when a patient born at just 22 weeks weighing just 1.1 pounds/11 inches went home after six months in the Silver Cross Neonatal Intensive Care Unit weighing 10 pounds and measuring 21 inches.

As a neonatologist, Dr. Greenwood has been recognized for her dedication and intense desire to help preemies and their families navigate the stresses of the NICU while bringing patient safety and quality care to the forefront of everything they do. She received a bachelor’s degree from Ripon College, a doctor of medicine degree from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, and a master’s in education from the University of Cincinnati. She is an adjunct instructor at Midwestern University and an instructor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Rosalind Franklin University Medical School.