Mathew Guggenbiller MD

Education

BA, Psychology, Bowling Green State University
MD, The Ohio State University College of Medicine

Biography

Mathew R. Guggenbiller is a neonatologist currently stationed at Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Portsmouth, Portsmouth, VA, where he reported in 2020 after completing fellowship training. He graduated from Bowling Green State University with a BA in Psychology in 2003. In 2006, after working as a mental health caseworker and completing his premedical curriculum at Cleveland State University, he matriculated to The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health and commissioned in the United States Navy through the Health Professions Scholarship Program. He completed an internship in Family Medicine at Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune in 2011, then reported to the Navy Aerospace Medical Institute to train as a Naval Flight Surgeon.

Dr. Guggenbiller served as the flight surgeon for the VMM-264 “Black Knights” aboard Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina, from 2012-2014. He completed a deployment to Camp Bastion, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, serving as the officer in charge of the flight line aid station. He then completed residency in Pediatrics at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in 2017 and fellowship training in Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD in 2020.

He was appointed an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in 2019, completing research in neonatal immunology and NICU communication. He presented his fellowship research on neonatal dendritic cell function at multiple regional and national conferences. Additionally, he taught clinical reasoning and ethics for USUHS students and served as an assistant instructor of the Neonatal Critical Communications Course at WRNMMC.

Dr. Guggenbiller has served as a staff Neonatologist at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth since 2020. During that time, he worked as chair of the Palliative Care Committee, pediatric coordinator of the perinatal simulation program, medical director of the Newborn Nursery, and coordinator for the resident Nursery rotation. He remained involved in research, currently serving as the primary local investigator for research projects in collaboration with WRNMMC, and is an active instructor for NRP and STABLE.

Career Highlights: Positions, Projects, Deployements, Awards and Additional Publications

2021-present Medical director and rotation coordinator, NMCP Newborn Nursery

2021-present Pediatric simulation coordinator, NMCP perinatal stand-down

2020-2022 Neonatal critical care communications course facilitator

2020-present Staff Neonatologist, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Portsmouth, VA

2013 Officer in Charge, Flight Line Aid Station, Camp Bastion, Afghanistan

2012-2014 Flight Surgeon, Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 264, MCAS Marine Corps Air Station New River

Paulsen, L., Geller, D. & Guggenbiller, M. (2012). Symmetrical Vesicular Eruption on the Palms. American Family Physician, 85(8), 811-812.

Representative Bibliography

Lu, Z, Guggenbiller, M, Tornborn, T, and Malloy, A. (2021). Reduced inflammatory cytokine profile in subspecialized neonatal APCs responding to viral pathogen-associated molecular patterns has implications for vaccine design. Journal of Immunology, 206 (1 Supplement) 102, 16.