Clinical Faculty

Clinical Faculty

Name 
Areas of Special Interest 
Care of the low birth weight infant, persistent pulmonary hypertension, sepsis and septic shock, and congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
Convalescent care of chronically ill neonates and the acute care of mild to moderately ill newborns.
Prematurity, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, and neonatal ventilation.
Critically ill newborns, newborns with congenital malformations, severe respiratory failure, ECMO, high frequency ventilation, and nitric oxide.
High-risk neonatal and transitional care of the newborn.  Prenatal and neonatal palliative care. Performance improvement.

Neonatal care.
Optimizing care for newborns with evidenced-based practice. Special interests include infectious diseases in low birth weight infants, perinatal asphyxia, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, and the genomic approach to neonatal diseases.
Medical informatics, computerized patient safety initiatives, quality improvement metrics, electronic research data exchange, medical data standards and interoperability, neonatal critical care, CPOE, and electronic medical records.
Neonatal intensive care and neuro-developmental follow-up of high risk infants.
Intensive and transitional care of the ill newborn, neonatal skin, skin care and breast-feeding of the preterm, and medical education.
Prevention of neurodevelopmental inpairment in extremely premature infants; pediatric pharmacology; non-invasive monitoring of the neonate.
Transitional Care Nursery, convalescent and follow-up care of high risk infants, gastroesophageal reflux.
Care of the critically ill neonate with special interest in respiratory disorders.

Nosocomial infections in preterm neonates, drug safety and efficacy in neonates
High risk neonatal care, financial process analysis.

High risk neonatal care, developmental care.
 
Care of premature and critically ill infants; neonatal sepsis; immunology and immunomodulation; physician teaching and development.


Research Faculty

Name
Areas of Special Interest
Richard L. Auten, MDMechanisms by which oxidative stress disrupts postnatal lung development in premature newborns.
Palliative care. 
Role of the macrophage in alveolar simplification as a feature of bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
Use of cord blood therapy for perinatal asphyxia, use of genomic studies to diagnose and guide neonatal therapy. 
Use of medical informatics, computerized patient safety initiatives. 
Perinatal asphyxia, use of stem cell/cord blood therapy for perinatal asphyxia. 
Mary Hutson, PhD
Cardiovascular defects, especially those related to the arterial pole.
Etiology and pathogenesis of congential heart defects.
Neurodevelopmental research of neural stem cells.
Diagnosis and management of gastroesophageal reflux. 
Nosocomial infections, neonatal candidiasis, neonatal pharmacology
Health care economics. 
 

Neonatal-Perinatal Research Unit Staff

Name
Position
Medical Director
Kimberley Fisher, PhD, FNP-BC, IBCLC
Director of Operations
 

NICHD Neonatal Research Network Staff

Name
Position
Malissa Dunn, RRT
Clinical Research Nurse 
Katherine Foy, RN
Clinical Research Coordinator, Neonatal Research Network
Sandra Grimes, RN, BSN
Coordinator of Industry and Investigator Research 
Charles Vajdl
Clinical Trials Assistant
 

Staff

Name
Position 
Jennifer McLamb 
Patient Services 
Emily Patterson 
Patient Services 




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