
Clinical Faculty
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Clinical Faculty
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Care of the low birth weight infant, persistent pulmonary hypertension, sepsis and septic shock, and congenital diaphragmatic hernia. | |
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Convalescent care of chronically ill neonates and the acute care of mild to moderately ill newborns.
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Prematurity, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, and neonatal ventilation.
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Critically ill newborns, newborns with congenital malformations, severe respiratory failure, ECMO, high frequency ventilation, and nitric oxide.
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High-risk neonatal and transitional care of the newborn. Prenatal and neonatal palliative care. Performance improvement.
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Neonatal care.
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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.
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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.
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| Neonatal intensive care and neuro-developmental follow-up of high risk infants.
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Intensive and transitional care of the ill newborn, neonatal skin, skin care and breast-feeding of the preterm, and medical education. | |
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Prevention of neurodevelopmental inpairment in extremely premature infants; pediatric pharmacology; non-invasive monitoring of the neonate.
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Transitional Care Nursery, convalescent and follow-up care of high risk infants, gastroesophageal reflux. | |
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Care of the critically ill neonate with special interest in respiratory disorders.
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| Nosocomial infections in preterm neonates, drug safety and efficacy in neonates | |
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High risk neonatal care, financial process analysis.
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High risk neonatal care, developmental care.
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Care of premature and critically ill infants; neonatal sepsis; immunology and immunomodulation; physician teaching and development.
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Research Faculty
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Name |
Areas of Special Interest | | Richard L. Auten, MD | Mechanisms by which oxidative stress disrupts postnatal lung development in premature newborns. | |
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Palliative care. | |
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Role of the macrophage in alveolar simplification as a feature of bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
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Use of cord blood therapy for perinatal asphyxia, use of genomic studies to diagnose and guide neonatal therapy. | |
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Use of medical informatics, computerized patient safety initiatives. | |
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Perinatal asphyxia, use of stem cell/cord blood therapy for perinatal asphyxia. | | Mary Hutson, PhD |
Cardiovascular defects, especially those related to the arterial pole. | |
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Etiology and pathogenesis of congential heart defects.
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| Neurodevelopmental research of neural stem cells. | |
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Diagnosis and management of gastroesophageal reflux. | |
| Nosocomial infections, neonatal candidiasis, neonatal pharmacology | |
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Health care economics.
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Neonatal-Perinatal Research Unit Staff
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Medical Director
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Director of Operations
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NICHD Neonatal Research Network Staff
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Malissa Dunn, RRT
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Clinical Research Nurse | |
Katherine Foy, RN
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Clinical Research Coordinator, Neonatal Research Network
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Sandra Grimes, RN, BSN
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Coordinator of Industry and Investigator Research | Charles Vajdl
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Clinical Trials Assistant
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Staff | Name
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Jennifer McLamb |
Patient Services | |
Emily Patterson |
Patient Services |
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