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Margarita Bidegain, MD

Professor of Pediatrics
Campus mail: 2424 Erwin Road Suite 504, Durham, NC 27705
Phone: (919) 681-6024
Email address: margarita.bidegain@duke.edu

High-risk newborn medicine. Prenatal and neonatal palliative medicine

Education and Training

  • Fellowship - Neonatology, Pediatrics/Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami, 1990 - 1993
  • First, Second and Third Year Resident, Pediatrics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 1987 - 1990
  • Postgraduate, Pediatrics, Universidad de la Republica (Uruguay), 1984 - 1986
  • M.H.S., Duke University School of Medicine, 2006
  • M.D., Universidad de la Republica (Uruguay), 1984

Selected Grants and Awards

Publications

Dworetz, April R., Girija Natarajan, John Langer, Kathy Kinlaw, Jennifer R. James, Margarita Bidegain, Abhik Das, et al. “Withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment in extremely low gestational age neonates.” Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed, October 20, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2020-318855.

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Travers, Colm P., Waldemar A. Carlo, Scott A. McDonald, Abhik Das, Namasivayam Ambalavanan, Edward F. Bell, Pablo J. Sánchez, et al. “Racial/Ethnic Disparities Among Extremely Preterm Infants in the United States From 2002 to 2016.” Jama Netw Open 3, no. 6 (June 1, 2020): e206757. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.6757.

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Puia-Dumitrescu, Mihai, Rachel G. Greenberg, Noelle Younge, Margarita Bidegain, C Michael Cotten, Martin McCaffrey, Amy Murtha, et al. “Disparities in the use of antenatal corticosteroids among women with hypertension in North Carolina.” J Perinatol 40, no. 3 (March 2020): 456–62. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41372-019-0555-y.

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Berube, Megan W., Monica E. Lemmon, Carolyn E. Pizoli, Margarita Bidegain, Veeral N. Tolia, C Michael Cotten, and Rachel G. Greenberg. “Opioid and benzodiazepine use during therapeutic hypothermia in encephalopathic neonates.” J Perinatol 40, no. 1 (January 2020): 79–88. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41372-019-0533-4.

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Hansen, Adam W., Mullai Murugan, He Li, Michael M. Khayat, Liwen Wang, Jill Rosenfeld, B Kim Andrews, et al. “A Genocentric Approach to Discovery of Mendelian Disorders.” Am J Hum Genet 105, no. 5 (November 7, 2019): 974–86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2019.09.027.

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James, J., D. Munson, S. B. DeMauro, J. C. Langer, A. R. Dworetz, G. Natarajan, M. Bidegain, et al. “Outcomes of Preterm Infants following Discussions about Withdrawal or Withholding of Life Support (vol 190, pg 118, 2017).” Journal of Pediatrics 207 (April 1, 2019): 270–270.

Scholars@Duke

Helbig, Katherine L., Robert J. Lauerer, Jacqueline C. Bahr, Ivana A. Souza, Candace T. Myers, Betül Uysal, Niklas Schwarz, et al. “De Novo Pathogenic Variants in CACNA1E Cause Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy with Contractures, Macrocephaly, and Dyskinesias.” Am J Hum Genet 104, no. 3 (March 7, 2019): 562. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2019.02.015.

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Khan, Tahir N., Kamal Khan, Azita Sadeghpour, Hannah Reynolds, Yezmin Perilla, Marie T. McDonald, William B. Gallentine, et al. “Mutations in NCAPG2 Cause a Severe Neurodevelopmental Syndrome that Expands the Phenotypic Spectrum of Condensinopathies.” Am J Hum Genet 104, no. 1 (January 3, 2019): 94–111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.11.017.

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Bidegain, Margarita, Tamara I. Herrera, P Brian Smith, and C Michael Cotten. “Correspondence regarding "Outcomes of preterm infants treated with hypothermia for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy".” Early Hum Dev 128 (January 2019): 104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2018.09.014.

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Ku, L. C., C. Simmons, P. B. Smith, R. G. Greenberg, K. Fisher, C. D. Hornik, C Michael Cotten, R. N. Goldberg, and M. Bidegain. “Intranasal midazolam and fentanyl for procedural sedation and analgesia in infants in the neonatal intensive care unit.” J Neonatal Perinatal Med 12, no. 2 (2019): 143–48. https://doi.org/10.3233/NPM-17149.

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