Neonatology
Faculty
ABBASI, AFSHAN
Faculty Member Since: 2007
Degrees: MD
Rank: Clinical Instructor in Pediatrics
Research Interests: Effect of Nutrient Restriction on Expression of Glucose and Fatty Acid
Transporter Proteins
ANDERSON, MARIANNE
Faculty Member Since: 2006
Degrees: MD
Rank: Assistant Clinical Professor
Research Interests: Fetal glucose metabolism and insulin signaling, fetal and neonatal growth,
and neonatal nutrition
BARRETT, CYNTHIA TOWNSEND
Faculty Member Since: 1970
Degrees: MD
Rank: Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Research Interests: Lung development
BUI, KIM CHI
Faculty Member Since: 1997
Degrees: M.D.
Rank: Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Research Interests: Stem cells for lung repair; progenitor cell recovery from ECMO circuits.
Glucocorticoid attenuated response genes in lung
inflammation
DEVASKAR, SHERIN U.
Faculty Member Since: 1999
Degrees: M.D.
Rank: Professor of Pediatrics
Research Interests: Molecular and cellular mechanisms surrounding perinatal and neonatal
metabolism with an emphasis on 1] Fetal Origins of
Adult Disease, 2] Hypoxic-ischemic
brain injury
DEVASKAR, UDAYAKUMAR PRABHAKER
Faculty Member Since: 1999
Degrees: MD
Rank: Professor of Pediatrics
Research Interests: Effect of nutrition during infancy on the development of diabetes type 1
during childhood; International pediatrics
ENCISO, JOSEPHINE M.
Faculty Member Since: November 2007
Degrees: MD
Academic Rank: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Research Interests: Cellular and molecular basis of vascular remodeling during initial blood
vessel formation in early embryonic development
GARG, MEENA
Faculty Member Since: 2001
Degrees: MD
Rank: Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Research Interests: Neuroplasticity of brain asphyxiated infants: efficacy of intervention hepatic
de dovo lipogenesis in stable low birth weight infants during exclusive breast milk feedings and
during total parenteral nutrition; glucose production and recycling in intrauterine growth
retardation; red blood cell membrane GLUT 1 glucose transporter is down regulated in insulin-
dependent diabetic children
LONDHE, VEDANG, A.
Faculty Member Since: January 2002
Degrees: MD
Academic Rank: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Research Interests: Bronchopulmonary dysplasia; chemokines; lung inflammation and
development
MILISAVLJEVIC, VLADANA
Faculty Member Since: 2003
Degrees: MD, MS
Academic Rank: Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Research Interests: Nosocomial infections in neonates, pathogenicity of Staphylococcus
PURDY, ISABELL
Faculty Member Since: 2005
Degrees: PhD, NNP, CPNP
Rank: Assistant Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Research Interests: Health Assessment of Perinatal Practice, Interventions and Evaluations
(HAPPIE) Database
SMITH, JEFFREY B.
Faculty Member Since: 1987
Degrees: MD, PhD
Rank: Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms of bronchopulmonary dysplasia and lung
inflammation
WALKER, VALENCIA