Neonatology Research
The division faculty have contributed to a variety of major advances in basic and clinical research related to the care of newborn infants.
The Neonatal-Perinatal Division faculty in UT-Houston's Department of Pediatrics have contributed to a variety of major advances in the care of newborn infants. The faculty are actively involved in basic and clinical research endeavors spanning a wide range of interests, including:
- surfactant biochemistry and surfactant replacement therapy
- mechanisms of lung injury in meconium aspiration
- role of nutrition and steroids in chronic lung disease
- prevention and treatment of retinopathy of prematurity
- neonatal brain injury and brain imaging
- development of auditory function
- follow-up of high-risk infants (including randomized trial of comprehensive care)
- surgical management of necrotizing enterocolitis (randomized trial)
- management of infants with short bowel (randomized trial)
- quality improvement in neonatal intensive care
Current NIH Grant Support:
NICHD Cooperative Multicenter Neonatal Intensive Care Network (Kathleen Kennedy, PI; Jon Tyson, Co-PI; Patricia Evans, Follow-up PI)
Hormonal Regulation of Surfactant Protein mRNA Stability (NHLBI, Joe Alcorn, PI)
Effects of Noise on Newborns <1000g Birth Weight (NICHD, Bob Lasky, PI)
Neurological Diseases Research in High Risk Populations (NINDS, Nehal Parikh, PI)
K12 Program Director (Jon Tyson) for Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences
Location & Contact
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Neonatology
University of Texas Houston Medical School
6431 Fannin, Suite 3.242
Houston, TX 77030
Phone: 713.500.5727
Administrative Assistant: Kim Self
Email: Kimberly.A.Self@ uth.tmc.edu
Other Locations
Other locations of the Department of Pediatrics include the following:
Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital
