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
- mechanisms of lung injury in meconium aspiration
- role of nutrition in chronic lung disease
- prevention and treatment of retinopathy of prematurity
- neonatal brain imaging
- hypothermia for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (randomized trials)
- development of auditory function
- diagnosis of infection in neonates
- follow-up of high-risk infants (including randomized trial of comprehensive care)
- surgical management of necrotizing enterocolitis (randomized trial)
- quality improvement in neonatal intensive care
- education methods in the neonatal intensive care unit
- palliative care for infants
- management of infants with short bowel (randomized trial)
- rescue methods for severe respiratory failure
NIH Grant Support
Basic Research
Hormonal Regulation of Surfactant Protein mRNA Stability (NHLBI, Joe Alcorn, PI)
Clinical Research
NICHD Cooperative Multicenter Neonatal Intensive Care Network (Kathleen Kennedy, UT-Houston PI; Jon Tyson, Co-PI; Patricia Evans, Follow-up PI)
Trial of Late Surfactant to Prevent BPD (NHLBI, Eric Eichenwald, UT-Houston PI)
Prematurity and Respiratory Outcomes Program (NHLBI, Eric Eichenwald, UT-Houston PI)
Translational Research
Effects of Noise on Newborns <1000g Birth Weight (NICHD, Bob Lasky, PI)
Location & Contact
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Neonatology
University of Texas Medical School at Houston
6431 Fannin, Suite 3.242
Houston, TX 77030
Telephone: 713-500-5733
Administrative Assistant: Allison Edwards
