Neonatology
Meet the Team

Meet our Experts

Faculty

Henry T. Akinbi, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Pharmacokinetis/pharmacodynamics of psychotropic medications in neonates; role of lysozyme in airway host defense

Maria E. Barnes-Davis, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Functional neuroimaging (fMRI, MEG, EEG); neurodevelopmental outcomes of extremely preterm children; language; sleep and learning disorders

Jennifer M. Brady, MD, MEd

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Medical education; curriculum development; how procedural competency is achieved and maintained

Tanya E. Cahill, MD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Neurodevelopmental outcomes in NICU graduates

DonnaMaria E. Cortezzo, MD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Neonatal pain management; neonatal palliative care; perinatal palliative care

Andreas Damianos, MD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Hitesh S. Deshmukh, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Kevin R. Dufendach, MD, MS

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Clinical informatics; user-centered design; human-computer interaction; quality improvement; novel software development

John Erickson, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Antibody structure and function; glycobiology; mechanisms of protective immunity; flow cytometry and T cell biology; pregnancy; fetal tolerance

John Feister, MD, MS, FAAP

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Neonatal health inequities; the impact of public and hospital policy on neonatal health and inequities; language access in the NICU

Ting Ting Fu, MD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Neonatal nutrition; human milk; breastfeeding

Beth E. Haberman, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Lili He, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Radiology
Research Interests
Machine learning; deep learning; medical image processing and analysis

Morgan Hill, MD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Beth Ann Johnson, MA, MD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Medical education and simulation training; curriculum development; procedural experience and perceived procedural comfort in the NICU; how exposure...

Heather C. Kaplan, MD, MSCE

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Understanding variations in evidence-based care practices across hospitals; examining strategies for increasing the implementation of evidence into...

Alan P. Kenny, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Lung progenitor development; stem cell differentiation; fetal malformations

Paul S. Kingma, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Innate immune systems; surfactant protein D; Neonatal lung growth; genetic basis of congenital malformations

Katsuaki Kojima, MD, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Early detection of neurodevelopmental impairment; early intervention; language development; speech perception; M/EEG

Jennifer McAllister, MD, IBCLC

Medical Director, West Chester Hopsital Special Care Nursery
Research Interests
Follow up care of infants treated for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

Kristin R. Melton, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Patient safety; medication errors; unplanned extubation; neural crest and craniofacial malformations; surfactant biology
Research Interests
Follow-up outcomes; advanced neuroimaging to predict outcomes in infants with brain injury and prenatal substance exposure

Emily R. Miller, MD, MS, FAAP

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Effects of policy and advocacy on health outcomes

Nagendra K. Monangi, MD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Environmental and nutritional exposures and their impact on preterm birth, adverse pregnancy outcome and infant mortality

Sai Mukthapuram, MD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Innate immunity of the skin with a particular focus on epidermal biomarkers and antimicrobial peptides on the skin surface; role of coconut oil...

Amy T. Nathan, MD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Strategies to prevent morbidities of prematurity

Nehal A. Parikh, DO, MS

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Early diagnosis of perinatal brain injury/delayed brain development; early detection and prevention of neurodevelopmental disabilities

Laura Peterson, MD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Ward R. Rice, MD, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Processing of surfactant protein C

Stefanie Riddle, MD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Clinical outcomes of infants with congenital anomalies.

Debora I. Sinner, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Developmental biology; lung development; congenital defects

Daniel T. Swarr, MD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Early endoderm and lung development; epigenetic regulation of gene expression; long non-coding RNAs; Congenital lung malformations; TEF/EA; VACTERL

Prasoon Verma, MD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Understanding the pathophysiology of BPD and developing effective interventions which will lead to a reduction in morbidity and mortality in the...

Laura P. Ward, MD, IBCLC, FAAP

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Neonatal abstinence syndrome; breastfeeding

Scott L. Wexelblatt, MD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Leadership

James M. Greenberg, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Jae Kim, MD, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics