Meet the Team
Meet our Experts
Faculty
Research Interests
Pharmacokinetis/pharmacodynamics of psychotropic medications in neonates; role of lysozyme in airway host defense
Paritha I. Arumugam, PhD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Gene therapy for inherited disorders; Hereditary Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis (hPAP)
Research Interests
Neurodevelopmental outcomes in NICU graduates
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
Research Interests
Development of heart, lung, and vasculature; human induced pluripotent stem cells; organoid; high-throughput drug screening; human genetics
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Research Interests
Developing novel computational methods and software tools to support single cell multi-omics data analysis and integration for scientific discovery...
Beth Ann Johnson, MA, MD
Associate 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...
Research Interests
Understanding variations in evidence-based care practices across hospitals; examining strategies for increasing the implementation of evidence into...
Research Interests
Lung progenitor development; stem cell differentiation; fetal malformations
Research Interests
Innate immune systems; surfactant protein D; Neonatal lung growth; genetic basis of congenital malformations
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Pathogenesis of vascular anomalies; vascular malformations; kaposiform lymphangiomatosis; capillary lymphatic venous malformations; pulmonary...
Yutaka Maeda, DVM, PhD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Patient safety; medication errors; unplanned extubation; neural crest and craniofacial malformations; surfactant biology
Research Interests
Organoids; human pluripotent stem cell; congenital cardiac and pulmonary defect; single ventricle defects; epigenetic regulation
Vivek Narendran, MD, MRCP, MBA
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...
Research Interests
Strategies to prevent morbidities of prematurity
Research Interests
Early diagnosis of perinatal brain injury/delayed brain development; early detection and prevention of neurodevelopmental disabilities
Research Interests
Lung development and regeneration; fibroblast function in development, regeneration and fibrosis
Research Interests
Processing of surfactant protein C
Debora I. Sinner, PhD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Developmental biology; lung development; congenital defects
Research Interests
Early endoderm and lung development; epigenetic regulation of gene expression; long non-coding RNAs; Congenital lung malformations; TEF/EA; VACTERL
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Alveolar macrophage function; molecular techniques using gene knockout, transgenic and conditional gene expression mouse models and non-human...
Laura P. Ward, MD, IBCLC, FAAP
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Neonatal abstinence syndrome; breastfeeding
Kathryn A. Wikenheiser-Brokamp, MD, PhD
Professor, UC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Research Interests
Yan Xu: main area of research interests are bioinformatics and systems biology application in pulmonary research. Our current focus is to...
William J. Zacharias, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Leadership
Research Interests
Lung development
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