Fellows Publications and presentations have involved multiple subjects, including but not limited to:

• • Growth factor signaling
  • Maternal and fetal placental blood flow, cardiovascular development, smooth muscle development and function
  • Control of pulmonary vascular development and function and pathogenesis of chronic lung disease
  • Mechanisms of lung injury
  • Hyaluronan (hyaluronic acid) and its role in inflammation and endothelial function
  • Fetal and neonatal cardiovascular development and physiology
  • Neonatal resuscitation in animal models and in neonates
  • Cardiovascular, hormonal and inflammatory changes associated with delivery
  • Mechanisms modulating blood pressure and evolution of blood pressure in preterm infants
  • Controlled clinical trials in neonatology and pharmacology
  • Neonatal infection
  • Effects of care on long term outcome
  • Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, prevention and diagnosis of neurologic sequelae in high-risk infants
  • Relationship between antepartum events and neonatal outcome
  • Alterations in fetal growth and long-term outcome

Recent Awards

• •  Young Investigator Award for Basic Research, Southern Society for Pediatric Research: D.Nagar.  Estrogen increases expression of the β1-subunits of the large conductance calcium activated potassium channel in ovine uterine vascular and visceral smooth muscle. February 13-15, 2004, New Orleans, LA
    
  • Young Investigator Award, American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Perinatal Pediatrics: Prameela Karimi. Defect in monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 in the peritoneal cavity of neonatal mice may lead to cerebral listeriosis. October 2005, Washington, DC
    
  • President's Presenters Award, Society for Gynecologic Investigation: LaKeitha Foster. Maternal progesterone treatment retards labor in mice by antagonizing inflammatory response pathways and SP−A secretion by the fetal lung. 2008
    
  • Travel Awards:
    • Lina Shalak, AAP 2001 & 2004, Ross Nutritional 2000;
    • Prameela Karimi, PAS 2005;
    • Hlwelekazi Bomela: AAP 2005 ;
    • Chad Barber: Mead Johnson 2006, AAP 2005;
    • Mesfin Woldesenbet: AAP 2005;
    • Shilpa Vyas-Read 2006 PAS;
    • Becky Ennis, Mead Johnson 2005, AAP 2007;
    • Darryl Miao, AAP 2007;
    • Andrea Duncan: PAS 2008;
    • Liaqat Khan: AAP  2008
      
  • Teaching Fellow of the Year Award, Arpitha Chiruvolu: Dept. of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Children’s Medical Center

Recent Grants

• Klaus Perinatal Research Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Perinatal Pediatrics (2005-06): Becky Ennis. “Mechanisms modulating blood pressure in neonates ≤1000gm birth weight”
• NRP Young Investigator Award (2006). Chad Barber: “Randomized Controlled Trial of Endotracheal versus Intravenous Administration of Epinephrine During Neonatal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Asphyxiated Piglets.”
• Klaus Perinatal Research Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Perinatal Pediatrics (2007-08): Andrea Duncan:  “Effects of very low birth weight, prematurity and postnatal growth on blood pressure during the first 3 years of life”
• Physician Scientist Training Program, UTSW (2008-11): Nathan Sundgren
• Klaus Perinatal Research Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Perinatal Pediatrics (2008-09): Katherine Bennett: “The role of Ephrin B2 reverse signaling in lung morphogenesis”

 Awards, Honors and Grants obtained by 1998-2008 program graduates.