Challenges for neonatal intensive care in the next decade – lessons learnt to date including the pandemic

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Presenter: Professor Terrie Inder

Organisations: Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School

Date Presented: 20/08/20

Bio: Chair, Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Mary Ellen Avery Professor of Pediatrics in the Field of Newborn Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.

I am a dual boarded newborn medicine physician and child neurologist with my research focus in the newborn brain. I also undertake clinical service within the neonatal intensive care unit. As all our research activities are clinical investigations, our studies and clinical care of high-risk infants are tightly integrated. My research is targeted at understanding the timing, mechanisms and impact of cerebral injury and altered cerebral development in the human infant. Thus, my studies have focused on infants at high risk for brain injury including the prematurely-born infant, the sick term-born infant, and the infant with congenital heart disease. We aim to investigate means of accurate, early diagnosis of brain injury as well as developing treatments and preventive strategies to reduce subsequent neurodevelopmental disabilities. This research work has utilized technologies including near infrared spectroscopy, electroencephalography and magnetic resonance imaging. In 2013, I moved to become the Chair of a new Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Finally, I have the privilege of mentoring and educating neonatologist and other clinicians in the neurology of the newborn.