Neonatal & Perinatal Medicine (NICU)
University Pediatricians | Michigan
About the Division of Neonatal & Perinatal Medicine
The Division of Neonatology consists of 12 physicians, 9 fellows, 8 nurse practitioners, and a neuropsychologist, who provide in-patient care at the Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) at Children’s Hospital of Michigan (CHM) and Hutzel Women’s Hospital (HWH) and the Special Care Nursery at Huron Valley Hospital and outpatient care in the Developmental Assessment Clinic in the Specialty Center and the Fetal Assessment Clinic at HWH and Fetal Care Center at CHM. Each year, our physicians care for more than 1,700 babies with a wide array of complex conditions, diseases and birth defects.
The NICU at Children’s Hospital of Michigan provides the highest level of care for the sickest and most high-risk neonates and infants. Our Regional Level IV NICU has the capability to provide surgical repair of complex congenital or acquired conditions, as well as to care for those who need subspecialty medical care. At HWH, the physicians provide care to inborn preterm infants of all gestational ages and others who require intensive care, starting from the delivery room. NICU patients receive expert care from board-certified neonatologists and pediatric subspecialists. We have a special Neurocritical Care program to provide cooling for babies with brain injury as well as advanced non-sedate neuroimaging. The neonatologists have special expertise in managing chronic lung disease and a robust tracheostomy-home ventilation program.
Our 45 -bed state-of-the-art NICU at CHM features single private rooms, a parent zone in each room, a lactation room, and spacious family lounges that have full bathrooms, a kitchenette, and a quiet lounge. The NICU at CHM accepts transfers from other NICUs and infants who have already been home. A dedicated PANDA One intensive care transport team, staffed by specially trained registered nurses and respiratory therapists, provide timely response, 24 hours a day, to transport critically ill infants to the Children’s Hospital of Michigan from hospitals across the state. Transport options include two dedicated ground ambulances, as well as by helicopter and fixed wing air for transferring hospitals that are located at further distances. We provide cooling and nitric oxide on transport.
The NICU maintains a ratio of one nurse to one to three patients, maintaining the highest safety standards for the most at-risk patients. In addition, NICU-dedicated respiratory therapists, pharmacist, dietician, and occupational and physical therapists provide multidisciplinary developmentally appropriate care to our patients.
Division Leadership
My Philosophy of Care
“Caring for critically ill newborns requires a careful balance of high-intensity, advanced medical technology and deep clinical empathy. My commitment is to ensure that our tiniest, most vulnerable patients receive the highest standard of evidence-based care, while keeping their families closely supported and informed every step of the way.”
Girija Natarajan, MD
Division Chief, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine (NICU)
About Dr. Natarajan
Dr. Girija Natarajan is the Division Chief of Neonatology at DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan and Hutzel Women’s Hospital. She also holds an academic appointment as a Professor of Pediatrics for the Central Michigan University College of Medicine.
With more than 30 years of medical experience, Dr. Natarajan is a highly trusted expert in neonatal critical care, specializing in the management of high-risk newborns and infants requiring complex life support. She is fully trilingual in English, Hindi, and Tamil, which enables her to effectively communicate with and support a highly diverse population of families during demanding times in the NICU.
Areas of Expertise
- Neonatal encephalopathy and newborn brain injury monitoring
- Critical care for extremely premature and high-risk infants
- Long-term neurodevelopmental follow-up outcomes for NICU survivors
- Advanced neonatal life support, including Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
Research & Innovations
Dr. Natarajan is a leading academic researcher with a special focus on protecting the neonatal brain and advancing clinical benchmarks in intensive care. She actively participates in prominent, multi-center collaborative research groups and quality improvement projects aimed at optimizing respiratory support protocols and neurodevelopmental tracking. Her extensive academic contributions address risk predictors for chronic lung disease in preterm infants, hypothermic neuroprotection, and the long-term cognitive outcomes of high-risk infants.
Education & Board Certifications
- Medical Degree: Maulana Azad Medical College / University of Delhi, India
- Residency: Pediatric Residency, Children’s Hospital of Michigan
- Fellowship: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship, Children’s Hospital of Michigan
- Board Certifications: General Pediatrics, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine (American Board of Pediatrics)
Awards & Recognition
- Recognized as a Regional Top Doc by Hour Detroit
- Recipient of the Wolf Zuelzer Award for best research during her fellowship
- Recipient of the Sheldon Brenner Award for outstanding residency research
- Honored with the Excellence in Teaching Award and the Friend of Nursing Award
Our Clinical Programs
The Children’s Hospital of Michigan is a national leader in the use of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) – a technology that functions as a temporary replacement for an infant’s heart and lungs after hypoxic-respiratory failure or after cardiac surgery. The Children’s Hospital of Michigan’s NICU is one of 3 neonatal units in Michigan with ECMO capabilities.
With a high-resolution MicroPET scanner located at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan, the NICU team provides this advanced PET technology for scanning newborns. Neonatologists also perform up to date monitoring of the brain for injury using amplitude integrated EEG, near infra-red spectroscopy and evaluation of markers of brain injury.
Pediatric cardiologists, cardiac surgeons and transplant surgeons repair congenital heart defects, treat and repair heart disease, and perform heart transplants. The NICU, with the assistance of pediatric hematology-oncology specialists and nephrologists, provides chemotherapy, stem cell transplant and dialysis to young infants with neonatal tumors, immune disorders and end-stage renal disease. Pediatric general and subspecialty surgeons perform repairs on congenital birth defects and other neonatal conditions requiring intervention.
The Neonatal Neurocritical Care Program is part of the newly expanded and renovated Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) on the third floor of the Children’s Hospital of Michigan Tower.
The new NICU features 35 single private rooms, two double rooms, a parent zone in each room, a lactation room, and spacious family lounges that have full bathrooms, a kitchenette, and a quiet lounge.
As a Regional Level IV NICU, the hospital has the capability to provide surgical repair of complex congenital or acquired conditions and maintains a comprehensive range of pediatric medical and surgical subspecialists and pediatric anesthesiologists on site. It is a leader in cooling therapy treatment and research for infants with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), repair of abdominal wall defects and care of infants with chronic lung disease.
The NICU maintains a ratio of one nurse to three patients, maintaining the highest safety standards for the most at-risk patients. NICU patients receive expert care from board-certified neonatologists and pediatric subspecialists. In addition, a team of pediatric radiologists provides advanced imaging services using kid-friendly protocols.
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The DMC’s Maternal Fetal Diagnosis Program unites the Children’s Hospital of Michigan and Hutzel Women’s Hospital for exemplary care, including:
– Infertility services
– Prenatal genetic testing
– Fetal echocardiography
– Fetal surgery
– High-risk obstetrical services
– Pediatric subspecialties
– Referrals to community programs to assist families of infants with special needs
– Maternal Special Care Unit, Michigan’s only ICU for expectant mothers
– Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
– Pediatric surgery
Children’s Hospital of Michigan’s PANDA One offers a dedicated pediatric and neonatal ambulance service and transport team. A talented group of highly trained Panda One nurses with expertise and certifications in advanced pediatric and neonatal life support lead this team. Every day they stand ready to transport sick and/or injured children who require specialized pediatric medical and/or surgical care from referring hospital intensive care units, emergency rooms and private physician offices. PANDA One’s critical care nursing expertise combined with the full nationally recognized Children’s Hospital of Michigan ensures children have access to the advanced care when they need it most.
For decades, PANDA One has provided specialized transportation care for critically ill children and neonates from referring hospitals and physician offices all over the state. The PANDA One helicopter will be based out of Flint and serves as a mobile extension of the Children’s Hospital of Michigan.
PANDA One is available to referring physicians and hospitals any time, day or night and is equipped to transport a variety of patients-from extremely small preterm infants weighing less than one pound to children through age 21.
The Children’s Hospital of Michigan at the Detroit Medical Center (DMC) has expanded its Pediatric and Neonatal Ambulance service (PANDA One), to include two full time care teams available for transporting sick children from area hospitals to Children’s Hospital for advanced pediatric medical and/or surgical specialty care.
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Education
The Division of Neonatology at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit offers a three-year Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship program that is accredited by the ACGME.
The mission of the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program is to produce compassionate and scholarly physicians who will become leaders in academic neonatal-perinatal medicine.
Goals include teaching trainees the clinical skills for the diagnosis and management of disorders arising in the perinatal and neonatal periods and early infancy as well as the skills needed to perform basic science and clinical research that contributes to improvements in the heath care of neonates, to inculcate in fellow trainees the attributes of compassionate, family-centered and interdisciplinary care, to foster life-long learning and education and to passionately advocate for disadvantaged and disabled children.
This is accomplished by providing the fellows with a comprehensive teaching curriculum, exposure to a broad range of clinical experience and opportunity to learn and conduct clinical and laboratory research under the guidance of world-renowned faculty.
Research
The Division of Neonatology has a robust research program that focuses on basic science research into the prevention and treatment of cerebral palsy, clinical research studying the impact of therapies on neurodevelopmental and clinical outcomes in preterm infants, observational and interventional studies in infants with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome.
Additional focus areas include bilirubin-induced neuronal injury in preterm and term neonates, effect of iron deficiency on neurodevelopmental outcomes in preterm and term neonates, effect of hypothyroxinemia on neonatal morbidities and neurodevelopmental outcomes, and role of trace elements in neonates.
Several active clinical and translational research studies are underway through the neonatal and perinatal team at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan and Hutzel Women’s Hospital. In addition, the division is a contributing site of the National Institutes of Health funded Neonatal Research Network, an elite group of academic NICUs nationwide. This network is part of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). As a contributing member of the Network, the Division conducts neurodevelopmental follow-up of research participants until the age of 5-7 years. Drs. Chawla and Natarajan continue to lead studies from the Network, including most recently on the role of antenatal steroids in periviable infants and the effect of bevacizuab on neurodevelopment.
The Division led groundbreaking research on the use of therapeutic whole body cooling for infants who lack oxygen or blood flow to the brain at birth. Cooling treatment is now the standard of care around the world. Most recently, Dr. Natarajan has published on the association between sedation-analgesia during cooling and neurodevelopemental outcomes.
Dr. Tan has two 5-year RO1 grants funded by the NIH for $5.59 million to test the efficacy of new drugs for the prevntion of cerebral palsy in a rabbit model and to explore whether an essential enzyme cofactor is involved in brain injury before birth. The cellular and genetic basis of brain injury are being investigated in an animal model in which genes are altered by genetic engineering using adavnced MRI techniques. Dr. Amin is a recipient of several NIH awards since 2004. He is currently the PI of a multinational NIH-funded clinical trial to evaluate the effect of iron supplementation on brain development. Dr. Amin’s research accomplishments are in the area of jaundice, nutrients, trace elements, and neurodevelopment.
Other active research performed includes impact of fetal alcohol exposure and environmental toxins during pregnancy on the infant and child (Ostrea), comparative effectiveness trials on management of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (Jani, Chawla), stem cell therapies in bronchopulmonary dysplasia (Hazra), training in end-of-life care (Fernandes), epidemiologic studies on the effect of COVID-19 on birth outcomes (Bajaj, Jani), animal studies on drug exposure during pregnancy (February), MRI prediction of short-term outcome in hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and clinical trials on the efficacy and safety of probiotics (Lua).
Recent Research Publications
Prashant Agarwal, MD
Agarwal P, Shankaran S, Laptook A, Chowdhury A, Lakshminrusimha S, Bonifacio, Natarajan G, Chawla S, Keszler M, Heyne R, Ambalavanan N, Walsh M, Das A, Van Meurs K for the NICHD Neonatal Research Network. Outcomes of Infants with Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy and Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn. Submitted to J Perinatol, Accepted for publication Dec 2020.
Agarwal P, Sharma A, Farooqi A, Natarajan G. Impact of Different Cord Clamping Strategies on Short Term Neuromonitoring Among Preterm Infants: A Randomized, Controlled Trial. J Perinatol. 2020;40(7):1115-1118. doi:10.1038/s41372-020-0684-3 (Review of a published original study)
Monika Bajaj, MD
Jani S, Jacques S, Qureshi F, Natarajan G, Bajaj S, Velumula P, Agu C, Bajaj M. Clinical Characteristics of Mother–Infant Dyad and Placental Pathology in COVID-19 Cases in Predominantly African American Population. AJP Reports (In press)
Shankaran S, Bajaj M, Natarajan G, Saha S, Pappas A, Davis AS, Hintz SR, Adams-Chapman I, Das A, Bell EF, Stoll BJ, Walsh MC, Laptook AR, Carlo WA, Van Meurs KP, Sánchez PJ, Ball MB, Hale EC, Seabrook R, Higgins RD; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network. Outcomes Following Post-Hemorrhagic Ventricular Dilatation among Infants of Extremely Low Gestational Age. J Pediatr 2020 Jul 30;S0022-3476(20)30979-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2020.07.080
Sanjay Chawla, MD
Chawla S, Laptook AR, Smith EA, Tan S, Natarajan G, Wyckoff MH, Ambalavanan N, Bell EF, Van Meurs KP, Stevenson DK, Werner EF, Greenberg RG, Das A, Shankaran S; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Neonatal Research Network. In-hospital mortality and morbidity among extremely preterm infants in relation to maternal body mass index. J Perinatology. 2020 Oct 6; doi: 10/1038/s41372-020-00847-0.
Chawla S, Chock VY, Lakshminrusimha S. Pediatr Res. Intraventricular hemorrhage and white matter injury: is persistent cerebral desaturation a missing link? 2020 Nov 27. doi: 10.1038/s41390-020-01294-5.
Gentle SJ, Carlo WA, Tan S, Ambalavanan N, Chawla S, Bell EF, Hintz SR, Higgins RD. Association of Antenatal Corticosteroids and Magnesium Sulfate Therapy With Neurodevelopmental Outcome in Extremely Preterm Children. Obstet Gynecol. 2020;135(6):1377-1386
Chawla S, Bates S, Shankaran S. It Time for a Randomized Controlled Trial of Hypothermia for Mild Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy? J Pediatr. 2020 Jan 14. S0022-3476(19)31611-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2019.11.030.
Velumula P, Jani S, Kanike N, Chawla S*. Monitoring of Infants Discharged Home with Medical Devices. Pediatric Annals. Vol. 49, No. 2, 2020.49(2):e88-e92
Hanna-Attisha M, Gonuguntla A, Peart N, LaChance J, Taylor K, Chawla S. Umbilical Cord Blood Lead Level Disparities Between Flint and Detroit. Am J Perinatol. 2020 Mar 6. doi: 10.1055/s-0040-1705135
Nithi Fernandes, MD
Fernandes N, Chawla S. Neonatal Mechanical Ventilation. [Dr. Sarnaik’s Mechanical Ventilation Textbook] in press.
Sanket Jani, MD
Jani S, Ariss R, Velumula D, Chawla S. Term infant with Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis. Case Reports in Pediatrics, vol. 2020, Article ID 8883007. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/8883007
Jani S, Chawla S, Ariss R. A preterm infant with characteristics rash after birth. NeoReviews. July 2020, 21 (7) e495-e498; DOI: – https://doi.org/10.1542/neo.21-7-e49
Pradeep V, https://doi.org/10.3928/19382359-20200121-01 Jani S, Kanike N, Chawla, S. Outpatient monitoring of infants who are discharged from neonatal intensive care unit on apnea monitors. A review Article. Pediatrics Annals 2020; 49(2): e88-e92.
Girija Natarajan, MD
Authors’ Response. Natarajan G, Sriidhar A, Nolen T, Gantz M, Das A, Bell E, Hintz S, Bliss J, Greenberg R, Shankaran S. Pediatrics. 2020 Mar 31:e20200056B.
Brozanski BS, Piazza AJ, Chuo J, Natarajan G, Grover TR, Smith JR, et al. STEPP IN: Working Together to Keep Infants Warm in the Perioperative Period. Pediatrics. 2020; 145(4):e20191121.
Vyas-Read S, Wymore EM, Zaniletti I, Murthy K, Padula MA, Truog WE, Engle WA, Savani RC, Yallapragada S, Logan JW, Zhang H, Hysinger EB, Grover TR, Natarajan G, Nelin LD, Porta NFM, Potoka KP, DiGeronimo R, Lagatta JM; Children’s Hospitals Neonatal Consortium Severe BPD Focus Group. Utility of echocardiography in predicting mortality in infants with severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia. J Perinatol. 2020;40(1):149-156.
Agarwal P, Sharma A, Farooqi A, Natarajan G. Impact of different cord clamping strategies on short term neuromonitoring among preterm infants: a randomized, controlled trial. J Perinatol. 2020;40(7):1115-1118.
Shankaran S, Bajaj M, Natarajan G, Saha S, Pappas A, Davis AS, et al; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network. Outcomes Following Post-Hemorrhagic Ventricular Dilatation among Infants of Extremely Low Gestational Age. J Pediatr. 2020;S0022-3476(20)30979-3.
Chawla S, Laptook AR, Smith EA, Tan S, Natarajan G, Wyckoff MH, Ambalavanan N, Bell EF, Van Meurs KP, Stevenson DK, Werner EF, Greenberg RG, Das A, Shankaran S; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Neonatal Research Network. In-hospital mortality and morbidity among extremely preterm infants in relation to maternal body mass index. J Perinatol. 2020 Oct 6. doi: 10.1038/s41372-020-00847-0.
Fry JT, Matoba N, Datta A, DiGeronimo R, Coghill CH, Natarajan G, Brozanski B, Leuthner SR, Niehaus JZ, Schlegel AB, Shah A, Zaniletti I, Bartman T, Murthy K, Sullivan KM; Children’s Hospital Neonatal Consortium (CHNC). Center, Gestational Age, and Race Impact End-of-Life Care Practices at Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Units. J Pediatr. 2020;217:86-91.e1.
Rao R, Lee KS, Zaniletti I, Yanowitz TD, DiGeronimo R, Dizon MLV, Hamrick SE, Natarajan G, Peeples ES, Murthy K, Mathur AM, Massaro A. Antimicrobial therapy utilization in neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE): a report from the Children’s Hospital Neonatal Database (CHND). J Perinatol. 2020;40(1):70-78.
Rao R, Mietzsch U, DiGeronimo R, Hamrick SE, Dizon MLV, Lee KS, Natarajan G, Yanowitz TD, Peeples ES, Flibotte J, Wu TW, Zaniletti I, Mathur AM, Massaro A. Utilization of Therapeutic Hypothermia and Neurological Injury in Neonates with Mild Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy: A Report from Children’s Hospital Neonatal Consortium. Am J Perinatol. 2020 Sep 6.
Agarwal P, Shankaran S, Laptook AR, Chowdhury D, Lakshminrusimha S, Bonifacio SL, Natarajan G, Chawla S, Keszler M, Heyne RJ, Ambalavanan N, Walsh MC, Das A, Van Meurs KP; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Neonatal Research Network. Outcomes of infants with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy and persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn: results from three NICHD studies. J Perinatol. 2021 Jan 6. doi: 10.1038/s41372-020-00905-7.
Prashant Agarwal, MD
Agarwal P, Natarajan G, Sullivan K, Rao R, Rintoul N, Zaniletti I, Keene S, Mietzsch U, Massaro A, Billimoria Z, Dirnberger D, Hamrick S, DiGeronimo R for the Children’s Hospital Neonatal Consortium (CHNC) ECMO and HIE focus groups. Venovenous versus Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation among Infants with Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy: Is There a Difference in Outcome? Oral presentation at the 36th Annual Children’s National Symposium: ECMO & the Advanced therapies for Respiratory and Cardiac Failure, Keystone, Colorado, Feb 2020.
Agarwal P, Natarajan G, Sullivan K, Rao R, Rintoul N, Zaniletti I, Keene S, Mietzsch U, Massaro A, Billimoria Z, Dirnberger D, Hamrick S, DiGeronimo R for the Children’s Hospital Neonatal Consortium (CHNC) ECMO and HIE focus groups. Does Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Increase Risk of Death or Intracranial Hemorrhage among Infants with Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy and Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension? Oral presentation at the 36th Annual Children’s National Symposium: ECMO & the Advanced therapies for Respiratory and Cardiac Failure, Keystone, Colorado, Feb 2020.
Bhagat I, Agarwal P, Leikert S, Dechert R, Altinok D.Does severity of brain injury on MRI predict short term outcome in neonates who received therapeutic cooling for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE)? Pediatrics, Jul 2020, 146 (1 Meeting Abstract) 341-343
Sharma A, Jacques S, Qureshi F, Agarwal P, Sood B. Placental finding among extremely preterm infants with moderate to severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Pediatrics, Jul 2020, 146 (1 Meeting Abstract) 378
Monika Bajaj, MD
Soghier L, Perazzo S, Riley M, Balint C, Elshenawy S, O’Connor T, Hightower H, Bichianu D, Barry J, Bajaj M, Fewell R, Gupta R, Ross A, Reed D: Debriefing after code events in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Children’s Hospital Neonatal Consortium Collaborative. Pediatric Academic Society (PAS) 2020
Sanket Jani, MD
Elbakoush F, Sharma A, Kanike N, Jani S, Natrajan G. Pain Management with Pre-medication Prior to Non-emergent Intubation in Neonates. Pediatric Academic Society, Philadelphia, PA.
Zhongje, S, February M, Jani S, Luo K, Tan S. Modeling the transition from partial to total placental insufficiency to study cerebral palsy. Pediatric Academic Society, Philadelphia, PA.
Prashant Agarwal, MD
Ashok and Ingrid Sarnaik Endowment for Junior Faculty Research. Study Title: Effect of DHA Supplementation on the Long Term Neurobehavioral and Cognitive Outcome of the Offsprings of Pregnant Rate Exposed to Alcohol During Pregnancy. PI: Enrique Ostrea. Role: Co-Principal Investigator.
Total amount: $25,000.
Awarded March 2020.
Children’s Foundation grant to support the Sophie Womack Lectureship in the division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine.
Total amount: $3500.
Awarded November 2020
Monika Bajaj, MD
Grant ( 2017-2020)
Role: Coinvestigator 5% salary support RO1 NICHD grant.
Title: Post-discharge Adverse Events among NICU neonates.
PI: Tsilimingras, Dennis.
Direct costs: $785,366. Total: $1,209,239
Sanjay Chawla, MD
Role: PI
A Comparison of Neonatal Outcomes of Term Non-vigorous with Meconium Stained Amniotic Fluid Before and After Routine Endotracheal Suctioning Strategy at Birth
Source: Ashok and Ingrid Sarnaik Faculty Research Endowment Grant $25,000
Salary Support: NONE
Role: Site Principal
Investigator Transfusion of Premature Study, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Source: National Institute of Health (NIH)
Percent Effort: 2%
Years: 2019-Present
Girija Natarajan, MD
CHM Foundation Award for “Cardiovascular and Metabolic Abnormalities in Childhood Survivors of Extreme Prematurity: $57, 000 direct costs. Role: Co-investigator. PI: Gautam Singh
NICHD Neonatal Research network contributing site. Role: PI.
Prashant Agarwal, MD
Awards:
Abstract selected in best abstract category at 36th Annual Children’s National Symposium: ECMO & the Advanced therapies for Respiratory and Cardiac Failure, Keystone, Colorado, Feb 2020.
Other Professional Accomplishments:
Accepted for membership in Society of Pediatric Research
Monika Bajaj, MD
Other Professional Accomplishments:
Promotion to the rank of Professor (Clinician-Educator)
Completed Global Clinical Scholars Research Training Program- 1 year certificate program from Harvard Medical School
Appointed the chair of Clinical Competency Committee for the Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship Program
Sanjay Chawla, MD
Other Professional Accomplishments:
Prep NeoReviews Editorial Advisory Board (American Academy of Pediatrics)
Nithi Fernandes, MD
Other Professional Accomplishments:
Associate Program Director – Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship, CHM
NICU Bereavement Committee – Physician Lead
Girija Natarajan, MD
Awards:
Hour Magazine “Top Doc” 2020-21
Other Professional Accomplishments:
Invited member, National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke Common Data Elements Project Coma and Disorders of Consciousness: Member, Pediatric Working Group and Goals of Care and Family subcommittees
Invited member, State of Michigan Governor’s task force on Child Abuse and Neglect as an expert on neonatal abstinence syndrome
Chair, Society of Pediatric Research House Officer and Student Research Awards Selection Committees
Member, Accreditation Committee of Graduate Medical Education Board of Appeals
Chair, Ethics Committee, Children’s Hospital of Michigan.