Dr. Janet Soul is a pediatric neurologist whose area of clinical expertise and research is in Fetal and Neonatal Neurology with a focus on the etiology, pathogenesis, outcome and prevention of early acquired brain injury. Dr. Soul directs the Fetal-Neonatal Neurology Program at Boston Children’s Hospital that provides specialized care to fetuses, newborns and children with neurologic disorders that begin in utero or in the neonatal period. This program, with its associated clinical services, provides specialized training for neurology, neonatology and pediatric fellows and residents. Dr. Soul is also an Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, where her research and writing are focused on early acquired brain injury, particularly hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, involving a lack of oxygen and blood flow to the brain; the treatment of seizures in term newborns; and periventricular leukomalacia (injury to the white matter of the brain), intraventricular hemorrhage (bleeding into the ventricles of the brain), and hydrocephalus in preterm newborns.