Newborn Brain Society

Steering Committee

Donna Ferriero, MD, MS

Professor Donna Ferriero, MD, MS is a Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at UCSF. She is also a member of the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program and the Weill Institute for Neurosciences. Dr. Ferriero is Director of the Neonatal Brain Disorder Laboratories and former co-director of the Newborn Brain Research Institute at UCSF. Throughout Dr …

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Geraldine Boylan, PhD

Geraldine Boylan is Professor of Neonatal Physiology, Department of Paediatrics & Child Health, University College Cork, Ireland and Director of the INFANT Research Centre – www.infantcentre.ie She has worked in clinical neurophysiology for many years and since 1996 has worked exclusively in the field of neonatal neurophysiology. She leads the Neonatal Brain Research Group at …

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Linda de Vries, MD, PhD

Linda de Vries, MD, PhD received her degree from the Medical School in Groningen, completed a Pediatric residency at the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital in Utrecht, The Netherlands, and carried out a research fellowship at the Hammersmith Hospital in London, United Kingdom. Subsequently she trained as a Neonatologist in Utrecht and as a Pediatric Neurologist in …

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Pierre Gressens, MD, PhD

Pierre Gressens received his Medical Degree (UCL, Brussels, Belgium) in 1989 and his Ph.D. at the University of Louvain Medical School (UCL) in 1995. He further specialized in Child Neurology and carried out his post-doctoral research training at the NIH (Bethesda, USA). He has been working at Robert Debré Hospital, Paris both a researcher and …

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Terrie Inder, MBChB, MD

Terrie Inder, MBChB, MD, is the first appointed chair of the newly transitioned Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. As a dual boarded child neurologist and neonatologist, her major discoveries have been in clinical and translational research into the nature and timing of brain injury in preterm and high-risk …

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Steven Miller, MDCM, MAS, FRCPC

Dr. Steven Miller (MDCM, MAS, FRCPC) is Head of the Division of Neurology and the Centre for Brain & Mental Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto, and Senior Scientist in the Neuroscience & Mental Health Program at the Research Institute of SickKids. He holds the Bloorview …

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Joseph Volpe, MD

Dr. Volpe received his M.D. degree from the Harvard Medical School, completed a Pediatric residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, carried out a postdoctoral research fellowship at the NIH and trained in Pediatric Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He then served for 20 years on the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, the last …

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