Influence of Environment and Experience on Brain Development and Outcome in the Preterm Infant
Miami Neonatology 2015 — Annual International Conference

Terrie E. Inder, MD, Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, in Boston, Massachusetts, provides an overview of factors that may alter brain development in the preterm infant. In addition to severe brain injury, increasing evidence indicates that a preterm infant's experience in the neonatal intensive care unit impacts neurodevelopment and later outcomes.

This material was originally presented to a live audience in Nov-2015, and was available for credit through 12-Feb-2018.

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  Terrie E. Inder, MD, MBChB

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  Terrie Inder, MD, MBChB, is chair of the Department of Newborn Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston. She received her medical degree from Otago Medical School in New Zealand and completed residencies and fellowships at Dunedin Hospital and Christchurch Hospital in New Zealand, and at Boston Children's Hospital.

  Dr. Inder is a dual-boarded neonatologist and child neurologist. Her integrated clinical and research activities involve the care of high-risk infants in the neonatal intensive care unit together with her research on the newborn brain. Her research includes the nature and timing of brain injury and alterations in brain development using magnetic resonance imaging and other technologies. The goal of her research is to provide a method of accurate, early diagnosis of brain injury or altered brain development and to develop preventive strategies to improve outcomes. Dr. Inder's research has encompassed longitudinal studies in 3 large cohort studies of high-risk infants that have been followed into adolescence to examine the relationship of alterations in brain structure to developmental outcomes.

  Dr. Inder has published more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers including key publications in the New England Journal of Medicine, Pediatrics, NeuroImage, and the Journal of Pediatrics. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders and is a peer reviewer for a number of prestigious medical journals. She is a member of the Neonatal-Perinatal Sub-Board for the American Board of Pediatrics as well as several other professional organizations.

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  Terrie E. Inder, MD, MBChB

  Chair, Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine
  Brigham and Women's Hospital
  Harvard Medical School
  Boston, Massachusetts