Manoj Gupta
<p>Manoj Gupta, MBBS, MD, is an Attending Physician in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore and an Assistant Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He specializes in noninvasive pediatric cardiology, with special interests in sports cardiology and congenital heart disease in young patients. Dr. Gupta joined Montefiore in 2018.</p><p>Dr. Gupta received his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at Lokmarya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Sion Hospital in Mumbai, India in 2003. He completed a junior residency at DDU Hospital in Delhi, India from 2003 to 2004 and then completed a residency in Pediatrics in 2008 at Maharaja Agrasen Hospital. In 2009, Dr. Gupta started another residency in Pediatrics at Sparrow Hospital, Michigan State University and completed that in 2012. In 2015, he completed a fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology at Case Medical Center. </p><p>Dr. Gupta treats all cardiac conditions for inpatient, ICU and outpatients, ranging from infancy through young adults. This spans everything from complex congenital heart disease to acquired heart conditions. He has extensive teaching experience from medical students to residents at various institutions over last 10 years.</p><p>Dr. Gupta has had his clinical research work on pediatric health published in numerous journals.</p><p>Dr. Gupta is board certified in both Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology by the American Board of Pediatrics and is a member of numerous professional societies, including the American College of Cardiology and the American Academy of Pediatrics. </p>
Purnima Garg
<p><strong>Education</strong></p>
<p>Medical School: Lady Hardinge Medical College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India<br />Residency: Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center (Family Medicine)</p>
Mamta Fuloria
<p>Critically ill neonates, mechanical ventilation, meconium aspiration pulmonary vascualr biology, oxidative stress.</p>
Neonatology; critically ill neonates
Optimizing respiratory management of infants in order to prevent chronic lung disease and management of pulmonary hypertension in neonates; neonatal nutrition; necrotizing enterocolitis; fetal programming of adult diseases
<p>Dr. Fuloria, Associate Program Director for the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program at The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, obtained her medical degree from King George’s Medical College in Lucknow, India, and then did her pediatric residency and neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC. Upon completion of her fellowship, she joined the faculty at Wake Forest University. In 2006 she took a two-year sabbatical, during which she was a Visiting Scientist at the prestigious National Institute of Biological Sciences (of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) in Bangalore, India. In 2010 Dr. Fuloria joined the Department of Pediatrics at Montefiore. </p><p>Dr. Fuloria is a recipient of the 2000 Physician Scientist Award from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the 2002 C. Scott Venable Research Award in Respiratory Diseases awarded by the American Lung Association. She has been a member of the SPR Communications Committee and the SPR Fellows Basic Research Award (and the David G. Nathan Award) Selection Committee since 2010.</p>
Sameen Farooq
Nagma Dalvi
Jillian M. Connors
<p>Jillian Connors, MD, FAAP, is a neonatologist and Assistant Professor, Pediatrics at Montefiore Einstein. Dr. Connors is a neonatal-perinatal medicine specialist, and in her clinical role, she cares for critically ill and preterm infants with a wide variety of acute and chronic healthcare needs.</p><p>After obtaining her Bachelor of Science in biology from Canisius College in 2007, Dr. Connors earned her Doctor of Medicine at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2011. She then attended the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she completed her pediatric internship and residency in 2014 and became Chief Resident until 2015. Dr. Connors also completed a neonatal-perinatal fellowship at this institution in 2018.</p><p>Building on her clinical focus, Dr. Connors’ research focuses on quality improvement, simulation, neonatal nutrition and breastfeeding. Her work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and abstracts.</p><p>Dr. Connors is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in General Pediatrics and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the International Pediatric Simulation Society.</p>
Praveen Ballabh
<p>Our laboratory studies the pathogenesis of intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) and evaluates neuro-protective strategies to prevent brain injury after IVH in premature infants. The major projects in our laboratory are focused on determining a) the mechanisms underlying white matter injury in premature infants with IVH and approaches to minimize the damage, b) the effect of IVH on glutamatergic neurogenesis and corticogenesis in the developing brain, and strategies to restore these processes, and c) the effect of prematurity on neurogenesis and corticogenesis.</p>
<p>To answer our research questions, we employ a preterm rabbit model (<em>in vivo</em> studies) and an <em>in vitro</em> organotypic forebrain slice culture model of IVH. Our glycerol model of IVH in preterm rabbits exhibits periventricular white matter injury and post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus similar to that seen in human preterm survivors with IVH. In addition, we analyze autopsy samples from preterm infants with and without IVH. Commonly used techniques include Immunohistochemistry, confocal microscopy, stereological quantification of neural cells, Western blot analyses, real time qPCR, slice culture, neuronal migration studies, viral gene transfer, flow-cytometry, and magnetic bead isolation of cells.</p>
Effect of prematurity on brain development,
Effect of IVH in interneurons,
Effect of IVH on blood brain barrier development,
Hydrocephalus
<p><strong>Selected Bibliography:</strong></p>
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<p style="background: #fefefe; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><a name="_Hlk65666964"></a><a name="_Hlk63084336"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65666964;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1.Krishna S. Cheng B, Sharma D, Yadav S, Ballabh P. PPAR</span></span><a name="_Hlk75795679"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65666964;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63084336;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">g</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk75795679;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65666964;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63084336;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> activation enhances myelination and neurological recovery in premature rabbits with intraventricular hemorrhage</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65666964;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63084336;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN;">. PNAS in press 2021 </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65666964;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63084336;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span></span></p>
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<p style="background: #fefefe; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk65666964;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63084336;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN;">2. Ballabh P, de Vries LS. White matter injury in infants with intraventricular haemorrhage: mechanisms and therapies. Nat Rev Neurol. 2021 Apr;17(4):199-214. doi: 10.1038/s41582-020-00447-8. Epub 2021 Jan 27. PMID: 33504979</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="background: #fefefe; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN;">3. Cheng B, Ballabh P. Recovery of the brain after intraventricular hemorrhage. Semin Fetal Neonatal Med. 2021 Feb 26:101224. doi: 10.1016/j.siny.2021.101224. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33888444</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">4. Klebe D, Tibrewal M, Sharma DR, Vanparthy R, Krishna S, Varghese M Cheng B, Dobrenis K, Hof PR, Ballabh P. Reduced hippocampal dendritic branchign , spine density and neurocognitive function in preamture infants and reversal with estrogen and TrkB agonist treatment. Cerebral Cortex 2019 Dec 17:29912):4832-4947 PMID: 308777</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; margin: 0in -13.7pt 0in 0in; text-align: justify; tab-stops: 4.5pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">6.. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Dohare <strong>P</strong>, Cheng B, Ahmed E, Yadala V, Singla <strong>P</strong>, Thomas S, Kayton R, Ungvari Z, <strong>Ballabh</strong> <strong>P</strong>. Glycogen synthase 3b inhibition enhances myelination in preterm rabbit newborns with intraventricular hemorrhage, but not recombinant Wnt3A. <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Neurobiol Dis.</strong> 2018 Jun 22;118:22-39. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2018.06.015. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PMID 29940337</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; margin: 0in -13.7pt 0in 0in; text-align: justify; tab-stops: 4.5pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN;">7. Tibrewal M, Cheng B, Dohare <strong>P</strong>, Hu F, Mehdizadeh R, Wang <strong>P</strong>, Zheng D, Ungvari Z, <strong>Ballabh</strong> <strong>P</strong>. Disruption of interneuron neurogemeis in premature newborns and revesal with estrogen treatment. <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">J Neurosci.</strong> 2018 Jan 31;38(5):1100-1113. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1875-17.2017. Epub 2017 Dec 15. PMID: 29246927</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">8. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Panda S, Dohare P, Jain S,XParikh N,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Singla P, Mehdizadeh R,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Klebe DW,</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Kleinman G,</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">X Cheng B, <strong>Ballabh</strong></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> P. </strong><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Estrogen treatment reverses prematurity-induced disruption in cortical interneuron population. <strong>Journal of Neuroscience</strong></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">. 2018 Aug 22;38(34):7378-7391. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0478-18.2018. Epub 2018 Jul 23. PMID:30037831.</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">9.</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> Dohare P, Kidwai A, Kaur J, Singla P, Krishna S, <strong>Klebe</strong> D, Zhang X, Hevner R, <strong>Ballabh</strong> P. GSK3<u>β</u> inhibition restores impaired neurogenesis in preterm neonates with intraventricular hemorrhage. Cereb Cortex. 2018 Sep 6. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhy217. PMID: 30192926</span></p>
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<p style="background: #fefefe; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN;">10.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dohare P, Zia MT, Ahmed E, Ahmed A, Yadala V, Schober AL, Ortega JA, Kayton R, Ungvari Z, Mongin AA, <strong>Ballabh P</strong>. AMPA-Kainate Receptor Inhibition Promotes Neurologic Recovery in Premature Rabbits with Intraventricular Hemorrhage. <strong>J Neurosci.</strong> 2016 Mar 16;36(11):3363-77. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4329-15.2016. PMID: 26985043</span></p>
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<p style="background: #fefefe; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN;">11. Vinukonda G, Dohare P, Arshad A, Zia MT, Panda S, Korumilli R, Kayton R, Hascall VC, Lauer ME, <strong>Ballabh P</strong>. Hyaluronidase and Hyaluronan Oligosaccharides Promote Neurological Recovery after Intraventricular Hemorrhage. <strong>J Neurosci</strong>. 2016 Jan 20;36(3):872-89. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3297-15.2016.</span></p>
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<p style="background: #fefefe; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN;">12 Vinukonda G, Hu F, Mehdizadeh R. Kayton R, <strong>Ballabh P</strong>. Epidermal growth factor preserves myelin and promotes astrogliosis after intraventricular hemorrhage. <strong>Glia.</strong> 2016 Jul 29. doi: 10.1002/glia.23037. PMID: 27472419</span></p>
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<p style="background: #fefefe; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN;">13. Arshad A, Vose LR, Vinukonda G, Hu V, Yoshikawa K, Csiszar A, Brumberg J, <strong>Ballabh P</strong>. Extended production of cortical interneurons into the third trimester of human gestation. <strong>Cerebral cortex</strong>. 2015 Apr 16. PMID: 25882040</span></p>
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<p style="background: #fefefe; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN;">14. Vose LR, Vinukonda G, Jo S, Miry O, Diamond D, Korumilli R, Arshad A, Zia MT, Hu F, Kayton RJ, La Gamma EF, Bansal R, Bianco AC, <strong>Ballabh, P</strong>. Treatment with thyroxine restores myelination and clinical recovery after intraventricular hemorrhage. J Neurosci. 2013 Oct 30;33(44):17232-46</span></p>
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<p style="background: #fefefe; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN;">15. Malik S, Vinukonda G, Vose LR, Diamond D, Bhimavarapu BB, Hu F, Zia MT, Hevner R, Zecevic N, <strong>Ballabh P</strong>. Neurogenesis continues in the third trimester of pregnancy and is suppressed by premature birth. J Neurosci. 2013 Jan 9;33(2):411-23. PMID: 23303921</span></p>
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<p style="background: #fefefe; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN;">16. Dummula K, Vinukonda G, Chu P, Xing Y, Hu F, Mailk S, Csiszar A, Chua C, Mouton P, Kayton RJ, Brumberg JC, Bansal R,<strong> Ballabh P</strong>. Bone morphogenetic protein inhibition promotes Neurological recovery after intraventricular hemorrhage. J Neurosci. 2011 Aug 24;31(34):12068-82. PubMed. PMID:21865450; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3167068.</span></p>
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<p style="background: #fefefe; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN;">17. Vinukonda G, Csiszar, A, Hu F, Dummula K, Pandey NK, Zia MT, Ferreri, NR, Ungvari, Z, LaGamma, EF, <strong>Ballabh, P</strong>. Neuroprotection in intraventricular hemorrhage by cox-2 inhibition: EP1 receptor and TNF-α are downstream mediators of brain injury. Brain 2010 Aug;133(Pt 8):2264-802.</span></p>
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<p style="background: #fefefe; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN;">18. Chua C, Chahboune H, Braun A, Dummula K, Chua CE, Yu J, Ungvari Z, Sherbany A, Hyder F, <strong>Ballabh P</strong>. Consequences of intraventricular hemorrhage in a rabbit pup model. Stroke 2009 Oct;40(10):3369-77.</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span></p>
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<p style="background: #fefefe; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN;">19. Vinukonda G. Csiszar, A. Hu F, Dummula K, Pandey NK, Zia MT, Ferreri, NR, Ungvari, Z, LaGamma, EF, <strong>Ballabh, P</strong>. Effect of prenatal glucocorticoid on the vasculature of the developing brain. Stroke. 2010 Aug;41(8):1766-73. PubMed PMID:20616316; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2920046.</span></p>
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<p>Praveen Ballabh, MD, is an attending neonatologist, Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscientist at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore and Montefiore-Einstein. For more than two decades, Dr. Ballabh’s clinical focus has been in neonatology, working in level IV NICUs. His research is focused on intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) and he has made major contribution to the field. In fact, he has been one of the known world leaders in the field of IVH research.</p><p>In 1980, Dr. Ballabh completed his MD degree in Pediatrics in 1984 from the Institute of Medical Sciences in Varanasi, India. His postdoctoral training included a yearlong pediatric residency at Christ Hospital Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Illinois, which he completed in 1997, followed by a yearlong pediatric critical care fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Michigan. From 1998 to 2001, he pursued his neonatology fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell University.</p><p>Dr. Ballabh’s career goal is to transform the quality of life of survivors with IVH by bringing novel ideas from bench to bedside. His work as a translational and clinical scientist has already contributed immensely to this field. He is director of a basic science laboratory located at the Kennedy Center, where he studies mechanisms of brain injury produced by IVH and evaluates neuro-protective strategies to prevent damage after IVH in animal models ( <a href="https://ballabhlab.einsteinmedneuroscience.org/" target="_blank">https://ballabhlab.einsteinmedneuroscience.org/</a>). His research is funded by National Institute of health, foundations, and industry for about two decades. He shares his discoveries and findings through publication in peer-reviewed journals, invited presentations, book chapters and abstracts. He has also been a reviewer for several journals including <em>Nature Medicine, Brain, Journal of Neuroscience, EMBO, Stroke, Developmental Neuroscience, the Journal of Neuroscience Research</em>, and others.</p><p>Dr. Ballabh is board-certified in neonatal-perinatal medicine by the American Board of Pediatrics. He is a member of the Society of Pediatric Research, the Society of Neuroscience, the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association.</p>