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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2016 - John Howland Award, American Pediatric Society (APS)
  • 2009 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Barbara J. Stoll is affiliated with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in the United States. Their research spans primarily the field of Medicine, with significant contributions to Nursing. Their work focuses on subfields such as Nutrition and Dietetics, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Surgery.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
  • Infant Nutrition and Health
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Clinical Nutrition and Gastroenterology
  • Muscle Metabolism and Nutrition
  • Neonatal and Maternal Infections
  • Birth, Development, and Health

Barbara J. Stoll has published extensively in several journals, with the most frequent venues being:

  • The Journal of Pediatrics
  • JAMA Network Open
  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • JAMA
  • JAMA Pediatrics

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Douglas G. Burrin
  • Edward F. Bell
  • Abhik Das
  • Michele C. Walsh
  • Abbot R. Laptook

Among their recent published papers are:

  • Mortality, In-Hospital Morbidity, Care Practices, and 2-Year Outcomes for Extremely Preterm Infants in the US, 2013-2018, 2022, JAMA
  • Early-Onset Neonatal Sepsis 2015 to 2017, the Rise of Escherichia coli, and the Need for Novel Prevention Strategies, 2020, JAMA Pediatrics
  • Initial Laparotomy Versus Peritoneal Drainage in Extremely Low Birthweight Infants With Surgical Necrotizing Enterocolitis or Isolated Intestinal Perforation, 2021, Annals of Surgery
  • Racial/Ethnic Disparities Among Extremely Preterm Infants in the United States From 2002 to 2016, 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • Neurodevelopmental outcomes following neonatal late-onset sepsis and blood culture-negative conditions, 2021, Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal & Neonatal

Barbara J. Stoll was recognized with the John Howland Award from the American Pediatric Society in 2016 and was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Whole-body hypothermia for neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.

    Seetha Shankaran;Abbot R. Laptook;Richard A. Ehrenkranz;Jon E. Tyson

  • Neonatal Outcomes of Extremely Preterm Infants From the NICHD Neonatal Research Network

    Barbara J. Stoll;Nellie I. Hansen;Edward F. Bell;Seetha Shankaran

  • Late-Onset Sepsis in Very Low Birth Weight Neonates: The Experience of the NICHD Neonatal Research Network

    Barbara J. Stoll;Nellie Hansen;Avroy A. Fanaroff;Linda L. Wright

  • Trends in Care Practices, Morbidity, and Mortality of Extremely Preterm Neonates, 1993-2012

    Barbara J. Stoll;Nellie I. Hansen;Edward F. Bell;Michele C. Walsh

  • Very low birth weight outcomes of the National Institute of Child health and human development neonatal research network, January 1995 through December 1996. NICHD Neonatal Research Network.

    James A. Lemons;Charles R. Bauer;William Oh;Sheldon B. Korones

  • Neurodevelopmental and growth impairment among extremely low-birth-weight infants with neonatal infection.

    Barbara J. Stoll;Nellie I. Hansen;Ira Adams-Chapman;Avroy A. Fanaroff

  • Trends in neonatal morbidity and mortality for very low birthweight infants

    Avroy A. Fanaroff;Barbara J. Stoll;Linda L. Wright;Waldemar A. Carlo

  • Early Onset Neonatal Sepsis: The Burden of Group B Streptococcal and E. coli Disease Continues

    Barbara J. Stoll;Nellie I. Hansen;Pablo J. Sánchez;Roger G. Faix

  • Early-onset sepsis in very low birth weight neonates : A report from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network

    Barbara J. Stoll;Tavia Gordon;Sheldon B. Korones;Seetha Shankaran

  • Longitudinal Growth of Hospitalized Very Low Birth Weight Infants

    Richard A. Ehrenkranz;Naji Younes;James A. Lemons;Avroy A. Fanaroff

  • Changes in pathogens causing early-onset sepsis in very-low-birth-weight infants

    Barbara J. Stoll;Nellie Hansen;Avroy A. Fanaroff;Linda L. Wright

  • Prolonged duration of initial empirical antibiotic treatment is associated with increased rates of necrotizing enterocolitis and death for extremely low birth weight infants.

    C. Michael Cotten;Sarah Taylor;Barbara J Stoll;Ronald N. Goldberg

  • Neurodevelopmental and Growth Outcomes of Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants After Necrotizing Enterocolitis

    Susan R. Hintz;Douglas E. Kendrick;Barbara J. Stoll;Betty R. Vohr

  • Neonatal Candidiasis Among Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants: Risk Factors, Mortality Rates, and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes at 18 to 22 Months

    Daniel K. Benjamin;Barbara J. Stoll;Avory A. Fanaroff;Scott A. McDonald

  • Causes and Timing of Death in Extremely Premature Infants from 2000 through 2011

    Ravi M. Patel;Sarah Kandefer;Michele C. Walsh;Edward F. Bell

  • Neonatal infectious diseases: evaluation of neonatal sepsis.

    Andres Camacho-Gonzalez;Paul W. Spearman;Barbara J. Stoll

  • Role of human milk in extremely low birth weight infants’ risk of necrotizing enterocolitis or death

    J. Meinzen-Derr;B. Poindexter;L. Wrage;A. L. Morrow

  • Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn in the era before nitric oxide: practice variation and outcomes.

    Michele C. Walsh-Sukys;Jon E. Tyson;Linda L. Wright;Charles R. Bauer

  • Between-Hospital Variation in Treatment and Outcomes in Extremely Preterm Infants

    Matthew A. Rysavy;Lei Li;Edward F. Bell;Abhik Das

  • Whole-Body Hypothermia for Neonates With Hypoxic???Ischemic Encephalopathy

    Seetha Shankaran;Abbot R. Laptook;Richard A. Ehrenkranz;Jon E. Tyson

Frequent Co-Authors

Rosemary D. Higgins
Rosemary D. Higgins George Mason University
Abhik Das
Abhik Das RTI International
Seetha Shankaran
Seetha Shankaran Wayne State University
Waldemar A. Carlo
Waldemar A. Carlo University of Alabama at Birmingham
Abbot R. Laptook
Abbot R. Laptook Brown University
Edward F. Bell
Edward F. Bell University of Iowa
Michele C. Walsh
Michele C. Walsh Case Western Reserve University
Richard A. Ehrenkranz
Richard A. Ehrenkranz Yale University
Linda L. Wright
Linda L. Wright National Institutes of Health
William Oh
William Oh Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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