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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2005 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Donna M. Ferriero is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on pediatric and neonatal medicine, especially in areas relating to neonatal and fetal brain pathology and respiratory health.

Their recent papers include the following:

  • "Early Intervention for Children Aged 0 to 2 Years With or at High Risk of Cerebral Palsy," 2021, published in JAMA Pediatrics
  • "Neuroimaging of the Preterm Brain: Review and Recommendations," 2021, published in The Journal of Pediatrics
  • "Setting research priorities to improve global newborn health and prevent stillbirths by 2025," 2020, published by UNC Libraries
  • "Neonatal presentation of genetic epilepsies: Early differentiation from acute provoked seizures," 2021, published in Epilepsia
  • "The Sarnat score for neonatal encephalopathy: looking back and moving forward," 2020, published in Pediatric Research

Frequent co-authors of Donna M. Ferriero include:

  • Duan Xu
  • Hannah C. Glass
  • Linda S. de Vries
  • Terrie E. Inder
  • Dawn Gano

Their publications have often appeared in the following venues:

  • Pediatric Research
  • Developmental Neuroscience
  • Stroke
  • The Journal of Pediatrics
  • Neurobiology of Disease

Donna M. Ferriero's work is primarily categorized within the broader field of Medicine. Their notable subfields of study include:

  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Molecular Biology
  • Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
  • Neurology

The main topics covered in their research involve:

  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
  • Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances

Throughout their career, Donna M. Ferriero has been recognized through various honors, including being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013, a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2005, and a Member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Selective head cooling with mild systemic hypothermia after neonatal encephalopathy: multicentre randomised trial

    Peter D Gluckman;John S Wyatt;Denis Azzopardi;Roberta Ballard

  • Brain development in rodents and humans: Identifying benchmarks of maturation and vulnerability to injury across species

    Bridgette D. Semple;Klas Blomgren;Klas Blomgren;Kayleen Gimlin;Donna M. Ferriero

  • Early, accurate diagnosis and early intervention in cerebral palsy: Advances in diagnosis and treatment

    Iona Novak;Cathy Morgan;Lars Adde;James Blackman

  • Neonatal brain injury.

    Donna M. Ferriero

  • Rat forebrain neurogenesis and striatal neuron replacement after focal stroke.

    Jack M. Parent;Zinaida S. Vexler;Chao Gong;Nikita Derugin

  • Management of Stroke in Infants and Children A Scientific Statement From a Special Writing Group of the American Heart Association Stroke Council and the Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young

    E. Steve Roach;Meredith R. Golomb;Robert Adams;Jose Biller

  • Abnormal Brain Development in Newborns with Congenital Heart Disease

    Steven P. Miller;Patrick S. McQuillen;Shannon Hamrick;Duan Xu

  • The role of inflammation in perinatal brain injury

    Henrik Hagberg;Henrik Hagberg;Carina Mallard;Donna M. Ferriero;Susan J. Vannucci

  • Role of hypoxia-inducible factor-1 in hypoxia-induced ischemic tolerance in neonatal rat brain

    Marcelle Bergeron;Jeffrey M. Gidday;Aimee Y. Yu;Gregg L. Semenza

  • Patterns of brain injury in term neonatal encephalopathy

    Steven P. Miller;Vijay Ramaswamy;David Michelson;A. James Barkovich

  • Prediction of neuromotor outcome in perinatal asphyxia: evaluation of MR scoring systems.

    A J Barkovich;B L Hajnal;D Vigneron;A Sola

  • Management of Stroke in Neonates and Children: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association

    Donna M. Ferriero;Heather J. Fullerton;Timothy J. Bernard;Lori Billinghurst

  • Ischemic Perinatal Stroke: Summary of a Workshop Sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

    Tonse N K Raju;Karin B Nelson;Donna Ferriero;John Kylan Lynch

  • Early brain injury in premature newborns detected with magnetic resonance imaging is associated with adverse early neurodevelopmental outcome.

    Steven P. Miller;Donna M. Ferriero;Carol Leonard;Robert Piecuch

  • Clinical Neonatal Seizures are Independently Associated with Outcome in Infants at Risk for Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury

    Hannah C. Glass;David Glidden;Rita J. Jeremy;A. James Barkovich

  • Maternal and infant characteristics associated with perinatal arterial stroke in the infant

    Janet Lee;Lisa A. Croen;Kendall H. Backstrand;Cathleen K. Yoshida

  • Seizure-associated brain injury in term newborns with perinatal asphyxia

    S. P. Miller;J. Weiss;A. Barnwell;D. M. Ferriero

  • Early Neurodegeneration after Hypoxia-Ischemia in Neonatal Rat Is Necrosis while Delayed Neuronal Death Is Apoptosis.

    Frances J. Northington;Donna M. Ferriero;Ernest M. Graham;Richard J. Traystman

  • Diffusion tensor imaging: serial quantitation of white matter tract maturity in premature newborns.

    Savannah C Partridge;Pratik Mukherjee;Roland G Henry;Steven P Miller

  • Selective vulnerability of subplate neurons after early neonatal hypoxia-ischemia.

    Patrick S. McQuillen;R. Ann Sheldon;Carla J. Shatz;Donna M. Ferriero

Frequent Co-Authors

A. James Barkovich
A. James Barkovich University of California, San Francisco
Steven P. Miller
Steven P. Miller University of Toronto
Daniel B. Vigneron
Daniel B. Vigneron University of California, San Francisco
David V. Glidden
David V. Glidden University of California, San Francisco
Frank R. Sharp
Frank R. Sharp University of California, Davis
Alistair J. Gunn
Alistair J. Gunn University of Auckland
Robert O. Messing
Robert O. Messing The University of Texas at Austin
Stephen L. Hauser
Stephen L. Hauser University of California, San Francisco
Roland G. Henry
Roland G. Henry University of California, San Francisco
Jorge R. Oksenberg
Jorge R. Oksenberg University of California, San Francisco

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