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Seetha Shankaran is affiliated with Wayne State University in the United States and has an extensive publication record primarily focused on medical research, especially in pediatrics, perinatology, and child health. Their research contributions amount to 149 publications within the field of medicine, with a particular emphasis on neonatal and infant health.

The scholar's work frequently appears in the following publication venues:

  • Journal of Perinatology
  • The Journal of Pediatrics
  • JAMA Network Open
  • JAMA Pediatrics
  • Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal & Neonatal

Co-authorship collaborations are largely centered on key individuals in neonatal and pediatric research, including:

  • Abbot R. Laptook
  • Abhik Das
  • Waldemar A. Carlo
  • Rosemary D. Higgins
  • Edward F. Bell

Research topics explored by Seetha Shankaran cover several aspects of neonatal and infant health, notably:

  • Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Infectious Encephalopathies and Encephalitis

Their subfields of study include:

  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Epidemiology

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Seetha Shankaran include:

  • Hypothermia for moderate or severe neonatal encephalopathy in low-income and middle-income countries (HELIX): a randomised controlled trial in India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh, 2021, published in The Lancet Global Health
  • Initial Laparotomy Versus Peritoneal Drainage in Extremely Low Birthweight Infants With Surgical Necrotizing Enterocolitis or Isolated Intestinal Perforation, 2021, published in Annals of Surgery
  • Racial/Ethnic Disparities Among Extremely Preterm Infants in the United States From 2002 to 2016, 2020, published in JAMA Network Open
  • Neurological and developmental outcomes following neonatal encephalopathy treated with therapeutic hypothermia, 2021, published in Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine
  • Need for more evidence in the prevention and management of perinatal asphyxia and neonatal encephalopathy in low and middle-income countries: A call for action, 2021, published in Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

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

  • Effect of Corticosteroids for Fetal Maturation on Perinatal Outcomes: NIH Consensus Development Panel on the Effect of Corticosteroids for Fetal Maturation on Perinatal Outcomes

    Larry C. Gilstrap;Robert Christensen;William H. Clewell;Mary E. D'Alton

  • 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

  • Inhaled nitric oxide in full-term and nearly full-term infants with hypoxic respiratory failure

    E Stork;E Gorjanc;J Verter;N Younes

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

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

  • Childhood outcomes after hypothermia for neonatal encephalopathy

    Seetha Shankaran;Athina Pappas;Scott A. McDonald;Betty R. Vohr

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

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

  • 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

  • Vitamin A supplementation for extremely-low-birth-weight infants

    J E Tyson;L L Wright;W Oh;K A Kennedy

  • Sex differences in outcomes of very low birthweight infants: the newborn male disadvantage.

    D K Stevenson;J Verter;A A Fanaroff;W Oh

  • Incidence, presenting features, risk factors and significance of late onset septicemia in very low birth weight infants

    Avroy A. Fanaroff;Sheldon B. Korones;Linda L. Wright;Joel Verter

  • 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
Abbot R. Laptook
Abbot R. Laptook Brown University
Waldemar A. Carlo
Waldemar A. Carlo University of Alabama at Birmingham
Michele C. Walsh
Michele C. Walsh Case Western Reserve University
Edward F. Bell
Edward F. Bell University of Iowa
Barbara J. Stoll
Barbara J. Stoll The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Richard A. Ehrenkranz
Richard A. Ehrenkranz Yale University
Linda L. Wright
Linda L. Wright National Institutes of Health
Barry M. Lester
Barry M. Lester Brown University

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