My research interests include evaluating methods of improving outcomes in extremely premature infants (those born less than 30 weeks gestation). My current NIH- funded project is evaluating if we can utilize changes in physiologic variables (vital signs, NIRS, cardiac output) to predict the individual risk of patients suffering a consequence of prematurity during their hospitalization. With this real-time statistic, we can also monitor the risk level as it decreases when therapy is initiated or changed with regards to the specific outcome the patient was at higher risk for. This is relevant to IDD because two of the outcomes are related to brain injury (intraventricular hemorrhage and periventricular leukomalacia). Additionally, I am involved in neonatal hemodynamics research which includes assessing the cardiovascular status of critically ill infants to determine physiology and how it affects cerebral autoregulation, cerebral perfusion, and the effects of different pathologies (ex. PDA, PH) on cerebral function and outcomes.