Nathalie L. Maitre, MD, PhD

Nathalie Maitre, MD, PhD, is a neonatologist and physician-scientist with a long-standing commitment to neurodevelopmental follow-up with passion for research impacting the long-term outcomes of NICU graduates. She is the Director of the NICU Follow-up Program and NICU Music Therapy Program at Nationwide Children's Hospital, and leads a diverse team of scientists, engineers, and therapists who believe strongly in the need to identify children at high-risk for disabilities as early as possible to optimize recovery after brain insults of the neonatal period. Dr. Maitre’s research program focuses on developing research-based strategies to maximize every child’s potential, followed by rapid translation to clinical practice.

• Research emphasizes the development of objective and quantitative measures of neural function in infants and children to allow the rational design and testing of neuroprotective/habilitative strategies.
• She has developed novel techniques to measure cortical processing of speech sound differentiation and tactile modalities in NICU patients and designed parental-speech based interventions to improve outcomes.
• She is particularly interested in the sensory system of infants and children and how it can be harnessed to design new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.
• Current NIH funded clinical trials of rehabilitation in preterm infants or infants with neonatal neural injury with cerebral palsy focus on mechanistically-driven and parent-supported sensory motor interventions.

APPLES Research Study

MIND Research Study