Nathalie L. Maitre, MD, PhD
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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.
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NICU Developmental Therapies
Medical Director -
NICU Follow-up Programs
Medical Director -
Neonatology
Physician Team -
Maitre Lab
Principal Investigator -
Center for Perinatal Research
Principal Investigator -
Neonatology Fellowship
Faculty -
Primary Department
Pediatrics -
Primary Section
Neonatology
Date of Appointment at Nationwide Children’s Hospital: 07/01/2015
| Fellowship | University of North Carolina Hospitals | Date Completed: 08/31/2008 |
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| Residency | Duke Children's Hospital and Health Center | Date Completed: 08/31/2005 |
| Medical School | Medical University of South Carolina | Date Completed: 05/17/2002 |
