Peter Giannone, MD

As a practicing neonatologist and Chief of Neonatology at Kentucky Children’s Hospital, as well as a Senior Inpatient Medical Director and Director of our Academic Service Line, I have been close to the many medical problems that affect the newborn patient population. I recognize the potential value of developing projects that address key aspects of in utero environment-related disease development in Kentucky’s newborns and children. I also am keenly aware of the impact of prenatal and postnatal ‘insults’ on medical and social outcomes. I have developed my research program to address these problems, with the central belief that translational research can, and does, lead solutions to important medical problems. As a neonatologist I have struggled with caring for newborn babies with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), and I also know the clinical challenges related to treatment in these fragile infants. To that end, I have a strong interest in translational studies designed to find better solutions to help improve newborn outcomes.