Research Recherche

Research Themes and Focus Areas: 

• Translational Neonatal Hemodynamics: Advancing the clinical application of targeted neonatal echocardiography (TnECHO), with a focus on optimizing cardiovascular assessments in preterm infants, term neonates with encephalopathy, and patients with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH). 

• Digital Health and Medical Informatics in Neonatology: Development and implementation of open-access, web-based platforms and mobile applications to enhance education, decision support, and standardization in neonatal cardiovascular care. 

• Right Ventricular Function and Pulmonary Hypertension: Investigation of right ventricular performance, pulmonary vascular transitions, and phenotypic classification of pulmonary hypertension in the neonatal period, including integration of bedside imaging, biomarkers, and physiology-based modeling. 

• Normative Data and Growth Analytics: Establishing and validating reference ranges for neonatal echocardiographic parameters, z-score tools, and growth centiles to support individualized cardiovascular assessments and research harmonization. 

• Knowledge Translation and Global Capacity Building: Promoting equitable access to neonatal hemodynamics education through digital dissemination, multilingual content development, and international collaboration.

• Fetal Cardiovascular Phenotypes and Long-Term Trajectories: Exploring the impact of fetal cardiovascular remodeling, and maternal-fetal unit on pre- and postnatal hemodynamics, NICU course, and long-term cardiovascular outcomes of NICU graduates, including early markers of cardiopulmonary risk.