2019 Lindenauer Lecture
Novel Roles of Placental Hormones in Newborn Brain Injury
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Speaker: Anna Penn, MD, PhD, Chief of Neonatology in the Department of Pediatrics at Columbia University (January 2020)
On November 7, the 2019 Marilyn R. Lindenauer Distinguished Speaker Series hosted Anna Penn, MD, PhD, who discussed “Novel Roles of Placental Hormones in Newborn Brain Injury” at the Vagelos Education Center at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC).
Dr. Penn is a neonatologist and developmental neuroscientist at Children’s National Health System in Washington, D.C. She is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at George Washington University School of Medicine, with appointments in the Children’s National Fetal Medicine Institute, Neonatology and the Center for Neuroscience Research. In January 2020, she will join Columbia University as the Chief of Neonatology in the Department of Pediatrics.