Meeting Speaker for June 9, 2015
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Dr. Robin Steinhorn, Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics and Physician in Chief, UC Davis Children’s Hospital, is a specialist in neonatal-perinatal medicine and an expert in the area of extracorporeal life support (ECMO).
She received her undergraduate degree in biology from the University of Akron in Ohio and her medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis. She completed her residency in pediatrics and fellowship in neonatology at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Prior to coming to UC Davis, Dr. Steinhorn was the Raymond and Hazel Speck Berry Professor and Chief of the Division of Neonatology and Vice Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Northwestern University and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.
She is a highly respected clinician and researcher whose primary focus is the pulmonary vascular development of the fetus and newborn. Dr. Steinhorn is widely known for her research, developed in animal models and clinical studies, on nitric oxide signaling in young lungs. She is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Pediatrics, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Her professional affiliations include the American Thoracic Society, Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society, Extracorporeal Life Support Organization, American Academy of Pediatrics, Perinatal Research Society and Western Society for Pediatric Research. Dr. Steinhorn is a member of the PEDIATRICS (CHHD-A) Review committee at NICHD.