Lifespan, Brown announce new top pediatrician

PROVIDENCE – Starting next spring, Dr. Phyllis Dennery will lead pediatric care, teaching and research at the Lifespan health system and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, the institutions announced recently.

Dennery, currently the Chief of the Division of Neonatology and Newborn Services at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, will begin work in Rhode Island on April 15, 2015. She’ll serve as pediatrician-in-chief and medical director at Hasbro Children’s Hospital and as chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Brown.

In Philadelphia, Dennery oversees more than 300 neonatal intensive care beds in 11 hospitals as well as 90 medical faculty and staff members and 18 fellows. She earned her medical degree at Howard University and performed her residency at Children’s Hospital National Medical Center (both in Washington, D.C). She conducted research and taught at Stanford University from 1990 to 2003 before moving to Philadelphia.

Dennery’s research, consistently funded by the National Institutes of Health for 24 years, concerns lung problems and other medical conditions among newborns. She studies the regulation of lung gene expression in oxidative stress, in particular the enzyme heme oxygenase, which affects bilirubin production. In the clinic she specializes in neonatal jaundice, bronchopulmonary dysplasia and the long-term consequences of prematurity.

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