April 7, 2016
Building for Environmental Teaching and Research, 85 Waterman Street
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Biography
Phyllis A. Dennery, MD, FAAP, is the Sylvania Kay Hassenfeld Professor and Chair of Pediatrics at the Warren Alpert Medical School; Pediatrician-in-Chief, Rhode Island Hospital; Medical Director, Hasbro Children’s Hospital; and Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry at Brown.
She obtained her B.S. in Biology from McGill University and her medical degree from Howard University. She completed a residency in Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital National Medical Center and a fellowship in Neonatology at Case Western Reserve University (Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital) in Cleveland, Ohio.
Dr. Dennery is the recipient of many awards and honors including an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Ursinus College, an appointment to the Secretary of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality and election to the Institute of Medicine (now in the National Academy of Medicine) in 2014.
Dr. Dennery’s research focuses on neonatal lung injury and repair. Her clinical interests are the long-term consequences of prematurity as well as improving pediatric health through community engagement.
Children are both resilient and vulnerable to their intrauterine environment, as well as, to the world they live in once they are born. These early influences have lifelong impacts on their abilities to be productive and healthy adults. Fortunately, individualized interventions targeted early can positively impact children’s health. In order to generate cutting-edge hypotheses, make discoveries in the laboratory and in the clinics, understand the impact of new therapies, pinpoint areas where children and families are most at risk and ultimately disseminate new approaches, collaborations between the Alpert Medical School, the School of Public Health, the hospitals and the community are crucial. Dr Dennery will discuss the framework and novel approaches to arrive at important solutions to better the lives of the children and their families.