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Faculty

Yvette R. Johnson, M.D., M.P.H.

Yvette R. Johnson, M.D., M.P.H.

Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics—Neonatology

Clinical Titles

  • Attending Neonatologist, Texas Children's Hospital
  • Director, Neonatology Database

Board Certifications

  • Pediatrics
  • Neonatal–Perinatal Medicine

Professional History

  • M.D., Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis MO, 1987
  • M.P.H., Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore MD, 1994
  • Pediatric Intern, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis MO, 1987–1988
  • Pediatric Resident, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis MO, 1988–1990
  • Neonatal-Perinatal Fellow, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis MO, 1990–1993

Academic Interests

  • Effects of maternal stress on maternal-infant interaction, infant behavior, and neurodevelopmental outcomes
  • Quality of neonatal care and the specific clinical practices in the NICU that improve clinical outcomes
  • Transition of premature infants from the NICU to the home and community

Recent Publications

  1. Konduri G, Vohr B, Robertson C, Sokol GM, Solimano A, Singer J, Ehrenkranz RA, Singhal N, Wright LL, Van Meurs KP, Stork E, Kirpalani H, Peliowski A, Johnson Y for the NICHD Neonatal Research Network. Early Inhaled Nitric Oxide Therapy for Term and Near Term Newborn Infants with Hypoxic Respiratory Failure: Neurodevelopmental Follow-up. J Pediatr 2007; 150(3):235–240.
  2. Hintz SR, Van Meurs KP, Perritt R, Poole WK, Das A, Stevenson DK, Ehrenkranz RA, Lemons JA, Vohr BR, Heyne R, Childers DO, Peralta-Carcelen M, Dusick A, Johnson YR, Morris B, Dillard R, Vaucher Y, Steichen J, Adams-Chapman I, Konduri G, Myers GJ, de Ungria M, Tyson JE, Higgins RD; NICHD Neonatal Research Network. Neurodevelopmental outcomes of premature infants with severe respiratory failure enrolled in a randomized controlled trial of inhaled nitric oxide. J Pediatr 2007;151(1):16–22.
  3. Natarajan G, Johnson YR*, Zhang F, Chen KM, Worsham MJ. Real-time polymerase chain reaction for the rapid detection of group B streptococcal colonization in neonates. Pediatrics 2006; 118:14–22.
    *Senior and corresponding author
  4. Stone D, Frattarelli DAC, Karthikeyan SM, Johnson YR, Chintala K. Altered Prostaglandin E1 Dosage During Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in a Newborn with Ductal-dependent Congenital Heart Disease. Pediatric Cardiology 2006; 27:360–363.
  5. Shankaran S, Johnson Y, Langer J, Vohr B, Fanaroff A, Wright L, Poole K. Outcome of extremely-low-birth-weight infants at highest risk: gestational age ≤ 24 weeks, birth weight ≤ 750 g, and 1-minute Apgar ≤ 3. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2004;191(4):1084–91.