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Faculty

Chantal Lau, PhD

Chantal Lau, Ph.D.

Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor of Pediatrics—Neonatology
  • Adjunct Professor, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Current Positions in Professional Organizations

  • NIH Study Section, Biobehavioral Regulation, Learning, and Ethology (July 1, 2009 – Current)
  • Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (Current)
  • Sigma Xi (Current)
  • Endocrine Society (Current)
  • International Society for Research on Human Milk and Lactation (Current)

Professional History

  • Ph.D., Physiology, University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 1970
  • U.S. Public Health Postdoctoral Fellow, Univ of California, Dept of Physiology-Anatomy, Berkeley, CA
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Biology, Univ of Houston, Houston, TX

Academic Interests

  • Development of sucking, swallowing, respiration, and their coordination in the preterm infant
  • Development of interventions to enhance oral feeding skills in preterm infants
  • Study of maternal stress, e.g., depression, anxiety, and its effect on lactation and maternal-infant interaction

Recent Publications

  1. Fucile S, Gisel, E, McFarland DH, Lau C. Oral and non-oral sensorimotor interventions enhance oral feeding performance in preterm infants. Dev Med Child Neurol, 2011; 53:829-835 (DOI:10.1111/j.1469-8749.2011.04023.x)
  2. Fucile S, McFarland DH, Gisel EG, Lau C. Oral and nonoral sensorimotor interventions facilitate suck-swallow-respiration functions and their coordination in preterm infants. Early Hum Dev 2011, DOI: 101016/j.earlhumdev.2011.09.007
  3. Lau C, Smith EO. Interventions for improving the oral feeding performance of preterm infants. 2012;
  4. Acta Paediatr
    5. 101: e269-274 (DOI:10.1111/j.1651-2227.2012.02662.x)
  5. Lau C. Is there an advantage for preterm infants to feed orally in an upright or sidelying position? Journal of Neonatal Nursing 2012, (DOI:10.1016/j.jnn.2012.03.013)
  6. Lau C, Fucile S, Gisel EG. Impact of nonnutritive oral motor oral stimulation and infant massage on oral feeding skills in preterm infants. J Neonatal Perinatol Med In Press