Faculty
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
- Fucile S, Gisel, E, McFarland DH, Lau C. Oral and non-oral sensorimotor interventions enhance oral feeding performance in preterm infants. Dev Med hild Neurol, In press.
- Schanler RJ, Fraley JK, Lau C., Hurst NM, Horvath L, Rossmann SN. Breastmilk cultures and infection in extremely premature infants. J Perinatology 2011, 31: 335-338.
- Lau C., Smith EO. A novel approach to assess oral feeding kills of preterm infants Neonatology 2011;100:64-70.
- Rasch S, Sangild PT, Gregersen H, Schmidt M, Omari T, Lau C. The preterm piglet - a model in the study of esophageal development in preterm neonates Acta Paediatrica 2010, 99: 201-8.
- Fucile S, Gisel E, Schanler RJ; Lau C. A vacuum-free bottle enhances preterm infants' nutritive sucking skills. Dysphagia 2009, 24:145-51.
