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Faculty

papile

Lu-Ann Papile, M.D.

Academic Appointments

  • Professor of Pediatrics—Neonatology

Clinical Titles

  • Director of Developmental Care and Follow-up

Board Certifications

  • Pediatrics
  • Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Current Positions in Professional Organizations

  • Member, NeoPREP Planning Committee, Section on Perinatal Medicine, American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Chair, Committee on Fetus and Newborn (COFN), American Academy of Pediatrics

Professional History

  • M.D., Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, 1969
  • Intern, University of New Mexico Hospital, Albuquerque NM, 1969–1970
  • Pediatric Resident, University of New Mexico Hospital, Albuquerque NM, 1970–1972
  • Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellow, University of New Mexico Hospital, Albuquerque NM, 1973–1975

Academic Interests

  • Neonatal brain injury
  • Neurodevelopmental outcome of at-risk neonates

Recent Publications

  1. Bassler D, Stoll BJ, Schmidt B, Asztalos EV, Roberts RS, Robertson CM, Sauve RS; Trial of Indomethacin Prophylaxis in Preterm Investigators. Using a count of neonatal morbidities to predict poor outcome in extremely low birth weight infants: added role of neonatal infection. Pediatrics 2009;123:313-318. [LA Papile, UNM site principal investigator].
  2. Cotten CM, Taylor S, Stoll B, Goldberg RN, Hansen NI, Sanchez PJ, Ambalavanan N, Benjamin DK Jr; NICHD Neonatal Research Network. Prolonged duration of initial empirical antibiotic treatment is associated with increased rates of necrotizing enterocolitis and death for extremely low birth weight infants. Pediatrics 2009;123:58-66. [LA Papile, UNM site principal investigator].
  3. Laadt V, Woodward B, Papile LA. System of Risk Triage (SORT): A conceptual framework to guide referral and developmental intervention decisions in the NICU. Infants & Young Children 2007;20:336–344.
  4. Fanaroff AA, Stoll BJ, Wright LL, Carlo WA, Ehrenkranz RA, Stark AR, Bauer CR, Donovan EF, Korones SB, Laptook AR, Lemons JA, Papile LA, Shankaran S, Stevenson DK, Tyson JE, Poole WK; Neonatal Research Network. Trends in neonatal mortality and morbidity for very low birthweight infants. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2007;196:147.e1–147.e8.
  5. Kabra V, Schmidt B, Roberts RS, Doyle LW, Papile LA, Fanaroff AA, and the Trial of Indomethacin Prophylaxis in Preterms (TIPP) investigators. Neurosensory impairment after surgical closure of patent ductus arteriosus in extremely low birth weight infants. J Pediatr 2007;150:229–234.