Faculty
Martha Douglas-Escobar, M.D.
Academic Appointments
- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics—Neonatology
Clinical Titles
- Attending Neonatologist, Texas Children’s Hospital
Board Certifications
- Pediatrics
Current Positions in Professional Organizations
- Member, American Academy of Pediatrics
Professional History
- M.D., Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia 1986
- Pediatric Resident in Pediatrics, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia 1988-1991
- Pediatrics professor at Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia 1991-2000
- Resident in Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco CA, 2003–2006
- Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellow, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 2006-2009
Academic Interests
- Neonatal brain injury
- Neurodevelopment outcome of at-risk neonates
- Medical education - simulation
- Postnatal nutrition and adult health programming
Recent Publications
- Li N, Russell WM, Douglas-Escobar M, Hauser N, Lopez M, Neu J. Live and heat-killed Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG: effects on proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines/chemokines in gastrostomy-fed infant rats. Pediatr Res. 2009 Aug;66(2):203-7. PMID: 19390478 [PubMed - in process].
- Neu J, Douglas-Escobar M, Lopez M. :Microbes and the developing gastrointestinal tract. Nutr Clin Pract. 2007 Apr; 22(2):174-82. Review.
- Neu J, Hauser N, Douglas-Escobar M. Postnatal nutrition and adult health programming. Semin Fetal Neonatal Med. 2007 Feb; 12(1):78-86. Review.
- Neu J, Douglas-Escobar M. Gastrointestinal development: Implication for infant feeding. Chapter 21 in book: Nutrition in Pediatrics by Duggan, Watkins and Walker 2008.
- Neu J. Douglas-Escobar M. Necrotizing enterocolitis: pathogenesis, clinical care and prevention (chapter 15) and Intestinal Barrier Function: implication for the neonate and beyond (chapter 6) in Gastroenterology and Nutrition: Neonatology Questions and Controversies by Neu J. 2008 WB Saunders.
