Donna Ferriero, MD, MS
Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine

415-502-7319

Donna Ferriero, MD MS is a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at UCSF. She is also a member of the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program and the Weill Institute for Neurosciences. Dr. Ferriero is Director of the Neonatal Brain Disorder Laboratories and former co-director of the Newborn Brain Research Institute at UCSF.

Show full bio (130 words) Hide full bio

Her laboratory has been critical in defining the relationship of selectively vulnerable populations of neural cells during maturation-dependent injury. She received the UCSF Chancellor’s Award for the Advancement of Women and the Maureen Andrew Mentor Award from the Society for Pediatric Research. She is Past-President of the Child Neurology Society and the American Pediatric Society. She is the recipient of the 2000 Sydney Carter Award for excellence and leadership in Child Neurology, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2005. She received the Royer Award for Excellence in Academic Neurology in 2007 and the Willis Lecture for outstanding contributions to stroke research in 2010. She was elected to the Association of American Physicians in 2011 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013.

Education & Training

Show all (3) Hide

  • Fellowship Pediatrics: Child Neurology University of California, San Francisco 1985
  • Residency Pediatrics Mass General 1982
  • M.D. Medicine University of California, San Francisco 1979

Interests

Show all (9) Hide

  • neonate
  • brain
  • hypoxia
  • injury
  • hypoxic gene signaling
  • newborn brain injury
  • ischemia
  • development
  • oxidative injury

Websites

Show all (1) Hide

Grants and Projects

Show all (15) Hide

Publications (352)

Top publication keywords:
NeurologyAsphyxia NeonatorumAnimals, NewbornHypoxia, BrainInfant, Newborn, DiseasesErythropoietinHypoxia-Ischemia, BrainGlutathione PeroxidaseInfant, NewbornBrain InjuriesHypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha SubunitBrainInfant, PrematureNeuroprotective AgentsHypothermia, Induced

Show all (347 more) Hide