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Dr.
Nelson received her M.D. from the University of Chicago and trained in
Neurology at the University of Maryland, George Washington University,
and the National Hospital, Queen Square, UK. After experience in the
practice of academic child neurology at the Children's Hospital of
Washington, DC, she joined the NINDS, where she has worked on studies
of the natural history and etiology of major childhood neurologic
problems, chiefly cerebral palsy, epilepsy, neonatal seizures, febrile
seizures, and neurologic outcome in multiple births. Her recent work
centers on analytic epidemiology and biomarkers in cerebral palsy and
autism. Dr. Nelson's research was recognized by the Hower Award of the
Child Neurology Society in 1991, and by the Distinguished Basic
Neuroscientist Epilepsy Research Award of the American Epilepsy Society
and Milken Family Medical Foundation...
 Acting
Chief, Neuroepidemiology Branch, CNP, DIR, National Institute of Neurological
Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, M.D.
Born in Chicago and raised in Minnesota, Dr. Nelson received
her MD from the University of Chicago, and trained in Neurology. After experience in the practice of academic
child neurology at the Children’s Hospital of Washington, DC, she joined the
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the
National Institutes of Health (NIH), where she has worked on studies of the
natural history and etiology of major childhood neurologic problems, chiefly
cerebral palsy, epilepsy, neonatal seizures, febrile seizures, and neurologic
outcome in multiple births.
She has also participated in research and publications on
neurologic effects of phototherapy for hyperbilirubinemia and the etiology of
autism. Dr. Nelson is author or
co-author of more than a hundred publications relating to the causes of
childhood neurologic disability, and is now collaborating on major projects on
the etiology of cerebral palsy with the California Birth Defects Monitoring
Program.
Dr. Nelson has been consultant to or has served on many
academic and professional committees, was a member of the Executive Board of
the American Academy of Neurology, is or was on the editorial boards of a
number of journals including Neurology, Developmental Medicine and Child
Neurology, and Brain and Development, is a field editor of Epilepsy Advances,
and a member of the Advisory Board, International School of Neurosciences,
Venice, Italy.
Dr. Nelson’s research was recognized by the award in 1990 of
the United Cerebral Palsy Weinstein-Goldenson Research Award, by the
Mones
Award in Baltimore in 1990, by the Hower Award of the Child Neurology
Society
in 1991, and by the Distinguished Basic Neuroscientist Epilepsy
Research Award
on the American Epilepsy Society and Milken Family Medical Foundation
in 1992. Dr. Nelson received the NIH Director’s Award
in 1992, is an honorary member of the Society for Perinatal
Obstetricians 1994,
a member of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, and is president
of the
Neuroepidemiology Section of the American Academy of Neurology.
Dr. Nelson’s
current research interests center on the role of infection, inflammation, and
coagulation disorders on developmental neurologic disability. Website (neuroscience.nih.gov). |
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