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Publications
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Results of a Preoperative Screening Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging Protocol in Neonates Undergoing Cardiopulmonary Bypass
Islam IS, McGetrick ME, Leon R, Reyes K, Davies RR, Jaquiss RD, Andersen ND Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2026 -
Impact of fetal inflammatory response on brain MRI abnormalities in extremely preterm infants
Mir IN, Machie M, Clarke R, Brown LS, Leon R, Wisnowski JL, Chalak L Pediatric Research 2025 Dec 98 2203-2210 -
Placental Adaptations to Pregnancy Comorbidities in Fetal Congenital Heart Disease
Baldauf C, Desmond A, Leon RL, Rajagopalan V Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine 2025 Dec 27 -
Multi-organ dysfunction across the neonatal encephalopathy spectrum
Bitar L, Leon RL, Liu YL, Kota S, Chalak LF Pediatric Research 2025 Nov 98 1849-1855 -
Placental Role in Fetal Neonatal Neurologic Outcomes
Chalak LF, Bitar L, Leon R, Mir I Pediatric clinics of North America 2025 Oct 72 793-804 -
Timing of initiation of therapeutic hypothermia in neonates with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy born at a high-volume urban safety net hospital
Pazandak CC, Martinez MG, Whiting ME, Kota S, Brown LS, Chalak LF, Leon RL Early Human Development 2025 May 204 -
Subgaleal hemorrhage in neonates: a comprehensive review and summary recommendations
Babata K, Vadlamudi G, Bailey NA, Gill S, Viswanathan P, Sillero R, Seidu T, Mangona KL, Leon R, Angelis D Journal of Perinatology 2025 Feb 45 167-179 -
Neurodevelopmental outcomes in extremely preterm infants with placental pathologic evidence of fetal inflammatroy response
Alayli Y, Brown LS, Tolentino-Plata K, Leon R, Heyne R, Chalak LF, Mir IN Pediatric Research 2025 Feb 97 1147-1154 -
Placental inflammatory response and association with the severity of neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy
Mashat S, Bitar L, Mir IN, Leon RL, Brown LS, Chalak LF Early Human Development 2025 Feb 201 -
Arterial Spin Labeled MRI to Detect Early Placental Perfusion Differences in Fetal Heart Disease
Leon RL, Navalta M, Greer JS, Madhuranthakam AJ, Udayakumar D JAMA Network Open 2025 -
Placental pathology in SARS-CoV-2 infected pregnancies: A single-institution retrospective cohort analysis
Le T, Lee D, Brown LS, Payton BW, Sepulveda P, Sisman J, Leon RL, Chalak LF, Mir IN Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine 2024 Oct 17 623-636 -
Proceedings of the 15th International Newborn Brain Conference: Fetal and/or neonatal brain development, both normal and abnormal: Fota Island, Cork, Ireland, February 28th - March 2nd 2024
Abdi K, Adams E, Agarwal S, Aliyu MH, Altamimi T, Andescavage N, Aral A, Arfi H, Armour E, Armstrong L, Mulkey SB, Bambi J, Basu S, Beaulieu LB, Belfort M, Bell K, Benner E, Bernard C, Bhattacharya S, Biselele T, Bitar L, Blaz W, Bolay H, Bray M, Bruckert L, Busnelli A, Mayorga PC, Carrasco M, Carter E, Cassidy M, Chalak L, Chao A, Chauhan P, Cherkerzian S, Chernova L, Chowdhury R, Christou H, Ciralli F, Coletti M, Comanducci A, Comstock B, Cooke A, Cornet MC, Corsi-Cabrera M, Coscia A, Côte-Corriveau G, Cubero-Rego AC, Cubero-Rego Md, Cuddyer D, Cuzzilla R, Dehaes M, Doyle E, Drobyshevsky A, Dubner S, Duerden EG, Dunne A, DuPlessis A, Eisch AJ, El-Dib M, Elmazoglu Z, Emrick L, Epstein A, Erdei C, Ergun MA, Fedeles B, Feldman H, Findley T, Flynn P, Gadra E, Gagnon MM, Gagnon M, Ganesh P, Gano D, Garbarini F, Geary M, Ghezzi E, Gibson K, Glass H, Gloire GM, Gonzalez F, Gorman A, Goswami I, Gregory S, Gulnerman EK, Harmony T, Harrington L, Harshbarger J, Hartley C, Hayakawa M, Hayes B, Heagerty P, Hicks M, Inder T, Iragavarapu M, Ito Y, Jain V, Johnson KJ, Joseph D, Jurkiewicz M, Juul S, Kamyshanskiy Y, Kapoor B, Kapse K, Kazan HH, Kebaya L, Kidokoro H, Klein R, Kling E, Kopobayeva I, Korf J, Kumai S, Lazarus M, Lebane D, Lee I, Lemmon M, Leon R, Limperopoulos C, Liu E, Liu YL, Ognean ML, Luu TM, Machie M, Marchant S, Marchman V, Marsh E, Martinez-Biarge M, Mătăcuţă I, Matei C, Maxfield C, Mayock D, McCullough L, Meyerink P, Miller K, Millman R, Minga S, Mitsumatsu T, Monsell S, Moulton TS, Murnick J, Nakata T, Narita H, Natsume J, Nichols ES, Nicolayevsky SE, Nuyt AM, O'Brien J, Ostrander B, Pacheco J, Pagano L, Pardo A, Peila C, Peyton C, Pineda R, Poblaciones R, Poles K, Quigley M, Reddy S, Remis S, Reynolds A, Ribaupierre Sd, Ricardo-Garcell J, Rikard B, Rodriguez B, Ronga I, Rosenberg P, Ross M, Roychaudhuri S, Russo S, Sadowska-Krawczenko I, Salihu HM, Sato Y, Saulino P, Sawamura F, Scala M, Scher M, Schindewolf E, Sebastiano AR, Shanahan J, Sharon D, Sheldon Y, Shiraki A, Simard MN, Singh E, Sirgiovanni I, Smego A, Steele T, Stein N, Suttin R, Suzui R, Świder M, Tady BP, Taga G, Tang S, Tarrant A, Tarui T, Topa EG, Trapp N, Tristao L, Tuka D, Turdybekova Y, Ushida T, Usman F, Venkatesan C, Vişa G, Wang J, Watanabe H, Watson T, Witulska-Alagöz A, Wood S, Wu Y, Yamamoto H, Yarnykh V, Young M, Yun NY, Zapolnik P, Zarrinnegar D Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine 2024 Aug 17 S285-S316 -
Postnatal Cerebral Hemodynamics and Placental Vascular Malperfusion Lesions in Neonates With Congenital Heart Disease
Leon RL, Bitar L, Sharma K, Mir IN, Chalak LF Pediatric Neurology 2024 Jul 156 72-78 -
Interdependence of placenta and fetal cardiac development
Leon RL, Bitar L, Rajagopalan V, Spong CY Prenatal Diagnosis 2024 Jun 44 846-855 -
Practice variations for fetal and neonatal congenital heart disease within the Children’s Hospitals Neonatal Consortium
Author Collaboration tC, Leon RL, Levy PT, Hu J, Yallpragada SG, Hamrick SE, Ball MK, Sullivan K, McKay V, Limjoco J, Murthy K, Falciglia G, Lyle R, Rogers B, Welch C, Piazza A, Joe P, Hansen A, Grover T, Coghill C, Yanowitz T, Savani R, Pallotto E, Short B, Massaro A, Sysyn G, Chapman R, Natarajan G, Willett L, Birge N, Uhing M, Datta A, Mikhael M, Haberman B, Golioto A, Chi A, Johnson Y, Wadhawan R, Lee KS, Talati A, Reber K, Ling CY, Speziale M, Moyer L, Engle W, Jacobsen-Misbe E, DiGeronimo R, Touch S, Rao R, Brozanski B, Suresh G Pediatric Research 2023 May 93 1728-1735 -
Placental pathology associated with lenticulostriate vasculopathy (LSV) in preterm infants
Sisman J, Leon RL, Payton BW, Brown LS, Mir IN Journal of Perinatology 2023 May 43 568-572 -
Placental clearance not synthesis tempers exaggerated pro-inflammatory cytokine response in neonates exposed to chorioamnionitis
Mir IN, Uddin N, Liao J, Brown LS, Leon R, Chalak LF, Savani RC, Rosenfeld CR Pediatric Research 2023 Feb 93 675-681 -
Placental vascular malperfusion lesions in fetal congenital heart disease
Leon RL, Sharma K, Mir IN, Herrera CL, Brown SL, Spong CY, Chalak LF American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2022 Oct 227 620.e1-620.e8 -
Placental pathologic lesions associated with stroke in term neonates
Leon RL, Kalvacherla V, Andrews MM, Thomas JM, Mir IN, Chalak LF Frontiers in Endocrinology 2022 Sep 13 -
Therapeutic Hypothermia in Transport Permits Earlier Treatment Regardless of Transfer Distance
Leon RL, Krause KE, Sides RS, Koch MB, Trautman MS, Mietzsch U American Journal of Perinatology 2022 Apr 39 633-639 -
Neuroplacentology in congenital heart disease: placental connections to neurodevelopmental outcomes
Leon RL, Mir IN, Herrera CL, Sharma K, Spong CY, Twickler DM, Chalak LF Pediatric Research 2022 Mar 91 787-794 -
Cerebral Blood Flow Monitoring in High-Risk Fetal and Neonatal Populations
Leon RL, Ortigoza EB, Ali N, Angelis D, Wolovits JS, Chalak LF Frontiers in Pediatrics 2022 Jan 9 -
Part III. Neuronal biochemical effects of acetaminophen and neurodevelopmental outcomes: Friend or foe?
Angelis D, León RL, Chalak L Early Human Development 2021 Aug 159 -
Intravoxel incoherent motion MR imaging analysis for diagnosis of placenta accrete spectrum disorders: A pilot feasibility study
León RL, Brown BP, Persohn SA, Norris CD, Steinhardt NP, Lin C, Territo PR Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2021 Jul 80 26-32 -
Placental origins of neonatal diseases: toward a precision medicine approach
Mir IN, Leon R, Chalak LF Pediatric Research 2021 Jan 89 377-383 -
Wavelet-based neurovascular coupling can predict brain abnormalities in neonatal encephalopathy
Das Y, Leon RL, Liu H, Kota S, Liu Y, Wang X, Zhang R, Chalak LF NeuroImage: Clinical 2021 Jan 32 -
A retrospective segmentation analysis of placental volume by magnetic resonance imaging from first trimester to term gestation
León RL, Li KT, Brown BP Pediatric radiology 2018 Dec 48 1936-1944 -
Cyanosis and Stroke due to Functional Cor Triatriatum Dexter in a Neonate
León RL, Zaban NB, Schamberger MS, Ho CY, Mietzsch U Neonatology 2018 Mar 113 231-234 -
Bryostatin improves survival and reduces ischemic brain injury in aged rats after acute ischemic stroke
Tan Z, Turner RC, Leon RL, Li X, Hongpaisan J, Zheng W, Logsdon AF, Naser ZJ, Alkon DL, Rosen CL, Huber JD Stroke 2013 Dec 44 3490-3497 -
Worsened outcome from middle cerebral artery occlusion in aged rats receiving 17β-estradiol
Leon RL, Li X, Huber JD, Rosen CL Endocrinology 2012 Jul 153 3386-3393 -
Potential age-dependent effects of estrogen on neural injury
Leon RL, Huber JD, Rosen CL American Journal of Pathology 2011 Jun 178 2450-2460 -
Pathophysiology of the vascular wall and its relevance for cerebrovascular disorders in aged rodents
Popa-Wagner A, Pirici D, Petcu EB, Mogoanta L, Buga AM, Rosen CL, Leon R, Huber JD Current Neurovascular Research 2010 Aug 7 251-267
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Results of a Preoperative Screening Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging Protocol in Neonates Undergoing Cardiopulmonary Bypass
Rachel Leon, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Director, Neurologic Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NeuroNICU) Program
- Pediatrics - Neonatal-Perinatal
Education & Training
- Fellowship - Indiana University School of Medicine/Riley Hospital for Children (2016-2019), Neonatal-perinatal Medicine
- Medical School - West Virginia University School of Medicine (2005-2013)
- Residency - Indiana University School of Medicine/Riley Hospital for Children (2013-2016), Pediatrics
- Other Post Graduate Training - West Virginia University School of Medicine (2005-2013)
- Graduate School - West Virginia University School of Medicine (2005-2013)