Donna Ferriero, MD MSc is the W. H. and Marie Wattis Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics and Physician-in-Chief of the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital. She is also a Professor of Neurology and a member of the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program. Dr. Ferriero is Director of the Neonatal Brain Disorder Laboratories and co-director of the Newborn Brain Research Institute at UCSF. 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 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 Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences 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.
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Email: donna.ferriero@ucsf.edu
Phone: 415 502-7319