Brain injury in the newborn - Importance of the everyday

Dr Miller will be delivering the John Stobo Prichard Award Lecture at the ICNC2014.Dr. Miller is Head of the Division of Neurology and Centre for Brain & Behaviour at the Hospital for Sick Children, Bloorview Children’s Hospital Foundation Chair in Paediatric Neuroscience, Professor Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, and Senior Scientist in Neuroscience & Mental health at the SickKids Research Institute. Collaborating with a multidisciplinary team, his research program focuses on better understanding brain injury and development in the newborn. He and his team use advanced brain imaging and detailed long-term follow-up to help children who were born early or with conditions that put them at risk of neurological and developmental deficits. He has contributed to our understanding of brain abnormalities caused directly by premature birth, perinatal asphyxia or indirectly by congenital heart disease.