Nazli Kuter is a neonatologist with the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. She is also a faculty member at Kennedy Krieger Institute where she specializes in working with high-risk neonates as part of a multidisciplinary team in the Infant Neurodevelopment Center as well as the Pediatric Rehabilitation Unit.
Dr. Kuter’s research is focused on brain injury after hypoxic ischemia (HI). She is on a team that is investigating potential delayed therapies for cholinergic neuron rescue and recovery after neonatal HI.
Her research has been supported by the Marshall Klaus Neonatal-Perinatal Research Award and the Eudowood Board Bauernschmidt Fellowship Award. Additionally, she has been part of multidisciplinary quality improvement teams to improve outcomes for very low birth weight infants, with a focus on reduction in rates of severe intraventricular hemorrhage.