Shahnaz Duara, M.D.

Roles

• Biography

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  Dr. Shahnaz Duara is a senior faculty in the Division of Neonatology and is responsible for the duties listed above. Administratively, Dr. Duara assists the division director as needed and serves as liaison to OB, Holtz administration, and several other services they collaborate with, most recently with the newly reorganized Fetal Surgery program. Dr. Duara has a significant track record with multicenter research, mostly NIH-funded, and is still active in collaborative research. Quality and benchmarking are natural outgrowths of her activities, and she is the center PI for two international collaboratives, the Vermont-Oxford Neonatal Registry (NICU) and ELSO (Holtz).

• Education & Training

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  Education

  1974: University of Madras

  MD

• Teaching Interests

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  Dr. Duara teaches clinical Neonatology to medical students, Pediatric & Med-Peds residents, and Neonatology Fellows. She runs the division's QI program, and in that role guide junior faculty, fellows and NICU staff into suitable projects. As medical director of a NICU, Infection Control is central to good outcomes, and has been a corner piece of her role over the past several years - with the Covid-19 pandemic. Dr. Duara became the leader of the NICU response and helped develop guidelines for the institution. Research-wise this led to collaboration with OB as well as other divisions in Pediatrics, and both publications and grant applications have ensued from these efforts.

• Research Interests

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  Dr. Duara continues to be active in multidisciplinary and multicenter research as it relates to sick neonates; at this time, perinatal Covid-19 is driving several of the active projects.

• Publications

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