UTHealth Neonatology

🎤Speaking Platform @SouthernSPR #SSPR2026 Maternal characteristics and social determinants of health in prenatal vs postnatal myelomeningocele repair 👤 Speaker: Amy Hardcastle 📅 Fri, Feb 27 🕒 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM 🏢 LaSalle C

🎤Speaking Platform @SouthernSPR #SSPR2026 Exposure to oxidized surfactant protein A increases pro‑inflammatory cytokine expression in alveolar macrophages 👤 Speaker: Meena Vegesna, MD 📅 Fri, Feb 27 🕝 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM 🏢 LaSalle C

🎤Speaking Platform @SouthernSPR #SSPR2026 Who receives prenatal myelomeningocele repair? Demographic insights from a longstanding fetal intervention program 👤 Speaker: Samarchitha Magal, MD 📅 Fri, Feb 27 🕑 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM 🏢 LaSalle C

🎤Speaking Platform @SouthernSPR #SSPR2026 Blood TLR4, MD2 and MYD88 elevation predicts necrotizing enterocolitis: evidence from human patients and a mouse model 👤 Speaker: Maggie Aucoin, MD 📅 Fri, Feb 27 🕑 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM 🏢 LaSalle C

🎤Speaking Platform @SouthernSPR #SSPR2026 Randomized controlled trial of enteral vitamin D supplementation in infants <28 weeks’ gestation or <1000 g birth weight (ViDES trial) 👤 Speaker: Mar Romero López, MD, PhD @MarRomeroMD 📅 Fri, Feb 27 🕣 8:20 AM – 8:35 AM 🏢 LaSalle BC

Next up @SouthernSPR YIA: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Vitamin D ☀️☀️ Mar Romero-Lopez (UT Houston).

📊POSTER @SouthernSPR #SSPR2026 Outcome‑Weighted Clustering for Early‑life Phenotyping of Neonatal Morbidities 🗣️ Presenting author: Laith Enani 📅 Thurs, Feb 26 🕟 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM 📍 LaSalle & Pelican Ballrooms – 3rd Fl

📊 POSTER @SouthernSPR #SSPR2026 Evidence for African American–specific PRS modifying the risk of a high‑penetrance FZD6 variant in a large multigeneration family with nonsyndromic CL/P 🗣️ Presenting author: Vershanna Morris, MD 📅 Thurs,Feb 26 🕟 4:30PM – 6:30PM 📍 LaSalle–3rd

🌟 Showcase of Science @SouthernSPR #SSPR2026 Postnatal skin maturation in infants ≤25 weeks’ gestation 👤 Presenter: Caitlin Stoll, DO 📅 Fri, Feb 27 🕦 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM 🏢 LaSalle A – 3rd Fl