Monica Fumagalli

U.O. Neonatologia e Terapia Intensiva Neonatale Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico RTD-B Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche e Comunità Università degli Studi di Milano Milano, IT 2000 - Ongoing Consultant Neonatologist NICU, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Milan Italy October 2017 – Ongoing Researcher (RTD-B) University of Milan Clinical and research activity As a neonatologist I have focused my research on neonatal neurology and neuroimaging. My main interest is about brain lesions acquired during the perinatal age and within the big field of perinatal brain damage, the focus of my research has been moving from accuracy of diagnosis, better understanding of pathogenesis and prediction of outcome.In order to investigate the pathogenesis of brain damage, I performed clinical research studies on cerebral haemodynamics using near-infrared spectroscopy in preterm infants. I used brain imaging techniques to improve the accuracy of diagnosis and the prediction of prognosis in infants with brain lesions. Starting from cranial ultrasound I moved to conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and advanced MR techniques (DWI, DTI, SWI and volumetric MRI) to study perinatal brain damage and the impact of prematurity, and related diseases, on brain development in preterm infants. A relevant part of my publishing activity comes from the collaboration in the study project: \"Cancer in Pregnancy (CIP-study): long term follow up of children in utero exposed to chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy\". More recently I have addressed my research to human behavioral epigenetics applied to neonatal research, and in particular to the effects of premature birth and pain-exposure on gene methylation, and related long-term behavioral problems in childhood. Teaching activity Since 2008 I'm involved in teaching activities at the University of Milan (Medical School, Midwife and Pediatric Nurse School, Specialization course in Pediatrics). My teaching activity is focused on perinatal medicine and neonatal neurology. Publications on international Journals: 126 papers (source Scopus); 109 (source PubMed) h-index: 22 (source Scopus)