Akhil Maheshwari is a neonatologist.

Academic career

In 2004, Maheshwari joined the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama as an assistant professor. He studied innate immunity and the pathogenesis of gut mucosal and systemic

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in newborn infants, with a particular focus on a disease called necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). In this disease, the intestines of a

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or critically-ill infant become inflamed and lose viability. His research was supported by the American Gastroenterological Association and the

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. In 2010, he moved to the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, Illinois as the Head of Neonatology. In 2014, he was recruited to the

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as the Pamela and Leslie Muma Professor, Head of Neonatology, and Assistant Dean for Medical Education. He administered the academic and the clinical programs at the neonatal intensive care unit at

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. In his laboratory, he investigated the role of

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and

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in intestinal inflammation. In 2018, he relocated to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland as the Josephine S. Sutland Professor of Newborn Medicine, Head of Neonatology, and Vice-Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics.Maheshwari at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

References

Neonatologists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Clinical research Banaras Hindu University alumni Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research alumni University of Florida alumni University of South Florida alumni 21st-century Indian medical doctors {{Authority control