Lina Chalak MD

Summary

• Dr. Lina Chalak is Chief neonatologist in Dallas, TX and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Children's Medical Center Dallas, Parkland Health & Hospital System, and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She received her medical degree from American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine and has been in practice 22 years. She specializes in neonatal neurodevelopment.URL Link to Candidate’s Institution Profile
  https://profiles.utsouthwestern.edu/profile/35027/lina-chalak.html
  Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center; Interim Chief in the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine in UTSW’s Department of Pediatrics. She is the director of the neonatal neurology program and fellowship. she specializes in fetal-neonatal neurology and developmental neuroscience with a primary focus is to improve neonatal neurologic care and outcomes. Her synergistic clinical and research programs integrate cutting-edge research and team science clinical care focused on the neonatal brain. Her research trajectory has evolved from bridging translational studies in a piglet model of asphyxia to elucidating mechanisms of neonatal brain injury to conducting clinical trials aimed at optimizing neuroprotection and developing novel physiological biomarkers of brain health. Her interdisciplinary collaborations include nationally funded networks, including the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the Neonatal Research Network (NRN) and a new 7 million PCORI COOL PRIME TRIAL. She is also R01 funded and leads a multi-science research team of physiologists, biomedical engineers to evaluate the stratification of neonatal asphyxia with a neurovascular bundle for a critical real time evaluation of the coupling of cerebral blood flow and neuronal activity.