Anna Penn, MD Neonatologist

Biography

Anna Penn, MD, PhD, is a clinical neonatologist and developmental neuroscientist at Children's National Health System. She is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Fetal and Transitional Medicine, with additional appointments in the Division of Neonatology and the Center for Neuroscience Research. In addition, she is the director of translational research in the Center for Hospital Based Specialties. Dr. Penn conducts translational work aimed at understanding and ameliorating preterm brain injury. Specifically, she studies the role of placental function in fetal brain development and damage, with the goal of developing new therapeutic agents to protect the brain in sick newborns.

Specialties

Education & Training

• Fellowship Program, Neonatology, 2003
  Stanford University Medical Center
• Residency Program, Pediatrics, 2000
  University of California-SF/Stanford Health Care
• Internship Program, Pediatrics, 1999
  University of California-SF/Stanford Health Care
• MD, 1998
  Stanford University School of Medicine
• PhD, 1998
  Stanford University School of Medicine
• AB, 1989
  Harvard-Radcliffe College

Research & Publications

Global hormone profiling of murine placenta reveals Secretin expression

(2011) Placenta

Intrauterine growth restriction alters hippocampal expression and chromatin structure of Cyp19a1 variants

(2010) Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Neonatal CSF oxytocin levels are associated with parental report of infant soothability and sociability

(2013) Psychoneuroendocrinology

Sex Differences in a Hypoxia Model of Preterm Brain Damage

(2009) Pediatric Resident

Sexspecific cognitive deficits and regional brain volume loss in mice exposed to chronic sublethal hypoxia

(2011) Pediatric Resident

The Lost Neuroendocrine Organ

(2010) NeoReviews