Imran Mir, M.D.
Assistant Professor

Dr. Mir is a graduate of Government Medical College in Kashmir, India. He completed his internship and pediatric residency at the Oklahoma University Children's Hospital, Oklahoma City. He then obtained his training in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at UT Southwestern. He is board certified in Pediatrics and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine.

Dr. Mir’s love for infants and passion for science is his inspiration for devoting his life to neonatology. His research interests are currently focused on studying brain injury in neonates and role of placental biology in neonatal morbidities.

When he’s not working, he enjoys listening to semi-classical Indian music and spending time with his wife and two children. In addition to English, Dr. Mir speaks Kashmiri, Hindi and Urdu.

Medical School

Government Medical College, India (2003)

Residency

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (2012), Pediatrics

Fellowship

UT Southwestern Medical Center (2015), Neonatal-perinatal Medicine

• Birth asphyxia and neontal encephalopathy
• Physiology of preterm labor
• Placental biology and neonatal morbidities, particularly neonatal brain injury

Featured Publications

Placental clearance/synthesis of neurobiomarkers GFAP and UCH-L1 in healthy term neonates and those with moderate-severe neonatal encephalopathy.

Mir IN, Steven Brown L, Rosenfeld CR, Chalak LF, Pediatr. Res. 2019 May

Brain imaging in preterm infants <32 weeks gestation: a clinical review and algorithm for the use of cranial ultrasound and qualitative brain MRI.

Ibrahim J, Mir I, Chalak L Pediatr. Res. 2018 Oct

Fetal-placental crosstalk occurs through fetal cytokine synthesis and placental clearance.

Mir IN, Chalak LF, Liao J, Johnson-Welch S, Brown LS, Longoria C, Savani RC, Rosenfeld CR Placenta 2018 Sep 69 1-8

A review of the conundrum of mild hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy: Current challenges and moving forward.

Chalak L, Latremouille S, Mir I, Sánchez PJ, Sant'Anna G, Early Hum. Dev. 2018 05 120 88-94

Fetal-placental crosstalk occurs through fetal cytokine synthesis and placental clearance

Imran N. Mir, Lina F. Chalak, Jie Liao, Sarah Johnson-Welch, Larry S. Brown, Christopher Longoria, Rashmin C. Savani, Charles R. Rosenfeld. 2018

A review of the conundrum of mild hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy: Current challenges and moving forward.

Chalak L, Latremouille S, Mir I, Sánchez PJ, Sant'Anna G. 2018

Prospective research on infants with mild encephalopathy: the PRIME study.

Prempunpong C, Chalak LF, Garfinkle J, Shah B, Kalra V, Rollins N, Boyle R, Nguyen KA, Mir I, Pappas A, Montaldo P, Thayyil S, Sánchez PJ, Shankaran S, Laptook AR, Sant'Anna G J Perinatol 2017 Nov

Placenta - 'The Least Understood Human Organ' - From Animistic Origin to Human Placental Project

Mir IN, Chalak LF SciMedCentral 2017 2(2) 1013

Placental Pathology is Associated with Severity of Neonatal Encephalopathy and Adverse Developmental Outcomes following Hypothermia.

Mir IN, Johnson-Welch SF, Nelson DB, Brown LS, Rosenfeld CR, Chalak LF Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol. 2015 Sep

T1 and T2 values of human neonatal blood at 3 Tesla: Dependence on hematocrit, oxygenation, and temperature.

Liu P, Chalak LF, Krishnamurthy LC, Mir I, Peng SL, Huang H, Lu H Magn Reson Med 2015 May

• Nominated for “Rising Star” Clinical Excellence Award at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
  This is a Clinical Excellence Award to recognize and honor the exceptional contributions of clinical faculty to the care of our patients, to the education of the next generation of health care professionals, and to UT Southwestern overall. (2018)
• Part of NRP team, which was nominated for the Program Development Award at UTSW 2018
  This award recognizes a group of clinical faculty who have partnered to create, develop, and sustain an innovative program that significantly advances our ability to improve the care received by our patients. (2018)
• Selected for 26th Annual NICHD Young Investigators Conference
  Section on Maternal-Fetal-Neonatal-Reproductive Medicine (2014)
• Travel Award
  AAP SCCPR Conference, Austin, TX (2014)

• Perinatal Research Society (2019)
• AAP, Section on Perinatal Pediatrics (2012)
• American Academy of Pediatrics (2009)