Imran Mir, M.D. Titles and Appointments Associate Professor School Medical School Department Pediatrics You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Dr. Mir grew up in beautiful valley of Kashmir, which is located between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panchal Range in the Indian subcontinent. He 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. After completing his Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine fellowship in 2015, he was recruited as faculty member in the division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical School, where he is currently working as an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, and the Program Director for the Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship Training Program. Dr. Mir’s primary research focus is to understand the role of placental biology in neonatal morbidities. He has made several key observations including the placental contributions to neurodevelopmental outcomes after birth asphyxia and the role of placenta in clearance of fetal inflammatory responses. He has also studied the impact of multiple placental pathologic lesions with autism spectrum disorders in extremely preterm infants, thus shedding light on possible intrauterine risk factors with increased incidence of autism spectrum disorders in these vulnerable infants. He reported the placental clearance of neurobiomarker, GFAP, and showed for the first time that episodic hypoxia during normal labor can elicit the release of GFAP. 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. Education Medical School Government Medical College, India (2003) Residency University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (2012), Pediatrics Fellowship UT Southwestern Medical Center/ Children's Medical Center (2015), Neonatal-perinatal Medicine Research Interest Birth asphyxia and neontal encephalopathy Placental biology and neonatal morbidities, particularly neonatal brain injury Publications Featured Publications Impact of fetal inflammatory response on brain MRI abnormalities in extremely preterm infants. Mir IN, Machie M, Clarke R, Brown LS, Leon R, Wisnowski JL, Chalak L, Pediatr Res 2025 Jun Placental inflammatory response and association with the severity of neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy. Mashat S, Bitar L, Mir IN, Leon RL, Brown LS, Chalak LF, Early Hum Dev 2024 Dec 201 106179 Neurodevelopmental outcomes in extremely preterm infants with placental pathologic evidence of fetal inflammatroy response. Alayli Y, Brown LS, Tolentino-Plata K, Leon R, Heyne R, Chalak LF, Mir IN, Pediatr Res 2024 Aug Placenta and intestinal Injury in preterm infants. Garg PP, Weitkamp H, Mcdonald A, Cilvik S, Mir IN, Olaloye O, Konnikova L, Shenberger J, Kallapur SG, Garg PM, Am J Perinatol 2024 Jun Association between decreased cord blood inter-alpha inhibitor levels and neonatal encephalopathy at birth. Bitar L, Stonestreet BS, Lim YP, Qiu J, Chen X, Mir IN, Chalak LF, Early Hum Dev 2024 May 193 106036 Postnatal Cerebral Hemodynamics and Placental Vascular Malperfusion Lesions in Neonates With Congenital Heart Disease. Leon RL, Bitar L, Sharma K, Mir IN, Chalak LF, Pediatr Neurol 2024 Apr 156 72-78 Development of a prediction model for surgery or early mortality at the time of initial assessment for necrotizing enterocolitis. Nayak SP, Sanchez-Rosado M, Reis JD, Brown LS, Mangona KL, Sharma P, Nelson DB, Wyckoff MH, Pandya S, Mir IN, Brion L, Am J Perinatol 2024 Jan Placental pathology in SARS-CoV-2 infected pregnancies: A single-institution retrospective cohort analysis. Le T, Lee D, Brown LS, Payton BW, Sepulveda P, Sisman J, Leon RL, Chalak LF, Mir IN, J Neonatal Perinatal Med 2024 17 5 623-636 Impact of fetal inflammatory response on the severity of necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants. Mir IN, Sánchez-Rosado M, Reis J, Uddin N, Brown LS, Mangona KL, Nelson D, Wyckoff M, Nayak SP, Brion L, Pediatr Res 2023 Dec Impact of maternal infection on outcomes in extremely preterm infants. Herrera CL, Kadari PS, Pruszynski JE, Mir I, Pediatr Res 2023 Nov Results 1-10 of 39 1 2 3 4 Next Last Books Featured Books Regulation of Placental Circulation. In Fetal and Neonatal Physiology, 6th Edition. Polin RA, Abman SH, Rowitch D, Benitz WE, eds. Imran N Mir, Charles R. Rosenfeld (2021). Philadelphia, Elsevier Honors & Awards APP Physician Partner Award from Parkland Health System (2023) CCRAC Research AwardChildren's Clinical Research Advisory Committee (CCRAC), Children's Health Foundation (2020) Travel Grant Award by International Pediatric Research Foundation (2020) Early Career Investigator (ECI) Award (2019) Nominated for Rising Star Clinical Excellence Award at UT Southwestern Medical Center. (2018) Selected for 26th Annual NICHD Young Investigators Conference (2014) Travel AwardAAP SCCPR Conference (2014) Professional Associations/Affiliations AAP, Section on Perinatal Pediatrics (2012) American Academy of Pediatrics (2009) Newborn Brain Society (2020) Perinatal Research Society (2019) Society for Pediatric Research (2020)
