Imran Mir, M.D. Titles and Appointments Associate Professor Schools Medical School Departments 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 Association between Subspecialty In-Training Examination Scores and First Attempt Results in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Boards Mir IN, Chokshi R, Wambach JA, French H, Frost M, Brion LP American Journal of Perinatology 2026 Apr 43 830-838 Agreement Between Telemedicine and In-Person Examination for Neonatal Hypothermia Decisions Jagarapu J, Angelis D, Mir IN, Kakkilaya V, Brown SL, Chalak LF Pediatrics 2026 Mar 157 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 Pediatric Research 2025 Dec 98 2203-2210 Placental Role in Fetal Neonatal Neurologic Outcomes Chalak LF, Bitar L, Leon R, Mir I Pediatric clinics of North America 2025 Oct 72 793-804 Placenta and Intestinal Injury in Preterm Infants Garg P, Weitkamp JH, McDonald AG, Cilvik SN, Mir I, Shenberger JS, Olaloye O, Konnikova L, Kallapur SG, Garg PM American Journal of Perinatology 2025 Feb 42 415-419 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 Pediatric Research 2025 Feb 97 1147-1154 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 Human Development 2025 Feb 201 Fetal inflammatory response severity on placental histology identifies neonates at risk for meconium aspiration syndrome Gonzalez R, Brown S, Sisman J, Firdaus M, Yusuf Z, Chalak L, Kapadia V, Mir I Pediatric Research 2025 Mentoring the future of neonatology: program director advice for fellowship applicants and their advisors Hill M, Vergales B, Hoffman S, Dyess NF, Dadiz R, Cardona VQ, Robin B, Vasquez M, Aleem S, French H, Glass K, Mir IN, O’Reilly D, Gray M, Meadow J, Brady JM, Sithisarn T, Crabtree C, Myers P Journal of Perinatology 2025 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 Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine 2024 Oct 17 623-636 Results 1-10 of 43 1 2 3 4 5 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 Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society - Faculty InducteeNational medical honor society recognizing top academic achievement, leadership, professionalism, and commitment to service (2026) APP Physician Partner Award from Parkland Health SystemFirst recipient of this honor, recognizing exceptional collaboration with Advanced Practice Providers and leadership in team-based patient care. (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)
