Stella Kourembanas, MD

Dr. Kourembanas is the Clement A. Smith Professor of Pediatrics, Chief of Newborn Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, and Academic Chair of the Harvard Neonatal Perinatal Medicine Training Program. She is also an Attending Neonatologist at BWH NICU with particular interest and expertise on lung diseases of the newborn. Dr. Kourembanas has served as Principal Investigator on several NIH-funded grants including a Specialized Center of Research Program, and has led several collaborative basic and translational studies that have contributed new knowledge to the field of lung biology.  She serves as Program Director of a NIH-funded Institutional Program training physician-scientists in neonatal-perinatal medicine.  Dr. Kourembanas' research interests have focused on the molecular and cellular basis of lung inflammation, hypoxic signaling, and mechanisms of innate immunity as they relate to the pathobiology of pulmonary hypertension and bronchopulmonary dysplasia. An active area of research in her lab is the study of mesenchymal stem cell biology and its application as a novel therapeutic approach to the treatment of diseases of the newborn. Dr. Kourembanas is the Clement A. Smith Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.