Ambal Ambalavanan, MD

Dr. Ambalavanan is a physician-scientist who is board certified in Pediatrics and Neonatal-Perinatal medicine. He completed medical school (1988) and a pediatric residency (1993) in India, followed by a neonatology fellowship combined with a pediatric residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1997. He has been a full Professor of Pediatrics with tenure at UAB since 2010, and is the Director of the Division of Neonatal Research, as well as the Director of the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program. He founded the Translational Research in Normal and Disordered Development (TReNDD) program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2009, which is an interdisciplinary program of research and education, focused on disorders that affect the development and maturation of tissues and organ systems in late gestation and infancy. His laboratory has expertise for evaluation of structure, function, and injury in the developing lung and cardiovascular system. In the past decade, he has developed models for the evaluation of lung development, function, and injury in newborn mice. He serves on numerous editorial boards including Pediatric Research and AJP-Lung Molecular and Cellular Physiology and is a member of the UAB Center for Free Radical Biology, Center for Cardiovascular Biology, Center for Nanoscale Materials and Biointegration, and UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center. He serves as a reviewer for >30 journals and has over 300 publications.