Dr. Ira Holla is an Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. She completed medical school training with an MBBS degree at Maulana Azad Medical College, India, in 2013. She then attended Michigan State University for pediatric residency training and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland for a neonatology fellowship. During her fellowship, she conducted basic science research wherein she studied the impact of infection on control of breathing and serum and brainstem cytokine levels in a rat pup model. Upon completing her neonatology fellowship, she joined the faculty at UMMC in August 2020. As faculty at UMMC, she has continued to build on her interest in research and has been a Principal Investigator and Sub-Investigator in numerous clinical trials. Her passion for providing quality medicine led her to develop multiple division-wide Quality Improvement efforts, and she was promoted to Neonatal ICU Quality Director. She is also a member of the Indian Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Academic Pediatric Association.