Dr. Karen D. Hendricks-Muñoz is Professor of Pediatrics with tenure and the William Tate Graham Chair of the Division of Neonatal Medicine, Past Director of the Neonatal Perinatal Fellowship Training Program, and co-founder of the Neonatal Continuing Care Program as well as Chair of the Department of Pediatrics and Physician in chief of the Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU. She is Deputy Director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Center on Health Advancement. Clinical scholarship and research interests include diagnostic and treatments of neonatal lung disease, optimizing neonatal nutrition to advance optimal organ development, psychosocial dynamics that impact the health of infants including parenting, developmental, and family-centered care, understanding micro-nutrition, macro-NICU, preterm infant environment that influence the infant developing metabolome, microbiome, inflammatory response, to influence lung-gut-brain axis development and function.