Luc P Brion

Dr. Luc P Brion

Pediatrics, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Georgia, USA
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Professor Emeritus, University of Texas Southwestern Medical...

Biography

Dr. Luc P Brion has published >130 manuscripts, 15 chapters, 20 clinical guidelines and presented >130 abstracts. During his training in pediatrics and in neonatology, he participated and conducted studies on growth, nutrition and assessment of renal function in neonates and children. As Faculty at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York (AECOM), he was funded for years by the NIH, American Heart Association, Genentech Foundation, and Pharmacia for basic sciences research in developmental nephrology, specifically renal acid secretion, carbonic anhydrase, pathophysiological effects of acidosis and growth. Dr. Brion has served on the IRB at AECOM. Dr. Brion was Director of the Fellowship Training Program in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at AECOM in 1997-2006. He was Director of the Fellowship Training Program in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW), Dallas, TX, in 2007-2019. Dr. Brion's current research interest includes (1) improving nutrition and growth in very preterm and very low birth weight infants to decrease mortality and morbidity including necrotizing enterocolitis and to optimize neurodevelopment and to reduce signs suggestive of metabolic syndrome in high-risk preterm infants and (2) using evidence-based medicine to improve mortality and morbidity in neonates. Dr. Brion retired on April 10, 2023 and is now Professor Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, UTSW.

Affiliations

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Dallas, Georgia, USA

Pediatrics

Honors and Awards

honor

summa cum laude

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Medical Doctor 1976

honor

Summa cum laude

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Special Bachelor's Degree in Pediatrics, 1981

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Summa Cum Laude

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Medical Sciences Candidate, 1972

Experience

Professor Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA

01 Apr 2023 - present

Professor of Pediatrics

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA

01 Nov 2006 - 01 Apr 2023

Professor of Pediatrics

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, USA

01 Sep 1998 - 01 Oct 2006

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, USA

01 Sep 1992 - 01 Aug 1998

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, USA

01 Sep 1987 - 01 Aug 1992

Instructor in Pediatrics

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, USA

01 Jul 1986 - 01 Aug 1987

Residency in Pediatrics

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, USA

01 Jul 1985 - 01 Jun 1986

Fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, USA

01 Jul 1983 - 01 Jun 1985

Clinical Fellow in Neonatology

The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

01 Jul 1981 - 01 Jun 1982