Julie Mirpuri-Hathiramani, MD
Neonatologist
Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English
Education and Training
- Medical School
- University of Hong Kong (2000)
- Internship
- Hospital Authority of Hong Kong (2001), Rotating
- Residency
- Morristown Memorial Hospital (2007), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- Grady Memorial Hospital - GME (2010), Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
- Board Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics/Neonatal-Perinatal
Conditions
- Abdominal masses
- Achondroplasia (dwarfism)
- Ambiguous genitalia
- Anencephaly
- Anorectal malformation (imperforate anus or ARM)
- Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs)
- Biliary atresia
- Bladder exstrophy
- Bladder outlet obstruction
- Bowel atresia
- Brachydactyly (symbrachydactyly)
- Chronic lung disease (CLD)
- Cloacal exstrophy
- Colon atresia
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH)
- Congenital heart disease
- Congenital infections
- Congenital lung lesions
- Congenital pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM)
- Craniosynostosis
- Cystic fibrosis (CF)
- Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
- Down syndrome
- Duodenal aresia
- Edema
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS or elastic skin)
- Encephalocele
- Encephalopathy (encephalitis)
- Enteroviruses
- Esophageal atresia (EA)
- Feeding disorder (PFD)
- First unprovoked seizure
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- Gastroschisis
- Goldenhar syndrome (oculo-auriculo-vertebral dysplasia or OAV)
- Head and neck lumps
- Hemophilia
- High blood pressure (hypertension)
- Hirschsprung's disease
- Hydrocephalus
- Hydronephrosis
- Hydrops
- Hyperbilirubinemia (jaundice)
- Hypotonia (floppy muscle syndrome)
- Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (intrapartum asphyxia - HIE)
- Intestinal disorders
- Intraventricular hemorrhage and stroke
- Isolated craniosynostosis
- Jejunal and ileal atresia
- Laryngomalacia
- Lordosis (sway back)
- Low birth weight
- Low blood pressure (hypotension)
- Meconium aspiration
- Mediastinal mass
- Metabolic diseases
- Muscular dystrophy (MD)
- Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)
- Neonatal diabetes
- Newborn tumors
- Noonan syndrome (NS)
- Omphalocele
- Open neural tube defects (ONTDs)
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI)
- Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)
- Persistent pulmonary hypertension
- Pierre Robin syndrome (PRS)
- Pleural effusion
- Poland syndrome (Poland sequence)
- Prematurity
- Prenatal drug and alcohol exposure
- Pulmonary sequestration
- Pyloric stenosis
- Renal malformation
- Respiratory distress syndrome (RDS)
- Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)
- Rubella (German measles)
- Sepsis and meningitis
- Short bowel syndrome (SBS)
- Skeletal dysplasias and abnormalities
- Spina bifida
- Syndromic craniosynostosis
- Syphilis
- Tay-Sachs
- Toxoplasmosis
- Tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF)
- VATER syndrome (VACTERL association)
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Probiotics/Commensal organisms and their effects on immune mediators in the developing gut
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Publications
- Maternal microbial factors that affect the fetus and subsequent offspring. Mirpuri J, Neu J, Semin Perinatol 2021 10 45 6 151449
- Traffic generated emissions alter the lung microbiota by promoting the expansion of Proteobacteria in C57Bl/6 mice placed on a high-fat diet. Daniel S, Pusadkar V, McDonald J, Mirpuri J, Azad RK, Goven A, Lund AK, Ecotoxicol Environ Saf 2021 Apr 213 112035
- The emerging role of group 3 innate lymphoid cells in the neonate: interaction with the maternal and neonatal microbiome. Mirpuri J, Oxf Open Immunol 2021 2 1 iqab009
- Exposure to diesel exhaust particles results in altered lung microbial profiles, associated with increased reactive oxygen species/reactive nitrogen species and inflammation, in C57Bl/6 wildtype mice on a high-fat diet. Daniel S, Phillippi D, Schneider LJ, Nguyen KN, Mirpuri J, Lund AK, Part Fibre Toxicol 2021 01 18 1 3
- Evidence for maternal diet-mediated effects on the offspring microbiome and immunity: implications for public health initiatives. Mirpuri J, Pediatr Res 2021 01 89 2 301-306
- Transient neonatal antibiotic exposure increases susceptibility to late-onset sepsis driven by microbiota-dependent suppression of type 3 innate lymphoid cells. Niu X, Daniel S, Kumar D, Ding EY, Savani RC, Koh AY, Mirpuri J, Sci Rep 2020 07 10 1 12974
- Maternal high-fat diet results in microbiota-dependent expansion of ILC3s in mice offspring. Babu ST, Niu X, Raetz M, Savani RC, Hooper LV, Mirpuri J JCI insight 2018 Oct 3 19
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Professional Activities
- American Academy of Pediatrics (2004)
- Medical Council of Hong Kong
- Southern Society for Pediatric Research (2007)
- The American Association of Immunologists (2013)
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Awards and Honors
- FASEB Travel Scholarship (2011)
- Basic Science Young Investigator Award, Southern Society for Pediatric Research (2010)
- SPR Fellow Basic Science Research Award (2010)
- Trainee Travel Award, Southern Society for Pediatric Research (2009)
- Travel Grant, Pediatric Academic Societies (2009)