Imran Nazir Mir, MD
Neonatologist
Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English Kashmiris,Urdu,Hindi
Biography
Imran Mir, M.D., is a neonatologist at Children’s Health℠ specializing in neonatal and perinatal medicine. He is also an Associate Professor of pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
After receiving his medical degree from Government Medical College in India, Dr. Mir completed a pediatric residency at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and a fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine at UT Southwestern.
Dr. Mir’s research interests include the role of placental pathology in various neonatal morbidities, particularly brain injury. He chose to specialize in neonatology because of his love for infants and passion for science.
When he’s not working, he enjoys listening to semi-classical Indian music and spending time with his wife and two children. In addition to English, Dr. Mir speaks Kashmiri, Hindi and Urdu.
Education and Training
- Medical School
- Government Medical College, India (2003)
- Residency
- Childrens Hospital of Oklahoma (2012), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- UT Southwestern Medical Center (2015), 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
- Birth asphyxia and neontal encephalopathy
- Placental biology and neonatal morbidities, particularly neonatal brain injury
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Publications
Publications
- Neurodevelopmental outcomes in extremely preterm infants with placental pathologic evidence of fetal inflammatroy response. Alayli Y, Brown LS, Tolentino-Plata K, Leon R, Heyne R, Chalak LF, Mir IN, Pediatr Res 2024 Aug
- Association between decreased cord blood inter-alpha inhibitor levels and neonatal encephalopathy at birth. Bitar L, Stonestreet BS, Lim YP, Qiu J, Chen X, Mir IN, Chalak LF, Early Hum Dev 2024 May 193 106036
- Postnatal Cerebral Hemodynamics and Placental Vascular Malperfusion Lesions in Neonates With Congenital Heart Disease. Leon RL, Bitar L, Sharma K, Mir IN, Chalak LF, Pediatr Neurol 2024 Apr 156 72-78
- Development of a prediction model for surgery or early mortality at the time of initial assessment for necrotizing enterocolitis. Nayak SP, Sanchez-Rosado M, Reis JD, Brown LS, Mangona KL, Sharma P, Nelson DB, Wyckoff MH, Pandya S, Mir IN, Brion L, Am J Perinatol 2024 Jan
- Impact of fetal inflammatory response on the severity of necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants. Mir IN, Sánchez-Rosado M, Reis J, Uddin N, Brown LS, Mangona KL, Nelson D, Wyckoff M, Nayak SP, Brion L, Pediatr Res 2023 Dec
- Impact of maternal infection on outcomes in extremely preterm infants. Herrera CL, Kadari PS, Pruszynski JE, Mir I, Pediatr Res 2023 Nov
- Risk Factors for Admission Hyperthermia and Associated Outcomes in Preterm Infants. Chiu M, Mir I, Adhikari E, Heyne R, Ornelas N, Tolentino-Plata K, Thomas A, Burchfield P, Simcik V, Ramon E, Brown LS, Nelson DB, Wyckoff MH, Kakkilaya V, J Pediatr 2023 Nov 113842
- Correlation of placental pathology with the postoperative outcomes and white matter injury in preterm infants following necrotizing enterocolitis. Garg PM, Paschal JL, Ansari MAY, Ware J, Adams K, Taylor C, Reddy K, Rosenfeld CR, Mir IN, J Neonatal Perinatal Med 2023 Feb
- Editorial: Advances and perspectives in neuroplacentology. Vacher CM, Bonnin A, Mir IN, Penn AA, Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2023 14 1206072
- Placental pathology associated with lenticulostriate vasculopathy (LSV) in preterm infants. Sisman J, Leon RL, Payton BW, Brown LS, Mir IN, J Perinatol 2022 Nov
Books
- Regulation of Placental Circulation. In Fetal and Neonatal Physiology, 6th Edition. Polin RA, Abman SH, Rowitch D, Benitz WE, eds. Imran N Mir, Charles R. Rosenfeld (2021). Philadelphia, Elsevier
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Professional Activities
- AAP, Section on Perinatal Pediatrics (2012)
- American Academy of Pediatrics (2009)
- Newborn Brain Society (2020)
- Perinatal Research Society (2019)
- Society for Pediatric Research (2020)
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Awards and Honors
- APP Physician Partner Award from Parkland Health System (2023)
- CCRAC Research Award - Children's Clinical Research Advisory Committee (CCRAC), Children's Health Foundation (2020)
- Travel Grant Award by International Pediatric Research Foundation (2020)
- Early Career Investigator (ECI) Award (2019)
- Nominated for Rising Star Clinical Excellence Award at UT Southwestern Medical Center (2018)
- Selected for 26th Annual NICHD Young Investigators Conference (2014)
- Travel Award - AAP SCCPR Conference (2014)
