Lina F. Chalak MD, MSCS

Dr. Lina F Chalak, MD, MSCS is a Professor in Pediatrics and Psychiatry at UT Southwestern. Dr. Chalak is a neonatologist founding director of the Neurointensive Care NICU program and co-director of the Neonatal Neurology Fellowship Program.

Her NIH funding trajectory started with a KL2 followed by K23 then RO1. Her current federally funded research projects include Cerebrovascular autoregulation and neuronal biomarkers in HIE, Neuronal, and inflammatory biomarkers involved in neuronal injury pathways. She has led the PRIME mild asphyxia collaborative study and pioneered a “Neurovascular bundle” for a critical real-time evaluation of the coupling of cerebral blood flow and neuronal activity in newborns with asphyxia.