| July 2011 | PhD, Epidemiology College of Public Health, University of Iowa Title: Survival and morbidities among very low birth weight infants with chromosomal anomalies Advisor: Jeffrey C. Murray, MD |
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| February 2006 | Masters of Public Health-Epidemiology & Biostatistics Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Lebanon Title: Prevalence, risk factors and serotype distribution of Group B Streptococcus Colonization among pregnant women in Beirut, Lebanon Advisor: Khalid Yunis, MD |
| June 2004 | Bachelor of Science, Medical Laboratory Sciences (with distinction), Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Haigazian University, Beirut, Lebanon |
| September 2011-present |
Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) Post-doctoral Fellow Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Epidemiology Branch, Bethesda, MD Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research, National Institutes of Health |
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| March 2009-August 2011 | Graduate Research Assistant Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Iowa |
| January 2009-May 2010 | Graduate Research Assistant Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Iowa |
| September 2008-December 2008 | Graduate Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant for Epidemiology I Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa Project: Reproductive Molecular Epidemiology Research and Education Program |
| September 2007-August 2008 | Graduate Research Assistant Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa Project: Reproductive Molecular Epidemiology Research and Education Program |
| September 2005-July 2007 | Research Assistant Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut Projects: National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network (NCPNN)
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| Fall 2004-Summer 2005 | Graduate Research Assistant Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut |
| 2004 | Honors award, Haigazian University, Beirut, Lebanon |
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| 2010 | NICHD/IHDCYH Summer Institute in Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology, Selected student |
| 2011 | Western Regional Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology (MCH EPI) Conference Sponsorship award |
| 2011 | University of Iowa travel award to the Pediatric Academic Societies Conference |
Athina Pappas, Seetha Shankaran, Nellie I. Hansen, Edward F. Bell, Barbara J. Stoll, Abbot R. Laptook, Michele C. Walsh, Abhik Das, Rebecca Bara, Ellen C. Hale, Nancy S. Newman, Nansi S. Boghossian, Jeffrey C. Murray, C. Michael Cotten, Ira Adams-Chapman, Shannon Hamrick, Rosemary D. Higgins, for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network. Outcome of extremely preterm infants (<1000g) with congenital heart defects from the NICHD Neonatal Research Network. Pediatric Cardiology 2012.
Nansi S. Boghossian, Jeffrey D. Horbar, Jeffrey C. Murray, Joseph H. Carpenter, for the Vermont Oxford Network. Anthropometric charts for infants with trisomies 21, 18 and 13 born between 22 weeks gestation and term: The VON charts. American Journal of Medical Genetics 2012; 158A(2):322-32.
Nansi S. Boghossian, Jeffrey D. Horbar, Joseph H. Carpenter, Jeffrey C. Murray, Edward F. Bell, for the Vermont Oxford Network. Major chromosomal anomalies among very low birth weight infants in the Vermont Oxford Network. Journal of Pediatrics 2012; 160(5):774-780.e11.
Nansi S. Boghossian, Nellie I. Hansen, Edward F. Bell, Barbara J. Stoll, Jeffrey C. Murray, Abbot R. Laptook, Seetha Shankaran, Michele C. Walsh, Abhik Das, Rosemary D. Higgins, for the NICHD Neonatal Research Network. Survival and morbidity outcomes of very low birth weight infants with Down syndrome. Pediatrics. 2010; 126(6): 1132-1140.
Seoud M, Nassar AH, Zalloua P, Boghossian N, Ezzedine J, Fakhoury H, Abboud J, Melki I, Araj G, Nacouzi G, Sanyoura M, Yunis K. Prenatal and neonatal Group B Streptococcus screening and serotyping in Lebanon: incidence and implications. Acta Obstetricia Et Gynecologia Scandinavica 2010; 89(3): 399-403.
Yeung E, Boghossian N, Zhang C, Koo W. Determinants of neonatal body adiposity assessed by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry. To be presented at the Obesity Society, San Antonio, Texas, September 2012 (Poster).
Boghossian N, Yeung E, Albert P, Zhang C. Maternal adherence to the Mediterranean diet in association with offspring birthweight and infant growth. To be presented at the Obesity Society, San Antonio, Texas, September 2012 (Poster).
Boghossian N, Yeung E, Mumford S, Zhang C, Gaskins A, Wactawski-Wende J, Schisterman E. Adherence to the Mediterranean diet and body fat in premenopausal women: the BioCycle study. Presented at the Society for Epidemiologic Research, Minnesota, June 2012 (Poster).
Boghossian N, Yeung E, Lipsky L, Albert P. Mediterranean diet and postpartum weight retention. Presented at the Division for Intramural Research, National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, May 2012 (Poster).
Boghossian N, Hansen N, NICHD Neonatal Research Network. Mortality and morbidity of very low birth weight infants with Trisomy 18 and Trisomy 13. Presented at Pediatric Academic Societies, Colorado, May 2011 (Poster).
Boghossian N, Horbar J, Carpenter J, Murray J, Edward F. Bell. Major chromosomal anomalies among very low birth weight infants in the Vermont Oxford Network. Presented at The Vermont Oxford Network Annual Meeting and Quality Congress, Washington, December 2010 (Poster).
Boghossian N, Hansen N, NICHD Neonatal Research Network. Survival and morbidity outcomes of very low birth weight infants with Down syndrome. Presented at Pediatric Academic Societies, Vancouver, May 2010 (Poster).
Boghossian N, Page G, NICHD Neonatal Research Network. Familial and genetic susceptibility to sepsis in very low birth weight twins. Presented at Pediatric Academic Societies, Vancouver, May 2010 (Poster).
Boghossian N, Romitti PA, Leslie D. Pesticides and cardiovascular malformations: a meta-analyses. Presented at Society for Pediatric and Epidemiologic Research, Chicago, June 2008 (Poster).
Mroueh S, Boghossian N, Mumtaz G, Kassar M, Matar M, Yunis K. Does Iron Supplementation in Infants Increase the Risk of Wheezing? Presented at Pediatric Academic Societies, Hawaii, May 2008 (Poster).
Mumtaz G, Boghossian N, Nabulsi M, Waked R, Hoblos F, Yunis K. Consanguinity and congenital malformations in Lebanon, a Case Control Study. Presented at the Third International Conference on Birth Defects and Disabilities in the Developing World, Brazil, June 2007 and at Pediatric Academic Societies, Hawaii, May 2008 (Poster).
Melki I, Mumtaz G, Boghossian N, Kassar M, Jbeili N, Makhoul G, Yunis K. Temporal Variations in the Prevalence of Birth Defects among Newborns in Beirut, Lebanon. Presented at the Third International Conference on Birth Defects and Disabilities in the Developing World, Brazil, June 2007 (Poster).
Yunis K, Mumtaz G, Cortas N, Tanios R, Boghossian N, Ibrahim G, Daher R. A neonatal screening program in Beirut, Lebanon: Results of ten years experience. Presented at Hot Topics in Neonatology, Washington DC, December 2006 (Poster).
Yunis K, Mumtaz G, Boghossian N, Matar M, Howson C. Needs Assessment for Establishing Newborn Screening Program: Results of a Pilot Study in Lebanon. Presented at Strengthening Newborn Screening in the Middle East and North Africa, Marrakech, Morocco, November 2006 (Poster).
Fahed D, Boghossian N, Mumtaz G, Nakad P, Yunis K. Consanguinity and retinopathy of prematurity. Presented at the Society of Pediatric Research, May 2006 (Poster).
Yunis K, Seoud M, Zalloua P, Boghossian N, Nassar A, Araj G, Abboud J, Ezzeddine J, Tamim H. Prevalence, risk factors and serotype distribution of Group B Streptococcus (GBS) colonization among pregnant women in Beirut, Lebanon. National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network (NCPNN). Presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies, San Francisco, California, April 2006 (Poster).
March 2012. Reviewer for Journal of Perinatology and American Journal of Medical Genetics.
March 2010 & 2011. Reviewed abstracts submitted to the Society for Epidemiologic Research and the Society for Perinatal Epidemiologic Research.
April 2007. Reviewed over 70 abstracts submitted to the 3rd International Conference on Birth Defects and Disabilities in the Developing World, June 2007, sponsored by the March of Dimes Foundation.
“National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network: NCPNN Sixth Annual Report, January 1st 2005-December 31st 2005”, May 2006. One general NCPNN report and sixteen individual reports for each of the network hospitals.
“National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network: NCPNN Fifth Annual Report, January 1st 2004-December 31st 2004”, December 2005. One general report and sixteen individual reports for each of the network hospitals.
Beirut, May 12 and 13, 2006
“National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network (NCPNN) annual meeting”, on Surveillance Systems: development, applications and their role in defining health problems, implementing targeted interventions, setting policies, improving quality of care and their role in accreditation.
Tasks: Analysis of the NCPNN five-year statistics disseminated during the meeting
Fluent in English, and Arabic Fair knowledge of Armenian and French