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Neonatal Nutrition Research

Birmingham, AL

Our Mission

Our experienced multidisciplinary team puts your baby's needs first by discovering and applying new knowledge in neonatal nutrition research. We are proud to provide a high-quality level of research opportunities, medical experience, and commitment to health to all our study participants. Our goal is to close the gap between new discoveries and current feeding practices and thus, help premature babies reach their full potential.

Experience and Professionalism

With years of experience, we have selected a limited number of nutritional interventions with the most significant potential to improve your baby's outcomes. Our research team will assess your eligibility to participate in nutrition studies and explain how your baby and others could benefit from our innovative approaches to improve the growth and developmental outcomes of premature babies. We know it is essential for you to understand why there is a need to test new feeding methods during early infancy.

Health Care Professionals Who Care

We understand that having a premature baby in the neonatal unit is often unexpected and stressful. We strive to give you early access to novel therapies that could improve your baby's quality of life. However, we understand that the choice of being part of a research study can be overwhelming. When you choose not to participate in research studies, you should rest assured that our commitment to provide the best care for your baby remains the same.

 

The Team

Ariel A. Salas, MD, MSPH

Ariel A. Salas, MD, MSPH

Ariel A. Salas, MD, MSPH

Dr. Salas is a neonatologist. He completed his second pediatrics residency at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a neonatology fellowship at UAB. He manages our team and makes sure all our backgrounds work together to help support your baby's nutrition goals.


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Seabrook Jeffcoat, MSPH

Ariel A. Salas, MD, MSPH

Ariel A. Salas, MD, MSPH

Seabrook is a a clinical research coordinator. She assists with data curation and data analysis.

Taylor Brown, BS

Tori Argent, MS, RDN

Tori Argent, MS, RDN

Taylor is an experienced neonatal feeding specialist and a clinical research coordinator. She is responsible for the day-to-day research activities including screening, recruitment, data collection, sample processing, and others.

Tori Argent, MS, RDN

Tori Argent, MS, RDN

Tori Argent, MS, RDN

Tori is a neonatal dietitian who has the knowledge and skills to combine innovative nutritional interventions with routine clinical practice

Areas of Specialty

Body composition and growth outcomes

Our research team aims to improve quantitative and qualitative outcomes of growth in premature babies 

Feeding practices

We have developed multiple feeding protocols to improve nutrition practices in premature babies

Oral feeding

We have also made substantial contributions to facilitate the transition from tube to oral feeding in premature babies. We instrumented a feeding bottle to assess nutritive sucking patterns (number of sucks, sucking strength, sucking density, and bottle orientation)

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