Emanuela Ferretti

Dr. Emanuela Ferretti graduated in pediatrics and neonatology from the University of Milan (Italy). Her postgraduate medical training included clinical and research fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Kids in Toronto and the Montreal Children’s Hospital (Mc Gill University).

She is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Ottawa and neonatologist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) and the Ottawa Hospital (General Campus). Affiliated member of the CHEORI her research interest has pertained to multicenter CIHR funded study on necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) which includes the study of a non-invasive biological marker to help predict NEC in premature infants, the impact of human milk micro-vesicles – exosomes and drugs on the development of the human premature intestine. Longstanding and ongoing participation in several international clinical RCT’s (including MACS, MACS2, MACS5, LIFT, REFSAL study – inhaled Salbutamol for TTN of the newborn).

She has co-led Medical Education Research and implemented an international innovative Neonatal Ethics Teaching Program focused on parent-physician communication skills for postgraduate trainees. Lastly her experiences as team leader of the local Perinatal Palliative Care Committee and expert content advisor for international Neonatal Societies, led to develop a Regional Perinatal Pain guideline and the buildout of a QI project on the use of opioids in post-op neonates at CHEO.