About me

Dr. Brion was Director of the Fellowship Training Program in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM, Bronx, NY) for 9 years and at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX (UTSW) for 12 years. He mentored more than 30 trainees. Dr. Brion has published more than 130 manuscripts and 10 chapters. During his training his research was focused on growth, nutrition and assessment of renal function in neonates and children. As Faculty at AECOM, he was funded for years by the NIH, American Heart Association, Genentech Foundation, and Pharmacia for basic sciences research in developmental nephrology, specifically renal acid secretion, carbonic anhydrase, pathophysiological effects of acidosis and growth. His academic focus later changed to clinical research assessing neonatal mortality and morbidity and evidence-based medicine. He is a member of the Neonatal Cochrane Collaboration Group. He participated in several multi-center research studies in preterm infants. Dr. Brion has served on the IRB at AECOM. In 2015, Dr. Brion obtained funding from Children’s Medical Center Foundation at Dallas for QI and research aiming at analyzing the relationship between neonatal nutrition, growth, neurodevelopment and signs suggestive of metabolic syndrome in high-risk preterm infants. One recent study was focused on zinc deficiency. He also obtained funding from the Gerber Foundation for a randomized trial comparing targeted vs. adjusted feeding supplementation in preterm infants.