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Penny Glass, PhD
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Children's National Medical Center
Faculty, Psychology
Principal Investigator, Children’s Research Institute (CRI), Center for Neuroscience Research (CNR)
George Washington University
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
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Contact Information
Children's National Medical Center
Center for Neuroscience Research (CNR)
111 Michigan Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20010-2970
202-476-2389
pglass@cnmc.org
Education & Training
| Institution & Location |
Degree |
Year(s) |
Field of Study |
Auburn University,
Auburn, AL |
BA |
1971 |
Psychology |
University of West Florida,
Pensacola, FL, |
MA |
1977 |
Developmental Psychology |
| George Washington University, Washington, DC, |
PhD |
1985 |
Developmental Psychology |
Research Interests
Penny Glass, PhD, is a developmental psychologist, associate professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and director of the Child Development Program in the Division of Behavioral Medicine, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. She came to Children’s National Medical Center in 1982 to work on her doctoral dissertation in the NICU and became aware of the initiation of the ECMO program for critically ill newborn infants. The life-saving procedure also included the infants who would have the right common cartoid artery and jugular vein permanently ligated.
Dr. Glass was hired by Billie Short, MD, in 1984 to provide followup developmental evaluations for the Neonatal ECMO Program and later helped develop the national standards for followup. Dr. Glass also serves as associate director for the Neurobehavioral/Psychosocial Evaluation Core for Children’s GCRC and the MRDDRC, which provide consultation around research design and instrumentation of studies involving developmental outcomes of children prior to age four years.
Her research interests have generally focused on biological and environmental perturbations of the developing brain. Her doctoral dissertation, “The effect of bright continuous light in the NICU on the developing visual system of the preterm infant”, completed in 1984, involved a comparison of two levels of ambient light in the NICU (standard bright light vs light reduction strategies) on the incidence of retinopathy of prematurity, alteration of sleep states, and visual information processing at four months past term. The retinopathy results were published in the New England Journal of Medicine, received national and international attention, and led to modification of NICU environments. She subsequently published a chapter in Neonatology: Pathophysiology & Management (G Avery, ed), “The vulnerable neonate in the NICU environment,” which was concerned with early development of all the sensory systems and the impact of atypical environment on early brain development. She continues to present on this broader topic at national and international meetings.
Dr. Glass was the principal iInvestigator for an RO1 (NIH/NINDS) five-year study to conduct comprehensive neuropsychological and neuromotor testing of 150 5-year-old children treated as neonates with ECMO and 50 normal control children. The results of three separate analyses (neurodevelopmental status at age 5 years, outcome by brain injury severity, and the pattern of neuropsychological deficit following unilateral brain injury) were published in major journals (Pediatrics, Developmental Medicine/Child Neurology, and Brian and Language). She wrote and revised a chapter for the ECMO manual, presented at numerous national and international meetings on ECMO outcome, and continues to chair the Followup Session at the annual ECMO research meeting. Dr. Glass actively collaborates in early outcomes research, including multi-institutional studies of hypothermia, neurofibromatosis, and sickle cell anemia. Her most recent research effort is in the area of early autism which stems from extensive clinical experience as director of the Child Development Program.
Clinical Interests
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Publications
View a partial list of Penny Glass's publications through the National Library of Medicine's PubMed online database.
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