Emanuela Ferretti MD, FRCPC

Biography

Dr. Emanuela Ferretti received her MD degree from the University of Milan in Italy in 1986 and graduated in pediatrics and neonatology in 1991. Her postgraduate medical training included a clinical and research fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto from 1989 to 1991 and the Montreal Children’s Hospital and McGill University from 1991 to 1999. From 1999 to 2007, she worked as an academic neonatologist at the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS). As a member of the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute, her research interests include the development of the human intestine and the genetics underlying necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) as well as the impact of different molecules and drugs on the premature gut. She is also involved in an innovative neonatal ethics teaching program focused on parent-physician communication skills for postgraduate trainees.