Dr. Samudragupta Bora, a leading Indian American pediatric neuroscientist, has been named to the Society for Pediatric Research’s (SPR) leadership council as JEDI Chair at University Hospitals (UH) Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital.

Under the society’s strategic plan, the SPR Council includes chairs of the membership, advocacy, JEDI, organizational partnerships, and pediatric scientist development committees, alongside the executive council.

Bora is the Founding Director of the University Hospitals Health Services Research Center and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

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Since May 2016 Dr. Bora has held the position of Group Leader for Neurodevelopmental Follow-Up and Outcomes at the Mater Medical Research Institute. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Barakat Bundle, a nonprofit social enterprise venture incubated at the Harvard Business School, USA, that is working towards reducing preventable infant and maternal mortality in South Asia.

Born and raised in India, Bora, is recognized internationally for his research on neurodevelopmental outcomes of high-risk infants, particularly those born preterm, along with a growing focus on congenital heart disease and global child health.

His work also focuses on developing and implementing scalable models of neurodevelopmental follow-up, particularly in resource-limited settings.

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Throughout his career, he’s sought to improve the early identification of infants at risk of adverse neurodevelopment outcomes, with a specific focus on risk and resilience using the social determinants of health framework.

Fueled by intellectual curiosity and commitment to understanding how the confluence of medical and non-medical factors like environment and socioeconomic circumstances impact individual and community health, Dr. Bora cultivates strategies to improve clinical outcomes and address health disparities and inequities.

Dr. Bora received his doctoral degree from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Canterbury, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School, USA.