Massroor Pourcyrous, MD

Practice: UT Neonatology

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Dr. Pourcyrous is certified by the American Board Pediatrics and the sub-board of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine.

Specialty: Neonatology

Regional One Health Newborn Center
853 Jefferson Avenue, Suite 201
Memphis, Tennessee 38103-2807
Office:  901-448-5950
Fax:  901-448-1691		 Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
848 Adams Avenue, 4th Floor
Memphis, Tennessee 38103
Office: 901-287-8400
Fax: 901-287-4845

Certification:

  • American Board of Pediatrics
  • Sub-board of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Education:

  • Medical Degree: Tabriz University School of Medicine, Tabriz, Iran
  • Internship: (Rotating) Tabriz University School of Medicine, Tabriz, Iran

Residency:

  • (Pediatrics) Tabriz University School of Medicine, Tabriz, Iran
  • (Pediatrics) Louisiana State University Charity Hospital and Children’s Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana

Fellowship:

  • Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Departments of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology, UTHSC, Memphis, Tennessee
  • Post-doctoral Fellow in Neonatal Physiology (Cerebral Circulation), Department of Physiology and Biophysics, UTHSC, Memphis, Tennessee

Academic Title:

  • Professor Departments Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Physiology, UTHSC, Memphis, TN

Special Interests:

My research interests have been in both clinical and basic science.  As a Neonatologist I have been interested in translational research in order to better understand neonatal cerebrovascular disorders, the mechanisms involved and to correlate the laboratory findings with the clinical findings.  I have been collaborating with our Physiologists (Dr. Leffler and Dr. Parfenova) for over 20 years. I have an extensive experience in studying hemodynamics of cerebral circulation in newborn pigs and in human neonates during physiological and pathological conditions such as acute and prolonged asphyxia, seizures, IVH, and, I have also investigated cerebrovascular manifestation of illicit drugs (maternal cocaine abuse) and the licit drugs that are commonly used in neonates. My published translational works include: 1) Role of prostanoids in asphyxia and reventilation; 2) Role of CSF cAMP as a predictor of neurological outcome of asphyxia; 3) The effects of maternal cocaine abuse on neonatal cerebral circulation; 4) The effects of indomethacin on neonatal cerebral circulation, 5) Endogenous production of CO during seizures, and 6) detection of brain–derived circulating endothelial cells (BCECs) in peripheral blood of infants as a biomarker of cerebrovascular injury.

At present my research activities includes: 1) Maternal substance abuse (MSA) and Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), 2) Role of C-reactive protein (CRP) in neonatal disease, 3) immunization of preterm infants and 4) neonatal seizures.

I am Co-investigator of two NIH funded studies on Control of neonatal cerebral circulation.

 

I am Co-investigator of two NIH funded studies on Control of neonatal cerebral circulation.

Professional Membership:

  • American Academy of Pediatrics
  • American Medical Association
  • American Physiological Society
  • Society for Pediatric Research
  • Southern Society for Pediatric Research
  • Neuroscience Institute

Additional Information:

  • Author, co-author and reviewer of several medical publications