Saroj Saigal

Dr. Saigal is a neonatologist at McMaster Children’s Hospital and a Professor of Pediatrics at McMaster University. She is also the Director of the Growth & Development Clinic at McMaster Children’s Hospital, a follow-up facility for high-risk infants. Her research interests are in the outcomes of high-risk infants and she has published extensively on the subject.

Dr. Saigal and her colleagues have followed one of the few population-based cohorts of extremely low birthweight infants longitudinally from infancy to adulthood. This group of investigators has received joint funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) and Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) for follow-up to adulthood (2001-2005), which has just been completed. Dr. Saigal is also a collaborator for neonatal outcomes in clinical trials. She is the recipient of a 5-year Career Award as Senior Scientist of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2001-2005).  Dr. Saigal was awarded the ‘Distinguished Neonatologist Award’ by the Section of Neonatal Perinatal Medicine of the Canadian Paediatric Society for her contributions to the field.