Pitt Pediatrics congratulates Onome Oghifobibi, MD, MSc, FAAP, for recently being unanimously elected to the Healthy Start Board of Directors. Oghifobibi is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Newborn Medicine, where he also completed his fellowship in neonatology and research training in resuscitation medicine, as part of our Department’s specialized Pediatric Scientist Development Program (PedSDP). 
Oghifobibi has worked intimately with the resuscitation experts at the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, focusing on defining the mechanisms underpinning cerebral blood flow dysregulation after asphyxia cardiac arrest with the goal of developing therapeutic strategies to improve neurological outcomes in infants and children with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. He completed his residency in pediatrics at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and his medical training at the University of Benin, Nigeria.
Healthy Start is an organization dedicated to supporting women, children, fathers, families, and communities in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties through comprehensive community-based programming, systems coordination, advocacy, and research and training. As part of a network of more than 100 community-based Healthy Start projects across the country, the organization aims to provide access to affordable and quality maternal and child health care.
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