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Zinaida Vexler, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Neurology at UCSF and Director of Research at the Neonatal Brain Disorder Center. She has multi-disciplinary training in chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology, and physiology and has served as Director of MRI Core on PPG since 2002, and as the Director of Research of Neonatal Brain Disorders Center at UCSF since 2003.

Dr. Yvonne Wu is a child neurologist and epidemiologist with expertise in newborn brain injury and cerebral palsy (CP). After obtaining a BS from Yale and an MD from Harvard Medical School, she completed her Child Neurology Residency training at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and obtained a MPH in Epidemiology at University of California, Berkeley. The goal of Dr. Wu's research is to develop new strategies to prevent CP. Her research has been funded by NIH, Thrasher Research Fund, CP Alliance, CP International Research Foundation and others. Dr.