F. Sessions Cole, MD

Specialty Areas
Newborn Medicine - Neonatology
Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine

Areas of Clinical Interest
Inherited lung diseases of infancy, surfactant protein-B deficiency, newborn immunity, newborn infections, complement biosynthesis

Honors and Awards
Listed in Best Doctors in America, 2003-2013 (Best Doctors, Inc.)

Listed in America's Top Doctors, 2005-2013 (Castle Connolly)

Cartier First Aide Award, St. Louis Effort for AIDS, 2000

Named the Park J. White, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, 1998

FDR Leadership Award from the March of Dimes (co-winner with Senator Christopher Bond, Senior Senator from Missouri), 1997

Recent Invited Professorships and Lectureships
Moderator, Pediatric Academic Societies’ Meeting, 2010-2012

Co-Chair, Post-Graduate Course, American Thoracic Society International Conference (Conquering Population Biology: ‘OME My Gosh!), 2010

3rd Annual Sanford-Burnham Rare Disease Day Symposium, Identifying and Treating Genetic Diseases in Children, 2012

80th Perinatal and Developmental Medicine Symposium (Surfactant Therapy: Past, Present, and Future), American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Perinatal Pediatrics, 2012

Frank Sterner Endowed Lectureship for Newborn Education at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, 2012

John L. Curran Lectureship, Department of Pediatrics, University of South Florida, 2012

American Society for Matrix Biology/Society for Glycobiology plenary speaker, San Diego, California, 2012

Selected or Recent Journal Articles
Hamvas A, Deterding R, Wert S, White F, Dishop M, Alfano D, Halbower A, Planer B, Stephan M, Uchida D, Williames L, Rosenfeld J, Lebel R, Young L, Cole FS, Nogee LM. Heterogeneous pulmonary phenotypes associated with mutations in the thyroid transcription factor gene NKX2-1. Chest, 2013

Mills KI, Anderson J, Levy PT, Cole FS, Silva JNA, Kulkarni S, Shinawi M. Duplication of 20p12.3 associated with familiar Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. Am J Med Genet 2013;161:137-44.

Wambach JA, Wegner DJ, Depass K, Heins H, Druley TE, Mitra RD, An P, Zhang Q, Nogee LM, Cole FS, Hamvas A. Single ABCA3 mutations increase risk for neonatal respiratory distress syndrome. Pediatrics. 2012 Dec.

Anadkat JS, Kuzniewicz MW, Chaudhari BP, Cole FS, Hamvas A. Increased risk for respiratory distress among white, male, late preterm and term infants. J Perinatol. 2012 Oct.

Vachharajani A, Cole FS, Keenan W. Neonatal Resuscitation Program Update. Pediatr Update (Dodson WE, Editor-in-Chief), volume 33, issue 2, August, 2012.

46. Spector N, Starmer A, Yu C, O'Toole J, Allen A, Tse L, Bale J, Bismilla Z, Calaman S, Coffey M, Cole FS, Destino L, Everhart J, Hepps J, Kahana M, Lopreiato J, McGregor R, Patel S, Rosenbluth G, Srivastava R, Stevenson A, West D, Landrigan C, Sectish T. I-PASS Handoff Curriculum: Core Resident Workshop. MedEdPORTAL; 2012

Cole FS, Alleyne C, Barks JDE, Boyle RJ, Carroll JL, Dokken D, Edwards WH, Georgieff M, Gregory K, Johnston, MV, Kramer M, Mitchell C, Neu J, Pursley DW, Robinson WM, Rowitch DH. NIH Consensus Conference Statement: Inhaled Nitric Oxide for Premature Infants. Pediatr 2011; 127:363-9.

Cole FS, Alleyne C, Barks JD, Boyle RJ, Carroll JL, Dokken D, Edwards WH, Georgieff M, Gregory K, Johnston MV, Kramer M, Mitchell C, Neu J, Pursley DM, Robinson WM, Rowitch DH. NIH Consensus Development Conference statement: inhaled nitric-oxide therapy for premature infants. Pediatrics. 2011 Feb.

Wambach JA, Yang P, Wegner DJ, An P, Hackett BP, Cole FS, Hamvas A. Surfactant protein-C promoter variants associated with neonatal respiratory distress syndrome reduce transcription. Pediatr Res. 2010 Sep.

Hamvas A, Nogee LM, Wegner DJ, Depass K, Christodoulou J, Bennetts B, McQuade LR, Gray PH, Deterding RR, Carroll TR, Kammesheidt A, Kasch LM, Kulkarni S, Cole FS. Inherited surfactant deficiency caused by uniparental disomy of rare mutations in the surfactant protein-B and ATP binding cassette, subfamily a, member 3 genes. J Pediatr. 2009 Dec.

Druley TE, Vallania FL, Wegner DJ, Varley KE, Knowles OL, Bonds JA, Robison SW, Doniger SW, Hamvas A, Cole FS, Fay JC, Mitra RD. Quantification of rare allelic variants from pooled genomic DNA. Nat Methods. 2009 Apr.

Castro M, Ramirez MI, Gern JE, Cutting G, Redding G, Hagood JS, Whitsett J, Abman S, Raj JU, Barst R, Kato GJ, Gozal D, Haddad GG, Prabhakar NR, Gauda E, Martinez FD, Tepper R, Wood RE, Accurso F, Teague WG, Venegas J, Cole FS, Wright RJ. Strategic plan for pediatric respiratory diseases research: an NHLBI working group report. Proc Am Thorac Soc. 2009 Jan 15.

Abman S, Jobe A, Chernick V, Blaisdell C, Castro M, Ramirez MI, Gern JE, Cutting G, Redding G, Hagood JS, Whitsett J, Abman S, Raj JU, Barst R, Kato GJ, Gozal D, Haddad GG, Prabhakar NR, Gauda E, Martinez FD, Tepper R, Wood RE, Accurso F, Teague WG, Venegas J, Cole FS, Wright RJ, Gail D, Hamvas A, Kercsmar C, Kiley J, Weinmann G; NHLBI working group report. Strategic plan for pediatric respiratory diseases research: an NHLBI working group report. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2009 Jan.

McBee AD, Wegner DJ, Carlson CS, Wambach JA, Yang P, Heins HB, Saugstad OD, Trusgnich MA, Watkins-Torry J, Nogee LM, Henderson H, Cole FS, Hamvas A. Recombination as a mechanism for sporadic mutation in the surfactant protein-C gene. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2008 May.

Garmany TH, Wambach JA, Heins HB, Watkins-Torry JM, Wegner DJ, Bennet K, An P, Land G, Saugstad OD, Henderson H, Nogee LM, Cole FS, Hamvas A. Population and disease-based prevalence of the common mutations associated with surfactant deficiency. Pediatr Res. 2008 Jun.

Hamvas A, Wegner DJ, Carlson CS, Bergmann KR, Trusgnich MA, Fulton L, Kasai Y, An P, Mardis ER, Wilson RK, Cole FS. Comprehensive genetic variant discovery in the surfactant protein B gene. Pediatr Res. 2007 Aug.

Hamvas A, Cole FS, Nogee LM. Genetic disorders of surfactant proteins. Neonatology. 2007.

Wegner DJ, Hertzberg T, Heins HB, Elmberger G, MacCoss MJ, Carlson CS, Nogee LM, Cole FS, Hamvas A. A major deletion in the surfactant protein-B gene causing lethal respiratory distress. Acta Paediatr. 2007 Apr.

Kistka ZA, Palomar L, Lee KA, Boslaugh SE, Wangler MF, Cole FS, DeBaun MR, Muglia LJ. Racial disparity in the frequency of recurrence of preterm birth. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2007 Feb.

Cole FS, Nogee LM, Hamvas A. Defects in surfactant synthesis: clinical implications. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2006 Oct.

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