Dr. Frazer is a physician-scientist with a PhD in immunology and clinical training in neonatal-perinatal medicine. Her research focuses on a devastating disease of the gastrointestinal tract in infancy, necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). Dr. Frazer’s path as a physician-scientist started 20 years ago as an undergraduate at Georgetown University, where she was an HHMI undergraduate scholar. After developing a love for research, she pursued an MD/PhD at the University of Pittsburgh, where she received a PhD in immunology under the amazing mentorship of Dr. Toni Darville. She subsequently completed her pediatrics residency at UNC Chapel Hill and went on to a fellowship in neonatology in the Harvard Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program. During her fellowship, she was an American Academy of Pediatrics Marshall Klaus awardee for her research on the resolution of inflammation after tissue injury with the mentorship of Dr. Cami Martin at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She was thrilled and incredibly grateful for the opportunity to return to UNC as a neonatologist-scientist in 2021. As a junior faculty member at UNC, her mentor is Dr. Misty Good, an international expert and leader in NEC research. Dr. Frazer is a member of the UNC School of Medicine Physician Scientist Training Program (PSTP) and now has a K08 focusing on the neonatal intestinal epithelium and inflammatory mediators of NEC.
To learn more, visit: https://www.med.unc.edu/pediatrics/people/lauren-frazer-md-phd/
