Lewis P. Rubin, MD

Professor
Georgetown University Medical Center

Lewis P. Rubin is Professor (Neonatology) and Vice Chair of Pediatrics (Research) at Georgetown University Medical Center and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC. He is a recognized authority on intensive care of premature babies and infants who have complex metabolic, cardiorespiratory, or neurodevelopmental disorders or multiple congenital anomalies. Dr. Rubin has been an international consultant in women’s and infant care and infant nutrition. His scientific research focuses on pregnancy and newborn nutrition and development, nutritional neuroscience, genomics/epigenomics, metabolomics, clinical trials, and social drivers of health. Other interests include medical fiction and the history of science and medicine. Dr. Rubin received his M.Phil. and M.D. from Yale University and trained in pediatrics, newborn medicine, and molecular endocrinology at Harvard. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, invited reviews, and book chapters in maternal/fetal/child health, clinical trials, carotenoids, genomics and proteomics, and molecular mechanisms of disease. He has mentored more than 20 practicing scientists and clinician/investigators. Before being recruited to Georgetown in 2018, he was a faculty member at Brown University/Women & Infants’ Hospital of Rhode Island, and professor and chief of neonatology at the Cleveland Clinic, University of South Florida, and Texas Tech. He holds leadership positions in the American Pediatric Society and American Society for Nutrition and is an Inaugural Fellow of the International Carotenoid Society.

Poster(s):

• (PO02-07-22) Low Fruit, Vegetables, and Carotenoids Intake Driving Low Healthy Eating Index in Young Children With Food Insecurity

• (PO16-70-22) Probiotic Supplementation in Very Low Birthweight Infants: Effects on Systemic Immunity and Intestinal Inflammation