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Martha Carlson, M.D., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at the University of Michigan, Mott Children’s Hospital. She is a physician-scientist and has been the State of Michigan’s X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) Medical Director since 2017. In this role, she coordinates care with the Newborn Screening State Lab, the Technical Advisory Committee, and the 3 medical centers in Michigan that care for children with X-ALD. Her clinical interests include general pediatric neurology, neurodevelopmental and neurogenetic conditions, movement disorders, and stroke. She is active in education of medical students and adult and child neurology residents and receives outstanding teaching evaluations.
Dr. Carlson completed undergraduate studies and an MD - PhD program in Pharmacology at the University of Michigan. Her graduate doctoral thesis focused on the role of glutamatergic neurotransmission (purification of the synaptic vesicle glutamate transport system) in diverse neurological conditions. She completed child neurology training at the University of Michigan, post-doctoral research training at the University of Michigan with Drs. Anne Young and Ted Ueda, as well as Dr. Eric Kandel at Columbia University. She obtained her initial expertise on X-ALD at the Kennedy Krieger Institute with Drs. Hugo Moser and Gerald Raymond. She joined the University of Michigan faculty in 2000, and she has recently been awarded the distinguished Evan Newport HOPE Award (2021) for exceptional commitment to patient and family centered care. She has been a member of the Child Neurology Society for 25 years.
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Estiphan T, Sturza J, Shellhaas RA, Carlson MD. Pediatr Neonatol, 2024 Jul; 65 (4): 354 - 358.Journal ArticleA novel clinical risk scoring system for neurodevelopmental outcomes among survivors of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE).
DOI:10.1016/j.pedneo.2023.07.006 PMID: 38057259 -
Colaizy TT, Poindexter BB, McDonald SA, Bell EF, Carlo WA, Carlson SJ, DeMauro SB, Kennedy KA, Nelin LD, Sánchez PJ, Vohr BR, Johnson KJ, Herron DE, Das A, Crawford MM, Walsh MC, Higgins RD, Stoll BJ, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network , MILK Trial Investigators , Ambalavanan N, Wyckoff MH, D'Angio CT, Bugg GW, Ohls RK, Reynolds AM, Sokol GM, Laptook AR, Olsen SL, White JR, Jadcherla SR, Bajaj M, Parimi PS, Schmidt B, Laughon MM, Barks J, Fisher KA, Hibbs AM, Peralta-Carcelen M, Cook N, Heyne RJ, Cavanaugh B, Adams-Chapman I, Fuller J, Hartley-McAndrew ME, Harmon HM, Duncan AF, Hines AC, Kilbride HW, Richards LA, Maitre NL, Natarajan G, Trembath AN, Carlson MD, Malcolm WF, Wilson-Costello DE, MILK Trial Investigators , Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network . JAMA, 2024 Feb 20; 331 (7): 582 - 591.Journal ArticleNeurodevelopmental Outcomes of Extremely Preterm Infants Fed Donor Milk or Preterm Infant Formula: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
DOI:10.1001/jama.2023.27693 PMID: 38497706 -
Brumbaugh JE, Vohr BR, Bell EF, Bann CM, Travers CP, McGowan EC, Harmon HM, Carlo WA, Duncan AF, Hintz SR, Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD Neonatal Research Network . J Pediatr, 2023 Aug; 259: 113443Journal ArticleEarly-Life Outcomes in Relation to Social Determinants of Health for Children Born Extremely Preterm.
DOI:10.1016/j.jpeds.2023.113443 PMID: 37105408 -
Carlson MD, Kang PB. Neurology, 2022 Nov 22; 99 (21): 929 - 930.Journal ArticleCan We Generalize Key Principles in the Care of Rare Diseases? The Case for Adrenoleukodystrophy.
DOI:10.1212/WNL.0000000000201400 PMID: 36175146 -
Shellhaas RA, Chervin RD, Barks JDE, Hassan F, Carlson MD, Burns JW. Pediatr Res, 2022 Mar; 91 (4): 962 - 969.Journal ArticleLateralized neonatal EEG coherence during sleep predicts language outcome.
DOI:10.1038/s41390-021-01554-y PMID: 33931736 -
Surtees T, Auerbach SA, Lloyd EC, Hobbs RD, Carlson MD. Pediatric Stroke, 2022 Jan 1; 4: 1 - 15.Journal ArticleDisseminated fungal infection in a 17-month-old boy presenting with cardioembolic stroke
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McNamara NA, Dang LT, Sturza J, Ziobro JM, Fedak Romanowski EM, Smith GC, Joshi SM, Leber SM, Carlson M, Robertson P, Shellhaas RA. Epilepsia, 2020 Aug; 61 (8): e85 - e89.Journal ArticleThrombocytopenia in pediatric patients on concurrent cannabidiol and valproic acid.
DOI:10.1111/epi.16596 PMID: 32614070 -
Richard AE, Hodges EK, Carlson MD. Clin Pediatr (Phila), 2019 Oct; 58 (11-12): 1232 - 1238.Journal ArticleDifferential Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder Versus Language Disorder in Children Ages 2 to 5 Years: Contributions of Parent-Reported Development and Behavior.
DOI:10.1177/0009922819865794 PMID: 31349758
