Ulrike Mietzsch, MD

Dr. Ulrike Mietzsch is a Neonatologist at Seattle Children’s Hospital and Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Division of Neonatology. She is board certified in both, neonatal-perinatal medicine and neonatal neurocritical care. She is the co-director of the Neonatal Neurocritical Care Program (NeuroNICU) at Seattle Children’s Hospital and associated program director of the neonatal neurocritical care fellowship program. Her research interest focuses on the investigation of physiologic biomarkers, energy metabolites, and genetic contribution to neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.

Dr. Mietzsch has past and ongoing collaborations in multicenter clinical trials investigating innovative therapeutic and diagnostic opportunities related to neonatal neurocritical care, with a primary focus on HIE and neonatal seizures. In addition, she has a longstanding interest and expertise in utilizing large disease focused datasets to better understand the longitudinal impact of prenatal and neonatal brain injury on long-term neurodevelopmental outcome in critically ill neonates.