Chief of Newborn Medicine
Associate Director, Clinical Research Center
Floating Hospital for Children at
Tufts-New England Medical Center
Tufts-NEMC #44
Professor of Pediatrics
Tufts University School of Medicine
750 Washington Street
Boston, MA. 02111

Tel:  617-636-5322
Fax: 617-636-1456

Email: JDavis@tufts-nemc.org

Research Interests:

I am currently Chief of Newborn Medicine, Program Director of the Clinical Research Center, and Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts. I graduated McGill Medical School in 1981 and my research interests involve development of novel therapeutic approaches to prevent neonatal lung damage, brain injury and invasive infections.

Recent Publications:

Walsh MC, Szefler S, Davis J, et al. Summary proceedings from the bronchopulmonary dysplasia working group. Pediatrics 117:52-6, 2006.

Arita Y, Harkness SH, Kazzaz JA, Koo HC, Joseph A, Melendez JA, Davis JM, Chandra A, Li Y. Mitochondrial localization of catalase provides optimal protection from H2O2-induced cell death in lung epithelial cells. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 290:L978-86, 2006.

Brunelli L, Hamilton E, Koo H-C, Joseph A, Davis JM, Kazzaz JA, Wolfson MR, Shaffer TH.  Perfluorochemical liquids provide an effective strategy to deliver superoxide dismutase to the lungs of juvenile rabbits. Pediatr Res 60:65-70, 2006.

Lakshminrusimha S, Russell JA, Gugino SF, Kazzaz JA, Davis JM, Steinhorn RH. Intratracheal superoxide dismutase improves oxygenation in ovine neonatal pulmonary hypertension. Am J Resp Crit Care Med 174:1370-7, 2006.

Arita Y, Joseph A, Koo HC, Li Y, Davis JM, Kazzaz JA. Superoxide dismutase improves bacterial clearance and reduces mitochondrial oxidant stress in O2-exposed mononuclear cells. Free Rad Biol Med 42:1517-23, 2007.