User:SamanthaMRamos/Henrietta Bada

Early life and Education
Henrietta S. Bada-Ellzey was born on July 30th, 1945 in the Philippines in a city called Iloilo which is located in the southern part of the Philippines to Antonia Saldilla and Jose Bada. Jose Bada was from Zambales a northern part of the Philippines and was a marine engineer and her mother Antonia Saldilla was a teacher from Ilo Ilo. Henrietta grew up in Iloilo where she attended primary and secondary school. Henrietta was inspired and motivated to become a doctor in high school when they showed a film to her class about a place located in the Philippines that is called the Leprosarium where those with leprosy are housed. They showcased how those patients were being treated and how they were not getting better as well all of the issues occurring within the Leprosarium. From that day on Henrietta thought to herself that it would be nice to work in the medical field and someday become a doctor, to help those that are sick to get better and give them the treatment they need. It was then that she decided to apply to medical school and was accepted into the University of Santo Tomas, in Manila, Philippines where she obtained her medical degree in 1969. After graduating from medical school Dr. Henrietta Bada moved to the United States to continue her career in medicine. She went to South Side Hospital, Pittsburg PA where she completed a rotating internship in 1971. Initially, Henrietta wanted to go into the field of obstetrics but mothers delivering for several hours did not appeal to her. In making her decision of what specialty to choose she wanted to be in a field she enjoyed and she really liked kids, therefore, she decided on pediatrics and pursued it. She completed her residency in pediatrics at the University of Louisville Hospitals, Louisville, Kentucky in 1973. While in Kentucky Dr.Henrietta S. Bada met her husband Joel William Ellzey and they are still married to the present day. Henrietta remained at the University of Louisville Hospitals, Louisville, Kentucky, and completed her fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine in 1975.

Professional and Personal Life
Dr. Henrietta Bada serves as a pioneer in her field as a Pediatrician, who specializes in Neonatology and has special skills and training in providing care to critically ill newborn infants. She has been practicing medicine and teaching for a total of 46 years. Her specialties and interests include infants, newborn brain disorders, perinatal addiction, neurobehavior, neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), physiologic monitoring, follow-up, and child development and clinical trials. She is an advocate for neonates and for people addicted to drugs. Her teaching is related to the recognition and management of different disorders in the newborn and premature infant. Due to a personal interest in neonatal brain disorders and perinatal addiction, topics related to this area comprise over 50 percent of her teaching commitment; e.g., cerebral blood flow, neurophysiology, asphyxia, intraventricular hemorrhage, substance use during pregnancy, treatment of narcotic withdrawal manifestations.

Dr. Bada has the expertise, training, and motivation necessary to successfully carry out a clinical or translational research project. She has a broad background in carrying out randomized clinical trials and in developmental follow-up especially of children who had prenatal drug exposure. She is very familiar and has applied in research the various measures or instruments for studying various domains of child development from newborn period to adolescence; which include cognitive, motor, language, behavioral, physiological, and endocrine assessments. She has successfully administered research projects, collaborated with other researchers, and produced several peer-reviewed publications. Long-term neurodevelopmental follow-up is an extension of her research interest in newborn brain disorders. She was involved in the NICHD NICU research network during the first 15 years of its cycle and for another 10 years to carry out the longitudinal follow-up of the subjects enrolled in the Maternal Lifestyle Study. With the increasing number of babies with neonatal abstinence syndrome, she has recently published on the non-opiate treatment of infants following prenatal opiate exposure.

She is currently living in Lexington Kentucky with her husband Joel William Ellzey along with her dogs and horses. In her free time Dr. Bada enjoys riding horses, she has been handling horses for over 10 years and has been riding for 7 years.

Contribution to Science
Dr. Bada’s early work was focused on the non-invasive diagnosis or evaluation of newborn disorders especially the complications affecting the newborn brain because of their associated mortality and morbidities. In this area, her publications were in the non-invasive monitoring of newborn intracranial pressures, cerebral Doppler ultrasound to evaluate cerebral hemodynamics, the pulse photoplethysmography in monitoring peripheral blood flow changes, and heart rate variability monitoring in various neonatal conditions.

In addition, her interest included the evaluation of newborn brain disorders to long-term developmental follow-up. This expertise developed and strengthened with her involvement in a NIH-funded research on the outcomes of children exposed to cocaine and opiate in utero. She serves as the Principal Investigator in an NIH-funded project known as “The Maternal Lifestyle Study: A Longitudinal Follow-up of Children exposed to Cocaine and or Opiates in Utero through 16 Years of Age”.This experience provided her the expertise to understand measures of various domains in developmental follow-up assessment, and oversee long-term studies and apply culturally competent services to subjects to enhance compliance in-clinic visits up to adolescence.

Pharmacological treatment of neonates at risk for significant morbidities is an essential area in clinical and translational science research. She had the opportunity to work with colleagues from other departments or institutions to understand drug metabolism, e.g., caffeine and theophylline for the treatment of apnea of prematurity, and this led to the subsequent interest in the possible role of longer duration of caffeine administration in intermittent hypoxemia, and other collaborative studies in the area of the prevention of neonatal intraventricular hemorrhage, and the gene targets for intraventricular hemorrhage, as well as participation in randomized trials as part of the NICHD NICU research network.

Since 2017, the Department for Public Health for the State of Kentucky contracted with the University of Kentucky. Dr. Bada spends a significant amount of effort and time directing the vision of maternal and child health of the Kentucky Department for Public Health.

Clinical Trials / Publications
Dr. Henrietta Bada has been involved in clinical and scientific research as a Faculty at Southern Illinois University, the University of Tennessee, and the University of Kentucky. Dr. Bada has multiple lectureships and 245 publications.

Complete List of Publications: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=bada+h

Awards

 * 1974-1971: Cardiology Intern of the Year, South Side Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


 * 1974-1975: Chairman's Award, University of Louisville Hospitals, Louisville, Kentucky


 * Best Doctors in America 1992, 1993, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017-18


 * May 1994: Outstanding Alumna - Academic Achievement, University of Santo Tomas Medical Alumni Association May 1994


 * Dec 1994: Thomasian Outstanding Medical Alumna in Research, University of Santo Tomas


 * Nov 2000: Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, University of South Florida


 * June 2006: Chairman’s Research Award, Department of Pediatrics, University of Kentucky


 * June 2009: Tagalie Heister Senior Scholarship Award in Mentoring, Department of Psychiatry, University of Kentucky, Mentee: Mitchell Douglass, MD


 * February 2010: Pediatric Educator Award, Sothern Society for Pediatric Research


 * March 2014: 2014 Mentor Award: Center for Clinical and Translational Research Science, University of Kentucky


 * October 2014: Thomas Pauly Excellence in Neonatology Leadership
 * March 12, 2015: Faculty Nominee: Sarah Bennett Holmes Award
 * June 2015: Thomas Pauley Perinatal service Award from the Kentucky Perinatal Association
 * February 2017: Founder’s Award Southern Society for Pediatric Research
 * June 2018: David H. Adamkin 2018 Founders Award, Kentucky Perinatal Association