Sara Bates, MD attended the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and completed her pediatric residency at MGH. After completing the Harvard Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship Program in 2012, she joined the MGH Division of Newborn Medicine and Neonatology. Bates’ career in neuroscience began at Boston Children’s Hospital under the mentorship of Dr. Beth Stevens, with whom she studied the role of complement proteins and synaptic refinement in several HIE/seizure animal models. More recently, Bates has been developing brain atlases and clinical databases of normal newborn brain development and perinatal brain injuries with Drs. P. Ellen Grant and Randy Gollub. She serves as the Director of Clinical and Translational Research within the Division of Newborn Medicine and Neonatology at MGHfC and is the site PI for the following clinical trial, “A Phase II Multi-Site Study of Autologous Cord Blood cells for HIE.” She has lectured both locally and regionally on the topics of neuroimaging, injury detection, management of perinatal brain injuries, and emerging cell-based therapies. She is also founding director of the Infant Brain Center at MGHfC (http://www.massgeneral.org/infant-brain-center/).