Kyoung E. Joung, MD

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Joung is a faculty neonatologist at the Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a Lecturer on Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Joung graduated from the Harvard Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program and previously worked at Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ before returning to Boston to join the Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2016. Dr. Joung has a scholarly interest in neonatal nutrition and the long term metabolic consequences of intrauterine growth restriction.

Publications

  • Published 5/11/2025

    Herzberg EM, Bates SV, Boulanger J, Culic I, El-Dib M, El-Shibiny H, Gupta M, Hansen A, Inder T, Joung KE, Keohane C, Landers JR, Patrizi S, Sansevere A, Walsh BH, Zhang B, Soul JS. Association of Two Neonatal Encephalopathy Scores with Neurophysiology in Newborns with Suspected Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy. Neonatology. 2025; 122(4):455-466. PMID: 40349687.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 1/16/2025

    Joung KE, Prendergast M, Marchioni O, Testa SZ. The effects of early enteral feeding, fortification, and rapid feeding advancement in extremely low birth weight infants. Early Hum Dev. 2025 Feb; 201:106202. PMID: 39827747.

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  • Published 8/8/2023

    El-Dib M, El-Shibiny H, Walsh B, Cherkerzian S, Boulanger J, Bates SV, Culic I, Gupta M, Hansen A, Herzberg E, Joung K, Keohane C, Patrizi S, Soul JS, Inder T. Establishing a regional registry for neonatal encephalopathy: impact on identification of gaps in practice. Pediatr Res. 2024 Jan; 95(1):213-222. PMID: 37553453.

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  • Published 9/27/2021

    Joung KE, Rifas-Shiman SL, Oken E, Mantzoros CS. Maternal Midpregnancy Leptin and Adiponectin Levels as Predictors of Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Prenatal Cohort Study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2021 09 27; 106(10):e4118-e4127. PMID: 34050756.

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  • Published 5/13/2021

    Joung KE, Martin CR, Cherkerzian S, Kellogg M, Belfort MB. Human Milk Hormone Intake in the First Month of Life and Physical Growth Outcomes in Preterm Infants. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2021 05 13; 106(6):1793-1803. PMID: 33544860.

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