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 3/11/2026

    Joung KE, Garland M. Evaluating growth at 2 years after the MILK Trial: does it matter if our babies are smaller at NICU discharge? Pediatr Res. 2026 Mar 11. PMID: 41813980.

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  • Published 9/30/2025

    Kim F, Joung KE, Field H, Garland M, Lyford A, Sheen JJ, Hays T. Machine learning demonstrates normal fetal Doppler velocimetry associated with reduced risk of necrotizing enterocolitis among preterm infants with growth restriction. J Neonatal Perinatal Med. 2026 May; 19(3):288-294. PMID: 41029181.

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  • 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.

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  • 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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Education

  • Seoul National University, MD
  • Harvard University, MSc
  • Seoul National University, MS

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