Neurology
Caroline Kim and Devin Chetan and Vanna Kazazian and Jawad Alzamil and Vann Chau and Mike Seed and Steven P. Miller and Thiviya Selvanathan
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.000000000021456902 / 2026
Pediatric Research
Thiviya Selvanathan
DOI: 10.1038/s41390-025-04659-w12 / 2025
Pediatric Research
Kia Anarna and Dawn Gano and Thiviya Selvanathan
DOI: 10.1038/s41390-025-04696-512 / 2025
JAMA Network Open
McLean, M.A. and Ranger, M. and Bone, J.N. and Selvanathan, T. and Au-Young, S.H. and Chau, C.M.Y. and Chau, V. and Ly, L. and Kelly, E. and Synnes, A. and Miller, S.P. and Grunau, R.E.
DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.4477Annals of Neurology
Kennedy, E. and Guo, T. and Williams, S. and Selvanathan, T. and Alsweiler, J.M. and Bloomfield, F.H. and Battin, M. and Dubowitz, D. and Miller, S.P. and Morgan, C. and Perry, D. and Stott, N.S. and Harding, J.E.
DOI: 10.1002/ana.27261Neurology
Selvanathan, T. and Oloomi, S. and Guo, T. and Ufkes, S. and Chau, V. and Branson, H. and Synnes, A. and Ly, L.G. and Kelly, E.N. and De Vries, L.S. and Grunau, R.E. and Miller, S.P.
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000214016Pediatric Clinics of North America
Selvanathan, T. and Miller, S.P.
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcl.2025.07.001Pediatric Research
Selvanathan, T. and Gano, D.
DOI: 10.1038/s41390-025-04333-1Pediatric Clinics of North America
Konrad, J. and Chau, V. and Selvanathan, T.
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcl.2025.05.006Journal of Pediatrics
Oloomi, S. and Ufkes, S. and Selvanathan, T. and Chau, C. and Roland, E. and Guo, T. and Chau, V. and Grunau, R.E. and Miller, S.P.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2025.114667Journal of Pediatrics
Ybarra, M. and Selvanathan, T. and Guo, T. and Chau, V. and Branson, H.M. and Ly, L.G. and Synnes, A.R. and Kelly, E. and Grunau, R.E. and Miller, S.P. and Tam, E.W.Y.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2025.114503Jornal de Pediatria
Selvanathan, T.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jped.2024.07.001JAMA Network Open
Selvanathan, T. and Ufkes, S. and Guo, T. and Chau, V. and Branson, H.M. and Ibrahim, G.M. and Ly, L.G. and Kelly, E.N. and Grunau, R.E. and Miller, S.P.
DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.2551Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
Konrad, J. and Guo, T. and Ufkes, S. and Selvanathan, T. and Sheng, M. and Al-Ajmi, E. and Branson, H.M. and Chau, V. and Ly, L.G. and Kelly, E.N. and Grunau, R.E. and Miller, S.P.
DOI: 10.1002/acn3.52168Pediatric Research
Selvanathan, T. and Miller, S.P.
DOI: 10.1038/s41390-024-03710-6Pediatric Research
Pardo, A.C. and Carrasco, M. and Wintermark, P. and Nunes, D. and Chock, V.Y. and Sen, S. and Wusthoff, C.J. and Bonifacio, S. and Aly, H. and Chau, V. and Glass, H. and Lemmon, M. and deVeber, G. and Boardman, J.P. and Gano, D. and Peeples, E. and Leijser, L.M. and Nakwa, F. and Selvanathan, T.
DOI: 10.1038/s41390-024-03484-xNeurology
Selvanathan, T. and Miller, S.P.
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000209212Neurology
Selvanathan, T. and Guo, T. and Ufkes, S. and Chau, V. and Branson, H. and Synnes, A. and Ly, L.G. and Kelly, E.N. and Grunau, R.E. and Miller, S.P.
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000209264Pediatric Research
Bansal, S. and Molloy, E.J. and Rogers, E. and Bidegain, M. and Pilon, B. and Hurley, T. and Lemmon, M.E. and Selvanathan, T. and Nakwa, F. and Leijser, L. and Wusthoff, C. and Peeples, E. and Pardo, A. and Glass, H. and Gano, D. and deVeber, G. and Chau, V. and McCaul, M.C. and Boardman, J. and Aly, H. and Wintermark, P. and Bonifacio, S.
DOI: 10.1038/s41390-024-03257-6Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Lee, F.-T. and Sun, L. and van Amerom, J.F.P. and Portnoy, S. and Marini, D. and Saini, A. and Milligan, N. and Lim, J.M. and Saini, B. and Selvanathan, T. and Kazazian, V. and Sananes, R. and Jaeggi, E. and Kingdom, J.C. and Macgowan, C.K. and Ly, L. and Chau, V. and Miller, S.P. and Seed, M.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2024.02.005The Lancet Neurology
Selvanathan, T. and Miller, S.P.
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(24)00089-9Seminars in Perinatology
Selvanathan, T. and Miller, S.P.
DOI: 10.1016/j.semperi.2024.151928Pediatric Research
Selvanathan, T. and Miller, S.P.
DOI: 10.1038/s41390-024-03245-wDevelopmental Medicine and Child Neurology
Selvanathan, T. and Mabbott, C. and Au-Young, S.H. and Seed, M. and Miller, S.P. and Chau, V.
DOI: 10.1111/dmcn.15840Journal of Pediatrics
Selvanathan, T. and Guo, T. and Ufkes, S. and Chau, V. and Branson, H.M. and Synnes, A.R. and Ly, L.G. and Kelly, E. and Grunau, R.E. and Miller, S.P.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2024.114090Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience
Gigliotti-Manessis, A. and Rutter, T.M. and Cook, K. and Merrill, L. and Korom, M. and Selvanathan, T. and Camacho, M.C. and Bick, J.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-66932-3_9Circulation
Thiviya Selvanathan and Ting Guo and Shabnam Peyvandi and Anne Synnes and Vann Chau and Linh Ly and ANTHONY J BARKOVICH and Mike Seed and Patrick S McQuillen and Steven P Miller
DOI: 10.1161/circ.148.suppl_1.1402811 / 2023
Canadian Journal of Cardiology
Chetan, D. and Selvanathan, T. and Alzamil, J. and Chau, V. and Seed, M.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2023.03.009Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Peyvandi, S. and Xu, D. and Barkovich, A.J. and Gano, D. and Chau, V. and Reddy, V.M. and Selvanathan, T. and Guo, T. and Gaynor, J.W. and Seed, M. and Miller, S.P. and McQuillen, P.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2022.10.029Neurology
Selvanathan, T. and Guillot, M. and Branson, H.M. and Chau, V. and Kelly, E.N. and Miller, S.P.
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000207265Neonatology Questions and Controversies Neurology
Selvanathan, T. and Seed, M. and Chau, V.
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-323-88077-0.00025-0Neurology
Selvanathan, T. and Au-Young, S.H. and Guo, T. and Chau, V. and Branson, H.M. and Synnes, A. and Ly, L. and Kelly, E.N. and Grunau, R.E. and Miller, S.P.
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000207848Pediatric Research
Selvanathan, T. and Zaki, P. and McLean, M.A. and Au-Young, S.H. and Chau, C.M.Y. and Chau, V. and Synnes, A.R. and Ly, L.G. and Kelly, E. and Grunau, R.E. and Miller, S.P.
DOI: 10.1038/s41390-023-02536-yArchives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition
Thiviya Selvanathan and Ting Guo and Eddie Kwan and Vann Chau and Rollin Brant and Anne R Synnes and Ruth E Grunau and Steven P Miller
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2020-32139703 / 2022
Canadian Journal of Cardiology
Selvanathan, T. and Smith, J.M.C. and Miller, S.P. and Field, T.S.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2022.02.009Journal of neonatal-perinatal medicine
Abou Mehrem, A. and Al Awad, E. and Anninck, K. and Au-Young, S. and Aydinol, N. and Bartmann, P. and Benders, M. and Benlamri, A. and Bolderheij, L. and Celik, Y. and Chan, N. and Chau, C. and Chau, V. and Chen, X. and Chetcuti Ganado, C. and Coetser, A. and Cools, F. and Da Rocha, G. and Deigner, H.-P. and Dereymaeker, A. and Deshmukh, L. and Domonoske, R. and Dossani, S. and Dsouza, J.M. and El Gamal, M. and Eshemokhai, P. and Esser, M. and Fiedrich, E. and Franz, A. and Ghosh, A. and Groenendaal, F. and Grunau, R.E. and Venkata, S.K.R.G. and Hamitoglu, S. and Hellstr{\"o}m-Westas, L. and Irvine, L. and Jansen, K. and Javadyan, A. and Jenkin, G. and Kamanga, N. and Kaur, N. and Keles, E. and Keller, M. and Kelly, E. and Kesting, S.J. and Kgwadi, D. and Kim, B. and Kohl, M. and Kowal, D. and Kricitober, J.D. and Leijser, L. and LePine, M. and Lim, Y.-P. and Lodha, A. and Londhe, A. and Ly, L. and Maes, E. and Malhotra, A. and Marlow, N. and Mathew, J.L. and McDonald, C. and McLean, M. and Metcalfe, C. and Meyer, R. and Miller, S.P. and Miller, S. and Mogajane, T. and Mohammad, K. and Momin, S. and Montpetit, J. and Mukiza, N. and Murthy, P. and Scott, J.N. and Nakibuuka, V. and Nakwa, F. and Naulaers, G. and Noort, J. and Ntuli, N. and Ondongo-Ezhet, C. and Paul, R. and Pepper, M. and Plum, A. and Rombough, B. and Saugstad, O. and Scotland, J. and Scott, J. and Seake, K. and Sebunya, R. and Selvanathan, T. and Sepeng, L. and Simsek, H. and Steins-Rang, C. and Stonestreet, B. and Tang, S. and Taskin, E. and Thewissen, L. and Thomas, S. and Thomas, R. and van Kwawegen, A. and van Rensburg, J. and Velaphi, S. and Wu, Y. and Yaman, A. and Yapicioglu-Yildizdas, H. and Yawno, T. and Zaki, P. and Zein, H. and Zhou, L.
DOI: 10.3233/NPM-229003Neurology
Kazazian, V. and Selvanathan, T. and Chau, V. and Tam, E.W.Y. and Miller, S.P.
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000201229Circulation
Thiviya Selvanathan and Ting Guo and Min Sheng and Mike Seed and Anne Synnes and Shabnam Peyvandi and Liza Pulcine and Vann Chau and Linh G Ly and James Barkovich and Patrick S McQuillen and Steven P Miller
DOI: 10.1161/circ.144.suppl_1.1007211 / 2021
Pediatric Research
Selvanathan, T. and Miller, S.P.
DOI: 10.1038/s41390-021-01514-6Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Shinar, S. and Blaser, S. and Chitayat, D. and Selvanathan, T. and Chau, V. and Shannon, P. and Agrawal, S. and Ryan, G. and Pruthi, V. and Miller, S.P. and Krishnan, P. and Van Mieghem, T.
DOI: 10.1002/uog.22018American Journal of Psychiatry
Hafizi, S. and Tseng, H.-H. and Rao, N. and Selvanathan, T. and Kenk, M. and Bazinet, R.P. and Suridjan, I. and Wilson, A.A. and Meyer, J.H. and Remington, G. and Houle, S. and Rusjan, P.M. and Mizrahi, R.
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2016.16020171Schizophrenia Bulletin
Kenk, M. and Selvanathan, T. and Rao, N. and Suridjan, I. and Rusjan, P. and Remington, G. and Meyer, J.H. and Wilson, A.A. and Houle, S. and Mizrahi, R.
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbu157Neuroimage
Suridjan, I. and Rusjan, P.M. and Voineskos, A.N. and Selvanathan, T. and Setiawan, E. and Strafella, A.P. and Wilson, A.A. and Meyer, J.H. and Houle, S. and Mizrahi, R.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.09.021Infants with congenital heart disease are at increased risk for brain injury and abnormalities in brain maturation (brain dysmaturation) that contribute to an increased risk for neurodevelopmental problems. However, social disparities have also been linked to poorer childhood neurodevelopmental outcomes. Children with congenital heart disease in whom these factors intersect may be particularly vulnerable. This project aims to understand how social disparity modifies the relationships between brain injury, brain maturation and neurodevelopmental outcomes in children with congenital heart disease. There will be a specific focus on identifying the specific pathways through which social determinants impact neurodevelopment, which may point to potential interventions to more equitably promote brain health in this population.
Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is a major cause of neonatal brain injury and long-term disability. While brain MRI helps assess injury patterns, it cannot reliably predict which infants will face developmental challenges. These studies aim to improve early identification of at-risk infants by examining how brain connectivity, early-life pain exposure, and biological sex influence neurodevelopmental outcomes. By using advanced imaging, including MRI at birth and 3 months, and magnetoencephalography (MEG) at 8 months, to evaluate how the brain’s functional networks, its connectome, develop after injury. MEG, a non-invasive technique that captures real-time brain activity, offers unique insight into how neural pathways mature beyond what MRI alone can show.
By combining MEG and MRI data with detailed neurodevelopmental assessments, the studies will explore how brain connectivity disruptions relate to cognitive, motor, and social outcomes. They will also investigate how pain and sedation in the neonatal intensive care unit, and biological sex differences, impact brain development and recovery. Findings will help refine prognostic tools, guide personalized early interventions, and inform best practices in clinical care, including more tailored pain management and sex-specific support strategies for infants with HIE.
Less is known about the long-term impacts of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) on brain health into adolescence. This study follows individuals with a history of neonatal HIE to assess cognitive, motor, and psychosocial outcomes, as well as changes in brain development over time. The goal is to better understand the long-term effects of early-life brain injury and identify factors that influence resilience or increased risk for neurodevelopmental challenges.
This study investigates the long-term effects of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) on brain maturation and neurodevelopment by analyzing a 20-year retrospective cohort. While existing tools can predict the risk of cerebral palsy, less is known about the long-term trajectory of other neurodevelopmental outcomes in individuals with HIE. By examining historical neuroimaging and clinical data, the study aims to identify patterns of brain maturation, assess associations with non-cerebral palsy impairments, and uncover biomarkers that can improve early identification and intervention strategies for at-risk children.
Neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) results from reduced oxygen and blood flow at birth and can lead to lasting brain injury and developmental challenges. This study investigates how early heart function—specifically right ventricular performance—relates to the severity of brain injury in newborns with HIE. Using echocardiography and brain MRI, researchers aim to understand the interplay between cardiovascular health and brain development. By identifying heart-related markers of brain injury risk, this research may improve early prognostic tools and guide more tailored clinical care.
CIHR Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s Award (2020-2021)
SickKids RI Clinician Scientist Training Program (2020-2023)
Ontario Ministry of Health – Clinician Investigator Program (2020-2021)
CIHR Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral Award (2022-2023)
NBS Early Career Award – 1/2025-12/2025 (Social disparity, thalamic volumes, and cognition in adolescents with neonatal HIE)
CIHR Project Grant – 4/2025-3/2030 (Brain Connectome and Neurodevelopment in Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy)
BB&D Catalyst Grant – 2/2025-2/2026 (The Heart-Brain Connection in Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy: Hemodynamic Alterations and Brain Injury Severity)
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