Gregory Charles Valentine, MD, MEd
Associate Professor Adjunct Assistant Professor in UW Mechanical Engineering, UW Oral Health Sciences, Baylor OBGYN
Clinical Interests: Global newborn health and improving equitable healthcare delivery through evidence‐based medicine.
Scholarly Focus: Dr. Valentine’s two main scholarly areas of focus are: (1) evaluating and understanding the pathophysiologic basis of maternal infection & inflammation (especially maternal periodontal disease) and its effects on pregnancy and neonatal outcomes, and (2) developing and implementing affordable innovations and interventions for resource-limited settings to improve neonatal transitional nutrition.
Research Funding:
2023-2025. DetectIV. WE-REACH. University of Washington and NIH. Role: PI, Total Award: $104,000
2022-2027 Prevention of Developmental Delay and Xylitol (PDDaX) Study. NICHD K23. Role: PI, Total Award: $797,704
2022-2026 Prevention of Developmental Delay and Xylitol Study. Thrasher Research Institute. Role: PI, Total Award: $429,451
2022-2024 pHast Cam. Affordable and Accessible Means to Detect Blood pH Values to Improve Timely Detection of Neonatal Birth Asphyxia in Low‐Resourced Settings. CoMotion Innovation Gap Fund. Role: Co-I. Total Award: $50,000
2022-2023 pHast Cam. Affordable and Accessible Means to Detect Blood pH Values to Improve Timely Detection of Neonatal Birth Asphyxia in Low‐Resourced Settings. Royalty Research Fund. Role: Co-I. Total Award: $39,856
2021-2023 DetectIV. Affordable and Accessible Neonatal Intravenous Infiltration Detection in Low‐ Resourced Settings. CoMotion Innovation Gap Fund. Role: PI. Total Award: $50,000
Administration/Education Roles: Internationally, Dr. Valentine is a consultant for the World Health Organization with a focus on improving maternal and child health outcomes through improving access to antenatal corticosteroids, implementation of Every Newborn Action Plan, and developing core indicators for quality of care for small and sick newborns. Regionally, he works with the UW School of Dentistry, Shoreline Community College (Dental Hygiene Program), and the UW School of Medicine to facilitate timely evaluation of all obstetric patients for proper dental care. These efforts seek to overcome health and dental disparities and, subsequently, improve pregnancy and neonatal outcomes. Locally, Dr. Valentine serves on the Executive Advisory Board for the Engineering Innovation in Health (EIH) Program at the University of Washington. Through EIH, both he and Dr. Krystle Perez collaboratively lead the development of three innovations all focused on providing affordable ways to provide intravenous fluids or point‐of‐care diagnostics for newborns in low‐resourced settings globally. He also serves as co‐lead of ALIGN (Advancing Learning and Innovation in Global Neonatology) within the Division of Neonatology, a bi-monthly meeting which includes over 30 neonatologists and trainees from multiple US and international institutions seeking to improve newborn outcomes in low-resourced settings globally.