Department of Pediatrics

Education

• BA, University of Missouri –Kansas City School of Arts and Sciences , 2004
• MD, University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Medicine, 2005
• MSCI, Washington University in St. Louis, 2014

Training

• Pediatric Residency, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 2005 - 2008
• Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship, Washington University School of Medicine, 2008 - 2011

Licensure and Board Certification

• Board Certified in Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics, 2009
• Board Certified in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, American Board of Pediatrics, 2012
• MO, Registered Medical Practioner, Missouri Board of Healing Arts, 2016

Honors

• Travel Award – American Academy of Pediatrics, 2006
• Travel Award – Pediatric Academic Societies, 2010
• Washington University in St. Louis Department of Pediatrics Loan Repayment Award, 2011
• Partners in Excellence Award, Team Leader, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 2014

Recent Publications view all (14)

Publication Co-Authors

Jagruti Anadkat, M.D.

Washington University has a long tradition of collaboration amongst colleagues.The faculty above have co-authored publications with Cynthia M. Ortinau, M.D.

1. Yun HJ, Chung AW, Vasung L, Yang E, Tarui T, Rollins CK, Ortinau CM, Grant PE, Im K. Automatic labeling of cortical sulci for the human fetal brain based on spatio-temporal information of gyrification. Neuroimage. 2019;188:473-482. PMID:30553042 
2. Tarui T, Madan N, Farhat N, Kitano R, Ceren Tanritanir A, Graham G, Gagoski B, Craig A, Rollins CK, Ortinau C, Iyer V, Pienaar R, Bianchi DW, Grant PE, Im K. Disorganized Patterns of Sulcal Position in Fetal Brains with Agenesis of Corpus Callosum. Cereb Cortex. 2018;28(9):3192-3203. PMCID:PMC6095213  PMID:30124828 
3. Ortinau C*, Rollins C*, Gholipour A, Yun H, Marshall M, Gagoski B, Afacan O, Friedman K, Tworetzky W, Warfield S, Newburger J, Inder T, Grant PE, Im K. . Early Emerging Sulcal Patterns are Atypical in Fetuses with Congenital Heart Disease Cerebral Cortex. 2018;accepted. 
4. Khan S, Rollins C, Ortinau C, Afacan O, Warfield S, Gholipour A. Tract-Specific Group Analysis in Fetal Cohorts using in utero Diffusion Tensor Imaging MICCAI. 2018;accepted. 
5. Garcia KE, Robinson EC, Alexopoulos D, Dierker DL, Glasser MF, Coalson TS, Ortinau CM, Rueckert D, Taber LA, Van Essen DC, Rogers CE, Smyser CD, Bayly PV. Dynamic patterns of cortical expansion during folding of the preterm human brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018;115(12):3156-3161. PMCID:PMC5866555  PMID:29507201 
6. Ortinau CM, Anadkat JS, Smyser CD, Eghtesady P. Intraventricular Hemorrhage in Moderate to Severe Congenital Heart Disease. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2018;19(1):56-63. PMCID:PMC5777323  PMID:29210924 
7. Ortinau CM, Mangin-Heimos K, Moen J, Alexopoulos D, Inder TE, Gholipour A, Shimony JS, Eghtesady P, Schlaggar BL, Smyser CD. Prenatal to postnatal trajectory of brain growth in complex congenital heart disease. Neuroimage Clin. 2018;20:913-922. PMCID:PMC6178192  PMID:30308377 
8. Walsh BH, Neil J, Morey J, Yang E, Silvera MV, Inder TE, Ortinau C. The Frequency and Severity of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Abnormalities in Infants with Mild Neonatal Encephalopathy. J Pediatr. 2017;187:26-33.e1. PMCID:PMC5533615  PMID:28479101 
9. Im K, Guimaraes A, Kim Y, Cottrill E, Gagoski B, Rollins C, Ortinau C, Yang E, Grant PE. Quantitative Folding Pattern Analysis of Early Primary Sulci in Human Fetuses with Brain Abnormalities. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2017;38(7):1449-1455. PMCID:PMC5509490  PMID:28522661 
10. Gholipour A, Rollins CK, Velasco-Annis C, Ouaalam A, Akhondi-Asl A, Afacan O, Ortinau CM, Clancy S, Limperopoulos C, Yang E, Estroff JA, Warfield SK. A normative spatiotemporal MRI atlas of the fetal brain for automatic segmentation and analysis of early brain growth. Sci Rep. 2017;7(1):476. PMCID:PMC5428658  PMID:28352082 
11. Estep ME, Smyser CD, Anderson PJ, Ortinau CM, Wallendorf M, Katzman CS, Doyle LW, Thompson DK, Neil JJ, Inder TE, Shimony JS. Diffusion tractography and neuromotor outcome in very preterm children with white matter abnormalities. Pediatr Res. 2014;76(1):86-92. PMCID:PMC4062577  PMID:24713814 
12. Ortinau C, Alexopoulos D, Dierker D, Van Essen D, Beca J, Inder T. Cortical folding is altered before surgery in infants with congenital heart disease. J Pediatr. 2013;163(5):1507-10. PMCID:PMC3905308  PMID:23988135 
13. Ortinau C, Inder T, Lambeth J, Wallendorf M, Finucane K, Beca J. Congenital heart disease affects cerebral size but not brain growth. Pediatr Cardiol. 2012;33(7):1138-46. PMCID:PMC3702162  PMID:22450354 
14. Ortinau, C., Beca, J., Lambeth, J., Ferdman, B., Alexopoulos, D., Shimony, J. S., Wallendorf, M., Neil, J., Inder, T. Regional alterations in cerebral growth exist preoperatively in infants with congenital heart disease. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2012;143(6):1264-70. doi:10.1016/j.jtcvs.2011.10.039  PMCID:PMC3322305  PMID:22143100