Speakers - NWC 2023

Biography

Dr. Pendyala is a Robert Lieberman MD Ph.D. Endowed Professor in the Department of Anaesthesiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). His research program focuses on Addiction, Neurodevelopment, Infectious diseases, and Environmental toxins. In addition, over the last three years, he has been actively engaged in elucidating the role of biopsychosocial risk factors in pregnant women and developmental outcomes in newborns. Dr. Pendyala is a recipient of several awards that include being elected as a life member of the Indian Academy of Neurosciences, being Recipient of the Joseph P. and Harriet K. Gilmore Distinguished New Investigator Award for outstanding research awarded by the Dean’s office, Innovators of the Year Special Award and recently inducted into the "Circle of Distinction" conferred from the Chancellor of UNMC.