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Dr. Padbury received his BS in biology (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of California at Irvine and his MD degree from UCLA. His postgraduate training in pediatrics and neonatology was taken at UCSF, Harvard University (Boston Children's Hospital) and UCLA. He was recruited to Brown University from UCLA in 1995. His appointments at Brown are the Oh–Zopfi Professor of Pediatrics and Perinatal Research, Pediatrician-In-Chief and Chief of Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine at the Women and Infants' Hospital and Associate-Chair for Research, Department of Pediatrics at the Hasbro Children's Hospital. He has a long-standing research interest in cardiovascular and placental developmental biology. Awards since coming to Brown University have included a program project grant in perinatal biology, establishment of T-32 supported perinatal biology training at WIH, a grant from HRSA for construction of the Kilguss Research Institute in the Jewelry District and the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence Award (COBRE) for Perinatal Biology. He serves as an extramural reviewer for NIH, NSF, the American Heart Assn. and the March of Dimes. He is a member of the Child Health Advisory Committee of the Charles H. Hood Foundation, which awards research funds to new pediatric investigators in New England Universities. He is past Chair of the NIH Pregnancy and Neonatology Study Section (PN, 2001-07) and is currently on the NIH-NCRR Advisory Council. He is also a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Pediatrics and the American Journal of Reproductive Immunology. He is a member of the Pathobiology, MCB and MPPB Interdepartmental Graduate Programs. He currently serves on 5 predoctoral committees and is thesis advisor to one PhD candidate in Pathobiology and two Masters of Medical Science candidates.

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