Dr. med. univ. Raphaela Jernej
Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (Division of Neonatology, Intensive Care Medicine and Neuropediatrics)
Position: Doctor-in-training
ORCID: 0009-0004-3021-6555
raphaela.jernej@meduniwien.ac.at
Keywords
Intensive Care, Neonatal; Neonatal Neurology; Outcome of Extremely Premature Infants; Pediatrics; Radiology; Ultrasonography, Doppler, Transcranial
Research group(s)
- Neonatal Neurology
Members:
Research interests
Our research group focuses on neurodevelopmental outcome in neonates, with special interest in (extremely) preterm infants. Furthermore we investigate causes and treatment/prevention of (acquired) neurological adverse events.
Techniques, methods & infrastructure
- Cranial Ultrasonography (transfontanellar) and Doppler Ultrasonography
- Since March 2022: Pediatric Resident at the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (Division of Neonatology, Intensive Care Medicine and Neuropediatrics), Medical University of Vienna
- Since October 2023: PhD Student in CLINS (Clinical Neuroscience), Medical University of Vienna
Selected publications
- Jernej, R. et al. (2025) ‘Impact of being small for gestational age in neonates born below 600 g birth weight’, Pediatric Research [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41390-025-04202-x.
- Goeral, K. et al. (2021) ‘Considerable mortality and morbidity in neonates born below 500 gram’, Acta Paediatrica, 110(8), pp. 2359–2365. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.15885.
- Buchmayer, J. et al. (2023) ‘Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Based Reference Values for Two-Dimensional Quantitative Brain Metrics in a Cohort of Extremely Preterm Infants’, Neonatology, 121(1), pp. 97–105. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1159/000534009.