Principal Investigator, "Effect of Skin Contact on Electrophysiologic Sleep in Preterm Infants," National Institutes of Health-National Institute of Nursing Research, 5 RO1 NR04926, 2000-2005.
Principal Investigator, "Kangaroo Care to Blunt Pain in Premature Infants," National Institute of Health and National Institute of Nursing Research, RO3 NR08587, 2003-2005.
Principal Investigator, "Antenatal Lactation Education for High-Risk African American Mothers and Mother's Milk," RIG, 2003-2004.
Training Projects
Core Faculty, "Childbearing, Childrearing, Caregiving Research Training," May Wykle, National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institute of Health, T32 NR07108.
Core Faculty, "Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Advanced Education Program," Donna Dowling, Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Health Professions, HP-00263-01, 2001-2004.
Education Interests
Neonatal Nursing
Maternal-Child Health
Nurse-Midwifery
Educational Background
BS, Cell Biology, Univeristy of California, Santa Barbara, CA
BS, Nursing, University of California at San Francisco, CA
MS, Maternal-Child Health, University of California at San Francisco, CA
Certificate, Nurse Midwife, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, New York, NY
Recent Publications
Ludington-Hoe SM, Gittner LS, Haller HS. (2013). A pilot study: Does obesity begin in the first year of life? Clinical Pediatrics, 52(6), June 2013, 503-508.
Cong, X., Ludington, S. M. (2011). Effect of Kangaroo Care on pain scores and cortisol: Randomized cross-over trial. Biological Research for Nursing, 13(2), 204-216.
Scher, M. S., Johnson, M. W., Ludington, S. M., Loparo, K. (2011). Physiologic Brain Dysmaturity in Late Preterm Infants. Pediatric Research.
Ludington, S. M. (2011). Thirty years of kangaroo care science and practice. Neonatal Network, 30(5), 357-62.
Cong, X., Ludington, S. M., Walsh, S. (2011). Randomized crossover trial of kangaroo care to reduce biobehavioral pain responses in preterm infants: a pilot study. Biologic Research for Nursing, 13(2), 204-16.
Abouelfettoh, A. A., Ludington, S. M., Visscher, M., Burant, C. J., Cartner, T. (2011). Effect of skin-to-skin contact on preterm infant skin barrier function and hospital-acquired infection. Journal of Clinical Medicine Research, 3(1), 36-46.
Ludington, S. M. (2011). Physiologic Effects of Kangaroo Care: Comprehensive Review in Contemporary Women’s Health Reviews (3rd ed., vol. 7, pp. 243-253).
