A Tribute to Dr. Hannah Kinney, Preeminent SIDS Researcher
An article was published this week about Hannah Kinney, the prolific and important SIDS researcher, and her decades long career pursuing the cause of SIDS.
At the Harvard Medical School, Professor Hannah Kinney conducted SIDS research on the brainstems of babies who died from SIDS for decades. Her work is likely the most important SIDS research elucidating possible pathways to how these babies died. Among other achievements, she articulated the triple risk hypothesis for SIDS, suggesting that SIDS is not as simple as one abnormality in one physiological system, but rather it is an interaction between infant development, intrinsic vulnerability, and environmental hazards. This hypothesis has guided most SIDS researchers since it was articulated 30-years ago in 1994. Probably her most important work, but not her only advance, is the association of decreased serotonin and decreased serotonin receptor binding sites in the brainstems of babies who die from SIDS.
We wanted to be sure that all SIDS parents and those who care about the cause have the opportunity to read this wonderful article.
