Hallam Hurt

Hallam Hurt is an American neonatologist. She is "the medical director of Special Babies Clinic and an attending neonatologist at CHOP Newborn Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania". As of 2013, she was also a professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Research

Hurt is known for a study she began in 1988, while at Einstein Medical Center, looking at the effects of prenatal cocaine exposure on adult development outcomes. The study, one of the longest and most long-term of its kind, included 224 babies born between 1989 and 1992 at Einstein, half of whom were born to cocaine-using mothers and half who were not. She and her colleagues did, however, find that both groups of children, who both came from low-income families, had much lower-than-average IQs.