Dr. Jonathan Slaughter is a neonatologist and principal investigator in the Center for Perinatal Research within The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology at The Ohio State University. His scholarly pursuits include neonatal comparative effectiveness research and neonatal pharmacoepidemiology. When teaching in the neonatal intensive care unit, he emphasizes the critical evaluation of published literature and evidence-based practice.
Prior to coming to Nationwide Children’s/Ohio State, Dr. Slaughter earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Catawba College (Summa Cum Laude) and a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina and his fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He received his Master of Public Health degree from The Ohio State University College of Public Health. Dr. Slaughter was elected as a member of the Society for Pediatric Research and has served as the Chair of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology Pediatric Special Interest Group. He is a voting member on the Ohio Newborn Screening Advisory Council.