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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2025
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Cécile Asher

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Also affiliated: Arkansas Children's Hospital (2025); Alder Hey Children's Hospital (1936)

3 h-index 7 pubs 36 cited

  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Analgesics, Opioid
  • Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
  • Birth Weight
  • Intelligence
  • Methadone
  • Buprenorphine
  • Female
  • Male
  • Opioid-Related Disorders
  • Pregnancy Complications
  • Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects
  • Opiate Substitution Treatment
  • Morphine

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Cécile Asher's research focuses on neonatal outcomes related to maternal opioid use and withdrawal. Her recent work investigates the association between medication for opioid use disorder during pregnancy and outcomes for newborns, including birth weight and intelligence. Asher has also studied accelerated weaning of opioids to reduce pharmacologic exposure for Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome in a randomized clinical trial. Her earlier publications explored the prognosis of immaturity and the relationship between birth weight and intelligence. Asher has collaborated with Elizabeth A. Sellars, Megan S. Evans, Jennifer Good, and Richard Hall at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Her scholarship metrics include an h-index of 4, with 10 total publications and 47 citations.

Metrics

  • h-index: 3
  • Publications: 7
  • Citations: 36

Positions

Selected Publications

  • Accelerated Weaning of Opioids to Reduce Pharmacologic Exposure for Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome: A Randomized Clinical Trial (2026)
    The Journal of Pediatrics 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Association between medication for opioid use disorder during pregnancy and neonatal outcomes (2025)
    Journal of Perinatology 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Ankyloblepharon-ectodermal defects-cleft lip/palate syndrome in monozygotic twins with a novel tumor protein p63 gene pathogenic variant (2025)
    JAAD Case Reports 1 citation DOI OpenAlex

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Collaboration Network

44 Collaborators 35 Institutions 2 Countries

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