Biography of Mary T. Newport M.D.

Mary T. Newport, M.D. grew up in Cincinnati , Ohio , attended Xavier University for pre-medicine, and graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 1978. She trained in Pediatrics at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati , and completed her fellowship in Neonatology, the care of sick and premature newborns, at the Medical University Hospital in Charleston , SC. She has practiced neonatology in Florida since 1983 and has been medical director of the newborn intensive care unit at Spring Hill Regional Hospital since opening in 2003. Dr. Newport is employed by the All Children's Specialty Physicians group, who provide newborn services to Spring Hill Regional Hospital . She is also volunteer clinical faculty for the Department of Pediatrics, University of South Florida since January 2004. She previously practiced neonatology and served as medical director at Mease Hospital Dunedin, after founding the newborn intensive care unit at that hospital in 1987.

Dr. Newport has been married to Steve Newport for 36 years and they have two daughters, ages 26 and 22, and an 18 month old grandson. She has written an article, “What If There Was a Cure for Alzheimer's Disease and No One Knew?” relaying her family's experience with this disease and her research into a dietary intervention that may benefit persons with Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Updated May 2009