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 at the Medical University Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina. 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, which provides 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 since 1972, and they have two daughters and a grandson. In 2008, Dr. Newport wrote an article, “What If There Was a Cure for Alzheimer’s Disease and No One Knew?” which was circulated around the world and became the subject of this book as well as a lecture she presented at the 2010 Alzheimer’s Disease International Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece.
