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.
[1] Prior to working at CHOP, she was the chair of neonatology at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia.
[2] 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.
[2] This study found no difference between children exposed to cocaine in utero and those who had not with respect to multiple evaluations, including creativity and IQ tests.
[3] 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.