Meet the Faculty

Pankaj Agrawal MBBS, MMSc

Johan Ågren MD, PhD

Medical Director of Neonatal Intensive Care
Uppsala University Children's Hospital
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Uppsala University, Department of Women's and Children's Health
Uppsala, Sweden

Elaine M Boyle, MBChB, MSc, PhD 

Consultant Neonatologist
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust 
Professor of Neonatal Medicine
University of Leicester
Leicester, United Kingdom

Katharine Press Callahan, MD, MSME

Attending, Neonatology
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

HyeRan Choo, DDS, DMD, MS

Director, SOAP for PRS (Stanford Orthodontic Airway Plate Treatment Program for Pierre Robin sequence)
Section Chief, Craniofacial Airway Orthodontics
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Stanford University School of Medicine 
Stanford, California

Wendy Chung, MD PhD

Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Boston Children's Hospital
Mary Ellen Avery Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Anna Curley 

Eric C. Eichenwald, MD

Chief, Division of Neonatology
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Professor of Pediatrics
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Hege Langli Ersdal MD, PhD 

Head of Research, Simulation and Global Health 
Stavanger University Hospital 
Professor in Simulation and Global Health
University of Stavanger
Stavanger, Norway

Elizabeth Foglia, MD, MSCE

Attending Neonatologist
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Wolfgang Göpel, MD

Director Childrens Hospital
University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein
Professor of Neonatology
University of Lübeck
Lübeck, Germany

Jeffrey Gould, MD, MPH

Director, Perinatal Epidemiology and Health Outcomes Research Unit
Stanford University School of Medicine
Robert L. Hess Endowed Professor of Pediatrics
Stanford University School of Medicine
Berkeley, California

Jay S. Greenspan, MD, MBA

Nemours Children’s Health
Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Amy Hobson, DO

Neonatologist
University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital
Clinical Assistant Professor - Pediatrics
Carver College of Medicine at University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa

Benjamin Hoffman MD

Vice Chair for Advocacy
OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, Oregon 

Erik Jensen 

Haresh Kirpalani, MD, MSc

Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia 
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics McMaster University 
Hamilton, Canada 

Satyan Lakshminrusimha, MD MBBS

Chair, Executive Associate Dean
UC Davis Children's Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics
UC Davis School of Medicine
Sacramento, California

Matthew M. Laughon, MD, MPH

Attending, Neonatology
North Carolina Children's Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 

Robert Moshiro, MD, PhD

Paediatrician
Muhimbili National Hospital
Senior Lecturer
Muhimbili University of Health Allied Sciences
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Michael Narvey, MD, FRCPC

Attending, Neonatology
Women's Hospital, University of Manitoba
Associate Professor of Neonatology
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences/University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada

Ju Lee Oei, MBBS, FRACP, MD

Neonatologist
Mater Mother's Hospital
Chair of Neonatology
Mater Research Institute and University of Queensland
South Coogee, Australia

Shalini Ojha, PhD

Consultant Neonatologist
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Professor of Neonatal Medicine
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, United Kingdom

Louise Owen MD

Neonatologist
Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia

Ravi M. Patel, MD, MSc

Attending Neonatologist
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Professor of Pediatrics
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

Richard Polin, MD

Executive Vice Chair Department of Pediatrics
Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
William T Speck Professor of Pediatrics
Columbia University
New York, New York

Sinha Pratik 

Jochen Profit, MD, MPH

Neonatologist
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California

Matthew Rysavy, MD, PhD

Director of Learning Healthcare, Attending Neonatologist
UTHealth Houston
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
Houston, Texas

Rita C. Silveira MD, PhD

Professor, Neonatology
Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre
Full Professor of Pediatrics
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Porto Alegre, Brazil 

Rebecca Simmons, MD

Attending Neonatology
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Hallam Hurt Professor Pediatrics
Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

David K. Stevenson, MD

Harold K. Faber Professor of Pediatrics
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University
Stanford, California

Edgardo Szyld MD, MSc

Clinical Research Director, Neonatal Perinatal Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine
Professor of Pediatrics
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, Indiana

Lehana Thabane, PhD  

Vice President, Research 
St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton
Professor of Biostatistics 
McMaster University
Hamilton, Canada