Meet the Faculty

Thomas Abrahamsson, MD, PhD

Senior Consultant, Neonatology
Crown Princess Victoria Children's Hospital 
Professor in Pediatrics
Linköping University
Linköping, Sweden

Nicolas A. Bamat, MD, MSCE

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

Eduardo Bancalari, MD

Neonatologist
Holtz Children's Hospital, Jackson Memorial Health System
Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida

Kristyn Beam, MD, MPH

Attending
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Risha Bhatia MBBCh, MA, FRACP, PhD

Consultant Neonatologist
The Royal Women's Hospital 
Melbourne, Australia

Frank Bloomfield, ONZM, FRACP, PhD, FRSNZ

Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research)
Professor of Neonatology
University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand

Peter A Dargaville, MD

Neonatologist
Royal Hobart Hospital 
Professorial Research Fellow in Neonatology
Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania
Hobart, Australia

Ola Didrik Saugstad, MD, PhD, FRCPE

Director of Department of Pediatric Research
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway

Kevin Dysart, MD, MBI 

Division Chief, Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine
Nemours Children’s Health
Professor of Pediatrics
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University 
Wilmington, Delaware

Eric Eichenwald, MD

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

Avroy A. Fanaroff, MD, FRCPE, FRCPCH

Professor Emeritus 
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and 
Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital
Professor Emeritus
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

Dustin Daniel Flannery, DO, MSCE

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

Elizabeth Foglia, MD, MSCE

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

Inez Frerichs, MD, PhD

Leading Researcher
University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein
Professor of Physiology
Christian Albrechts University
Kiel, Germany

Rachel G. Greenberg, MD, MB, MHS

Attending, Neonatology
Duke University Medical Center
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, North Carolina

Jay S. Greenspan, MD, MBA

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

Carl E Hunt, MD

Neonatologist
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus
Uniformed Services University
Chevy Chase, Maryland

Samantha Johnson, PhD

Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences
Professor of Child Development 
University of Leicester
Leicester, United Kingdom

Vishal S. Kapadia, MD, MSCS, FAAP

Attending Neonatologist
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Dallas, Texas 

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

Sailesh Kotecha, FRCPCH, PhD

Honorary Consultant
University Hospital of Wales
Professor of Child Health
Cardiff University
Cardiff, Wales

Boris W. Kramer, MD, PhD

Consultant
Poznan University Medical Center
Professor of Neonatology
Poznan University Medical Sciences
Poznan, Poland

Angela Kribs, MD

Head, Neonatology Division 
Children's Hospital of Cologne
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
University of Cologne
Cologne, Germany

Jonathan S Litt, MD, MPH, ScD

Attending, Neonatology
Lucille Packard Children's Hospital
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Stanford University School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts 

Mathias Lühr Hansen, MD, PhD

Resident Physician
North Zealand Hospital, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
Researcher, Copenhagen Trial Unit, Centre for Clinical Intervention Research
Copenhagen, Denmark

Nathalie Maitre, MD, PhD 

Neonatologist
Director of Early Development and Cerebral Palsy Research
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Professor of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia 

Richard Martin, MBBS, FRACP

Drusinsky-Fanaroff Chair in Neonatology
Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics, Reproductive Biology, and Physiology & Biophysics 
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland, Ohio

Sarah D. McDonald, BA, MD, FRCSC, MSc

Professor, Canada Research Chair and Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist
Hamilton Health Sciences McMaster University Medical Centre
Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Cindy T. McEvoy, MD, MCR

Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Neonatology
Director of Maternal Child Health Research, Pediatric Department
Director of Neonatal Research
Credit Unions for Kids Professor in Pediatric Research
Papé Pediatric Research Institute
Oregon Health & Science University 
Portland, Oregon

Amit Mukerji, MD, MSc

Neonatologist
McMaster Children's Hospital
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Helga Naburi, MD, PhD

Neonatologist
Muhimbili National Hospital
Senior Lecturer
Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences
Tanzania, Africa

Josef Neu, MD

Professor of Pediatrics
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

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

Jochen Profit, MD, MPH

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

Klaus F. Rabe MD, PhD, FERS

Director
LungenClinic Grosshansdorf
Professor of Pulmonary Medicine
University of Kiel
Kiel, Germany

Rinawati Rohsiswatmo, MD, PhD

Professor, Neonatology
Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Indonesia
Professor of Pediatrics
Universitas Indonesia
Jakarta, Indonesia

Barbara Schmidt, MD, MSc, CM

Professor, Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact
McMaster University
Hamilton, Canada

Martin Stocker, MD, MME

Head, Neonatology and Pediatric Intensive Care
Children’s Hospital of Central Switzerland
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Lucern
Luzern, Switzerland

Brynne Sullivan, MD, MSc

Physician-Scientist, Neonatology
University of Virginia Children's Hospital
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Neonatology
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Charlottesville, Virginia

Lehana Thabane, PhD  

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