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MOCA-Peds for Neonatal-Perinatal Perinatal News “At a Glance” Medicine Mary Nock, MD, FAAP, Editor Vivian Thorne, Production Heather French MD, MSEd Beginning in 2020, the American Board of MOCA-Peds for Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine ...... 1 (ABP) is launching an alternative to fulfill the medical View From the Chair: An Unorthodox Column ...... 2 knowledge requirement (Part 3) of the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program in Neonatal Perinatal National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN) and Medicine (NPM). Previously, the NPM recertification National Association of Neonatal Nurse Practitioners examination served as the only option to fulfill the (NANNP) Report ...... 3 Part 3 requirement. Maintenance of Certification Getting to Know… Assessment for Pediatrics, or MOCA-Peds, is an James Barry MD, District VIII Representative ...... 4 alternative to taking the NPM recertification ONTPD Update ...... 5 examination. MOCA-Peds is NOT a replacement for the initial certification examination for NPM. MidCaN Rising Star… Trent Tipple MD, FAAP ...... 6 MOCA-Peds is a web-based assessment program Women in ...... 7 for pediatricians using multiple choice questions TECaN Update ...... 8 (MCQ) that are clinically relevant. Instead of a single exam day, pediatricians can demonstrate medical Highlights from the SoNPM Program at the 2019 NCE ...... 9 knowledge and clinical judgment in a flexible and 2020 AAP NCE SoNPM Program in San Diego, CA ...... 10 dynamic model that emphasizes continuous learning that is better aligned with the changing environment SoNPM Task Force for Neonatal Perinatal of clinical practice. MOCA-Peds uses an online Therapeutic Development ...... 10 platform for assessment of knowledge that will be 2020 Spring Workshop March 27-29, Scottsdale, AZ ...... 11 conducted in 5-year MOC cycles. During each 5-year MOC cycle, participants are automatically enrolled in Coding Question ...... 12 MOCA-Peds. If preferred, MOC participants can opt ANNOUNCING! SoNPM Clinical Leaders Forum out of MOCA-Peds and instead sit for a proctored for Medical Directors and Quality Directors ...... 13 NPM recertification exam at a secured testing center every 5 years (for an additional fee). In Memoriam… Lois Johnson-Hamerman ...... 13 MCQs will be based on 45 learning objectives drawn MidCaN Update ...... 14 from the ABP NPM content outline that reflect WECaN Meets at NCE ...... 14 medical knowledge required for clinical practice. A Coding Answer ...... 15 subset of MCQs will be based on recently published articles that will be provided to participants at no Executive Committee Roster 2020 ...... 16 additional charge. The learning objectives assessed District News ...... 17 by MOCA-Peds will change annually. 2019 AAP NCE SoNPM Scientific Session in NOLA ...... 33 • Up to 20 MCQs will be delivered electronically to participants every quarter. MCQs can be 2019 AAP Young Investigator Awardees ...... 33 answered in one or many sessions. Questions not answered by the end of the quarter will be marked incorrect. Printing and mailing of this issue supported through a grant from Abbott Nutrition. Continued on Page 2 SECTION ON NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE Winter 2020 www.aap.org/perinatal

MOCA-Peds for Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine View From the Chair: Continued from Page 1 An Unorthodox Column • MOCA-Peds MCQs can be accessed and answered on any computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone with Mark Hudak MD, FAAP internet access. As I sit down to write this column in December with the • The 4 lowest scored quarters of the 5-year MOC cycle goal of choosing content that would be relevant come will be dropped and won’t be counted toward a publication time, I am overcome by the stark reality and participant’s final score. A standardized score scale the unprecedented breadth of danger to the world’s ranging from 1 to 300 will be used. The passing scaled children both now and, increasingly so, into the future. As score is 180. pediatricians and as parents, it is critical to understand the • MCQs are open book. Participants must work alone to threats and then to mobilize effectively to address them. answer MCQs but can use resources such as books Thesis: Climate change poses the greatest existential and the internet to help answer questions. Each MCQ danger to children today. must in answered in 5 minutes. • Immediate feedback is provided after answering True fact: Climate change is real. MCQs including the rationale behind the correct The scientific evidence unambiguously confirms that answer and supportive references. humankind is responsible for the unprecedented rapidity of • Throughout the MOC cycle, raw score performance climate change that has outstripped the adaptive and scaled score performance will be updated on a capabilities of the natural ecosystems. The cryosphere is participant’s MOCA-Peds dashboard. melting: The summer polar icecap is nearly gone; the rate MOCA-Peds participants will receive 5 points of MOC Part of glacial melt in Greenland continues to increase; the 2 credit each year if a scaled score of 180 is achieved frozen tundra in Alaska, Scandinavia, and Russia is annually. If a participant isn’t passing MOCA-Peds by the disappearing; large chunks of Antarctic glaciers have end of year 4 of the 5-year MOC cycle, he/she will have to broken from the continent. Look no further than what we take and pass the proctored NPM recertification exam to have witnessed in our country during our lifetime. No true maintain certification. Participants who opt out of MOCA- glaciers remain in Glacier National Park. Conifers in 70,000 Peds for Part 3 MOC credit can still participate in square miles of forest in the Rocky Mountains have died MOCA-Peds for Part 2 credit. off due to shorter less severe winters, longer warmer summers, greater drought, and the ascendance of tree- MOCA-Peds will be aligned with a participant’s 5-year killing insects. The colorful coral reefs off the Florida Keys MOC cycle. Participants will be automatically enrolled in are fading due to warmer waters and increased oceanic MOCA-Peds at the beginning of their next 5-year MOC acidity. Sea grasses off the western coast have plummeted cycle. Individual MOC cycle dates are listed within one’s by 90% in some areas. Average US temperature has risen ABP Portfolio. The MOC enrollment fee ($1330 in 2020) will 1.2-1.8°F from 1896 to 2016 and, without intervention, is not change with the addition of MOCA-Peds. expected to increase a further 2.5°F by 2050. Shorelines MOCA-Peds for NPM was based on the MOCA-Peds pilot are retreating and some coastal urban areas are project for general pediatrics during 2017 and 2018. There experiencing flooding in calm weather. were over 11,000 pediatricians who participated in the Throughout the world, climate change will have adverse pilot project (73% general pediatricians, 27% effects on the supply of clean fresh water, agricultural subspecialists including 697 neonatologists). More than productivity, the output of ocean fisheries, patterns of 97% of participants reported they learned, refreshed, or human migration, pestilence, pollution, and human enhanced their medical knowledge through participation in disease. MOCA-Peds. The majority of pilot participants (96.1%) preferred MOCA-Peds for their Scientists over the past decade several times have subspecialty certification over a proctored exam. escalated estimates about the pace of climate change and its effects. The world is unprepared to deal with the For more information, please visit the ABP’s MOCA-Peds consequences. There will likely be conflict and wars website https://www.abp.org/mocapeds and your own related specifically to access to natural resources and ABP Portfolio dashboard to determine when your next patterns of human migration. MOC cycle begins. As you are reading this, we are well into the democratic process of choosing candidates who will vie to become our next national, state, county, and city leaders. I would argue that there is nothing more important than that these future leaders embrace the science of climate change and work collaboratively in this country and with leaders of 2 www.aap.org/perinatal SECTION ON NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE Winter 2020 other countries to decelerate its rate of progression. Every National Association of Neonatal policy and every consequential decision must be considered in this light. Nurses (NANN) and National Association of Neonatal Nurse The is the largest generator of CO2 per capita, yet the only major country in denial on this issue. Practitioners (NANNP) Report Yes, there will be considerable pain in adopting effective Media Esser PhD, NNP-BC, APNP, CWN measures to combat climate change, but continued delay will be even more painful and will risk passing the point of Neonatal Nurse Education and Clinical Resources irreversibility. It should not be that the only solution for NANN has had an exciting year and plans to continue the mankind, as Steven Hawking said in 2017, is that “humans momentum with the release of podcasts. The NANNcast need to leave Earth” to ensure humanity’s survival. will be releasing its first episode in late December. Listen to While climate threat presents the greatest threat to NANNcast on Spotify, Apple Podcast, Pocket Cast, children, there are numerous other immediate dangers to YouTube, and Podbean. Stream the trailer now on NANN’s the health and well-being of children. We are fortunate to YouTube page or by searching “NANNcast” in the search be members of the American Academy of Pediatrics, bar of your preferred podcast platform. which as an organization has tirelessly worked to advocate The NANN Research Summit will be in Scottsdale, AZ for on behalf of children in these areas. Let us choose our its 15th year, March 24-26, 2020. Eighteen abstracts have future leaders through the prism of how they stand on been accepted and reflect a variety of NICU these issues. topics. Main topics include: Human milk and feeding, • We must promote the principle that all children should nursing care, educational initiatives, and nursing science. have access to quality and affordable . Any The Summit will also integrate four doctoral-prepared future health care related legislation must recognize mentors to work with the participants to provide feedback this principle. It is alarming that the percentage of and support in the continuation of clinical inquiry in the uninsured US children less than 19 years of age NICU. This year the members of the SoNPM will join in increased from a historic nadir of 4.9% in 2017 to networking with all of the participants during a dinner 5.5% in 2018. reception on March 25th, 2020. For more information • We must strongly advocate for the ability of the about the 2020 Summit: Medicaid program to pay for current care. In fact, we http://nann.org/education/research/research-summit must advocate for greater Medicaid benefits in some The 35th Annual NANN Education Conference was held on areas. We must be clear-eyed about threats to the October 9-12, 2019 in Savannah, GA and was the most Medicaid program from block grants or other forms of successful conference thus far. Some of the 2019 capitation, Medicaid waivers that impose parental conference topics may be purchased individually or as a work requirements, and administrative policies that bundle of four topics together. Available topics include: reduce access or delay eligibility. Challenging NICU Parents: How to Deal as Told by NICU • We must continue to demand action that is likely to Parents Themselves; Building a Bridge: NRP to PALS, reduce gun-related mortality and injuries. Meeting the Resuscitation Needs for the No Longer “Newly • We must advocate for a society that will treat all of its Born” in the NICU; Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy in citizens - irrespective of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, the Age of Dr. Google; Ultra-thin, Adhesive-less Epidermal sexual orientation, economic status, religious beliefs, Electronic Systems with In-sensor Analytics for Neonatal or political affiliation - with respect, fairness, and Intensive Care; Transcatheter Closure of Patent Ductus compassion and for a society that recognizes that Arteriosus in Premature Babies Less Than 2kg; Supporting each child should have a safe and loving environment Auditory Development in the Premature and High-risk in which they can develop their full potential. Infant: We Don’t Get Do-overs! • We must promote the science behind childhood and proper child nutrition, the Best of NANN session recordings make a great group importance of good education, and the effects of educational opportunity for unit learning, lunch and learns, pollution and environmental exposures such as vaping or chapter events. For special group pricing, contact on the health of children. And then we must advocate NANN Member Services at (800) 451-3795 or for legislation and policies that respond to these true [email protected] facts. The 36th Annual Educational Conference will be held in So, facts matter. Honesty matters. Words and principles New Orleans, LA. For more information: matter. Courage matters. And the leaders we choose must http://nann.org/education/annual-meeting/annual-meeting matter. We have work to do. Interested in submitting a research survey? 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Getting to Know… James Barry MD, District VIII Representative and Training I attended medical school at Creighton University School of Medicine. I completed my pediatric at University of Michigan School of Medicine and my neonatal-perinatal medicine at University of Colorado School of Medicine. Current Position I am an Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Neonatal Perinatal Medicine at the University of Colorado School of James Barry with NICU graduates Medicine. I also serve as Medical Director of the University of Colorado NICU, Anschutz Campus. Family and Pets My wife, Liberty, is a whose work I greatly respect and admire. I’m glad someone can care for those scary adults! We met amongst cadavers in medical school. The formaldehyde clouded her frontal lobe or her vision, not sure which, or even if it matters. Thankfully, she still has not come to her senses, as I have been blessed to be on life’s journey with her for the last 22 years. Our son, Colton, is a freshman at the University of Michigan studying mechanical/ and entrepreneurship. He is excited about the possibilities and now understands his parents do actually know a thing or two. Our daughter, Reece, is an amazing and brilliant high school freshman and gymnast. She astounded us one afternoon this past summer when she informed us that she had started her own business. I was skeptical until she showed me her site on Etsy complete with a detailed budget and a well-defined ROI (SunnshineScrunchieCo if you want to check it out). We also have two dogs: Grey, our fly-fishing companion; and Glimmer, my daughter’s companion. What Would People Be Surprised to Learn About You I grew up in a ranching valley, population 100, in southwest Montana where cattle outnumbered humans on the order of 100 to 1. I went to a two-room school house and K-8th had a total of 14 students. The first birth I ever witnessed was that of a calf that required the assistance of a tractor and chains for delivery. At that moment, even as a preschooler, I assumed that “there must be a better way” to deliver and care for newborns. This has been a slogan of mine for a while. Favorite Vacation of All Time Costa Rica - the flora, the fauna, the volcanoes, and the people were incredible. Also, there’s nothing like a little danger to blaze a vivid lasting memory. I was fishing (actually hand lining) in a small pond with two boys under the age of eight in a rudimentary wooden boat with a “guide” (very loose term, actually just a local high schooler with scant understanding of fishing). As we were poling around the pond (no paddles to be found), we came across a long snake swimming a few feet (within striking distance) from the boat. The “guide” nonchalantly told me that he had seen the same snake bite a cow in the recent past. The cow died five minutes later. Needless to say, I poled us skimming across the pond and ran us to the car in no short order. Later, I discovered it was the fer de lance, the most venomous snake in Central America. The owner quietly offered that a guest was bitten by a fer de lance at the same lodge a week earlier and no one knew if he survived or not. Last they saw the poor guy, he was writhing around in the back of an old rusty truck heading to the nearest medical care three hours away. I did not sleep very well that night! If You Weren’t a Neonatologist, You Would Be A fly fishing guide and ski instructor somewhere in the Rockies. I would have my outdoor seasons covered. Best Advice for Early Career Neonatologists Neonatology is a team sport. Traditional medical training has focused too much on developing individual skills and knowledge. You would be wise to deliberately learn how to be a good or better team member and a leader of teams. Most Important Thing You Have Learned in Your Career Being an effective physician is more often about your understanding of and interaction with people than your treatment decision. Best or Favorite Childhood Memory Many a day with my father in the mountains. He was the best. Your Hidden Talent Making my teenage daughter embarrassed on a daily basis.

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NANN Report The Best Thing About where You Live I can ski, golf, Continued from Page 3 and fly fish all in one day and have done so on nursing professionals by reviewing this link for instructions occasion. and completing the application form for approval: http://nann.org/uploads/Education/2019_Research_Survey I’ve Recently Been Inspired By I have been inspired _Instructions_and_Application_Form.pdf |Disclaimer: by a patient’s mother to use social media as a tool for NANN is neither an active sponsor nor participant of change. It just so happens she, Amy Jo Martin, wrote a approved research surveys. NANN does not collect or book about it, Renegades Write the Rules . I now know monitor survey data related to approved research surveys. she is quite well-known and helped many others such It is the sole responsibility of the researcher to collect the as Shaquille O’Neal and the Phoenix Suns improve data for his/her survey. In addition, NANN is unable to their image through social media. I now have a share member contact information with researchers. and Instagram account. I know many of you already do this, but I am well behind the times. Advocacy Favorite Movie Star Wars – I love good triumphing NANN will once again sponsor NANN members to attend over evil against all odds and the mythology of it all. the three-day Nurse in Washington Internship Program in Favorite Way to Relax After a Hard Day Cautiously Washington, DC, March 2020. For more information: casting a size 16 grey parachute adams to a large https://www.nursing-alliance.org/Events/NIWI-Nurse-in- unsuspecting brown trout that is gently sipping caddis Washington-Internship in a foam line several feet from a cottonwood-lined Parent/Family Education bank on a freestone river. It is a perfect windless evening, a little after dusk minutes after the sun has The NANN website continues to offer a variety of parent dipped behind the nearest mountain, at that moment and family educational and support resources including when the water develops a silver, mercury-like mirrored Baby Steps to Home, a free online resource available to all sheen, during an abundant caddis hatch so thick that across the country and customizable: one can only breathe with a closed mouth to prevent http://babystepstohome.com/ inhaling the bugs. In the near distance, I can hear my NANN also continues to offer an extensive list of resources son, Colton, fishing his favorite spot just downstream, for families in the Advances in Neonatal Care: Family let out a “Woo-hoo” as he plays a large rainbow that Teaching Toolbox . http://nann.org/education/educational- performs a characteristic aerial while my dog, Grey, products/family-patient-education-products. hurriedly splashes through the water to reach him in time to nuzzle the fish upon release. The rest of my family is huddled around a crackling campfire along the river bank spectating the entire series of events. No ONTPD Update worries here. Heather French MD, MSEd Who Would You Like to Swap Lives With For a Day It is a great honor to take over the role of Chair of ONTPD Carli Lloyd in the 2015 World Cup Final against Japan, (Organization of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Training when she scored a hat trick in the first 16 minutes. One Program Directors) from Kris Reber. Kris skillfully led goal roofing the keeper from mid-field. Truly amazing! I ONTPD for the past two years and we are grateful for her would just like to know what she was thinking and to leadership and wisdom. We also thank Taylor Sawyer for feel the exhilaration coursing through her body during his service on the Council for the past four years. A warm that game. Next, I would choose Ignaz Semmelweis, a welcome is extended to the newest members of ONTPD 19th century obstetrician, on a day that he convinced Council – Alison Falck, Heidi Karpen, and Patrick Myers. his colleagues that good hand hygiene could decrease We had great attendance for our fall ONTPD meeting at the mortality rates. I could learn a lot from his approach. annual AAP meeting in New Orleans. The Boot Camp for Lastly, JK Rowling, just to be engulfed by true new and established PDs and APDs, directed by Liz imagination. Bonachea, Melissa Carbajal, and Melissa Bauserman, was Current Book I Am Reading Powder: The Greatest Ski full of helpful information for fellowship program Runs on the Planet. administration as well as a great opportunity for networking with new and old colleagues. Topics covered included fellow recruitment, on-boarding, faculty engagement with teaching/mentoring, and professional development. The speakers at the ONTPD meeting provided important updates from the ACGME, ABP, SoNPM, TECaN, and COPS. Committee updates were Continued on Page 6 5 SECTION ON NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE Winter 2020 www.aap.org/perinatal

ONTPD Update Fellowship Director Mentorship Committee (Chair Continued from Page 5 Melissa Carbajal): We continue to facilitate pairing provided and break-out sessions were held to discuss mentor/mentee relationships among APDs and PDs. If you important issues for PDs and APDs. Important information are interested in serving as a mentor or would like to be including changes to the Common Program Requirements paired with a mentor, please email Melissa Carbajal (CPRs), online tracking for fellowship through the ABP (live ([email protected]). as of October 15, 2019), and innovative educational programming within fellowship programs was presented. Website Committee (Chair Patrick Myers): Patrick has Slides from the fall ONTPD meeting are available on the worked hard to optimize our ONTPD website with the help ONTPD website. of the AAP staff. We will continue to provide resources for PDs through the website. He is developing a location on We will hold our annual ONTPD spring meeting on the the website to post job opportunities for fellows and 4th morning of May 4th, 2020 in Philadelphia during the PAS year fellowships. meeting. This meeting will focus on scholarship activities during fellowship. Important Dates to Remember: Our ONTPD sub-committees remain active and continue to Spring ONTPD Meeting at PAS - May 4th, 7-9am work on initiatives to support our NPM PD/APD Annual NPM PD/APD Boot Camp - October 1st, 3-6pm community. We encourage your feedback and participation (Sponsored by Abbott Nutrition) in the ONTPD through communication with the council, Annual ONTPD Reception - October 1st, 6-9pm attendance at meetings, and involvement with committees. (Sponsored by Abbott Nutrition) Fall ONTPD Annual Meeting at the AAP NCE - October National Neonatology Curriculum Committee (Chair 2nd, 9am-4pm Heather French): The ONTPD National Neonatology Curriculum for physiology is continuing to expand with Flipped Classroom materials continuing to be posted for new topics. New topics under development are , MidCaN Rising Star… MFM, QI, and Research Methodology. The RCT comparing Trent Tipple MD, FAAP learning outcomes and preference between traditional What has been your didactic and flipped classroom learning closed to data education and career collection in September 2019. Data analysis is underway path so far? A Hoosier by with hopes for presentation at PAS 2020. Development of birth, I received my the Neonatology Simulation curriculum, led by Lindsay undergraduate education Johnston, is almost complete with over 50 cases being at Butler University and written and piloted by simulation educators. Where my at appropriate, simulation cases will be linked with Indiana University School physiology topics to provide additional opportunities to of Medicine, both in reinforce physiologic concepts. Additionally, an online Indianapolis. After neonatology-focused ECMO course, led by Lindsay completion of pediatric Johnston, is under production by national experts in residency and neonatal ECMO. This course will include Flipped neonatology fellowship at Classroom guides to work through ECMO scenarios and Columbus Children’s emergencies and ECMO simulation exercises. MedEd On Hospital and The Ohio The Go (MedEdOnTheGo.com) is continuing to support State University, I served as an Assistant Professor for this work by providing a free, online platform to house eight years. It was a transformative time to be in Columbus videos and supporting educational materials for learners. as Columbus Children’s grew into what is now known as Supporting educational materials for facilitators have been Nationwide Children’s Hospital. In 2014, I moved to the moved to the ONTPD website. Additional research projects University of Alabama at Birmingham as an Associate are underway to determine best practices in flipped Professor. This fall, we relocated to Oklahoma City where I classroom facilitation (Alison Falck, Margarita Vasquez) now serve as Section Chief of Neonatal-Perinatal and a cost analysis of standardized education (Melissa Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics, and the Children’s Carbajal, Rita Dadiz, Heidi Karpen). Hospital Foundation Reba McEntire Endowed Chair in Standard Forms Committee (Chair Heidi Karpen): Neonatology at the University of Oklahoma College of Standard forms that are useful for fellowship PDs have Medicine. I have an active laboratory-based research been uploaded to the ONTPD website. We will continue to program that merges redox biology with lung update this resource. development, injury, and repair in order to develop novel therapeutic approaches to prevent BPD. I have been

6 www.aap.org/perinatal SECTION ON NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE Winter 2020 fortunate to develop my career with NIH funding including traditional academic model evolves, I want to ensure that T32, K12, K08, and R01 grants. I am most grateful for the MidCaN advocates for the ways in which our field must opportunity to create a lab-based environment that has similarly evolve to accommodate the talented and served as a platform to mentor undergraduate students, passionate generation coming after us. residents, fellows, and non-clinician PhD trainees. What do you hope to accomplish in the next five years? My relocation comes at a transformative time for The Women in Neonatology Children’s Hospital, the University of Oklahoma College of Renate Savich MD, FAAP Medicine, Oklahoma City, and the state of Oklahoma. Unlike many facilities, all deliveries in the OU system occur The Women in Neonatology (WiN) group continues to within The Children’s Hospital. I am fortunate to have expand and develop new programming to address issues talented and passionate colleagues in the Section of faced by WiN. At the AAP NCE in New Orleans, we had an Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. We will create an amazing session for the 50 women that attended. Our interdisciplinary Women & Infant’s service line that will keynote speaker was Dr. Rhonda Acholonu enlightening us integrate pre-, peri-, and postnatal care of moms and on “A PDSA Approach to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.” babies in our state. As one who grew up in a small farming Her talk was a timely reminder on how we can address community, I appreciate the challenges of resource gender disparities in medicine, starting with how we write limitations. We will use technology to improve support for letters of recommendation for other women. front-line providers. We have partnered with the Division of The Steering Committee for WiN had a strategic planning Maternal Fetal Medicine to create an integrated Perinatal meeting at the new AAP offices this past summer. First of Research Center within which all lab-based pregnancy and all, we now have an official steering committee! The neonatal research will occur. Finally, we will create an current Chair of the WiN Steering Committee is Marilyn interdisciplinary follow-up program that will enable us to Escobedo and the Chair-Elect is Renate Savich. Other better define the short and long-term risks associated with members of the Steering Committee are Christiane surviving extreme prematurity. These platforms will create Dammann, Clara Song, Krithika Lingappan, Shazia novel training, career development, and leadership Bhombal and Namrita Jain. In the future, we will have a opportunities for trainees and faculty. Past Chair, Chair and Chair –Elect, each for two-year terms What was the best advice you’ve gotten? Be selfless. and six standing members with up to two three-year terms. We have also established six standing committees based What advice would you give to your TECaN on the feedback from our surveys: colleagues? Introduce yourself to anyone you would like to meet. I would also ask for their advice on the types of • Leadership opportunities that will keep them actively engaged in • Advocacy academic neonatology. • Health/Wellness • Mentoring and Career Development What was smartest career move you’ve made thus far? • Membership Asking for advice and following it. • Networking and Communication What would you like to change about your career or life We are now sending out a call for WiN members to these if you could have a do over? I would be a better listener. committees. Several of you have already signed up. If you What helps to balance career and out of hospital life? are interested in participating in one of the committees, My family and I have been through a lot together and they please send an email to Monique Phillips at AAP: keep me grounded. We love to travel together but also [email protected]. Let us know if you are interested in prioritize frequent one-on-one time. My wife and I take leading one of the committees as well. mini-getaways for a few nights each year. My son and I We have also been very productive in the area of celebrated his high school graduation with a trip to Turkey advocacy. With the leadership of WiN, the Section on this past summer. Most recently, I’ve discovered how Continued on Page 8 relaxing a pointless drive to nowhere can be when your daughter is the DJ and you’re singing at the top of your lungs. Save the Date! What made you get involved with MidCaN and what do 44th Annual District VIII Conference you hope that the group will do? 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Women in Neonatology Continued from Page 7 Neonatal Perinatal Medicine submitted a resolution to the AAP Annual Leadership Forum that the AAP take a lead role in establishing an important parental leave policy for families in the US. We are advocating for a minimum of 12 weeks paid parental leave for both parents that are working. You may have seen that this is an increasingly important topic in the US, as we are the only developed country without an impactful parental leave policy. Please let us know if you are interested in work on this advocacy project! The new WiN website is up and active: https://services.aap.org/en/community/aap- sections/sonpm/. We have two new Website Editors: WiN at the 2019 AAP NCE in New Orleans Jessica Madden ([email protected]) and co- editor Karen Hussein ([email protected]). Please empower to build wealth toward financial send them an email if you find something of importance for independence and enable them to build the life they want. the website. As the website becomes more robust, we will We will also have another WiN Happy Hour at the Pediatric have rotating features of interest, highlight the great things Academic Societies meeting in Philadelphia. Last year was you do, and send out important articles. Several important a great opportunity to catch up with all of you and learn articles on gender equity were just published in Pediatrics . more about your successes and challenges. More details “Women in Pediatrics: Progress, Barriers, and to follow. Opportunities for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion” should Thank you all for your great enthusiasm and interest in definitely be on your reading list! ( Pediatrics . 2019 WiN. The monthly WiN Newsflash, edited by Namrita Jain, Nov;144(5). pii: e20192149. DOI: 10.1542/peds.2019-2149) has received tremendous feedback. Current and past WiN We are really looking forward to our two-day WiN meeting Newflashes can be accessed on the WiN website. We will in Scottsdale, AZ to be held March 29th and 30th, 2020. also send out biweekly wellness features. We are also The meeting will start right after the Workshop on accepting nominations for the WiNovation Award - an Neonatal-Perinatal Practice Strategies ends at noon on annual award recognizing women neonatologists whose Sunday. The 3rd annual WiN meeting at Scottsdale is work has contributed towards progressing the role of committed to promoting the wellness and careers of women in neonatology in an exemplary manner. Please women in neonatology. WiN aims to form a national contact WiN Chair Marilyn Escobedo (Marilyn- network of women neonatal intensivists, promote women [email protected]) for questions or suggestions. into leadership positions, support research and educational endeavors, and support mentoring and advocacy for gender equity. Come and connect! We will TECaN Update have discussions about WiN initiatives, breakout sessions, and networking activities. We are requesting that Ashley Lucke MD, FAAP attendees offset some of the food and beverage costs for Happy New Year from TECaN! We’re excited for all the the three meals with a $25.00 registration fee. We will have great things 2020 holds in store for our members! Since preregistration on line, as well as at the time of the overhauling the Executive Council structure in 2019, our meeting. Thank you to SoNPM for supporting ten TECaN Committee Chairs focusing on Education, Membership, travel grants to the WiN meeting in Scottsdale. Research and Quality Improvement, Advocacy, Career Our keynote speaker this year, Dr. Bonnie Koo, will be Development and Leadership have been hard at work sharing strategies on how to manage the unique financial leading their committees. Below is a list of our TECaN complexities we face. Dr. Koo is a dermatologist, mother resolutions for 2020! and creator of Wealthy Mom MD site, which fills in the 1. Launch our very own TECaN podcast series to bring “enormous gap in knowledge and resources not only on career guidance, educational resources, leadership how women physicians should manage money, but also guidance, job search tips and all things TECaN right to how they should tackle the rising cost of childcare, you! Look for an email blast with logistics of how to divorce, elder care, and other unique concerns for us download and locate the podcasts on the Section breadwinning women.” She is a frequent guest on the listserv in the future. Hippocratic Hustle podcast, discussing financial topics 2. Award scholarships to attend the Scottsdale Workshop with host Dr. Carrie Reynolds. Dr. Koo’s mission is to on Neonatal Perinatal Practice Strategies and AAP 8 www.aap.org/perinatal SECTION ON NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE Winter 2020

National Conference and Exhibition. Call for can result in later diseases such as obesity, cardiovascular applications for scholarships to the March Scottsdale disease, cancer, autoimmune disease, necrotizing workshop went out in December and are due by enterocolitis, premature birth and asthma. Starting the February 2nd. Email [email protected] to inquire how to discussion was Joseph Petrosino from the Baylor College apply. Information was also sent out in the December of Medicine discussing current laboratory methods used in and January newsflashes. examining the microbiome. Historically study of a microbe 3. Complete the TECaN Quality Improvement Road Map required culture-dependent techniques; it was necessary (similar to our Research Roadmap) with helpful links to grow an organism in the laboratory in order to study it. and tips for fellows and ECaNs interested in a career This discussion centered on culture-independent in QI. techniques such as and 16S 4. Assimilate information from graduating fellows on their ribosomal RNA that analyzes the DNA extracted directly job offers (salary, time, bonuses, etc.) to help TECaN from a sample. Dr. Petrosino also discussed current work members make educated decisions in the job search from his Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome negotiation process. This will also include specific Research. Rodney Dietert went on to discuss how information for international medical graduates. Survey pregnancy and birth are the greatest environmental and link will be included in our newsflash near the end of microbial transitions that an infant will face across life. the academic year. Planning for a healthy microbially complete infant begins 5. Pass boards for everyone taking it this April (!!) and with the pregnant woman. Because the microbiota is plan the next phase of our TECaN WhatsApp Board malleable, it is an ideal target for improving health. Josef Review group. Neu provided an in-depth review on antibiotic use in 6. Create a leadership structure for residents and medical preterm and its effects on intestinal microbiome, students within TECaN to build resources and facilitate metabolome and inflammatory mediators. Finally, Jae Kim connections/networking among our different discussed the establishment of stable microbial membership levels. If you know a bright resident or communities within the gastrointestinal tract. medical student interested in neonatology please refer The next session was a partnership with the Section on them to our working group by emailing [email protected] Breastfeeding. This session was led by Lars Bode who with the subject “resident/med student.” discussed the mechanisms by which human milk 7. Continue updating our newly-launched TECaN website oligosaccharides are involved in immune development and with spotlights, announcements and photos from health outcomes of mothers and infants. Tarah Colaizy events. provided a comprehensive review on the use of donor milk 8. Plan and launch the next TECaN national advocacy and its health impacts on preterm infants. Aloka Patel campaign at NCE 2020! Focus will be on psychosocial discussed hospital-based strategies to improve mother’s wellness in the NICU. If interested in joining the own milk use for NICU infants. Sarah Taylor ended the planning group email us at [email protected] with subject session by discussing optimizing mother’s milk and line “advocacy campaign.” nutrition following NICU discharge. The TECaN Executive Council looks forward to another Simulation-based learning has gained center stage in great year of working with our fantastic members on these clinical learning. The last session of the Program partnered and many more initiatives! with the Section on Simulation and Innovative Learning Methods. Spearheading this interactive session was Taylor Sawyer, Chair of the AAP Section on Simulation and Highlights from the SoNPM Program Innovative Leaning Methods, and Lou Halamek, Stanford at the 2019 NCE University Medical Center, Director of the Center for Advanced Pediatric and Perinatal Education (CAPE). Angel Rios MD, FAAP Utilizing videos, they focused on effective ways to conduct Laissez les bon temps rouler - let the good times roll! A post-event debriefings in healthcare which are facilitated good time was had by all at the 2019 AAP NCE in New discussions of a clinical event with emphasis on learning Orleans where the Section on Neonatal Perinatal Medicine and performance improvement. (SoNPM) held three sessions. The 2019 SoNPM Program in New Orleans was very The first session was dedicated to the human microbiome. educational and a great success! I thank the Planning The microbiome has been a very hot topic of discussion at Committee and our partner sections for their contributions many different levels. It has been stated that maintenance to the Program. Save the date for the 2020 SoNPM of a healthy, diverse microbiome promotes immune Program at the NCE to be held in San Diego, CA on development and that an imbalance (dysbiosis) between October 2-5. the types of organism present in an individual’s can contribute to a wide range of conditions of ill health that 9 SECTION ON NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE Winter 2020 www.aap.org/perinatal

2020 AAP NCE SoNPM Program Women in Neonatology (WiN) will have an extended lunch meeting with keynote speaker Catherine DeAngelis, the in San Diego, CA Editor-in-Chief Emerita of JAMA . Clara H Song MD Connect in the discussion. You will have a front row seat! The 2020 Section on Neonatal Perinatal Medicine (SoNPM) Can’t wait to see you all! Program at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Convention and Exhibition (AAP NCE) will be held in San Diego, CA. As always, the weekend program will kick off SoNPM Task Force for Neonatal with the annual fall meeting of the Organization of Neonatal Perinatal Medicine Training Program Directors (ONTPD) on Perinatal Therapeutic Development: Friday morning, October 2. We’ll round out the evening The Process for Advancing the with the Poster Abstract Session and Reception. California Neonatologists and NICU Saturday morning opens the platform presentation portion Directory from Paper/PDF Format into of the annual Scientific Session. The top ten abstracts are invited to present oral platform presentations. From these Web Directory ten, the two most outstanding will be awarded the 2020 Ronald L Ariagno MD, FAAP SoNPM Young Investigator Awards. Throughout the Kimber Padua BS weekend, we will also recognize the Marshall Klaus This article will briefly describe the development of the Research Grant recipients and honor our colleagues with 2019 Neonatal Intensive Care Units (154) and the Neonatal Landmark Award, the Avroy Fanaroff Neonatologists (941) California Web Directory (for public Education Award, the Neonatal Pioneer Award, and the view see: nicu-directory.cpqcc.org). See original article in “Nobel Prize of Neonatology,” the Award. Journal of Perinatology for more details about the history A feature character of the 2020 program will be the of directories and goals for this project (15 March 2018, neonatal cardiac patient. A joint session with Section on https://doi.org/10.1038/s41372-018-0097-8). & Cardiac will open the discussion on the multidisciplinary team approach to caring for these Chronology for Initiation and Funding (18 months): vulnerable neonates. Neonatal intensivists, cardiologists, The California Association of Neonatologists (CAN) Board and surgeons will talk through the pre- and post-operative of Directors approved and provided seed funding, along assessment and management, non-invasive technologies with David Stevenson, Chief of the Division of Neonatal for hemodynamic assessment, defining the elusive and Developmental Medicine at Stanford, for the Web- hemodynamically significant PDA, and transcatheter Based Directory Project. Mead Johnson Nutrition (original closure of the PDA. funders of Directory Project 1994-2011) provided a grant. The conversation will continue on Sunday, October 4 to Dilip Bhatt (original author of national and California focus on cardiopulmonary dysfunction of the preterm and directories through 2011), with Marian Adams and Janice critically ill neonate with such topics as transitional Stillwell, obtained all of the current data for California. circulation, left ventricular function and the effect of the Fibonacci Web Studio (https://fibonacciwebstudio.com/) vascular bed, myocardial dysfunction in disease states as collaborated with Dr. Bhatt and Ms. Stillwell to transfer HIE and CDH, controversies in the management of PDF data into a web platform. Henry Lee and the California hypotension, and precision medicine in hemodynamics. Perinatal Quality Care Collaboratives (CPQCC) at Stanford, Two concurrent interactive group forums will happen on Dr. Bhatt, and Ron Ariagno presented the original proposal Sunday afternoon, “Case-based Discussion on the to CAN. Kimber Lee Padua, Clinical Research Coordinator Hemodynamics of Term vs. Preterm Physiology, PPHN and for CPQCC, and Meera Sankar, Chair of CAN Research PDA” and “Neonatal Cardiovascular Compromise: Committee, contributed. The leadership from CAN and Interpretation of Echocardiogram and Hands-on CPQCC and the potential to link to the existing California Simulation-based Assessment.” NICU database have been key to the success of the Project. Experts in this specialized field of neonatal hemodynamics will travel from across the country to join the conversation: Technical Details on Development: Gabriel Altit MD, Laurie Armsby MD, Carl Backes Jr. MD, The NICU Directory website uses the Pantheon platform Shazia Bhombal MD, Maky Fraga MD, Regan E. Giesinger (https://pantheon.io/company) linked to CPQCC website, MD, Patrick McNamara MB BCH, Shahab Noori MD, Rune which has the NICU clinical data. Pantheon is a “webops Toms MD, Victor Levy MD, and more. platform” for Drupal, which allows for a high-performance Of course, our annual TECaN and MidCaN receptions will hosting platform. Drupal (https://www.drupal.org/) is a free happen on Saturday night. WECaN will lunch on Saturday. open-source content management framework, which

10 www.aap.org/perinatal SECTION ON NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE Winter 2020 supports the concept that CPQCC and NICU teams can ) and to track performance conducting various types collaborate and innovate. Patheon and Drupal were of trials. primarily chosen because they are user-friendly, have capability to download new data, and are easy to navigate Conclusion: and to share data with others when permitted. For the Web Directory(ies) to be successful it requires: 1. Each center was listed by California city with the address, Consensus from neonatologists, clinical programs and phone number, fax number, NICU medical director and ONTPD for ownership and inclusivity; 2. Commitment to email. Each center’s level of practice, number of NICU updating online; 3. Flexibility to add new information/links beds, availability of hypothermia treatment for hypoxic (e.g., include information on all subspecialists who make ischemic encephalopathy, and use of inhaled nitric oxide highest level of intensive care feasible); 4. Plan for are listed. The Neonatologists, Neonatal Nurse sustainability; 5. Agreement on what information is Practitioners, Neonatal Physician Assistants, essential for training, clinical practice and research with the Perinatologists (Maternal Fetal Medicine specialists), ultimate goal to improve training, clinical care and Hospitalists and Pediatric Surgeons, if relevant, are outcomes for mothers and infants. provided. In the web Directory, there are tabs for Centers, NICU 2020 Spring Workshop Medical Directors and a People Directory. The Centers tab is categorized by Training Centers, California Children’s March 27-29, Scottsdale, AZ Services (CCS) Approved NICUs, Non-CCS NICUs, Clinics Krithika Lingappan MD, FAAP and other facilities. The NICU Medical Directors page shows a list of medical directors matched with their The 2020 Workshop on Neonatal Perinatal Practice respective NICUs. The medical director name is a hyperlink Strategies is to be held again this year at the beautiful that links to their personal page within the directory. The Double Tree Paradise Valley Resort in Scottsdale, AZ on NICU is a hyperlink that links to that center’s page. The March 27-29, 2020. The planning committee has put People Directory is organized alphabetically by last name, together an exciting collection of speakers, interactive and has an available search bar to look up providers, with breakout sessions and thought-provoking talks and hyperlinks to each of their personal pages within the workshops. This unique conference aims to empower directory. There is also a separate tab for User Guide, for leadership, provide a forum for networking, guide change, members to refer to the basic steps of managing their encourage quality and promote advocacy among care profiles or centers, as well as a Feedback tab for members providers in neonatology. to offer input to improve the website. This meeting provides the attendees with the opportunity for closer interaction with AAP leaders and speakers in an Next Steps and Goals: ideal setting. The topics are carefully selected to cater to a Ron Ariagno presented the California Web Directory to the wide range of neonatology providers and all stages of SoNPM Executive Committee at the American Academy of neonatologists from trainees and early career to more Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition (NCE) senior neonatologists. 2019 for review and to initiate discussion for approval and The meeting kicks off with a unique session on neonatal support for establishing a National Web Directory. The coding offered on Friday morning by Dr. Edward Liechty California Web Directory also has complete information for and group with a case-based discussion of various clinical our nine training programs, which was reviewed with scenarios as they relate to coding and billing. New this Organization of Neonatal Perinatal Training Program year, there will be a clinical leaders forum for medical Directors (ONTPD) leadership at the AAP NCE 2019. They directors and quality directors, also on Friday morning. Led will survey program directors and their programs to decide by Drs. Munish Gupta, Jim Barry and Jessica Davidson, what data are important for a National ONTPD Web the forum aims to become an annual gathering for clinical Directory (last update was 2011). directors and will provide training and mentorship for these California is planning a Clinical Regulatory Research Web roles. Directory. To qualify, NICUs must have resources to We are very happy to have our Apgar Awardee Dr. Barbara achieve the scientific rigor beyond what is usually Schmidt present the Butterfield Lecture on Friday considered adequate for routine clinical trials. The nine afternoon titled “Caffeine for Apnea of Prematurity - the training center NICUs have many affiliate NICUs that could Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” Dr. Barbara Schmidt has be incorporated into a research network to potentially been instrumental in leading some of the most important maximize participation of virtually all NICUs. A search RCTs in neonatology including the Trial of Indomethacin function could easily identify sites that have the capacity to Prophylaxis in Preterms (TIPP Trial) which showed that the collaborate in multiple settings (e.g., NICU and outpatient high rate of mental and motor deficits in these children is 11 Continued on Page 12 SECTION ON NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE Winter 2020 www.aap.org/perinatal

2020 Spring Workshop speaker. Several cutting-edge and practical topics will be Continued from Page 11 discussed including: Sustained inflation - biological not improved by prophylactic treatment with indomethacin. plausibility versus therapeutic efficacy, practical aspects of She is also the PI of the Caffeine for Apnea of Prematurity performing clinical or translational chest imaging in (CAP) trial, which enrolled over 2,000 VLBW infants in neonatal patients, regulatory requirements and patient North America, Europe, Israel and Australia. This trial has safety in the NICU, advocacy for the early career shown that caffeine for apnea of prematurity neonatologist, working with your lawyer to prepare a improves the rate of survival without neurodevelopmental successful defense, what you should know before disability after very . In addition, she was the choosing a leadership position, building a comprehensive lead on the Canadian Trial (COT), which compared and successful strategic plan for your NICU, the evolving the effects of targeting lower or higher oxygen saturations definition of BPD. in extremely preterm infants on the rate of death or disability at 18 months. This will be followed by a talk by Dr. Stephanie Kukora will lead the Saturday afternoon Dr. Satyan Lakshminrusimha on “Advances in Neonatal workshop, “Medical Improv for Fostering Wellness and Resuscitation - Oxygen, Chest Compressions and Resilience in the Workplace.” Epinephrine.” Dr. Satyan’s research focuses on The session from the Committee on Fetus and Newborn of resuscitation physiology and this talk will inform the the AAP on upcoming clinical reports will start off the audience on new insights on resuscitation practices. Dr. Sunday morning session. This will be followed by a talk by Anne Ades will talk about making the delivery room as Dr. Jason Woods on newer imaging modalities for the efficient and safe as an airplane cockpit. Mark Del Monte phenotyping and management of BPD. Mr. Jeff Kaas JD, CEO of AAP, will provide an update of national health (kaastailored.com) will talk to us about the lean care policies as they pertain to neonatologists. This will be methodology, reducing waste and learning how to adopt followed by a reception for all the meeting registrants, continuous improvement as a culture. speakers and AAP leadership. Throughout the meeting, Dr. DeWayne Pursley will be On Saturday morning, three concurrent breakout sessions eliciting responses and opinions from the attendees about have been planned with an early career, management or the topics that are being addressed through the interactive clinical focus. These are designed to be small group use of the Audience Response System. Attendees will be sessions to allow maximum attendee engagement with the able to obtain MOC Part II credit through completion of pre- and post-meeting questions. Coding Question Edward Liechty MD, FAAP You attend the C-section delivery of a 26 week infant. Calendar of Meetings At delivery, the infant breathes spontaneously with moderate tachypnea and suprasternal retractions. 33rd Annual Gravens Conference on the You administer 6 cm H2O CPAP via T-piece Physical & Development Environment of the High Risk Infant resuscitator. The infant does not become apneic or Clearwater Beach, FL require PPV in the DR. Birth weight is 0.900 kg. After March 4-7, 2020 transfer to the NICU, the infant’s respiratory distress worsens, and you perform ET intubation and place an Perinatal Workshop Scottsdale, AZ UAC. Chest x-ray shows diffuse severe atelectasis March 27-29, 2020 and air bronchograms. District VI Conference Correct CPT coding for this infant: Chicago, IL A. 99465, 31500, 99468 September 11-12, 2020 B. 99464, 99477 AAP National Conference & Exhibition C. 99464, 99468 SoNPM Program San Diego Identify the incorrect ICD-10 code: October 2-6, 2020 A. P28.5 Respiratory failure of newborn VON Annual Quality Congress B. P07.25 Extreme immaturity of newborn, Chicago, IL gestational age 26 completed weeks November 5-8, 2020 C. P22.0 Respiratory distress syndrome of newborn Hot Topics Washington, DC Answer on page 15. December 5-9, 2020

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Many focused career groups: Early career (TECaN), mid- Forum, but participants must be members of the AAP career (MidCaN), senior (WECaN) are planning to have SoNPM. networking opportunities during the meeting. The Women The meeting is open to NICU medical directors, NICU in Neonatology (WiN) group will be holding their 3rd annual quality directors, and neonatologists interested in these meeting after the Workshop this year with great speakers types of roles. To join the Clinical Leaders Forum in and sessions. Scottsdale, or to express interest in being part of this new I would like to thank all the Planning Committee members community, please complete a short survey at: and the AAP staff who have worked hard to organize the https://hms.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5iNH8Tit9iTds7H. 2020 meeting. This meeting is truly unique and offers For more information about the Workshop, visit topics imperative to the practicing neonatologist. We hope https://shop.aap.org/2020-workshop-on-neonatal- to see many of you at Scottsdale! perinatal-practice-strategies-scottsdale-az/. If you are very excited about this Forum and would like to help us plan the meeting, or if you have other questions or ideas, ANNOUNCING! SoNPM Clinical please reach out! We hope you will join us! Leaders Forum for Medical Directors SoNPM Clinical Leaders Forum Planning Committee and Quality Directors Munish Gupta ([email protected]) Jim Barry ([email protected]) Increasingly, NICUs are appointing medical directors and Jessica Davidson ([email protected]) quality directors specifically charged with directing and Jeff Meyers ([email protected]) improving the clinical service. Substantial anecdotal evidence suggests training and mentorship for these roles is often lacking. While researchers, educators, and In Memoriam… clinicians have numerous professional societies and organizations that provide them with community and Lois Johnson-Hamerman support, there does not appear to be an equivalent Lois Johnson-Hamerman died on August 10, 2019. She professional “home” for clinical leaders. was born in Newcomb, NY, a small town in the The AAP Section on Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine (SoNPM) Adirondacks. She attended Cornell University and received seeks to help fill this gap by developing a community of her MD from University of Rochester School of Medicine in NICU clinical leaders. As a community, we will delve into 1952. She completed an adult medicine internship at topics critical for leadership of a clinical service, ranging University of Minnesota Hospital and a pediatrics from patient safety to quality improvement to regulatory residency at Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati. requirements to team dynamics. This learning community From 1955-1958, she studied bilirubin-induced brain injury will be anchored by an annual meeting at the SoNPM and the etiologies of kernicterus at SUNY Brooklyn. She Workshop on Neonatal-Perinatal Practice Strategies, held continued her research at Albert Einstein Hospital before each spring in Scottsdale. In between the annual meetings, relocating to Philadelphia in 1963 to work at Children’s regular communications will support the group’s work Hospital of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Hospital. She throughout the year. remained at Pennsylvania Hospital for 40 years. Potential areas of focus for the Clinical Leaders Forum are Dr. Johnson-Hamerman worked closely with PICK (Parents many, and include: Conducting a root cause analysis; of Infants and Children with Kernicterus) and developed organizing morbidity and mortality conference; creating the Kernicterus Data Registry which reminded newborn and maintaining a quality dashboard; understanding Joint caregivers that kernicterus still occurs and that it is Commission and other regulatory requirements; writing important to do bilirubin screening in newborns prior to guidelines and policies; developing leadership skills; discharge. She was awarded the 1996 Bilirubin Club achieving academic success and promotion as a clinical Award for her contributions to bilirubin research and leader; and more. For these topics, we will pursue prevention of kernicterus. structured education and training, as well as using the group’s expertise to learn and share through survey and Her outside interests included the piano and the violin. Her open discussion. husband of 57 years, Conrad Hamerman, died in 2014. They were members of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Our Clinical Leaders Forum will launch at the 2020 and supported the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Workshop on Neonatal-Perinatal Practice Strategies Pennsylvania Ballet, and the Opera Company of with a meeting on Friday, March 27, 2020 , from 8am to Philadelphia. She is survived by a daughter, 11am. The main conference begins that afternoon at 1pm. granddaughter, brother, and sister. There is no additional fee to attend the Clinical Leaders Adapted from The Philadelphia Inquirer 13 SECTION ON NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE Winter 2020 www.aap.org/perinatal

MidCaN Update Current MidCaN opportunities: Dena K. Hubbard MD, FAAP MidCaN members are currently reviewing, editing and creating content related to neonatology for MidCaN members met informally at NCE in New Orleans. HealthyChildren.org. If you are interested in joining this Our first event was held Friday afternoon in a joint session effort, please email Dena Hubbard ([email protected]). on mentoring with WECaN. This was followed by the Each article can have up to two authors and provides a poster walk and SoNPM reception. Saturday night we had great opportunity to collaborate with TECaN or WECaN a great turnout at the MidCaN reception despite being held members. in room 399, the furthest from the front entrance! Cheers to those who took the hike to get there, we all got our steps MidCaN subcommittees and committee leaders are listed in for the day! below. If you have an interest in joining one of these committees, please email MidCaN Co-chairs Alexis Davis Speaking of steps, two MidCaN members stepped up and [email protected] and Dena Hubbard started their terms as district representatives on the [email protected]. SoNPM Executive Committee after NCE. Congrats again to Alexis Davis (IX) and Josh Petrikin (VI)! Leadership/Career Development: Heather Kaplan and Alexis Davis The next official MidCaN meeting will be Friday morning Mentorship: Bolaji Famuyide, Kurlen Payton, Dan March 27th at the SoNPM Workshop on Neonatal- Malleske Perinatal Practice Strategies in Scottsdale. This will include Physician Wellness: Fola Kehinde and Dena Hubbard the Clinical Leaders Forum led by Munish Gupta and an Advocacy: Tara Randis and Josh Petrikin interactive session on creating your leadership elevator QI: Munish Gupta speech. If you are a mid-career neonatologist 7-17 years out of The focus area for MidCaN in 2019-2020 is leadership fellowship, you are a MidCaN member! There is no extra development. MidCaN hosted their first quarterly webinar cost to your AAP/SoNPM membership to participate in August 13th, “Setting Career Goals and Defining Your MidCaN activities. Join the listserv and we’ll keep you Success,” presented by Steve Olsen (SoNPM member) informed about resources and opportunities within the and Mary Anne Jackson (Peds ID). This presentation was SoNPM and AAP. We are here for you and because of you! informative and inspiring. It was recorded and is available for viewing on the new and improved website. Subsequent If you would like to join the MidCaN listserv or are webinar topics include developing your leadership skills, interested in becoming more involved, please email creating your elevator speech, leading QI efforts, and MidCaN co-chairs Alexis Davis [email protected] and financial planning. Stay tuned for next webinar date which Dena Hubbard [email protected]. We hope to see you will be announced soon. Please share with your colleagues in sunny Scottsdale! and institutions, as these webinars are not limited to MidCaN or even SoNPM members. Additional leadership resources are coming soon to the MidCaN website. WECaN Meets at NCE Be on the lookout for the inaugural MidCaN Newsflash set Stephen A Pearlman MD, MS, FAAP to release in January 2020. This will be a regular feature to WECaN had another successful meeting at the NCE in share and advertise MidCaN opportunities, events, and New Orleans. Our meeting began with a brief business resources. This project is being led by Eric Horowitz, meeting to discuss the future directions for our special Andrea Duncan, Mobolaji Famuyide, and Dan Malleske. interest group and topics for future meetings. One Tara Randis and Andrea Duncan are directing website suggestion made is that WECaN take on a special project content and updates. Reach out to any of these individuals to work on and we are hoping to get suggestions from our if you have an idea or resource to share for the newsflash membership. Regarding topics for future meetings we are or website. considering retirement planning, developing one’s outside Save the date: January 14th at 2 pm CST for “MidCaN interests, wills and trusts, different models for cutting back Coffee Break Discussion on Leadership,” presented by and if and when someone should stop teaching. Again, we Heather Kaplan and Elizabeth Rogers. This interactive welcome additional topics, comments on these topics and virtual journal club will begin with the review of two suggestions for speakers. Harvard Business Review articles as a framework for Following the business meeting, Scott Duncan MD, MHA, sharing challenges and lessons learned in our leadership FAAP, Director of Neonatology at the University of positions within our divisions, departments, and Louisville and Secretary/Treasurer of WECaN, gave a institutions. Check your email for further details. wonderful talk about creating your legacy. He drew on his

14 www.aap.org/perinatal SECTION ON NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE Winter 2020 experiences of knowing Billy Andrews, one of the legends DC and a TECaN member, set us straight on what they of neonatology who passed away earlier this year. Scott need from a mentor at the respective stages in their used Billy’s life and achievements as a touchstone for how careers. A robust discussion involving audience members one can go about creating a legacy. ensued and valuable learning took place. After Scott, Carl Bose MD from University of North We will be planning our next meeting for the Neonatal Carolina and Ann Stark MD, from Beth Israel in , Perinatal Practice Strategies Workshop in Scottsdale next gave a fireside chat about mentorship. WECaN was very spring. As always we welcome feedback from all WECaN fortunate to have these two outstanding clinicians and members. If you would like to join our group, please academicians who have mentored and continue to mentor contact Stephen Pearlman [email protected] many individuals over the years. Next, Dena Hubbard MD, or Scott Duncan [email protected]. We will from Children’s Mercy in Kansas City and a MidCaN add you to the listserv that will keep you up to date on member, and Ashley Lucke MD, from Children’s National in WECaN happenings.

Coding Answer (Question on page 12) The correct CPT coding for this infant is C. 99464 is Attendance at delivery (when requested by the delivering physician or other qualified health care professional) and initial stabilization of newborn. All DR procedures and therapy up to but not including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (PPV and/or chest compressions) are included in the intraservice work of this code. 99465 is Delivery/birthing room resuscitation, provision of positive pressure ventilation and/or chest compressions in the presence of acute inadequate ventilation and/or cardiac output. In this case CPAP, but not PPV, was employed, so 99465 may not be reported, even though the CPAP was delivered by a T-piece resuscitator. A common question is, “Why is CPAP not considered resuscitation?” Historically, 99465 was patterned on and justified by analogy with 99250 Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (e.g., in cardiac arrest). Clearly, CPAP alone would not justify 99250. 31500 is intubation, endotracheal, emergency procedure. This procedure is bundled with 99468, and cannot be reported as the intubation was performed after transfer to the NICU. The incorrect ICD-10 code is A (P28.5 Respiratory failure of newborn). An ICD coding principle is that the most specific code should be used and signs/symptoms that are inherent in the specific code should not be coded in addition. For instance, since wheezing is inherent is acute asthma, one would not code asthma and wheezing concurrently. Since respiratory failure is inherent in RDS, it is not proper to code both RDS and respiratory failure. Furthermore, an “Excludes 1” notation exists for these two codes. Excludes 1 means “these codes should never be used at the same time” unless the conditions are not related, but in this instance they are. It is possible to get an initial denial of payment if P28.5 and P22.0 are used together. You may however, and should, use the verbiage “respiratory failure” in your documentation. Suggested admission or progress note documentation would be: “This infant continues to require for respiratory failure secondary to respiratory distress syndrome.” This will signify to an auditor that a critical care CPT code is justified. Complete ICD-10 coding for this infant is: Z38.01 Single liveborn infant, delivered by cesarean * P07.03 Extremely newborn, 750-999 grams P07.25 Extreme immaturity of newborn, gestational age 26 completed weeks P22.0 Respiratory distress syndrome of newborn *Z38.xx codes are used only at the birth hospital. If the infant in the scenario had been transferred to you from a referral hospital, you would not use Z38.01

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Mark Hudak MD FAAP Chairperson SECTION COMMITTEE CHAIRS ORGANIZATION LIAISONS Jacksonville, FL AND LIAISONS [email protected] Wanda Barfield MD MPH FAAP Heather H Burris, MD, FAAP Liaison, Centers for Disease Control John A F Zupancic MD ScD FAAP TECaN Mentor Immediate Past Chair (CDC) Philadelphia, PA Atlanta, GA Boston, MA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Ashley Lucke MD FAAP Media Esser Lily J Lou MD FAAP TECaN Chair Chair-Elect NANN Liaison Washington, DC Wauwatosa, WI Anchorage, AK [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Sergio G Golombek MD MPH Garrett K Lam MD Munish Gupta MD FAAP History Chair DISTRICT I, Exec Comm Member Liaison, Society for Maternal-Fetal Scarsdale, NY Medicine Boston, MA [email protected] [email protected] Chattanooga, TN Edward A Liechty, MD FAAP [email protected] Angel Rios MD FAAP Chair, Coding Committee DISTRICT II, Exec Comm Member Raylene Phillips, MD, FAAP Indianapolis, IN Liaison, National Perinatal Association Albany, NY [email protected] [email protected] Lonedell, MO Mary Nock MD FAAP [email protected] Michael Alan Posencheg MD FAAP Newsletter Editor DISTRICT III, Exec Comm Member Heather French MD, MSEd, FAAP Cleveland, OH Chair, Organization of Neonatal-Perinatal Newtown Square, PA [email protected] [email protected] Training Program Directors Thomas Parker MD FAAP Wynnewood, PA Brian Paul Hackett, MD FAAP TECaN Mentor [email protected] DISTRICT IV, Exec Comm Member Aurora, CO Nashville, TN [email protected] [email protected] AAP STAFF Stephen Pearlman MD MS FAAP Beena Gaind Sood MD MS FAAP WeCaN Chair Jim Couto, MA DISTRICT V, Exec Comm Member Neward, DE Director, Hospital and Surgical Detroit, MI [email protected] [email protected] Renate D Savich MD FAAP American Academy of Pediatrics Joshua Erin Petrikin MD FAAP Chair, Women in Neonatology Phone: (630) 626-66?6 DISTRICT VI, Exec Comm Member Jackson, MS [email protected] Overland Park, KS [email protected] Monique Phillips, MA [email protected] Ann R Stark MD FAAP Manager, Hospital and Surgical Clara Song MD FAAP Chair, Fellow Education Committee Subspecialties DISTRICT VII, Exec Comm Member Boston, MA [email protected] Oklahoma City, OK [email protected] Vivian Thorne [email protected] Krithika Lingappan Manager, Hospital and Surgical James Scott Barry, MD FAAP Website Committee Chair Subspecialties DISTRICT VIII, Exec Comm Member Houston TX Phone: (630) 626-6669 Aurora, CO [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Jorn-Hendrik Weitkamp MD FAAP Alexis S Davis MD FAAP Chair, Research Committee DISTRICT IX, Exec Comm Member Nashville, TN Palo Alto, CA [email protected] [email protected] Dena K Wisner Hubbard MD FAAP Jose Antonio Perez MD FAAP MidCaN Mentor DISTRICT X, Exec Comm Member Kansas City, MO Sanford, FL [email protected] [email protected] Rakhi Gupta Basuray MD FAAP Carl L Bose MD MPH FAAP Section on Liaison Of Counsel New Albany, OH Chapel Hill, NC [email protected] [email protected]

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DISTRICT I: Rounds for Holocaust Remembrance Week at disparities influencing the provision of breast Munish Gupta Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto on, “The Legacy of milk for our preterm infants. the Nazi Physicians: How the Holocaust Informs We thank newborn hospitalist Mustafa Caylan Medical Ethics.” as he continues to shape Baystate Children’s CONNECTICUT SAVE THE DATE! The Second Annual Richard Hospital’s first Pediatric Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Hartford A. Ehrenkranz Neonatology Symposium will be program. We congratulate James Moore who was the held at Yale School of Medicine on April 20, We extend a special thanks to our “family” of Alan Flake, 2019 recipient of the Graham’s Foundation 2020. Speakers will include per diem neonatologists: Stephen Bean, Award for Contributions to Neonatology, Camilia Martin, Richard Martin, Mark Thomas Campfield, Barbara Kelly, Kathleen Mercurio, Angela Montgomery, Jon presented by the Graham’s Foundation in New and Meyer and Gary Rockwell for providing Tyson York City, November 7, 2019. . There will be a social event the evening exceptional care to our newborns and needed before to give old friends a chance to catch up. We congratulate Naveed Hussain who won relief to our faculty as we rebuild our Division. The 2019 Symposium drew a large national Best Platform Presentation at the AAP Section audience and the same is expected for an The success of our Telemedicine Program for on International Child Health for his work in excellent conference in April. More information Retinopathy of Prematurity Evaluation, India, “Safe Care, Saving Lives.” to come. Any questions, please contact pioneered by Rachana Singh , has sparked Mishika Malik received a travel award for her Valencia Culbreath, at interest in a new application for in the work on the “Impact of Dietary Carbohydrates [email protected] care of newborns at risk for Neonatal on Cytotoxin-Producing K. Oxytoca : A Potential Abstinence Syndrome. Again, with Rachana’s Caty Buck and Sarah Taylor will be serving on Pathway to NEC.” vision, we are excited to launch a the Journal of Perinatology Editorial Board telemonitoring program for a subset of our We were pleased to host our 4th Annual starting in January 2020. substance exposed newborns to be Symposium on Neonatal Advances that took transitioned early on to their own homes for place on September 19, 2019. This year the MAINE rooming-in, prior to, and in hopes of preventing, focus was on nutrition. Speakers included Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor the initiation of pharmacotherapy. The program Michael Georgieff who spoke on the IUGR Our community extends its deepest thanks to will allow for home monitoring and support for baby, Sarah Taylor on vitamin D health, David Mark Brown , who is retiring after more than both mothers impacted with Opioid Use Adamkin on the use of human milk and four decades in newborn medicine. We wish Disorder (OUD) as well as their infants with fortification, Dena Goldberg on indicators of him the best in the next phase of his focus on maternal adherence to medications for malnutrition, Marion Groetch on food , adventures! OUD treatment, preventing postpartum relapse, and Betty Vohr on growth outcomes. David depression, and improvement in infant growth Adamkin gave the Memorial Lecture for Jeff MASSACHUSETTS trajectory and enrollment in EI programs. This Bartlett , who suddenly passed away this year. Baystate Medical Center, Springfield work is supported by grant funding provided to SAVE THE DATE! Connecticut Children’s and Baystate Medical Center through the MA state the University of Connecticut will be hosting our We want to thank Rachana Singh , Medical budget for year 2020. Director of our NICU and Associate Professor of 5th annual Symposium on Neonatal Advances Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston on September 24, 2020 at our location in the Pediatrics at UMMS-Baystate, for her countless University of Connecticut School of Medicine in contributions over the past 15 years to our We are excited to highlight our Department Farmington, CT. The 2020 program will focus on Newborn Division, the Department of Chair, DeWayne Pursley , who recently received updates in respiratory care and will feature Pediatrics, Baystate Medical Center and the two extremely prestigious awards. In October, Waldemar Carlo, Bradley Yoder, Haresh children/families of Western Massachusetts. It BIDMC presented DeWayne with the Daniel J. Kirpalani, Vinneet Bhandari, and Sara is truly our loss, and she will surely be missed, Jick Excellence in Leadership Award for his 28 DeMauro . as she departs Baystate to join the Floating years of service as a physician-leader in the Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center as community and dedication to compassionate, We welcomed Veronica Fabrizio to our faculty. the Associate Chief of Neonatology and the innovative patient care. In December, Harvard She graduated from her neonatology fellowship Director of the Neonatal Fellowship Program. Medical School recognized DeWayne with the at Yale in June and will be working with our We would like to welcome Amy Blake who is Barbara J. McNeil Faculty Award for clinical research team at the Connecticut Exceptional Service. This highly selective award Children’s Human Milk Research Center. returning home to western Massachusetts and joining our pediatric faculty at UMMS-Baystate was established “to recognize and celebrate Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital in our Division of Newborn Medicine. Amy will faculty who have set the standard for service at HMS/HSDM through their personal initiative in Harris Jacobs will be retiring in January 2020. later be joined by Kate Horan , another providing service and engaging others to do the Harris has been a valued member of the Yale Massachusetts native, and former Baystate same.” neonatology faculty for over three decades. He pediatric resident, as she completes her is a nationally respected and innovative neonatology fellowship at Jackson Memorial Our department was proud to host Rear investigator in addition to being a gifted Hospital-University of Miami. Admiral Wanda Barfield as she was honored clinician and teacher. His work advanced our Robert Rothstein continues to serve as Interim with the Marie McCormick Lectureship in understanding of pulmonary physiology, in Division Chief of Baystate’s Division of Newborn Neonatal Health Services Research and particular, surfactant physiology. In more recent Medicine and champions NICU Solutions for Epidemiology on November 7, 2019. years, he has served as the Chairman of Patient Safety (SPS) quality improvement. Our Dara Brodsky and Cami Martin recently Pediatrics at the Bridgeport campus of the NICU, with JoAnne DeStasio redirecting our released the 3rd edition of Neonatology Review Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital. We wish PICC team and NICU nursing practices with enhanced content and visuals. This edition him years of relaxation and fun in his retirement, surrounding CLABSI, was awarded the Annual is a five-volume study guide, available in black and thank him for doing so much for babies, Baystate Medical Center 21st President’s and white and in color. The books are available families, his trainees, and his colleagues. Excellence Award-Distinguished Performer at http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/ Mark Mercurio was an invited speaker for Quality Category. neonatologyreview. Bioethics Week in November at the Hospital for Our thriving newborns thank Laura Madore for With the integration of BIDMC and Lahey Sick Children in Toronto, speaking on, her innovative research on breast milk Hospitals, we eagerly welcome the “Approaching Ethical Dilemmas in macronutrient analysis and addressing racial neonatologists based at Beverly Hospital and Neonatology.” He also spoke at Medical Grand Winchester Hospital to our department. These 17 SECTION ON NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE Winter 2020 www.aap.org/perinatal outstanding physicians will continue to provide Elisha Wachman continues to earn well- convalescing preterm infants and makes the care at the Lahey Hospitals as well as in the deserved national attention for her pioneering family members active participants in the NICU at BIDMC, while pursuing a wide variety work to improve the care of mothers and bedside care of their baby, including as of academic interests. Welcome Asimenia newborns impacted by perinatal opioid use. participators and presenters on daily NICU Angelidou, Maushumi Assad, Kimberlee She and her team were awarded a $1.8 million rounds. An app for tablets and smart phones Chatson, Ivana Culic, Ceara Deno, Justin grant from the NIDA Clinical Trial Network for a has been created to facilitate parental Goldstein, Aimee Knorr, Jennifer Lee, Karen randomized study of different formulations of education and the app is available at the App McAlmon, Iris Streimish, Nancy Weinschenk buprenorphine for pregnant women with opioid Store and Google Play (South Shore Health and Diana Yanni ! use disorder. They hosted Melania Trump at NICU Family Integrated Care). Boston Medical Center to share their We are also excited to welcome Amy Fan to Tufts Medical Center, Boston comprehensive program to support these our department! Amy is a primary care families. Jill Maron was recently awarded a R01 from pediatrician in our community and will join our NICHD for her project, “Salivary Diagnostics for newborn nursery Cochran Newborn Service. Bobbi Philip published her new book entitled Screening the Newborn,” which seeks to Boston Children’s Hospital The Breastfeeding Blueprint . combine the latest technological advances for Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston biomarker quantification with non-invasive In September 2019, Christos Papadelis moved salivary diagnostics to develop a to Fort Worth, TX to become the Director of Mandy Belfort and her team were awarded comprehensive salivary -screening Research at the Jane and John Justin funding from the National Institute for platform into neonatal care. Neurosciences Center of Cook Children’s Integrative Healthcare for the Nourish Health Care System. We wish him well in this randomized trial of individually targeted human Jill Maron was named Co-Editor-in-Chief of new role! milk fortification. Clinical Therapeutics , and has given several recent invited lectures, including at the 2019 Ellen Grant received a R01 for her project, The “My Brigham Baby App” was launched by New York Regional Neonatology & Perinatal “Novel MRI Assessment of Placental Structure Carmina Erdei and team. This tool provides Symposium, at the 2019 American Dental and Function throughout Pregnancy,” and gave multiple opportunities for families to join their Education Association Annual Meeting, and at keynote presentations at the International baby’s care even when not present in the NICU. the recent NICHD Clinical Scientist Investigator Workshop on Pediatric Neuroimaging and the Sailaja Ghanta, Foti Spyropoulos , and fellow Meeting. NICHD Neonatal Research Network Steering Jon Levin presented at the sixth annual Committee. Jon Davis is the Chair of the Steering Neonatal Cardiopulmonary Biology Young Committee of the NICHD HEAL Initiative OBOE Kiho Im received the AHA grant, “Developing a Investigators Forum. Saila and Jon were study, the largest longitudinal study of infants Predictive Model of Fetal to Neonatal Brain honored with Young Investigator Awards for with antenatal opioid exposure to date, seeking Development in Congenital Heart Disease.” their presentations. Also, Saila was recently to combine developmental assessments, serial elected to the Society for Pediatric Research. Philip Levy will be honored as the keynote MRIs, and parental and environmental speaker of the Hemodynamics Club at the The 4th New England Neonatal Neurocritical assessments to better understand long-term Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Care Conference led by Terrie Inder and outcomes of infants at risk for NAS. Conference in May 2020. Mohamed El-Dib was held in October 2019 Jon Davis was awarded the Zucker Family and was a great success. This year’s Eric Greer received the Presidential Early Prize from Tufts University School of Medicine conference again focused on neuromonitoring Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. for an outstanding research career. and neuroimaging, and brought together 100 Our newest faculty member, Elizabeth medical professionals to learn about the Tufts is very excited to welcome Rachana Taglauer , was awarded the European Young interpretation and clinical application of Singh from Baystate who is joining us as Investigator Exchange Program Award by the neonatal aEEG, NIRS, HUS, and MRI Associate Chief of Neonatology and Director of Society for Pediatric Research. technologies. Be on the lookout for the the Neonatal Fellowship Program. announcement for next year’s conference! We are very excited to share numerous recent Geoff Binney has been named Chair of achievements from our outstanding fellows: South Shore Hospital, South Weymouth Pediatrics at Tufts Medical Center. Lauren Frazer was appointed President-elect South Shore Hospital was selected to UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center, of the Society for Pediatric Research’s Junior participate in the National Action Partnership to Worcester Section. Julie Thai won the Hot Topics in Promote Safe Sleep Improvements and Neonatology Fellow Award for her project on UMass Neonatology was excited to host the Innovation Network. The national initiative reducing antacid use in the NICU and annual Griffin Conference this past November. seeks to make safe sleep and infant breast presented her work at the Hot Topics in This year’s event, led by Organizing Committee feeding the national norm, and thereby reduce Neonatology Quality Day. Samantha Enstad Chair Sanjay Aurora , brought together our infant deaths. The South Shore team is led by and Emily Herzberg received travel grant community to hear outstanding presentations Eyad Zahr . awards from the Vermont Oxford Network. on BPD, shared decision-making, point-of-care Helen Healy, Alejandra Barrero Castillero and Bonnie Arzuaga has the role of Site Principal ultrasound, and more. SAVE THE DATE! Next Jonathan Levin received TECaN travel awards Investigator at South Shore Hospital for a NIH- year’s Griffin conference will be November 20, for the AAP NCE. Jonathan also received an funded project entitled, “Antenatal Consultation 2020. Feel free to contact Sanjay at award and excellence in research grant from the Practice at Extreme Prematurity: Can We Elicit [email protected] to get Neonatal Cardiopulmonary Biology Young Families’ Values, Preferred Language and involved with next year’s planning. Investigators Forum. Consultation Approach to Improve Decision- Making and Satisfaction?” The project is led by RHODE ISLAND Boston Medical Center Christy Cummings from Boston Children’s Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, We welcome Bharati Sinha , who is returning to Hospital. Providence BMC to be the Director of Quality and Safety for Zuzanna Kubicka and the nursing staff at Newborn Medicine. Joseph Bliss presented on candidal South Shore Hospital are changing the model of colonization in newborns at the International Meg Parker, Elisha Wachman, Bernadette NICU care from Family-Centered Care to Association for Dental Research in Vancouver, Levesque , and Vincent C. Smith were all Family-Integrated Care (FI Care). The FI Care BC in June. promoted to Associate Professor of Pediatrics model recasts the role of NICU nurses as Adam Czynski presented at the Rhode Island at Boston University School of Medicine. mentors, models and educators for families of IdeA Symposium in June and at the Marcé of 18 www.aap.org/perinatal SECTION ON NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE Winter 2020

North America (MONA) Conference in Chapel Richard Polin, Susan Lynch. Aloka Patel, 2020. He will continue as president of the Ibero- Hill, NC in October on care of newborns with Jochen Profit, Ian Griffin, Rick Guidotti, American Society and History Chair, AAP neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome, including Sagori Mukhopadhyay, Alan Fleischman , and Section on Neonatal Perinatal Medicine. information on a new multi-state randomized Sara Ramel . Special thanks to this year’s Edmund LaGamma has received funding from trial. moderators: Sergio Golombek, Deborah Mallinckrodt to study the effects of iNO during Campbell, John Zupancic , and Andy Hopper . Martin Keszler was invited to share his PRBC transfusions with Rachana Singh at respiratory physiology and mechanical Good luck and farewell to Angel Rios who, after Baystate Children’s Hospital, University of ventilation expertise at a number of events 20 years of incredible service, will be moving on Massachusetts and Uduak Akpan at East including the XVI International Symposium on to his new role as a Professor of Pediatrics at Carolina University Hospital. Mechanical Ventilation in Neonatology and the University of Washington/Seattle Children’s The RPC at MFCH began a neonatal Pediatrics in São Paulo, Brazil; the Workshop Hospital where he will be the Associate Director telemedicine program with Kingston Hospital’s on Neonatal Ventilation in Traunstein, Germany; of the UW Medical Center NICU. level I newborn program in 2019. Heather the First Russian Congress of Pediatric Children’s Hospital at Montefiore/Albert Einstein Brumberg received a site-grant from the NYS Anesthesiologists and Reanimatologists in College of Medicine, Bronx DOH to expand this program to other hospitals Moscow, Russia; the IPOKRaTES Clinical in our network. Seminar at the Henan Children’s Hospital in Congratulations to Suhas Nafday who was Zhengzhou, China; the Guangzhou International promoted to Professor of Pediatrics and Sheri Due to high utilization, we are expanding our Infant Chronic Lung Disease Forum in Nemerofsky who was promoted to Associate regional NICU in 2020 by nine beds to a total of Guangzhou, China; the Best of IPOKRaTES: An Professor of Pediatrics. 58 beds; we are grateful to be able to serve Update in Neonatology in Naples, Italy; and the Kudos to Mariam (Susan) LaTuga on her even more patients in our Lower Hudson Valley 39th Annual Symposium Advances and election to the Society for Pediatric Research. catchment area. Controversies in Neonatal Medicine in Suhas Nafday is site PI for the NIH-funded, Congratulations to Shetal Shah , who assumed Nashville, TN. eight-site multicenter consented pilot newborn the post of AAP Chapter 2 President in July. He Abbot Laptook presented the 2019 John S. screening study, ScreenPlus, being conducted was instrumental in helping push Nassau Curran Endowed Lectureship in Newborn in NYS. Parents are offered the option to have County legislation to prohibit the sale of Health at the University of South Florida in their babies screened for an additional 13 flavored vape products at the state and county Tampa, FL in November. His talk was entitled, disorders beyond the current 47 disorders level and has been recognized for his work in “Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy: Outcomes tested. The results of the study will provide combating anti-vaccine misinformation as well with Therapeutic Hypothermia.” critical information about whether these as coordinating pediatric statewide advocacy efforts to pass legislation which allows only Beatrice Lechner presented on a variety of disorders should be added to routine newborn medical exemptions from school vaccination topics related to ethics and palliative care at the screening panels nationwide. requirements. Organization of Neonatal Training Program Suhas Nafday was keynote speaker at the 3rd Directors meeting in New Orleans, LA; at the Annual Patient Safety Conference, More to Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital/New York- Presbyterian European Neonatal Ethics Conference in Healthcare: Perception vs. Reality, New Delhi, Southampton, UK; and at St. Mary’s Hospital in India from February 1-2, 2019. He shared Elvira Parravicini and the Neonatal Comfort the National Health Service in Manchester, UK. perspectives on “Engaging Family Caregivers as Care Program received the 2019 ASTRA Barbara Stonestreet participated in a video- Partners in Transition” and “Safe and Cost- AWARD from The New Jersey Communication, assisted NIH Neuroscience Special Emphasis Effective Approach to Improve ICU Care Advertising and Marketing Association for best Panel on “The Blood-Brain Barrier, Utilizing Multifaceted QI Methodology.” print media – brochure. Neurovascular System and CNS Therapeutics.” Farewell to Angel Rios , dear friend, colleague, Rakesh Sahni was appointed a member of the Betty Vohr was invited to present her ongoing and former neonatal fellow (1989-1992) and American Board of Pediatrics Sub-board of work on improving long-term outcomes for faculty member (1992-1999) at Montefiore- Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. Einstein who has relocated from Albany Medical preterm infants at the 26th International The Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital NICU Center to Seattle, joining the faculty at the Perinatal Collegium in Porto Carras, Greece; the was chosen as a VON Center of Excellence and University of Washington School of Medicine 4th Annual Symposium on Neonatal Advances asked to present our work on parent and Seattle Children’s Hospital. Angel has also in Farmington, CT; and at the 43rd Miami engagement in NICU discharge for the VON been the conference organizer for the Annual Neonatology Conference in Miami Beach, FL. iNICQ webinar on December 11th. Update in Neonatal Care and Neonatal Nutrition Women & Infants Follow-up held a conference held in Tarrytown, NY for the past 11 Amelie Collins was selected to be a member of Reunion Party celebration on September 15, years and served as the AAP District II the Society for Pediatric Research. 2019 for former premature babies < 1250 grams representative to the Section on Neonatal Richard Polin is Co-PI for the NANO (NICU at birth and born in 2015 that spent time in our Perinatal Medicine. In recognition of his many Antibiotics and Outcomes) Trial which has NICU. Children and their families were treated contributions, friends and colleagues presented received funding by the NICHD. with a magician, ice cream, cake, activity tables Angel with a gift to support his passion for and balloon animals. photography and a crystal award Educational grants from Mead Johnson, Abbott acknowledging these important roles and his Nutrition, Vapotherm, and Prolacta were District II: dedication to his patients, their families and his awarded to support the Annual Alumni Angel Rios community. Memorial Lectureship at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital on December 5, 2019. The Thomas Havranek will be assuming theme was neonatal resuscitation and guest NEW YORK responsibility for the Annual Update in Neonatal speakers were Stuart Hooper, Anup Katheria , Bernard and Millie Duker Children’s Hospital at Care and Neonatal Nutrition Conference held in and Georg Schmoelzer . the Albany Medical Center Tarrytown, NY. Elvira Parravicini received a donation of Congratulations to Upender Munshi, Jennifer Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital, Valhalla $25,000 from the Knights of Columbus Cerone and Angel Rios for organizing a Farewell and good luck to Sergio Golombek Charitable Fund in support of the Neonatal successful 11th Annual Current Topics in who will assume the role of Division Chief at Comfort Care Program.She received grant Neonatal Nutrition and Advances in Neonatal Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital/ awards from the AAP Section on Neonatal Care in Tarrytown, NY. Guest speakers included Hackensack University Medical Center, NJ in Perinatal Medicine, Abbott, Mead-Johnson, and 19 SECTION ON NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE Winter 2020 www.aap.org/perinatal the Al Smith Foundation to support the 2019. She was a recipient of the Diversity District III: program, “Next-Level Perinatal/Neonatal Enhancement Award to attend the 42nd Annual Michael Posencheg Comfort Care Training: Creating an Conference on Shock where she presented Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Plan for Each research at the plenary session. DELAWARE Baby and Their Family” that will take place on Robert Koppel was promoted to the rank of June 19-21, 2020 at Mailman School of Public Christiana Care, Wilmington Professor of Pediatrics at Zucker School of Health. Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Stephen Pearlman was the keynote speaker at Congratulations to Amelie Collins who was the a QI conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Shahana Perveen was invited as a keynote winner of the Young Investigator Al Cassady conference was supported by Fundasamin speaker at International Conference of Award at the 2019 Perinatal Research Society which is an Argentine foundation for maternal- Pediatrics, Neonatology and Perinatology held Annual meeting in Minneapolis. child health. Dr. Pearlman gave three talks on QI in Rome in October where she spoke about her methodology, QI tools and management of data Martha Welch was awarded $4.5 million in gifts work on antenatal inhibition of arginase activity. and culture. for the Nurture Science Program in Pediatrics. Stony Brook Children’s Hospital Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Richard Polin was guest speaker at Ipokrates Stony Brook Children’s Hospital just opened its Wilmington in Naples, Italy in November 2019. He spoke at new 104 pediatric beds (including 10 beds in On December 8-11, 2019, Nemours-sponsored Cool Topics in Neonatology 2019 in Melbourne, PICU and a 10-bed inpatient psychiatric unit) in Hot Topics in Neonatology will take place at a Australia; at the Maternal & Infant Health October 2019. conference in Oaxaca, Mexico; at Neonatus new venue in National Harbor, MD. For over 30 2019 in Warsaw, Poland; and at Haifa University Welcome to our new incoming fellows joining years, Hot Topics has been the premiere in Haifa, Israel. the Division of Neonatology: Sara MardanLou neonatal conference, with more than 1000 and Lale Akaydin . neonatologists and perinatologists from around Kristina Orfali was invited to give four lectures the world attending yearly. The conference at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris- Welcome to our new faculty additions! features internationally-known faculty, poster Sorbonne on “Bioethics and Religion: A Stephanie Kyc completed her fellowship at sessions, critical reviews and debate about Comparative Perspective France - USA” and Yale and joined Stony Brook in September as promising new . “The Impact of Religion in Clinical Practice in Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Surabhi the US.” She was also invited to give a lecture Aggarwal came from Kapi’olani Medical Center On September 12, 2019, the Advanced Delivery at the British University in Egypt on “Medical in Honolulu as Assistant Professor in Clinical Unit officially opened as part of the Nemours & Interventions in the Interest of Others” in Cairo. Pediatrics. Surabhi completed her fellowship at Christiana Care Advanced Delivery Program. Stony Brook Children’s and we are happy to We have performed our first two deliveries with Richard Polin published Workbook in Practical welcome her back! babies and mothers doing well. We estimate Neonatology, 6th edition, Elsevier. Echeyzona Maduekwe was promoted to 30-50 deliveries in the first year with the New York Health and Hospital Elmhurst/Mount Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics. opportunity for growth. The Program is being Sinai School of Medicine led by Co-Medical Directors, Joanna Costa , Joseph Decristofaro was promoted to Congratulations to Uday Patil , who was Nemours neonatologist, and Margaret R. Professor of Clinical Pediatrics. promoted to Director of Neonatology. Chou , Christiana Care Department of University of Rochester Medical Center- and Gynecology. Nassau University Medical Center, East Golisano Children’s Hospital Meadows We are pleased to announce Elizabeth Congratulations to Gloria Pryhuber on her O’Donnell has been named Interim Division Congratulations to Rita Verma who recently recent NHLBI/NIH and Pacific Northwest Chief, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, was appointed Director of Neonatal-Perinatal National Laboratory award and renewal for her Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children Medicine. grant titled, “Biorepository for Investigation of (N/AIDHC). Dr. O’Donnell has been with Rita Verma was invited to deliver the keynote Diseases of the Lung (BRINDL) – Phase II”. N/AIDHC since beginning her pediatric speech at the International Conference in residency in 2011. She completed fellowship Gloria Pryhuber received a Lung Biology Pilot Pediatrics and Neonatology, discussing training through the Sidney Kimmel Medical Award from University of Rochester “Controversies in the Current Treatment of College of Thomas Jefferson University and Environmental Medicine for a grant titled, Hypotension in Premature Neonates” in July in joined N/AIDHC as an attending physician in “Characterization of Antigen Presenting Cell Amsterdam. 2017. In her role as Interim Division Chief, Dr. Subset Diversity and Function in Pediatric O’Donnell will have oversight for all the day-to- Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Lungs from Children Suffering day activities for the Department and will Center Northwell Health, New Hyde Park Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia.” advance the quality, research, and teaching We welcomed Naomi Cohen who joined us Congratulations to Ravi Misra for his TCORS activities of the Division. from NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi Medical (NIH Prime) grant award titled, “Evaluating the Center. Regenerative and Anti-Inflammatory Potential of MARYLAND Vita Boyar presented on Neonatal Coding at an Primary Adolescent and Adult Human Airway Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, Cell Culture Models to Flavored Juul.” AAP-sponsored coding webinar in June. In After 23 years at Johns Hopkins, Susan Aucott October, she spoke on, “Evaluation of Safety Congratulations to Kristin Scheible , who will be leaving to take on a new challenge as and Efficacy of a Concentrated Surfactant Gel received an Interim Funding Award from the the Director of Neonatology at Greater in Management of Complex Neonatal and University of Rochester for her grant titled, Baltimore Medical Center in Towson, MD. Pediatric Wounds” at Fall Symposium on “Alternative Pathways to Protection: Advanced Wound Care in , NV. Mechanisms of T Cell Activation and Mucosal Maureen Gilmore will take on the responsibility Homing in Fetal-Derived Naïve T Cells.” of Medical Director of the Johns Hopkins Vita Boyar was promoted to a Board Member Children’s Center NICU. She previously served of the International Society of Pediatric Wounds as the Medical Director for the Bayview NICU and spoke at their 7th annual meeting in for many years, and has completed four years November in Houston, TX. as the Interim Director of Pediatrics at Bayview. Mariana Brewer received the Mentored We are pleased to welcome Kartik Makker to Pediatric Service Line Research Grant for Early our Division. He is joining us from University of Career Investigators for $75,000 starting July Florida College of Medicine. 20 www.aap.org/perinatal SECTION ON NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE Winter 2020

Congratulations to Raul Chavez Valdez on his Michael Posencheg was elected to a three- ELSO International Meeting, October 12-16, promotion to Associate Professor of Pediatrics. year term on the American Academy of 2019. Pediatrics Executive Committee of the Section Congratulations to Chris Golden on his Fellowship News on Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, representing promotion to Associate Professor of Pediatrics. District III. Congratulations to Taylor Wild , recipient of the Janine Bernardo , current 2nd year fellow, has Trojan IV Award for the resident who “has After 25 years of leadership, dedication and been elected to the TECaN Executive Counsel. demonstrated extraordinary support for his/her clinical service, Jacquelyn Evans has retired colleagues, and excels in fostering camaraderie University of Maryland Medical Center, from CHOP/UPenn. Baltimore within the residency program.” Elizabeth Foglia was appointed to a two-year Congratulations to Michelle Pena who was Cynthia Bearer will be returning to Cleveland term on the Neonatal Resuscitation Program and Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, appointed to the TECaN Executive Council as Steering Committee of the American Academy one of three newly elected Regional Fellow Case Western Reserve University as Division of Pediatrics. Chief of Neonatology to continue to conduct Representatives. research, train future physicians and scientists, Congratulations to John Chuo who was Congratulations to Chris Thom for selection as and care for infants in their NICU. Since 2008, selected as one of the 2019 CIO 100 Award the 2020 CHOP Physician Fellow Distinguished under her leadership, the Division of Winners for his submission, “Reducing Parental Research Trainee Reward. He received an Neonatology at UMD has more than flourished. Stress in the N/IICU Using Digital Technology.” American Society of Abstract She has served on numerous institutional The CIO 100 is a highly competitive program, Achievement Award and his 2019 Senior Fellow committees, established the J. Tyson Tildon with more than 400 applicants. This honor is a K-Readiness Pilot program was selected for Award and Department of Pediatrics Faculty great testament to the innovative use of IT and funding. Chris also received the Marshall Klaus Research Day, facilitated the Richard Schwartz the business results these teams have Neonatal-Perinatal Research Award sponsored Prize in Neonatal Research, and served as achieved. by the AAP. Chair of the Research Committee. Dr. Bearer Congratulations to Anne Ades who was elected Heidi Herrick was the winner of the Trainee has been elected to serve as the Editor-in-Chief to the American Pediatric Society. Travel Award for the TIAE Poster at CHNC. of Pediatric Research for a second term. The 15th Annual Advances in Neonatal Perinatal Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia Dina El-Metwally is the new Interim Division Medicine conference was, once again, a huge Chief of Neonatology at University of Maryland. success. This year’s guest speaker was Annie Tracey Harris joined our program this past Dr. El-Metwally continues to lead the clinical Janvier , neonatologist, clinical ethicist and August following her fellowship at Penn State service in the NICU as Medical Director. author from the University of Montreal, Canada Medical Center Hershey. Rose Viscardi is the new Associate Chair of and Hôspital Sainte-Justine. Rachel Fleishman joined our program from St. Clinical Research for the Department of Heather French has been appointed Chair, Chris. Pediatrics at UMSOM and will foster an Organization of Neonatal Training Program Janet Weis Children’s Hospital at Geisinger, increase in funded clinical research projects. Dr. Directors. Danville Viscardi is also the Associate Director for Johns Due to construction on the CHOP campus, the Lauren Johnson continues as Interim Site Hopkins University-University of Maryland Regional Neonatology Boot Camp, previously Director for the Geisinger Wyoming Valley Clinical Translational Science Award KL2 (JHU- directed by Heather French and Anne Ades , (GWV) NICU in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Lauren has UMD CTSA-KL2) that fosters career will be moving to Yale University for the succeeded in attaining level III NICU status as development awards. foreseeable future. Lindsay Johnston will take of October 2019, following the successful Alex Medina is the new Associate Chair of over as Boot Camp Director. recruitment of Jayesh Shah and Gurdeep Basic Science Research for the Department of Save the date for the Sixth Annual Children’s Atwal , who joined Patricia Spitale and Eileen Pediatrics at UMSOM who will foster increases Hospital of Philadelphia Chronic Lung Disease Tengco . Dr. Tengco previously practiced at the in funded basic science research projects at Conference - next year expanding to 1½ day level IV NICU in the Janet Weis Children’s UMD. conference to be held on March 10 and 11, Hospital at Geisinger in Danville and is now Natalie Davis is the new Director of Resident 2020 at the Union League of Philadelphia. Learn bringing her expertise in simulation training to Research for the Department of Pediatrics at more: https://chop.cloud-cme.com/default.aspx Northeastern Pennsylvania. The GWV NICU is UMSOM and will be overseeing the pediatric the first and only NICU in Luzerne County. Save the date for the Annual Knisely residency longitudinal research track. Lectureship at Children’s Hospital of Newborn Special Care Associates/Abington Hospital/Jefferson Health Jocelyn Leung , Medical Director of the NICU at Philadelphia on Tuesday, April 14th, 2020 in UM Prince George’s Hospital Center received Stokes Auditorium at 11am. This year’s guest We’ve brought on three new physicians since the NICU Leadership Award from the University speaker is Shoo Lee . Dr. Lee is the the spring. Erin Cipko joined our practice in of Maryland Capital Region Health and was Paediatrician-in-Chief for the Sinai Health April, Endla Anday joined our practice in July, recognized at the Women’s Health Awards and System in Toronto, Canada. A neonatologist and Jessica S. Gaulton joined our practice in Recognition Dinner on November 9, 2019. and health economist, he is also the Director of September. Sripriya Sundararajan was recognized for her the Maternal-Infant Care Research Centre at CRNP Rachel Carr will be join us January 1, outstanding mentorship and transformational Mount Sinai Hospital, Associate Member of the 2020. impact on medical students at the 42nd annual Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and a We are saying goodbye to Ara S. Moomjian , Medical Student Research Day at UMSOM. scientist at the Institute of Clinical Evaluative Studies. He is Scientific Director of the Institute who will be retiring from clinical practice as of PENNSYLVANIA of Human Development, Child and Youth Health December 31st, 2019 after 37 years in the at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Special Care Nursery at Abington Health. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a Professor of Paediatrics, Obstetrics & Penn State Children’s Hospital, Hershey Congratulations to the following neonatologists and at the Thanks to Christiana Oji-Mmuo , Penn State who were named to the Early Career Faculty University of Toronto. Honor Roll for 2019 by the CHOP pediatric NICU was mentioned in the January 2020 issue Natalie Rintoul presented at the 38th residents: Nicolas Bamat, Summer of National Geographic . International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Elshenawy, John Flibotte, Elizabeth Foglia, Society Annual Meeting in Sils, Switzerland and and Jennifer James . at Neonatal ECMO and Prematurity Conference, 21 SECTION ON NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE Winter 2020 www.aap.org/perinatal

Kim Doheny ’s NIH application for Neonatology at Columbia University. District IV: BabyGentlestick received an excellent score, Pangiotis Kratimenos has been granted an Brian Hackett and should be funded. internal award from CNRI for his research on Congratulations to Kristen Glass and “Mechanisms of Adaptive Learning Deficits due NORTH CAROLINA Christiana Oji-Mmuo for being elected as to Cerebellar Injury in Prematurity.” Duke University, Durham members of the Society for Pediatric Research. MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and Since June, P. Brian Smith , was awarded two Congratulations to Dawn Philpot, Adrienne Georgetown University Medical Center additional grants reflecting his expertise in Gasda , and Monica Hardy for achieving Lewis P. Rubin has joined us as Professor and clinical trials and clinical trial infrastructure. Clinical Ladder IV and to Elissa DeCarlo for Vice Chair for Research, Department of NICHD awarded him funding for planning the achieving Clinical Ladder III. Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study, a Tammy Corr has been invited to sit on the Medicine. Dr. Rubin’s scientific research large cohort study of infants with exposure to Multi-Disciplinary Work Group for Dauphin focuses on pregnancy and newborn nutrition maternal opioids. He and Rachel Greenberg County, as part of the Pennsylvania Plan of Safe and development, nutritional neuroscience, were also provided support within the Care, to develop a plan of safe care for any developmental epigenetics and genomics, and Environmental Influences on Child Health child with prenatal drug exposure. clinical trials. Dr. Rubin received his MPhil and Outcomes (ECHO) initiative to coordinate two MD from Yale University and trained in Jill Arnold has achieved NEA-BC certification clinical trials in infants with Neonatal Opiate pediatrics, newborn medicine, and molecular Withdrawal Syndrome. Meenakshi Singh was elected as one of the at Harvard. Before being Sharla Rent has joined the faculty after Top Physicians under 40 by the Pennsylvania recruited to Georgetown, he was a faculty finishing fellowship at University of Michigan. Medical Society. member at Brown University/Women & Infants’ She will focus on gaining clinical research Hospital of Rhode Island and Professor and Jeff Kaiser will begin working on a NIH Study organizational skills as she continues her Chief of Neonatology at the Cleveland Clinic, Section (NST-1) for NINDS Clinician Scientist involvement with TECaN and global health University of South Florida, and Texas Tech. He Mentored Training grants. initiatives. holds leadership positions in the American St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Pediatric Society, American Society for Kristin Weimer joined the faculty after finishing Philadelphia Nutrition, and International Carotenoid Society. her Duke neonatology fellowship, and has We welcome Joshua Erickson, Kamelia Dr. Rubin has been appointed to the Governing received funding to build on work with Sallie McRae, Mary Elizabeth Pease and Nneka Committee of the Medical Nutrition Council of Permar on epidemiology, prevention and Ugwu as new 1st year fellows in our Division. the American Society for Nutrition. treatment of congenital and postnatally- acquired CMV. We wish our 2019 fellowship graduates the best Lewis Rubin is the keynote speaker at the of luck in their future endeavors. Mitali Sahni is International Conference and Annual Meeting of Trevor Burt joined the Duke faculty from UCSF an attending neonatologist at Sunrise Children’s the Korean Society of Cancer Prevention and and his lab will continue work on questions Hospital in Las Vegas, NV. Jessica May- visiting professor, Ewha Womans University, related to development of the fetal and early Rabbach is an attending neonatologist at both in Seoul, South Korea in December. neonatal immune system. Lakeland Regional Medical Health Center in Pinaki Panigrahi joined as a Professor in the One of our Duke faculty, Eric Benner , was the Lakeland, FL. Sudip Sheth is an attending Division of Neonatal Perinatal Medicine at single recipient of Duke’s CTSI Transformative neonatologist at Texas Tech University in Georgetown University Medical Center this year. Funding Agreements (CTSI Accelerator) Award. Odessa, TX. He has made seminal contributions linking the The award supports Eric’s drug development Folasade Kehinde was promoted to Associate role of gut microbiome to and work on oxysterols to improve neurologic Professor of Pediatrics at Drexel University necrotizing enterocolitis. He published the outcomes after inflammatory postnatal injury. College of Medicine. largest clinical trial of probiotics to prevent Agnes Chao , 2nd-year neonatology fellow, was neonatal sepsis in Nature . His work has been Shadi Malaeb was promoted to Associate named a Katz-Denny Fellow within the Duke funded by NICHD and the Gates Foundation. At Professor of Pediatrics at Drexel University University/University of North Carolina Unified Georgetown, he is heading a cross- College of Medicine. Program for Therapeutics in Children (UPTiC) departmental International Microbiome Program T32 training program. The following faculty are leaving or retiring: engaged in exploring the role of microbiome, Endla Anday, Vineet Bhandari, Harbhajan diet, and other exposures in the pathogenesis 2nd-year fellow, Sarah Bernstein , was named Chawla, Rachel Fleishman, Jan Goplerud , of a range of conditions spanning from Chair of the Career Development and and Suzanne Touch . , inflammation, to childhood obesity Leadership Section in TECaN. Alison Carey is the new Division Chief of and cancer. Women’s Hospital of Greensboro/Cone Health Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. Siva Subramaniam , Professor of Pediatrics The NICU at Women’s Hospital of Ogechukwu Menkiti is the new Medical and Division Chief, Division of Neonatal Greensboro/Cone Health, which has been a Director of the St. Christopher’s Hospital for Perinatal Medicine, MedStar Georgetown free-standing women’s hospital since the early Children Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. University Hospital, received the 2019 Interfaith 90s, is moving into a newly constructed bed Leadership Award presented by the Interfaith tower on the campus of the mothership general Maria Delivoria-Papadopoulos will host the Council of Metropolitan Washington. hospital, Moses Cone. Like many other recently 22nd Annual Day of the Newborn Symposium: opened or renovated units, it will have single- An Investment in Our Future on January 31, The Neolog, a new code sheet designed by family rooms, but it will be different from most in 2020 at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. Jane Germano , former fellow, and Deborah that it will offer couplet care rooms in which Robin Steinhorn is the keynote speaker. Hoy , Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, to promote accurate documentation during NICU babies will be cared for in the same WASHINGTON DC neonatal resuscitation is now part of the NRP rooms as their mothers. Instructor Toolkit. Children’s National Medical Center TENNESSEE MacDonald’s Atlas of Procedures in Sudeepta Basu has been elected to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville Society for Pediatric Research. Neonatology , 6th edition, edited by Jayashree Ramasethu and Suna Seo , published by It is with great sadness that we say good-bye to Anna Penn will be leaving Children’s National Wolters Kluwer, is due to be released in two Vanderbilt colleagues. Christoph Lehmann Hospital to become Chief of the Division of December 2019. left VUMC to join the faculty at University of 22 www.aap.org/perinatal SECTION ON NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE Winter 2020

Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Lindsay Sternad , the NIH PRactice Outcomes TX to become Director of the new Clinical Research in Effectiveness and Systems Science Center. Elizabeth Harrelson (PROgRESS) T32. will be stepping down as Medical Director of Save the date for The 40th Annual Neonatology our Level II NICU at Maury Regional Medical Symposium which will be held November 12- Center to join the Neonatology group at St. 13, 2020 in Music City! Looking forward to Thomas Murfreesboro in Murfreesboro, TN. seeing everyone there next year! For further In February, the Division welcomes a new information on content and registration, contact neonatology faculty member. Dennis Slagle will Angie Tune ([email protected]). join our faculty at our neonatology center at Tennova-Clarksville in Clarksville, TN. VIRGINIA Michael DeVoe will assume the role of Interim University of Virginia, Charlottesville Medical Director at Maury Regional Medical From the 39th Annual Neonatology Symposium UVA Children’s Hospital had eight programs Center in Columbia, TN after the New Year. He at Vanderbilt: (L to R) Course Director Eva Dye, ranked in the 2019-20 USNWR Best Children’s is also the Project Lead for the Tennessee Jayant Shenai Keynote Speaker Michael Hospital Survey. The neonatology program was Initiative for Perinatal Quality Care project on Georgieff, Symposium founder Jayant Shenai, ranked for the 6th consecutive year. Our Opioid-Exposed Newborns. and Course Director Joern-Hendrik Weitkamp. neonatal transport system was also recently accredited by the Commission on Accreditation L. Dupree Hatch was awarded a three-year therapists, nurses and others from the region of Medical Transport Systems. grant from the Gerber Foundation entitled, and across the US. “Developing and Testing a User-Centered Jennifer Burnsed was recently awarded the Stephen Patrick gave the Teresa and Byron Ventilator Weaning System for Critically Ill Best Bedside Manner award for neonatology by Pollitt Family Chair in Fetal & Neonatal Medicine Neonates.” OurHealth Magazine, a regional health care Visiting Professor’s Lectureship at Children’s publication. Her research on hypoxic ischemic L. Dupree Hatch, Elaine Shelton , and Jennifer Hospital of Los Angeles/University of Southern encephalopathy and the NICU’s NeuroNICU Sucre will be inducted as new members of the California in September. In September, he was program was also recently profiled by the local SPR at the 2020 Annual PAS Meeting. the plenary speaker at the Annual Poverty NBC affiliate. Jennifer Herington was awarded a NIH R01 Research and Policy Forum on Human Services entitled, “Pre-clinical Studies to Repurpose Programs and The Opioid Crisis, sponsored by David Kaufman spoke at the International FDA-approved Drugs for Tocolytic Use.” the Office of Human Services Policy, Assistant Lactoferrin Conference in Lima, Peru in Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, US November. He spoke on “Optimizing Lactoferrin Maria Krakauer was named Program Director Department of Health and Human Services in Dosing: Have We Been Studying the Right for our Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Washington DC. In October, he was the plenary Dose?” Program. She also led two national workshops speaker at the AAP NCE in New Orleans on Flipped Classroom Teaching, including one Jonathan Swanson spoke at the annual session, “Newborns Exposed to Substances: Innovations in Neonatal Care conference in at the Association for Pediatric Program Understanding Their Needs and Supporting Directors annual meeting. Austin, TX. His talk was on “Redefining Their Caregivers.” Necrotizing Enterocolitis.” He also was a guest Lauren Sanlorenzo was accepted to the Scott Guthrie was a co-organizer, moderator, lecturer at Medstar Georgetown on developing American Academy of Pediatrics Young and speaker at the Baku International an exclusive human milk diet program. With the Physicians Leadership Alliance, a three-year Neonatology Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan in help of Hannah Gall , he led a Helping Babies training program designed to develop October. He also directed a hands-on workshop Breathe program in Djagble, Togo in September. leadership skills of early career pediatricians. to teach attendees how to administer surfactant She was also named site coordinator for The Brooke Vergales had a well-received platform using the LMA and other NICU procedures. The presentation at the 2019 AAP NCE. She spoke PASSiVE study (PrevAlence Study of Severe trip included a visit to the Azerbaijan Medical BPD Ventilation), a multi-center descriptive on our implementation of remote home University and the Pediatric Research Institute. monitoring of a home NG feeding program. study aimed to compare different ventilator Other US speakers at the conference included: modes and settings being used with severe Zuzanna Kubicka (Boston Children’s, District Congratulations to Brooke Vergales on being BPD across the BPD Collaborative. I), Kari Roberts (University of Minnesota, promoted to Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship Hendrik Weitkamp successfully directed the District VI), Prem Fort (Johns Hopkins All Program Director starting in January 2020. 39th (and his first as director) Annual Neonatal Children’s, District X), and Natasha Halasa Many thanks to Karen Fairchild for her decade Symposium at Vanderbilt November 7-8, 2019. (Vanderbilt Peds ID). plus leadership in the Fellowship Program Guest faculty included Michael Georgieff , from Scott Guthrie received the Physician of the Director role. the University of Minnesota, as the Jayant Year award from the West Tennessee Chapter of Susan Almarode was recently awarded the Shenai Keynote Speaker, Hannah Glass from the March of Dimes. National Association of Neonatal Nurses 2019 UCSF, Martin Keszler from Brown University, NNP Excellence Award. Paul Rozance from the University of Colorado Jeff Reese gave the Jerry Elliot Memorial and James Wynn from the University of Florida. Lectureship, “The Problematic PDA: Finding Vanderbilt neonatology speakers were Emily Laboratory Solutions for a Perplexing Vessel,” Morris and Roxanne Stahl . State-of-the-art at the 45th Annual Mead Johnson Northeastern presentations gave updates on nutritional Conference on Perinatal Research in Chatham, challenges for the developing brain, MA on Oct 16-18, 2019. management of hypo- and hyperglycemia in the Jeff Reese was an invited speaker at the ELBW infant, benefits of volume-targeted and Second Annual International PDA Symposium, high-frequency ventilation, immunological Memphis, TN, where he spoke on “Mouse (And issues predisposing preterm infants to sepsis, Other) Models of PDA.” treatment of neonatal seizures, brachial plexus Three of our fellows were awarded training injuries, congenital heart disease and other grants: Meredith Campbell , the NIH Vulnerable diagnostic or management strategies. The Children T32 Grant; Lindsey Knake , the Symposium was well-attended by over 90 National Library of Medicine T15 Grant; and neonatologists, fellows, NNPs, respiratory 23 SECTION ON NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE Winter 2020 www.aap.org/perinatal

Karl Desch District V: is PI for BIGBiRD (Biobank to Neonatology. In October, she moved from Beena Sood Illuminate the Genomic Basis of Rare Diseases). MUSC to join us in Cleveland. Third-year fellow Carly Gisondo was awarded Peter MacFarlane has been appointed as the INDIANA Best In-training Paper at the AAP NCE Section William and Lois Briggs Research Chair in on Transport Medicine. Neonatology. Indiana University School of Medicine/Riley Children’s, Indianapolis Three fellows graduated in 2019. Kate Brune is Fellow Zeyar Htun presented a poster at the at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI. VON Quality Congress on a collaborative effort Melinda Markham joined the IUSM faculty as Brittany Burns-Jackson works at William between neonatology, pediatric , an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, who will Beaumont Hospital/Oakland University, Royal and Rainbow Quality to reduce hypothermia in transition into the role of Fetal Center Medical Oak, MI. Sharla Rent has joined Duke neonatal patients in the OR. Director in 2020. Children’s Hospital and Health Center, Durham, Pediatric resident Richelle Reinhart , with Matt Durbin won the James Sutherland Junior NC. neonatology faculty mentors Mary Nock and Faculty Award at Midwest Society for Pediatric Three fellows joined our program in 2019. Mary Anna Maria Hibbs , presented a poster on Research. Alice Reinoehl is from Spectrum Health/MSU/ reduction of anti-acid medication use in the Jo Ann Matory was recognized by Stepping Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital. Katelyn NICU at the AAP NCE Section on Quality and Stones of Women in Leadership as having Roberts is from Indiana University. Gretchen Patient Safety program in New Orleans. achieved significant accomplishments in Stepanovich is from Eastern Virginia Medical In spring 2020, Richard Martin will speak at the medicine and science. School/Children’s Hospital of the King’s Recent Advances in Neonatal Medicine Daughters. Edward Liechty was awarded a $469,000 grant Conference in Wurzburg, Germany, and the from the Foundation for the National Institutes OHIO European Neonatal Ventilation Conference in of Health for his project, “Multisite Efficacy and Montreux, Switzerland. Safety Trial of Intrapartum Azithromycin in Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Richard Martin will present at the Annual New LMICs.” Cleveland York Regional Neonatal Symposium, Long We are pleased to announce that Cynthia MICHIGAN Island, NY, and the 2nd Richard Ehrenkranz Bearer has joined our Rainbow team as Symposium at Yale University. Wayne State University, Detroit Division Chief of Neonatology. Dr. Bearer In honor of Ronald L. Poland (first Chief of the completed a BA with honors in mathematics from Smith College, a PhD in biochemistry from District VI: Division of the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Joshua Petrikin WSU Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Case Western Reserve University, and a MD Hospital of Michigan, and Hutzel Women’s from The Johns Hopkins University School of ILLINOIS Hospital) the first Ronald Poland and Seetha Medicine. She became an Assistant Professor Shankaran Annual Invited Lectureship was held of Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve Rush University Children’s Hospital, Chicago University in 1994 where she was promoted to on October 17-18th, 2019. Kristi Watterberg We would like to welcome new faculty to our Professor of Pediatrics with tenure. In 2008, she was the keynote speaker. division: Jieun David joined in September 2019 moved to University of Maryland School of after completing fellowship at LAC+USC Seetha Shankaran delivered the Gerald Medicine to become the Mary Gray Cobey Medical Center and Children’s Hospital Los Merenstein Lecture at the AAP NCE SoNPM Professor of Neonatology. In 2009, she became Angeles. Chirag Talati joined in September meeting. Chief, Division of Neonatology and in 2012, 2019 after completing fellowship at the University of Michigan/C.S. Mott Children’s Associate Chair for Research. She is actively University of Mississippi. Hospital, Ann Arbor involved in research, education and service. She has published extensively on fetal and Andrew Berenz received research funding from Steve Donn retired to active emeritus status in pediatric environmental health. Her research Little Giraffe Foundation for “Lactoferrin Dose March 2019. has received funding from NIH, CDC and US and the Effect on the Intestinal Microbiome of Jenni Bermick and Stephanie Kukora were EPA. Dr. Bearer is Editor-in-Chief of Pediatric Preterm Infants.” promoted to Clinical Assistant Professor. Research . Aloka Patel was invited to speak at the Karl Desch and Naomi Laventhal were The Division is extremely grateful to Michele University of Michigan and NEC Society promoted to Clinical Associate Professor. Walsh for her leadership as Division Chief since Meeting in June 2019 and at the AAP NCE in John Barks is serving as Division Chief/Service 2011. Michele remains in the Division, New Orleans in October 2019 about hospital- Chief of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. continuing clinical work and her work on many based strategies to improve mother’s milk use research and QI endeavors. in the NICU. Shannon Vandervennet is our Division Administrative Assistant. Rita Ryan has joined us as faculty in the University of Illinois, Chicago Division of Neonatology. Dr. Ryan received her Anantha Harijith was promoted to Associate The Brandon NICU Medical Director is Bob medical degree from SUNY-Upstate Medical Schumacher . Professor with Tenure at UIC in the spring of Center in Syracuse and stayed there for her 2019. He has recently received three grants: Rebecca Vartanian is our Division QI Lead and pediatrics residency. Dr. Ryan then did her R01 from NICHD entitled, “Role of Novel SphK1 is Medical Director for Respiratory Therapy, fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Inhibitor, PF543, in Therapy of C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. Medical Center. She was on the faculty at the Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia and Airway University of Rochester for 11 years, then Gary Weiner serves as Neonatal-Perinatal Remodeling;” transformational grant from become Chief of the Division of Neonatology in Medicine Fellowship Director while Ashley American Heart Association on the role of S1P Buffalo in 2000. During these years, Dr. Ryan Przybylski is Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine receptor in bronchopulmonary dysplasia and was Fellowship Director in both Rochester and Fellowship Administrator. airway remodeling; and Chiesi Research Buffalo, and became the Chair of the ONTPD. Foundation grant on developing the role of Kate Stanley is Medical Director for Revenue Dr. Ryan then went to the Medical University of SphK1 inhibitor, PF543, as a surfactant co- Integrity, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. South Carolina to be the Chair of Pediatrics. administered drug in bronchopulmonary Naomi Laventhal is Faculty Ethicist for After five years as Chair, Dr. Ryan became a dysplasia. Michigan Medicine Program in Clinical Ethics. full-time member of the MUSC Division of Howard Hast was appointed as an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in 2019. Dr. Hast is a 24 www.aap.org/perinatal SECTION ON NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE Winter 2020

board-certified pediatric critical care specialist Medical Association of Illinois in November MISSOURI who has chosen a new career as a NICU 2019. Children’s Mercy, Kansas City hospitalist. Hernan Sierra-Fernandez serves as a the Joshua Petrikin was elected to be the District Wenxiang Luo is Research Assistant Professor Director of Neonatal Informatics and is jointly VI representative to the SoNPM Executive in the Section of Neonatology. Dr. Luo is the appointed as a Clinical Informaticist for Committee and began his service on November Co-Director of the Neonatology Laboratory, in the Chief Health Information Office for UI 1st. The Division of Neonatology at Children’s partnership with De-Ann Pillers . He is an active Health. Mercy Kansas City is indebted to Josh for his scientist and mentor, and is Co-Investigator on Nishant Srinivasan is the Associate Director of example and is excited for his regional and the Gerber Foundation grant that is studying the Neonatology Fellowship Training Program national leadership opportunity. urine metabolomics. and was appointed to the UIC Illinois Tamorah Lewis was accepted for membership Uwa Montgomery was appointed as Assistant Department of Public Health Administrative in the Society for Pediatric Research. Professor of Pediatrics in 2019 and will serve as Perinatal Center as a neonatology educator a NICU hospitalist. Dr. Montgomery is board with emphasis on neonatal simulation. Tamorah Lewis was selected by certified in both and administrators, faculty, staff, and students at Anshul Arora and Vrinda Arora completed pediatrics and completed a fellowship in the University of Missouri-Kansas City to be a their fellowship training in 2019 and accepted palliative care jointly at Stroger Cook County mentor/leader in an inaugural positions at Phoenix Children’s Hospital. Hospital and Rush University. mentoring/leadership program called STAHR Nicole Glaser and Zaynab Kadhem were (Students in Training, in Academia, Health, and Shannon Murphy is Assistant Professor of appointed as Clinical Research Coordinators in Research). Pediatrics and serves as a NICU and general the Section of Neonatology in 2019. pediatrics hospitalist. In August 2019, Steve Olsen co-presented Joe Greenia serves as the Program “Setting Career Goals and Defining Your In September 2019, De-Ann Pillers was Coordinator for the Fellowship. Success,” on an AAP SoNPM MidCaN webinar. invested as the Dharmapuri Vidyasagar Professor of Neonatology at UIC. Dr. Pillers is Shirley Scott is the Executive Director of the Ayan Rajgarhia recently took over the reins as the Program Director of the Neonatal-Perinatal UIC IDPH Administrative Perinatal Center and Editor of the Articles of Interest section on the Fellowship at UIC, which has recently expanded Joann Sorce was recruited as the Educator for AAP website under the SoNPM. In his role as to a capacity of nine fellows. She is also site PI the Center in 2019. Editor, he is now responsible for summarizing for the NICHD Pediatric Trials Network, the IBT the relevant neonatal literature published in high KANSAS Therapeutics Connection Probiotics study, and impact journals every month along with his the Shire/Takeda Footprints study. Sunflower Neonatology Associates, Overland team. Articles of Interest enjoys a wide Park readership and remains the most popular De-Ann Pillers serves as the neonatology site section on the website. PI for “Butterflye Study to Assess the Efficacy, This summer, Sunflower Neonatology Safety, and of Intravitreal Aflibercept Associates was pleased to welcome Rebecca Venkatesh Sampath continues to maximize his compared to Laser Photocoagulation in Verhaeghe to our group. Dr. Verhaeghe earned efforts with both R01 funding for his research Patients with Retinopathy of Prematurity.” her medical degree from A.T. Still University of on SIGIRR and NEC in premature infants and Health Sciences-Kirksville College of spreading his knowledge through invited Aarti Raghavan is the Medical Director of the Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, MO. She lectures. He recently spoke at the NEC Society NICU and is the new Director of Patient Safety completed her pediatric residency at the Meeting, Ann Arbor, MI. for the Department of Pediatrics. Aarti University of Oklahoma-Tulsa and her neonatal- completed a MS in Patient Safety at UIC in Howard Kilbride was a panel discussant for perinatal fellowship at St. Louis University in 2019. the 3rd Annual Symposium on Neonatal 2019. Dr. Verhaeghe’s background includes Resuscitation at the University of Oklahoma in Phornphat (Paul) Rasamimari is the Medical participation in several clinical and bench September 2019. Director for Neonatology for Labor & Delivery research projects during her career and she has and the Director of the NICU Follow-up presented her work in poster and oral Dena Hubbard provided guest commentary on Program. Paul is currently enrolled in a clinical presentations. behalf of the AAP in the Kansas City Star op- and translational research program at UIC. He is ed, “We Must Find Real Solutions to Gun Robert Holcomb , Medical Director for the HCA site PI on Study of Attitudes and Factors Violence.” Midwest Neonatal Transport Team, and the Effecting Preterm Infant Care Practices to entire MNTT Transport Executive Staff is proud Dena Hubbard presented at 2019 AAP NCE at determine the US national prevalence of to announce that the team has entered a new the Section on Administration and Practice adherence to each AAP recommended preterm phase, evolving into a dedicated, specialty Management Program, “Combatting Burnout: infant care practice (safe sleep, breastfeeding, transport service with expanded capabilities to Rediscovering Why We Love Pediatrics.” and smoke exposure) and to determine the offer rotary service, vastly expanding our Joshua Petrikin and Dena Hubbard served as maternal and infant health characteristics catchment area to provide life-saving care. two of the 18 topic experts for SoNPM Quality associated with the prevalence of each Measures Taskforce. They were responsible for practice. MINNESOTA systematically reviewing assigned published Joann Romano-Keeler was appointed to Children’s Minnesota, Minneapolis/St. Paul neonatology metrics for reliability, validity, and Assistant Professor on the tenure track in the importance for comparative quality Children’s Minnesota continues to grow the Department of Pediatrics. Her focus is on the assessments. They presented at the consensus unified neonatal program and recently neonatal microbiome and she is currently being conference October 7-8 at the AAP welcomed Lia Gravari from the University of mentored by Jun Sun, Department of Medicine, Headquarters in Itasca, IL. UIC. Louisville where she has been on the faculty for the last several years, as well as Jennifer Washington University/St. Louis Children’s Arvind Shukla is an Associate Director of the Berger from the University of Iowa and Abby Hospital UIC Illinois Department of Public Health Faulman from the University of Colorado This past August, we moved into a new wing in Administrative Perinatal Center as a content fellowship programs. the 5400 tower, putting our NICU bed capacity expert in neonatal medicine. at 126 all private rooms. The new tower is part Arvind Shukla received the Distinguished of the Women and Infants expansion that began Physician Award from the Indian American last year. With this expansion comes additional resources for families to encourage infant 25 SECTION ON NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE Winter 2020 www.aap.org/perinatal interactions, maternal breast milk use and Cindy Ortinau was inducted into the Society Recognition Ceremony for their work related to family-centered care. We have one more phase for Pediatric Research. patents and intellectual property in their of construction to complete over the next year Fellow Taylor Hendrixson received the award research. to achieve our final bed count of 150. for Best Trainee Oral Presentation - Research in Jaimin Patel has been awarded the Intra- Beverly Brozanski has joined the Division and Nutrition at the Commonwealth Association of Departmental Discovery Program grant for was named Vice Chair of Quality and Safety for Pediatric and Nutrition “Evolution of Microbiome in Extremely Low the Department of Pediatrics and Vice President scientific meeting in Toronto in October 2019. Birth Weight Neonates.” He has been enrolling of Pediatric Quality Improvement and Patient Fellows Rebecca Martinez, Carly Schuetz and subjects and preliminary results have been Safety for BJC Healthcare and St. Louis Hallie Morris presented at the AAP NCE in accepted as a platform presentation for an Children’s Hospital. Bev was a founding New Orleans. upcoming Southern Society of Pediatric member of the Children’s Hospitals Neonatal Research conference. Consortium (CHNC) in 2006. Currently, she is NEBRASKA Jaimin Patel has continued representing Co-Chair of the CHNC Collaborative Initiatives University of Nebraska, Omaha neonatologists in the Epic Neonatology for Quality Improvement group and remains Steering Board. At the University of Mississippi involved as a member of the board and Ann Anderson Berry has been appointed Medical Center, he implemented the Nutrition executive committees. Interim Executive Director of the Child Health Calculations Project in NICU, a new HIV order Research Institute, a collaborative effort Hayley Friedman, Steve Liao and Barbara set, and has been working on improving between University of Nebraska Medical Center Cohlan received the Standing Up for Mothers communications by selecting communication and Omaha Children’s Hospital. and Babies Award from Generate Health, a St. devices and participating in the selection of Louis foundation dedicated to advancing racial SOUTH DAKOTA middleware solutions to optimize alerts. He is equity in pregnancy outcomes, for work with also serving as Co-Chair of the Clinical Decision opioid dependent mothers in the newly Sanford Children’s Hospital, Sioux Falls Support Committee and has been elected as established CARE clinic (Clinic for Acceptance, After nearly 40 years, David Munson and Senator in the Faculty Senate at the University Recovery, and Empowerment). Dennis Stevens have retired from clinical of Mississippi Medical Center. Hayley Friedman has been chairing the practice at Sanford Children’s Hospital. They Renate Savich was an invited faculty speaker TECaN-led advocacy education program, will be greatly missed for their contributions to at the 24th Annual Congress at Saint George Navigating NAS (https://www.aap.org/en- the NICU and to the USD Sanford School of Hospital University Medical Center in Beirut, us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/campaigns/n Medicine! Lebanon in October. She also was an invited avigating-nas/Pages/default.aspx). Kathryn Anderson has joined our neonatology speaker at the AAP District VIII Section on Emily Fishman now serves on the AAP Section group following her fellowship at UCSD Rady Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine 43rd Annual on Early Career Physicians Strategic Plan Children’s Hospital. Conference in Anchorage, Alaska in June, Workgroup Breastfeeding Physician Education speaking on, “Health Disparities in Neonatal and Training Project Advisory Committee. District VII: and Perinatal Outcomes” and “Gender Clara Song Disparities in the NICU Workforce.” She was Bryanne Colvin was a presenter for the Safe also honored to receive the District VIII AAP Sleep Summit in November with Generate SoNPM Founders Award at the 43rd Annual ARKANSAS Health. She, along with hospitalist Eve Colson , Conference in Alaska. has been examining safe sleep practices in our University of Arkansas for Medical preterm population. Sciences/Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Renate Savich was the keynote speaker at the Little Rock 6th Annual Mississippi State Perinatal Quality Shawn O’Conner has been named Director for Collaborative speaking on “Addressing Newborn Simulation. Congratulations to Ashley Ross and Nahed Maternal and Neonatal Health Disparities in ElHasan who were promoted to Professor of Jagu Anadkat has been named Co-Medical Mississippi and the Deep South: Time for Pediatrics. Director for Fetal Care. Change and Action.” Congratulations to Angela Chandler, Sara Jennifer Wambach obtained an NIH R01 to Peeples , and Clare Nesmith , who were OKLAHOMA identify and characterize ABCA3 genomic promoted to Associate Professor of Pediatrics. University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, variants in pulmonary epithelial cells resulting in Oklahoma City disease phenotypes, including surfactant Sherry Courtney presented several talks on protein deficiency. NAVA, high frequency ventilation, and modes of The Section on NPM at OU is proud to mechanical ventilation in Shanghai, Nanjing, welcome two new faculty members: Abhrajit Zachary Vesoulis obtained K23 and Gerber and Zhengzhou, China in November. Ganguly , who completed fellowship at Rainbow Foundation grants to examine racial disparities Babies and Children’s Hospital and Samuel in preterm brain injury related to cerebral MISSISSIPPI Levin , who completed fellowship at Loyola autoregulation and hypotension. He was University Medical Center. selected as a founding member of the Newborn University of Mississippi Medical Center, Brain Society and recently received the Jackson The Section congratulates Sarah Drennen and Midwest SPR James Sutherland Junior Faculty Mobolaji Famuyide received a $1,111,287 Michael Melek for completing their NPM Award for outstanding abstract. grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation titled, fellowship at OU this past year. Dr. Drennen accepted a position at Covenant Children’s Misty Good was instrumental in Washington “Mother’s Milk for Very Low Birth Weight Hospital in Lubbock, TX. Dr. Melek accepted a University receiving the Burroughs Wellcome Infants: A National Quality Improvement position at the Children’s Hospital at St. Peter’s Fund Physician-Scientist Institutional Award, Approach, Mississippi” to improve breast University in New Brunswick, NJ. and the PCORI-funded Building Capacity for feeding rates in all of the NICUs in Mississippi. PCOR/CER in the neonatal NEC community. Pradeep Alur was an invited faculty speaker at Trent Tipple started as Section Chief of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Professor of Elena Minakova received a grant from the the National Neonatology Forum of India 39th Pediatrics, and the Children’s Hospital Washington University Center for Clinical Annual Convention 2019 in Hyderabad, India in Foundation Reba McEntire Endowed Chair in Pharmacology to study in utero exposure to December. Neonatology. oxycodone in a mouse model, beginning with Abhay Bhatt, Jagdish Desai, Pradeep Alur, pre-pregnancy maternal use, in utero exposure, and Lir-Wan Fan were recognized at the Trent Tipple delivered the Ferring Sponsored and postnatal crossover treatments. UMMC Inaugural Intellectual Property Member Lecture entitled, “Lost in Translation: 26 www.aap.org/perinatal SECTION ON NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE Winter 2020

Bridging the Gap in Perinatal Redox Biology Amy Hair was the winner of the Perinatal AnnaMarie Arias Shah was re-elected as Research” at the 50th Anniversary annual Research Society Annual Associate Member TECaN Regional Representative and elected meeting of the Perinatal Research Society in Paper Prize at the Pediatric Research Society onto AAP Section of Pediatric Trainees Minneapolis, MN. meeting. Executive Committee. Rita Raman delivered a lecture entitled, The following faculty received Norton Rose University of Texas Health Science Center at “Epigenetics: Early Life Origins of Adult Fulbright Awards for excellence in educational Houston/McGovern Medical School Diseases” at the KG Hospital and Post- leadership, enduring materials, or Eric Reynolds , of the University of Texas Graduate Institute, Coimbatore, India. teaching/education: Melissa Carbajal, Health Science Center at Houston/McGovern Caraciolo Fernandes, Ganga Marilyn Escobedo and Clara H. Song , as Medical School, was an invited speaker in Gokulakrishnan, Krithika Lingappan , and members of the AAP Women in Neonatology Changsha, Hunan, China in November. He gave Mohan Pammi . (WiN) Steering Committee, organized the invited lectures at the 20th Anniversary of the Second Annual Fall WiN Meeting at the AAP Greg Valentine , a graduated clinical post- Chinese Journal of Contemporary Pediatrics at NCE this past October in New Orleans, LA. WiN doctoral fellow who is now an Assistant both the main meeting and at the Newborn will meet next in Scottsdale, AZ, at the 2020 Professor at the University of Washington, Special Lecture series. He also gave informal Workshop on Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine received a Baylor College of Medicine Center lectures to the medical staff in the NICU at Practice Strategies on March 29-30 with for Research, Innovation & Scholarship Medical Changsha Hospital and participated in teaching keynote speaker Bonnie Koo, to discuss Education Fellow Teaching Excellence Award. rounds in the unit. financial health for women physicians. Michael E. Speer was elected the Vice-Chair of UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas Clara H. Song chaired the 2019 AAP NCE the Texas Department of State Health Services We were thrilled to welcome new faculty to the SoNPM Scientific Session in New Orleans, LA Newborn Screening Advisory Committee. Division: Stephanie Nguyen and Kelly this past October. She will chair the 2020 AAP Charleta Guillory stepped down as Chair of the Mazzarella joined the Newborn Pediatrics NCE SoNPM Program which highlights a joint Committee. Section of the Division. Rachel León, Sara session with the Section on Cardiology and The Baylor College of Medicine Perinatal Munoz-Blanco and Chris Lehmann joined the . She also sits on the organizing Outreach Program will hold the 43rd Annual Neonatal Section of the Division. committee for 2020 AAP NeoPrep this coming Nursing Symposium on January 24th, 2020 at February 2020. Sadly, we said goodbye to Laura Rubinos who the Sheraton Suites, 2400 West Loop South, moved to UCSF. Clara H. Song was invited to speak at the 2019 Houston, TX. Scott & White Annual Neonatology Conference Lina Chalak was elected as the Co-Chair of the The second annual Baylor Avoiding Lung Injury in Temple, TX on “Digital Communication for the Research and QI Committee of the Newborn (BALI) conference was held successfully on Neonatologist.” Brain Society. She is now a member on the October 18, 2019. Baylor Neonatology faculty Departmental Promotions and Tenure The Children’s Hospital at OU Medicine hosted presented interesting and interactive talks on a Committee and has been appointed as the 3rd Annual Neonatal Resuscitation variety of respiratory topics. Associate Division Chief (Academic Affairs and Symposium this past September. Organizing Frank Placencia received his Master’s Degree Faculty Development). Committee Members include Marilyn in Health Care Ethics. Escobedo, Birju Shah, Edgardo Szyld and Becky Ennis was appointed as Co-Chair of Clara H. Song . This year’s speakers included Grant Shafer , 3rd year neonatology fellow, Children’s Ethics Committee. Noah Hillman, Jeffrey Perlman, Anne Ades, gave a presentation entitled, “Frequency of Mackenzie Frost was appointed Program Payam Vali and Gary Weiner . Diagnostic Errors in the Neonatal Intensive Care Director of the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Unit Using the Safer Dx-NICU Instrument - The Children’s Hospital at OU Medicine also Fellowship Program and elected as Vice Chair Diagnostic Error in Medicine” at the 12th Annual hosted the 23rd Annual Changing Seasons in of Assessment Learning Community at the International Conference in Washington DC in Neonatology Conference this past November APPD. November. organized and spearheaded by the OU Elizabeth Heyne was one of only six finalists Neonatal Nurse Practitioners and NeoFlight Grant Shafer and Pablo Lohmann received nationwide for the Schwartz Center Award for Team. first place for their poster entry to the Texas National Compassionate Caregiver of the Year. Pediatric Society 2019 meeting. TEXAS Vishal Kapadia and Imran Mir have earned Gautham Suresh presented a talk at the annual Associate Membership to the Perinatal Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Innovations Conference in Austin, TX Research Society. Hospital, Houston titled, “Avoiding Physician-Induced Lung Injury Rachel León was accepted into the Clinical Bhagavatula Moorthy was named as the first - Can We Prevent BPD with Quality Scholars Program to get a Master of Clinical holder of the Kurt Randerath MD Endowed Improvement?” Science at UT Southwestern. Chair at Texas Children’s Hospital and the Gautham Suresh and Lucky Jain from Emory Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of were Editors of a book titled Clinical Guidelines Eric Ortigoza successfully obtained a Gerber Medicine. in Neonatology published recently by McGraw Foundation Award. Krithika Lingappan has been awarded an NIH Hill. Various Baylor faculty were authors of Julie Mirpuri was awarded a Children’s R01 grant for “Mechanisms of Sex Differences chapters: Vicki Georgiadis, Cary Fernandes, Hospital Foundation Research Award and was in Neonatal Pulmonary Oxygen Toxicity.” She Grant Shafer, Lakshmi Katakam, Ashley selected AAAS IF/THEN Ambassador, one of also received the Young Investigator Award of Lucke, Nathan Sundgren and Gautham 125 women in STEM nationwide and one of the Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Suresh . three from UTSW. Medicine, and was appointed to the Editorial Danielle Rios has accepted a position at the Jessica Morse was appointed as Medical Board of AAP’s NeoReviews . University of Iowa. Director of Newborn Nurseries in the Division Lauren Swanson , 2nd year fellow, was Leonard Weisman , Professor of Pediatrics, and Shalini Ramachandran was appointed as selected as a post-doctoral trainee on a BCM retired after 25 years as active faculty at Baylor. Associate Director of the Neonatal T32 grant in Precision Environmental Health Resuscitation. Charleta Guillory was named Co-Chair, with Sciences from the National Institute of Tiffany McKee-Garrett , to the Texas Pediatric Rashmin Savani gave invited talks in Greece, Environmental Health Sciences (PI Cheryl Society Fetus and Newborn Committee. Wales, Japan, Brazil and Ireland. Walker ). 27 SECTION ON NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE Winter 2020 www.aap.org/perinatal

Rashmin Savani gave an invited talk to UT research targeting improvement of clinical MONTANA System Virtual Health Network Meeting in outcomes for newborns and infants and is the Saint Vincent’s Hospital, Billings Austin. first endowed chair in the School of Medicine named for a female faculty member. Shoo Lee Namrita Odackal recently joined Saint Rashmin Savani was one of four was the Lubchenco Chair lecturer for 2019. Dr. Vincent’s Hospital Neonatology group in neonatologists elected to represent the Texas Lee is Paediatrician-in-Chief, Director of the Billings, Montana. Perinatal Care Regions Alliance to spearhead Maternal-Infant Research Centre at Mount Sinai statewide organization in collaboration with the OREGON Hospital, an Associate Member of the Texas Collaborative for Healthy Mothers and Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland Babies. Professor of Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Catherine Caruso , 2nd year Neonatology Gynaecology, and Head of the Division of Fellow at Oregon Health & Science University, District VIII: Neonatology at the University of Toronto. He is received a TECaN travel grant award to attend James Barry also credited with establishing the Canadian the 2019 AAP NCE to serve on the TECaN Neonatal Network. His talks were informative Education Subcommittee. The 44th Annual District VIII Conference on and inspirational as they focused on systems of Perinatal Medicine will be held in Santa Fe, NM care improving neonatal outcomes in a very Cindy McEvoy , Professor of Pediatrics and on June 4-7th, 2020. The Conference Chairs are large region. Director of Maternal Child Health Research and Vlad Ianus , Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Neonatal Research, was elected to active John Kinsella the University of New Mexico School of , Professor of Pediatrics, has membership of the American Pediatric Society. Medicine, and Tara Dupont , Associate been awarded the Career Teaching Scholars Award by the Department of Pediatrics for his Cindy McEvoy received NHLBI funding to Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah study the effects of extending CPAP therapy in Health. Acclaimed perinatal researchers, Kristi outstanding contributions to pediatric education throughout his career. stable preterm infants on lung growth and Watterberg and LuAnn Papile , are two of the development at six months of age. prominent speakers who will undoubtedly Elizabeth Thilo retired from the University of enlighten those interested in perinatal medicine. Colorado School of Medicine. Dr. Thilo has Cindy McEvoy was an invited keynote speaker been an outstanding clinician and educator at the Fourth Annual United States ALASKA during her career which began in 1990 when Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Meeting. Providence Alaska Medical Center, Anchorage she joined the faculty. She will maintain her role on the editorial board of NeoReviews Plus . Ladawna Gievers , Assistant Professor of Jennifer Scoble , Medical Director at Pediatrics, has been instrumental in initiating a Providence Alaska Medical Center, will be Four of the University of Colorado Neonatal- Medical-Legal Partnership at Doernbecher stepping down from that role and moving home Perinatal Fellows were awarded Marshall Klaus Children’s Hospital that includes the to Texas in January 2020. Neonatal-Perinatal Research Awards in November at the NCE for their basic and clinical development of a NICU-specific program. Joe Livingston will be assuming the role of science research. Brittany Butler ’s research is The 5th annual Northwest Neonatal Medical Director at Alaska Regional Hospital on the role of perinatal acetaminophen in acute Improvement Priority Alliance Meeting will be NICU. lung inflammation and abnormal pulmonary held Friday, September 11, 2020 at Chemeketa Teresa Lam recently joined the neonatology development. She is mentored by Clyde Eola in Salem, OR. The featured speaker will be practice at the Alaska Neonatology Associates Wright . Sarah Cilvik ’s research is on the role of Susan Hwang from University of Colorado and upon graduation from the University of exogenous glucagon in growth and metabolism Colorado Perinatal Collaborative. Washington Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship in late gestation fetal lambs. Her mentor is Paul OHSU Neonatology Group is holding a Trauma program. Rozance . Cynthia Schreiner ’s research is on Informed Care Workshop for all staff on January placental proteins and their interactions with Denise Jones will be joining the Alaska 23-24, 2020 at Doernbecher Children’s prematurity. Her mentor is Theresa Powell . Neonatology Associates during summer of Hospital. The workshop is organized and Kathleen Hannan received the award for health 2020 after she finishes her fellowship at UNC supported by the NICU nursing staff and service research for her work on Chapel Hill. Assistant Nurse Manager Nikki Wiggins . characterization, disparities, and prediction of COLORADO medical complexity in VLBW infants discharged UTAH from the NICU. Her mentor is Sunah Hwang . Denver Health Medical Center University of Utah, Salt Lake City Fellow Brianna Liberio was recently elected as Mauricio Palau was recently awarded Top a regional fellow representative for TECaN. Robert D. Christensen was honored with Doctors in Denver area by 5280 Magazine . establishment of the Robert D. Christensen MD Laura Brown , Associate Professor of Megan Kirkle , was recently hired as a Endowed Lectureship in Neonatology at the Pediatrics, was recently elected as the neonatologist. She is a graduate of the University of Utah. Robin Ohls , Professor of President-Elect for the Perinatal Research University of Colorado Neonatal-Perinatal Pediatrics at University of Utah, was the first Society. Fellowship program. guest lecturer for the Lectureship. Jeanne Zenge was recently appointed as the University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado Sabrina Malone-Jenkins , Assistant Professor, Medical Director of the Yampa Valley Medical was awarded the Gary M. Chan MD Endowed The Lubchenco Chair in Neonatal-Perinatal Center NICU in Steamboat Springs, CO and the Chair in Neonatology Medicine, named in honor of Lula Lubchenco, Co-Medical Director of the Wyoming Medical member of the University of Colorado School of Center NICU in Casper, WY. Mariana Baserga , Professor of Pediatrics, was Medicine faculty from 1943-1977, was recently awarded the Jack L. Dolcourt Endowed Chair in created. Although best known for her landmark HAWAI’I Neonatology. description of the risk profile of variations in Hawai’i Pacific Health, Honolulu Jerry King will retire in 2020, after serving the intrauterine growth by gestational age, Dr. Division of Neonatology, Department of Megan Doty will become the Hawai‘i Lubchenco made contributions to Pediatrics and University of Utah School of Representative on the District VIII Perinatal regionalization of perinatal care, family- Medicine for since 1984! We thank him for his Council as Bala Venkataraman steps down. integrated care, inter-professional collaboration, service to our patients, families, and staff. He and assessment of outcomes across the has positively impacted many lives. continuum from prenatal life to adulthood. The Lubchenco Chair will support programs and 28 www.aap.org/perinatal SECTION ON NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE Winter 2020

Candice Fike , Professor of Pediatrics, was California - Effects on Women, Infants and clinical research experience and to identify awarded Tenure. Children.” The following day, a renowned group centers for various research proposals. of speakers will address several important Lisa Joss-Moore was promoted to Professor The CAN Electronic NICU Directory (Chairs: topics including: Advances in ; fetal of Pediatrics with Tenure Ronald Ariagno, Henry Lee, Dilip Bhatt ) is hydrops; respiratory management in the NICU being refined and should be ready to launch in Christian (Con) Yost , MD, was promoted to including use of HHHFNC vs. NCPAP; the next few months. A demo was presented at Professor of Pediatrics with Tenure intermittent hypoxemia; cell-based therapy for the CAN board meeting and neonatologists BPD; surfactant administration modalities such Camille Fung was promoted to Associate were encouraged to try it and provide feedback as InSurE, LISA, and aerosol; updates from Professor. in the beta-testing phase. Nine training centers PDA-TOLERATE Trial; catheter-based closure of have so far been included in the Directory. Kelli Lund and Nora Switchenko have joined PDA; neonatal ; neonatal transfusion; as Visiting Instructors. Kelli completed and neonatal thrombosis. Sunday sessions will California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative fellowship at University of Oregon Health focus on MRSA outbreak in the NICU, CPQCC has recently released a new report Science Center and Nora at University of Utah. enteroviral infections, osteopenia of prematurity, available on the NICU Reports site Luca Brunelli , Professor of Pediatrics, has and thyroid function in the preterm. The (www.cpqccreport.org). The Baby-MONITOR joined our faculty from University of Nebraska conference will conclude with currently relevant report allows NICUs to look at a composite at Omaha. topics that include the marijuana-exposed score of overall quality of care at their NICU and neonate and recognizing PTSD in parents after benchmark their performance against the entire WASHINGTON NICU discharge and how to help them deal with CPQCC network. Baby-MONITOR combines University of Washington School of Medicine, this important issue. Please visit measures of positive performance on antenatal Seattle https://cme.ucla.edu/ for more details. The steroids, timely ROP exams, absence of poster session and QI Poster Symposium will Rachel Umoren is PI on a $2.4M AHRQ grant nosocomial infection, temperature on continue as part of the Cool Topics meeting. to the University of Washington for “Patient admission, pneumothorax, growth velocity, The annual David Wirtschafter Award for QI will Safety Learning Laboratory to Enhance the oxygen at 36 weeks, human milk nutrition, and be awarded to the author of the best QI project Value and Safety of Neonatal Interfacility survival to give teams a holistic picture of the submitted. All abstracts will be posted on the Transfers in a Regional Care Network.” This quality of care they are providing. Visit the CAN Website project will define the current and ideal state for CPQCC website (www.cpqcc.org/nicu/nicu- (https://choccme.weebly.com/can-abstracts- neonatal transfers to Seattle Children’s Hospital reports) to watch a brief introductory video on 2019.html). from the Pacific Northwest region, and develop Baby-MONITOR and to read more about how protocols and systems for real-time The 16th annual Life after Fellowship Workshop the report was developed. communication and safety data tracking to will be held on March 6th, 2020 as part of the CPQCC held its annual data training sessions improve newborn patient safety on transport. annual Cool Topics in Neonatology meeting. on October 17th, 18th, and 23rd in locations Co-investigators are Bob DiGeronimo, Zeenia This Workshop is jointly sponsored by CAN, across Northern and Southern California. Billimoria, Megan Gray and Taylor Sawyer . District IX SoNPM, Harbor UCLA and TECaN. CPQCC has launched a new pilot project to The full-day Workshop will focus on various Ravi D’Cruz joined the faculty after finishing collect data on maternal substance exposures, types of neonatology practice as well as topics fellowship at Brown University, Women and including but not limited to opioids. Data will be like interviewing skills for a job, financial Infants Hospital. used to drive improvements in care for concerns, and learning about the business substance-exposed newborns by focusing on Angel Rios recently joined the faculty, moving aspects of neonatology. Physician wellness and treatment and length of stay in the hospital. all the way across the country from Bernard and burnout and global neonatal care will be added Participation in the pilot project is optional and Millie Duker Children’s Hospital, Albany Medical to this year’s Workshop. The Bhatt-Ramanathan is open to both CPQCC member and non- Center, where he served as Medical Director of Scholarship awards will be presented after a member hospitals. Data collection will be the NICU. vetting process to two trainees who have NICU-focused, but will not be limited to the shown commitment and achieved success in Greg Valentine recently joined the faculty after NICU and will be housed on CPQCC’s NICU clinical and basic science research. The completing fellowship at the Baylor College of Data site. Visit the CPQCC website program includes an interactive panel Medicine in Houston. (www.cpqcc.org/nicu/nicu-data/maternal- discussion with neonatologists to speak to substance-exposure-data-collection-pilot) for Jose Perez will be joining the faculty in March fellows about different practice models and more information. of 2020. Dr. Perez will be coming from the their professional lives. The panel will use the Winnie Palmer Hospital, Orlando where he TED talk format followed by a question and Our NICU and HRIF Summary Reports served the role as Corporate Medical Director. answer session. The Program Committee (www.ccshrif.org) are some of the most valuable includes Rangasamy Ramanathan, Soina tools available to you and your team! Use these District IX: Dargan, Virender Rehan, Meera Sankar, reports to track the and Alexis Davis Christine Bixby and Adrian Lavery . Pre- hospitalizations that your patients have received registration is required. by the time of their first HRIF visit, identify areas for improvement in your HRIF clinic, and CALIFORNIA The CAN Research and Education Committee determine a child’s need for specialty services. California Association of Neonatologists (CAN) (Chair: Meera Sankar ) has been meeting regularly via monthly conference calls. The The California Perinatal Transport System The 26th Annual CAN/AAP District IX Section ongoing Transcutaneous Bilirubin (TcB) Study (CPeTS) is conducting a small pilot project to on Neonatal Perinatal Medicine Conference, has made good progress with patient determine whether mothers of high risk infants Cool Topics in Neonatology, and the California recruitment from several centers. The objective who were admitted for greater than 24 hours Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative (CPQCC) is to develop guidelines for when to consider could have been transferred prior to delivery to Pre-Conference will be held March 6-8, 2020 at total serum bilirubin levels based on TcB levels hospitals with more appropriate levels of care the Coronado Island Marriott Resort. The and to monitor levels during and after for their infant. A new data item has been conference begins Friday evening with a phototherapy in infants less than 30 weeks added to the transport form to explore how keynote address in a fireside chat format with gestation in the NICU. Other discussion topics often this occurs and the reasons for not Richard Pan , California State Senator and have included: Involving fellows in prospective transporting the mother. NICUs will be asked to health care advocate, and Nadine Burke studies in CAN Research Network and use of submit this information starting in 2020. Harris , California Surgeon General, speaking on CAN research calls as a venue for sharing the “Changing Landscape of Healthcare in 29 SECTION ON NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE Winter 2020 www.aap.org/perinatal

CPQCC launched the Mother & Baby teams is well-recognized, and we are excited to the neonatology faculty at Stanford as a Clinical Substance Exposure Initiative in June 2019 in see where she will take us! Instructor. She has a joint appointment as a partnership with the California Maternal Quality We congratulate Rosemarie Tan on her postdoctoral fellow for her F32 grant. Care Collaborative (CMQCC) and Health promotion to Captain in the US Navy In summer 2019, it was announced that more of Management Associates to improve care for (Reserves). In addition to her distinguished our fellows will receive support from Stanford mothers and newborns affected by opioid use. military record and clinical work, Rose has been Maternal & Child Health Research Institute: As of November, 32 hospitals across 10 a dedicated member of the AAP Women in Eman Haidari (class of 2021) was awarded California counties were participating in the Neonatology (WiN) group and an active Clinical Trainee Support for her project entitled, initiative which includes a hospital-based QI member of the California Association of “An Exploration of NICU Admission Rates.” collaborative, community outreach, and the Neonatology Research Committee. Caroline Yeon-Kyeong Noh (class of 2021) development of a toolkit of best practices. The received Master’s Tuition Support to pursue a toolkit, which is currently in draft form and will We celebrate the 3rd Anniversary of the opening Master’s degree in Epidemiology and Clinical be published in early 2020, aims to preserve the of the Small Baby Program. This program, the Research. mother-baby dyad, refer and keep mothers in largest of its kind in the region, has been treatment, optimize care for newborns with extremely successful in improving respiratory, Fellow Megan Ringle presented preliminary neonatal abstinence syndrome, and promote nutritional and short term neurodevelopmental research findings at the Neonatal integration with community services. outcomes for VLBW infants. With exciting Cardiopulmonary Biology Young Investigators projects like Less Invasive Surfactant Forum in September in Chicago, IL, and Are you wondering how to start an Administration (LISA), the experience of this received a research grant award of $1500 for improvement project in your unit? Curious group has led to many regional and national her work. Her presentation was on the use of about how the culture of your NICU influences presentations. Continued support for this functional echo and NIRS to characterize the quality of care? Join us for us CPQCC’s first program by families, staff, and grateful donors neonatal hemodynamics. annual Improvement Palooza on Friday, March was recognized at a celebratory event in 6th, 2020, in Coronado, CA (in conjunction with Many Division faculty were involved in the December 2019. the annual Cool Topics conference). Pediatric Hospital Medicine Conference in Improvement Palooza is designed to help NICU Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose Seattle, WA in July. Arun Gupta, Neha Joshi, teams supercharge their QI journeys. The day After 14 years of leading the Neonatal Division Adam Frymoyer, William Benitz, Elizabeth will feature success stories from fellow CPQCC at VMC regional NICU, Balaji Govindaswami Blecharczyk , and Jadene Wong helped lead NICUs as well as sessions on integrating moved to Huntington, WV as the Endowed and facilitate a variety of mini-plenary sessions, families into the improvement process, starting Chair of and Chief of workshops, and subcommittee meetings. a QI project, context as a critical component of Neonatology at Marshall University. Members of our Neonatal Hospitalist Team also success, and advanced data presentation planned and led a Newborn Medicine Pre- Priya Jegatheesan techniques. Improvement Palooza is packed is appointed as the Chief of Conference focused on neonatal resuscitation with exciting content for everyone, whether you Neonatology and Director of VMC NICU. skills. Our working group to reduce antibiotic are new to improvement or an old pro looking Sudha Rani Narasimhan is appointed as the exposure in chorioamnionitis-exposed infants to learn some new tricks. Register for Director of Level 3 NICU at O’Connor Hospital. was awarded the Jennifer Daru Memorial Improvement Palooza at Award. Members include Neha Joshi, Arun Christina Anderson is leading a www.cpqcc.org/improvement-palooza-2020. Gupta, Ronald Cohen, William Benitz , and multidisciplinary team to establish a music Adam Frymoyer . The Daru Award is intended Loma Linda University therapy program at VMC NICU. to honor the manuscript the editorial board Elba Fayard, Carlos Fayard, Brad Cacho , and Dongli Song was invited to present on “NICU feels has the most potential to impact clinical Douglas Deming recently returned from five Family Centered Care” at the 2nd Chinese care. weeks of teaching (and occasional sightseeing) National Mother-Infant Mental Health William Benitz continued traveling during his at the Zhejiang University Children’s’ Hospital in Conference, held in Zhang Zhou, China. sabbatical. He was an invited speaker at the Hangzhou, China. These two institutions Stanford University, Palo Alto IPOKRaTES Seminar entitled, “Bacterial exchange teams yearly. Over the 12 years that Infections in the Newborn Infant,” sponsored by the LLU team has visited, there have been Earlier this year, the American Pediatric Society the Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria progressive advancements in the care of sick (APS) awarded David Stevenson with the Policlinico, in Modena, Italy. He was also a newborns. Some of this has been in medical prestigious John Howland Award. The APS visiting professor at Carmel Medical Center in care, but they have also improved in the recently established the John Howland Visiting Haifa, Israel in May 2019. psychosocial care of the mother/infant couple. Professor Program as an extension of the They have developed more frequent visiting Award, and David will be the inaugural visiting Krisa Van Meurs and William Benitz were hours, the use of maternal breast milk, and professor. In September 2019, the APS invited speakers at the 5th International rooming-in prior to discharge. announced its selection of the first host Neonatology Association Conference in Tijuana, institutions: University of Texas Health Science Mexico, July 2019. Dr. Van Meurs presented on Mednax Group of San Jose Center and the University of North Carolina at the use of NIRS to provide neuroprotection in After 14 years with our group, Dick Powers Chapel Hill with Duke University. Dr. Stevenson extremely low birthweight infants and the use of retired in December 2019. We wish him all the will visit these institutions in 2020 to share his erythropoietin and other new drugs for hypoxic- best! experience and knowledge, exchange ideas, ischemic encephalopathy. Dr. Benitz spoke on Rupal Patel joined our group in January 2020. and engage in discussions about critical issues new approaches for sepsis and management of affecting academic pediatrics. the . Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital, Long Beach David Stevenson gave a keynote presentation Krisa Van Meurs, Sonia Bonifacio, Kathi entitled, “Understanding Disparities in Preterm Salley Randall , and Courtney Wusthoff were We are delighted to welcome faculty member Birth,” at the 50th Annual Perinatal Research invited speakers at the Neo Brain Brazil 2019 Ting-Yi Lin as the Director of Neonatal Quality. Society meeting in Minneapolis, MN. conference held in São Paolo, November 2019. She brings years of experience with a Our Class of 2019 Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine All spoke at a pre-conference workshop as well successful academic career in Boston and as the main conference attended by 900 more recently, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Fellows graduated in July. Neha Kumbhat accepted a position as an Assistant Professor medical professionals from all 26 states in Division of Neonatal Medicine. Her success in Brazil. The topic of the conference was HIE and leading quality performance improvement of Pediatrics at University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. Vidya Pai has joined therapeutic hypothermia, with a focus on 30 www.aap.org/perinatal SECTION ON NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE Winter 2020

improving identification of HIE and decreasing Meera Sankar was elected as the Secretary for Jose Honold was recently named President- variation in practice. the California Association of Neonatologists. Elect for the International Neonatal Association. Jose will be the Chairperson for the INAC Sonia Bonifacio was recently awarded funding William Benitz will be a featured speaker at the conference in Budapest, Hungary in July 2020. by the Thrasher Foundation as the PI for the Hot Topics in Neonatology conference in TIME Trial ( Therapeutic Hypothermia for Infants National Harbor, MD, December 9-11. This Our team will be participating in the upcoming with Mild Encephalopathy). This will be a year’s conference spotlights sepsis, and Dr. TIME trial (A Randomized Controlled Trial of randomized, controlled trial of cooling in term Benitz will speak about options in implementing Therapeutic Hypothermia for Mild infants with mild HIE conducted at multiple strategies for early-onset sepsis screening. The Encephalopathy in the State of California), sites in California. preconference on December 8th is focused on recently funded by the Thrasher Foundation. neonatal quality, and Jochen Profit will be the Enrollment will start on February 2020. Susan Hintz was honored to be the inaugural keynote speaker talking about culture and how James D. Thullen Lecturer and visiting Anna-Kaisa Niemi received a 2019 Young it drives quality. professor at University of North Carolina in Faculty Endowed Chair Award from the September 2019. University of California, Davis Department of Pediatrics to support her work in establishing a new Metabolic NICU Program. At the West Coast Pediatric Palliative Care UC Davis Children’s Hospital is hosting a Summit in Oakland, CA in October 2019, Neonatal and Pediatric Transport conference. Nathaly Sweeney presented a webinar Susan Hintz and Diana Kobayashi were This one-day conference is accredited by the detailing her work within the newly created invited speakers. They spoke on the topic of ACCME for 7.75 AMA PRA Category 1 credits Vermont Oxford-Rady Children’s Genomic perinatal counseling and palliative care. and will be held on May 21st, 2020 on the UC Network entitled, “Parent Perspectives on Davis medical school campus in Sacramento. Anoop Rao, Fatima Eskandar-Afshari, Bill Genomic Testing.” The keynote speaker will be William Benitz Rhine , and fellow Caroline Yeon-Kyeong Noh Erika Fernandez has been elected Treasurer from Stanford. The content is designed for have been working on a wearable continuous for the California Association of Neonatologists. physicians, transport RNs, advanced practice non-invasive blood pressure (BP) monitor along providers and respiratory therapists. The focus UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland with Stanford spin-off PyrAmes Health. Their will be on both stabilization for transport and work was recognized with the Dr. Moskowitz The NICU at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital the actual transport process. Scholar Award at the Current Applications for Oakland received the 2019 UCSF Health Annual Artificial Intelligence in Cardiology conference The third NEC Symposium will be held at the Patient Safety Award for reducing unplanned in San Francisco, CA, where Dr. Rao gave a Westin Cincinnati on April 13-16, 2021 and will extubations to less than 1/4 of their previous presentation about the device. Dr. Rao also be co-sponsored by the NEC Society and rate. participated in the 7th Annual Pediatric Device Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. The first NEC UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland has Innovation Symposium in Boston, MA in symposium was held in UC Davis in 2017 and been participating in Project Baby Bear with the September 2019. The wearable continuous the second at the University of Michigan in Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine, non-invasive BP monitor was selected as a 2019. This is the only conference in North along with four other children’s hospitals in winner in the Make Your Medical Device Pitch America dedicated entirely to NEC. It is a California. In this QI project, rapid whole for Kids! competition during the Symposium. unique conference in that it includes not only genome sequencing is made available to NICU The competition focused on NICU innovations cutting-edge research but also the voice of and PICU patients in order to reach more timely and was organized by the Children’s National families (they share posters, participate in small genetic diagnoses, which has had a major Hospital and the National Capital Consortium group discussions, ask questions and introduce impact upon patient management. So far, for Pediatric Device Innovation. Looking speakers). The three symposia have been significant genetic diagnoses have been made forward, the non-invasive BP monitor will be supported with funding from PCORI (Patient in more than half of the 20 patients who were part of the Pediatric Device Innovator Centered Outcomes Research Institute) and tested from Oakland. Accelerator Program and also a finalist in the from NIH. You can follow the NEC Society on Priscilla Joe provided a three-day specialized Ignite Fire Accelerator Program. Twitter (@NECsociety), (https://www.facebook.com/necsociety/) and training course in newborn care for doctors and The British Medical Association Medical Book online (https://necsociety.org). nurses from eight government hospitals in Awards for 2019 recognized a book co-edited Pokhara, Nepal in November 2019. The training by William Benitz and P. Brian Smith of Duke University of California, Irvine was supported by the Day One global health University. Neonataology Questions and Cherry Uy, Fayez Bany-Mohammed, program and Amici Della Neonatologia Trentina, Controversies: Infectious Diseases and Rebecca Coleman, Muhammad Aslam and Trento, Italy. The program focused on use of Pharmacology (Philadelphia: Elsevier, 2018) Yona Nicolau were recognized as Orange nasal CPAP, phototherapy, radiant warming, was named Highly Commended. The award County Physicians of Excellence. developmental care, and nursing assessment of was presented at the BMA House in London, sick infants. England on September 3rd. Contributing Cherry Uy was an invited speaker at the 64th Sandra Wai and Leslie Lusk started a severe authors included Adam Frymoyer, Sonia Japan International Conference for Neonatal BPD team program in the NICU, which focuses Bonifacio , and Krisa Van Meurs . Health and Development held in November 2019. Topics included were, “Non-Invasive on the ongoing needs of these difficult patients Adam Frymoyer was promoted on July 1st to Ventilation in Premature Infants” and and coordinates the care among the various Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics, “Respiratory Monitoring in the NICU.” specialists. Neonatal and Developmental Medicine. UC Irvine will be hosting the annual SoCal Small The Fetal Medicine Program at Children’s Ritu Chitkara was promoted on August 1st to Baby Consortium conference on April 16th, Hospital Oakland has been in place for many Clinical Associate Professor, Neonatal and 2020. The conference will discuss management years serving the East Bay. The program is now Developmental Medicine. protocols for ELGANs. integrated with the Fetal Treatment Program at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco Nicole Yamada was promoted on October 1st University of California, San Diego/Rady and offering expanded Maternal Fetal Medicine to Clinical Associate Professor. Children’s Hospital and Prenatal Genetics services. The Medical Alexis Davis was elected as the District IX Carlos Ramos, Erika Fernandez , and Jose Director of the Oakland-based program is representative to the SoNPM Executive Honold were visiting faculty at the Neonatal Leslie Lusk . Council. International Meeting and ECMO training in Chengdu, China in October.

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District X: Jose Perez The Section would like to thank the following sponsors:

ALABAMA Abbott Nutrition Beth Israel Deaconess University of Alabama, Birmingham NeoReviews/NeoReviews Plus Neonatology Section Newsletter Trent E. Tipple will leave the University of Health Research Services Award Virginia Apgar Award Alabama as he has been named Chief of the Mead Johnson Nutrition Section of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine for the Thomas Cone Jr History Lectureship Neonatal Landmark Award University of Oklahoma College of Medicine L Joseph Butterfield Lectureship Department of Pediatrics. He completed his Perinatal Spring Workshop Av Fanaroff Neonatal Education Award neonatal training at Nationwide Children’s in Neonatal/Perinatal Fellows Young Investigator Awards Columbus, OH. Conferences Trainee NCE & Workshop Travel Grants TECaN NCE & Workshop Travel Grants MidCan Reception FLORIDA Gerald Merenstein Lecture TECaN Spring Dinner Halifax Health Medical System, Daytona Beach Section Faculty Dinner Abstract Travel Grants Jose Perez is leaving Halifax to join the NICHD Young Inventigator Conference WECaN Reception University of Washington/Seattle Children’s NCE Poster Session & Reception NeoPrep Division of Neonatology in spring 2020. ONTPD Networking Session WMiodm-Ceanr eine rN Neoeonantaotloolgoygists (MidCaN) Orlando Health System & Reception NeoPREP Klaus Grants Michael Gomez joined the Winnie Palmer Apgar Award Dinner Perinatal Spring Workshop Hospital (WPH) neonatal team as NICU Women in Neonatology 4 Fellows Conferences on Perinatal Corporate Medical Director. He completed his TECaN NCE & PAS Receptions Research neonatal training at Baylor University in Perinatal & Developmental Medicine Houston, TX. Johnson & Johnson Symposia (2) Kathryn Winn joined the WPH neonatal team Klaus Grants ONTPD Lunch at NCE as NICU attending. Dr. Winn completed her neonatal training at Wake Forest, NC. Brodsky & Martin’s Neonatology Prolacta Review Gregor Alexander is no longer working with the Women in Neonatology WPH neonatal team. He was Medical Director Education Research Award for many years and helped lead and develop the Orlando Health NICU into a level IV unit over the last four decades. His contributions to Orlando Health and the community are effects of prenatal exposure to opioids and Inder from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and significant and truly appreciated! other substances on brain development and Sara Bates from Massachusetts General behavioral health in young children. The team is Hospital. University of Florida, Gainesville led by Matt Gurga (PI) from the College of Josef Neu received a University of Florida Term Health Professions and Meredith Mowitz from A multidisciplinary team of UF faculty from the Professorship, a university-wide academic the Division of Neonatology. Colleges of Medicine, Public Health and Health honor based on academic accomplishment. Professions, Law, and Education, along with The Florida Neonatal Neurologic Network (FN3), David Burchfield was named to the State of numerous state partners, have received an 18- founded by Michael Weiss , held their state Florida Prevention of Prematurity Task Force by month, $514,688 grant from the NIH to help meeting in July at Nemours Children’s Hospital the Florida Surgeon General. plan a large, long-term national study on the in Orlando. Guest speakers included Terrie

2020 Workshop on Neonatal-Perinatal Practice Strategies March 27-29, 2020 Paradise Valley DoubleTree Hotel Scottsdale, Arizona For more information or to request a brochure, access www. pedialink.org/cmefinder or call 866/843-2271.

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2019 AAP NCE SoNPM Scientific UC San Diego, where she worked on a number of research projects ranging from translational work on human milk Session in NOLA thickeners to retrospective clinical research studies Clara H Song MD characterizing infectious . Her most The 2019 Scientific Session at the Section on Neonatal recent research and publication has been on novel Perinatal Medicine (SoNPM) Program at the American biomimetic nanotherapeutic approaches to counteract Academy of Pediatrics National Convention and Exhibition bacterial toxins and deleterious inflammatory cytokine (NCE) in New Orleans this past October kicked off with the cascades in the context of neonatal sepsis. This work is Merenstein Lecture on “Updates and Knowledge Gaps in conducted in collaboration with the laboratory of Liangfang Hypothermia for HIE” given by Dr. Seetha Shankaran. The Zhang in UCSD Nanoengineering and under the co- keynote address was followed by a vibrant poster supervision of Victor Nizet and Shelley Lawrence. Jenny reception. The following morning started off with the Oral has also been active with the AAP Section on Neonatal Abstracts and Award Presentation Session. This year, a Perinatal Medicine TECaN (Trainees and Early Career total of ninety abstracts were accepted, eighty posters and Neonatologists) group. She started as the District IX fellow ten oral presentations, giving an acceptance rate of 39%. representative and has since been elected as the Chair of With the generosity of unrestricted educational grants from QI/Research. She is the creator of the “Roadmap for several notable sponsors, SoNPM awarded travel grants to Research,” and continues to develop similar tools for the following abstract presenters: fellows and early career neonatologists to enhance their research and QI experiences. 1. Dr. Pulak Agrawal 2. Dr. Andreas Damianos Mayank Sharma MD - University of Miami, Miller 3. Dr. Morcos Hanna School of Medicine 4. Dr. Bethany Kaemingk Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) 5. Dr. Jenny Koo derived exosomes alleviate 6. Dr. Jonathan Levin pulmonary hypertension in an 7. Dr. Leeann Pavlek experimental model of 8. Dr. Amit Sharma bronchopulmonary dysplasia 9. Dr. Mayank Sharma (BPD) through the vascular 10. Dr. Daniela Villacis Calderon endothelial growth factor signaling pathway 2019 Young Investigator Awardees I grew up in the city of Kolkata on the east coast of India. From the ten oral abstract presentations of the Scientific After high school, I joined Session, two presentations in particular notably stood out Calcutta National Medical and were presented with the 2019 Young Investigator College for medical school. Awards. These were awarded to: Dr. Jenny Koo and Dr. Pediatrics always attracted me Mayank Sharma. and I fell in love with the Jenny Koo MD - University of California, San Diego specialty while on my third year clerkship, however my interest in neonatal and perinatal medicine, and particularly Erythrocyte coated biomimetic developmental lung biology, stems from my experience of nanoparticles reduce toxic resuscitating a preterm newborn during obstetrics rotation. effects of Group-B After working as a resident doctor in pediatrics in my home Streptococcus - country I decided to train in pediatric residency in the US Hemolysin/Cytolysin in the pursuit of gaining academic and research experience pore-forming toxin along with strong clinical training. I was fortunate to Jenny Koo received her combine my interests while working with my mentor Karen Bachelor in Science from Young at the University of Miami Miller School of UCLA in the major of Medicine’s Batchelor Children’s Research Institute. I am a Molecular Cell and first year pediatrics resident at the University of Developmental Biology, and Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital program and my completed her medical training research interests include diseases of prematurity in at UC San Diego School of general and the use of stem cells to improve outcomes in Medicine. She proceeded to these infants. pediatric residency and neonatal fellowship training at

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The 2nd Annual RRichard A. Ehrenkranz Neonatoloogy Symposium: Upddatate on CCarearre ofof The Exttremremellyy Low Birthwweight Newborn

April 20, 20200, 8:00am - 4:00pm Yale School of Meedicine, New Haven, CT

Richard Ehrenkranz was a leaderr in neonatology research on an internattional level, and his dedication to his patients and his trainees was unsus rpassed. This symposium honors the liffee and work off Dr. Ehrenkranz. Speakers will innclude:

Alan WW. Flake, MMDD; University off Pennsylvaania School off Medicine

Camilia R. Martin, MD, MS; Harvard Medicaal School

Richard J. Martin, MD; Case Western Reservve University School of Medicine

Mark R. Mercurio, MD, MA; Yale Universityy School off Medicine

Angela MMoontgomery, MDMD, MSS Ed; Yale Univversity School of Medicine

JJoon E. Tyson, MMDD; University off Texas/McGGovern Medical School

Details andd registration inffoormatioon to follow

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Hot Topics in Neonatology District VI Association December 7-9, 2020 National Harbor, MD of Neonatologists Section on For over 30 years, Hot Topics has been THE premiere neonatal Neonatal Perinatal Medicine conference, with more than 13th Annual District VI 1,000 neonatologists and Neonatology Meeting perinatologists attending each year. 2020 CONTROVERSIES IN NEONATAL Join us for the Pre-Conference Neonatal Quality at Hot Topics AND PERINATAL CLINICAL CARE December 6, 2020 Friday , September 11, 2020

For details on the and Saturday , September 12, 2020 conference, submitting Hilton Suites Chicago/Magnificent Mile an abstract, or exhibiting, visit Chicago, Illinois www.hottopics.org http://www.d6an.org/

2020 Neonatal Resuscitation Program® Research Grant, Young Investigator Award and NRP Human Factors/Education Grant Call for Applications The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Steering Committee is pleased to announce the availability of the 2020 Neonatal Resuscitation Program Research Grant, NRP Young Investigator Award and NRP Human Factors/Education Grant. The awards are designed to support basic science, clinical, educational, or epidemiological research per - taining to the broad area of neonatal resuscitation.

• NRP Human Factors or Education Grant: Any health care professional with an interest in human factors impact on delivery room resuscitation or optimization of NRP education is eligible to apply for up to $15,000.

• NRP Young Investigator Award: Physicians-in-training or individuals within four years of completing fellowship train - ing are eligible to apply for up to $15,000.

• NRP Research Grant Program: Any health care professional with an interest in Neonatal Resuscitation is eligible to apply for up to $50,000.

Researchers from Canadian and US institutions are invited to apply.

Potential applicants should submit an intent for application to the NRP Steering Committee by Friday, April 10, 2020 . All intents will be reviewed and the committee will ask a select group to submit full proposals. Those selected to submit a full proposal will receive the formal application by Friday, June 5, 2020 .

To obtain the NRP Research Grant, NRP Young Investigator Award and NRP Human Factors/Education Grant Guidelines and view the electronic Intent for Application, apply at: https://form.jotform.com/200074562763150

For questions regarding NRP Grants, please contact: American Academy of Pediatrics, Division of Life Support initiatives 800-433-9016, ext. 6798 [email protected]

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N ew Frontiers in Neonatal Care Thompson Alumni Center at UNO 6705 Dodge Street | Omaha | Nebraska | 68182

Thursdayy,, March 5 Friday, March 6 Afternoon Pre-conference New Frontiers in Neonatal Care Neonatal Developmental Care 7:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. 12:30 – 5:30 p.m.

PROGRAM PURPOSE PRE-CONFERENCE DEVELOPMENTAL Examine current, practical approaches to neonatal CARE TOPICS INCLUDE: considerations using didactic lectures, panel and case • Keynote: Touch a Life, Impact a Lifetime – presentations provided by neonatal specialists and Trauma-Informed Care for Hospitalized Infants & Families multidisciplinary care teams. • Family Centered Care/Palliative Care Parentarent Panel • Medical Management of Seizures and TARGET AUDIENCE Developmentalp Outcomes

Physicians (Neonatology, Pediatrics, Family Medicine)), • Caregiver Moral Distress physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists, speech & FULL CONFERENCE TOPICS INCLUDE: language pathologists, dietitians, respiratory therapistss, • Keynote: Recognition and Prevention of Caregiver Burnout social workers and other health care providers. • Keynote: Make Way for Compassion – The Courage to Care Begins with You KEYNOTE SPEAKERS • Care Transitions for the Chronic or Complexmplex Infant Mary Coughlin, MS, NNPP,, RNC-EE • Neonatal Genetics and Testing Pathwaysys President and Founder • Chronic Care Rounds Caring Essentials Collaborativee, LLC • Nutrition Needs of the Chronic Patient Boston • Test of Infant Motor Performance Screeningning (TIMPS), Infant Play, Parent-Child Interaction Clifton Clarke, M.D., MBA, FACPFACPP,, FCCP Vice President and Chief Mediccal Officer AdAdvocate Illinoisll MMasonic MMedid cal Center Chicago

For information and to registerr,, visit ChildrensOmaha.org/ContinuingEd.ChildrensOmaha.org/ContinuingEd. Contact [email protected] with questions.

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Saavve the Date: March 4-7, 2020 Call ffoor Abstracts: Due Mondayy,, October 28, 20019

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SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF NEONATOLOGISTS

34th Annual Conference

May 21 - 24, 2020 JW Marriott Marco Island Beach Resort Marco Island, Florida

www.southeastneo.com

Supported in part by grants from: Mead Johnson Nutrition American Academy of Pediatrics ~ Section on Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine (District X) Envision Healthcare

Guest Faculty

C. Michael Cotten Jonathan Davis David Stevenson Sarah Taylor Fernando Moya Kelly Wade David Adamkin Shay Phillips

SAN Contact person: Barry D. Chandler, M.D., Executive Director Phone: (954) 646-8943 E-mail: [email protected]

Registration is for physicians only. Register online at: www.southeastneo.com

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SAVE THE DATE!T 2020 WWORORKKSSHOPP ON NNEEONNAATTAAL PEERIRIINATALNATAL PRACTTICEE STRATEEGIIEES SSpponsored by the Section on NNeoeonatal - PPerierinatal MMediedicine MMarch 27-29, 2020 Paradise Valley DoubleTree Hotel Sccottsdale, Arizona

The 2020 Workshop will ffeeature:

• A special one-half day Neonatal Coding Seminar • L. Joseph Butterffiield Lecture: • Presentation ffrorom the AAAAP Committee on Fetus and Newboorn (COFN) regarding policies and guidelines currently under development/review • Ample opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with neonatologists in all types of practices ffrrom around the counntry • Opportunity ffoor attendees to infflluence the direction and activities of the Neonatal-Perinatal Section through direct communication with its leadership and members. • TECaN, MidCan, WECaN and WiN meetings! • Welcome reception • Time ffoor recreation

For more inffoormation or to request a brochure, access www.pedialink.org/cmeffiinder or call 866/843-2271..

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Mark your calenndars for these upcooming neonatal-perinatal CME coursees!

NeoPREP®: An Intennsive Worrkshop on Neonatal- Review and Updatee of PPerinatal Practice Neonatal-Perinatal Meedicinedi i StStrategiest i February 7-11, 20220 March 27-29, 2020 Long Beach, CA Scottsdale, AZ Renaissance Long Beach Hotel Doubletree Paradise VValleyalley Resort For updatesupdates, visitt shop.aap.org/live-activities

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2020 Spring Meeting Scottsdale, AZ March 29-30 CAN/AAP District IX Section on Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine 26th Annual Conference Cool Topics in Neonatology March 6 – 8, 2020 Coronado Island Marriott Resort Coronado, California For more meeting information:

• Keynote Speaker [to come] www.cme.ucla.edu or www.canneo.org • “Meet the Professor” networking breakfast • Skills workshops, open discussion, speed dating and more

SSave the Daate!

NeoPREEP: An Intensive ReviewR and Update of Neonatal-Perinaatal Medicine

February 7-11, 2020 | Long Beach, CA Renaaissance Long Beachch Hotel

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CHNC Annual Symposium: Opening of Registration & Symposium Highlights Announcing the Opening of Registration for the: CHNC 12th Annual Quality, Research & Educational Symposium Symposium Highlights Neonatal Fellow Sessions • Breakfast for Neonatal Trainees and Division Leaders • Navigating the Transition from Fellowship through the Early Faculty Years

Neonatal Fellow Travel Awards • Multiple travel awards will be available for neonatal-perinatal medicine fellows who submit abstracts, based on the quality and impact of the submission.

Workshops • Nursing Leadership • Critical and Difficult • Designing Effective Surveys • CIQI Education Our collegial consortium provides an ideal opportunity for all team members— including faculty and trainees of neonatology, surgery, and other pediatric subspecialties, as well as NICU staff including nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, respiratory therapists, and developmental care providers—to both present their work and attend our symposium. We look forward to seeing you this October in Indianapolis. The CHNC Symposium Planning Committee www.theCHNC.org

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The SONPM would like to thank Abbott Nutrition for sponsoring the following section activities!

NeoReviews/NeoReviews Plus Section Newsletter Virginia Apgar Award Thomas Cone Jr History Lectureship L. Joseph Butterfield Lectureship Perinatal Spring Workshop Neonatal/Perinatal Fellows Conferences TECaN NCE & Workshop Travel Grants Gerald Merenstein Lecture Section Faculty Dinner NICHD Young Investigator Conference NCE Poster Session & Reception ONTPD Networking Session NeoPREP APGAR Award Dinner TECaN NCE Reception Women in Neonatology