Vermont Oxford Network Annual Quality Congress

September 9-12, 2016

Steven H. Abman MD Professor, Department of Pediatrics Director, Pediatric Heart Lung Center University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado Aurora, CO Dr. Abman is Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Pediatric Heart Lung Center (PHLC) at the University of Colorado Denver Anschutz School of Medicine and

Children’s Hospital Colorado. He obtained his undergraduate degree at Carleton College, attended Northwestern University Medical School, and completed his internship and residency in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado. After serving as Chief Resident, he completed a 3-year fellowship in Pediatric Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, joined the faculty of the University of Colorado in 1986, and was promoted to Professor in the tenure track in 1996. Throughout his career, Dr. Abman has maintained strong translational research and clinical interests in neonatal lung injury, lung vascular development, pulmonary hypertension, chronic lung disease in the newborn (bronchopulmonary dysplasia, BPD), persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN), and related areas. With outstanding collaborators in the PHLC and others, his lab explored many original basic and clinical studies on the physiology, pathobiology and treatment of pulmonary vascular disease in the newborn, which included early studies on nitric oxide (NO) biology and therapy in diverse experimental models and human preterm and term newborns. His lab continues to explore basic mechanisms through which early disruption of angiogenesis and “angiocrine signaling” during lung development impairs alveolarization and contributes to long-lasting abnormalities of lung structure, especially after preterm birth. Dr. Abman’s interests in both clinical and laboratory research and patient care led to the launch of the PHLC at Children’s Hospital Colorado, for which Dr. Abman has served as Director for nearly 25 years. The PHLC provides inter-disciplinary clinical care, research, training and education related to diverse pediatric cardiopulmonary disorders. Along with research training for many fellows and junior faculty, the PHLC has developed novel clinical care approaches that include development of the Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Program and Ventilator Care Program. More recently, Dr. Abman founded and continues to serve as Director of the Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Network (PPHNet), a multicenter clinical research and care group consisting of 10 leading PH centers from throughout North America, and initiated and led a joint American Heart Association/American Thoracic Society working group to establish the first joint guidelines for the care of children with pediatric pulmonary hypertension. Dr. Abman has received several national awards, including the Outstanding Investigator Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics (1998), the E. Mead Johnson Award of the SPR (1999), and the Distinguished Achievement Award of the American Thoracic Society for outstanding contributions to fighting respiratory disease through research, education, patient care, and advocacy (2015). He was recently selected for the Mary Ellen Avery Award from the American Pediatric Society and Society for Pediatric Research “to recognize the lifetime achievement of a pediatric investigator who has made important contributions to neonatal health through basic or translational research” to be

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presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, Baltimore, MD, Spring, 2016. Dr. Abman has been active as an educator and research mentor for numerous trainees, which was recognized by the Career Teachers Scholar Award (2012) from the University of Colorado and the Maureen Andrews Mentorship Award from the SPR (2015). Dr. Abman has also served or led numerous study sections and workshops of the ATS, American Heart Association and NIH, as an Associate Editor for the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, and on editorial boards for many leading journals.

Jeffrey B. Anderson MD, MPH, MBA Associate Professor of Pediatrics University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Chief Quality Officer The Heart Institute Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati, OH Jeffrey B. Anderson is board-certified in pediatrics and pediatric cardiology; he has a master’s in public health with an emphasis on epidemiology. Dr. Anderson has

spent the last several years working with infants with congenital heart disease with nutritional failure to better understand the etiology of their growth problems and to design interventions to improve their growth. In addition, he has obtained formal training in Health Services Research methodology through completion of courses offered through the James M. Anderson Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Over the past 2 years Dr. Anderson has developed a team that works with clinical groups from all sections of the Heart Institute to improve outcomes. Working together over the past two years, the Heart Institute has been able to demonstrate a reduction in surgical site infection for patients undergoing congenital heart surgery, reduced radiation exposure in patients undergoing electrophysiology study with catheter ablation, and improved overall cardiac length of stay and discharge timing for cardiac patients, among other projects. These local projects have resulted in multiple national presentations and manuscripts describing this work. Dr. Anderson also brought together clinicians, business and finance experts from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the Health Economics Department at Xavier University to combine clinical and cost/charge information to begin to answer important questions about the cost and value offered to patients cared for in the Heart Institute. At a national level, Dr. Anderson was one of the principle leaders in the design and development of the 56-site National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative (NPCQIC) Network. He currently serves as Scientific Director and this year will become Chair of NPCQIC. NPCQIC is focused on improving care and outcomes for infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS). The network was created in 2006 as part of the American Board of Pediatrics’ focus on Maintenance of Certification. NPCQIC currently includes the majority of surgical centers that care for children with HLHS. The efforts of the network have resulted in a 43% decrease in mortality for these infants.

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Sari Ahlqvist-Björkroth Lic. Psych. Department of Psychology Turku University Hospital Turku, Finland

Lic. Psych. areas of expertise are early parent-infant relationships interventions, psychotherapy and assessment. She has been working with parent-infant relationship assessment from 1995, both in clinical and research context. Her main research interests are related to the influences of situational and psychosocial factors on parent-infant relationship and attachment during pregnancy, perinatal period and infancy. From the beginning of year 2000, Sari Ahlqvist-Björkroth has been developing early interventions in hospital environment and other institutions. Most importantly, in 2008 she began the development of the Close Collaboration with Parents intervention at the NICU of the Turku University Hospital. She is coordination the implementation of the Close Collaboration Intervention in nine Finish hospitals. Sari Ahlqvist-Björkroth has been practicing parent-infant psychotherapy since 2008, first as a phycologist in the Infant Mental Health Team at the Child Psychiatric Unit of the Turku University Hospital and in recent years as a private physiotherapist. In addition, she is a part-time teacher at the Department of Psychology in the University of Turku since 2000.

June Austin Quality Improvement Facilitator Process Redesign Consultant June Austin Consulting Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada June Austin has had a 26 year career in healthcare as an RN and consultant in

healthcare process improvement. She has been a facilitator and faculty member for Alberta Aim for over 7 years and most recently left the position of Provincial Lead Faculty where she provided leadership for measurement, and measurement tool development in addition to content and curriculum development. June continues to teach and provide consultation in the area of content and models of delivery to this CME credited program that works in the area of access, efficiency improvement and process redesign in Alberta. Through her role as faculty and facilitator at Mark Murray and Associates, she works with large and small health care organizations across the United States and Canada to improve access and clinical care at all parts of the system from primary and specialty care programs to hospital based care. June has worked as a consultant and project lead for Toward Optimized Practice (TOP)- an Alberta based program whose mission is to foster a culture of continuous quality improvement among physicians and the teams with whom they work. She provided project leadership consultation and education for quality improvement initiatives ranging from screening and prevention to multidisciplinary integration over a 78 year period. June is a certified instructor for Health Care Effectiveness. This evidence-based program is specifically designed for healthcare teams to improve team functioning and leadership skills. June is currently

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facilitating the works of the POD Micro-premature Infant Care Homeroom of the NICQ Next Collaborative: Innovations in Newborn Care. Before becoming involved in quality improvement work, June was a Clinical Nurse Educator for the Northern Alberta Nutrition Support Program and specialized in the delivery and education in the area of Home Total Parenteral Nutrition. She was a founding member of the Canadian Nutrition Society. June was also a clinical home specialist and research coordinator for the Hepatitis Support Program for the former Capital Health in Edmonton and was instrumental in the early development of this program for the treatment of Hepatitis C. June recently was a featured speaker at the Accelerating Primary Care Conference in Alberta in December 2013 and spoke on the topic of Panel Management in Primary Care.

Janelle G. Bainter MSW March of Dimes NICU Family Support Specialist Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center Portland, ME Janelle G. Bainter MSW has multiple years’ experience related to social work/case management/program management with the following populations: Adult/children

with HIV/AIDS, children with mental health diagnoses, potential adoptive families, adolescents with substance abuse/misuse disorders and criminal justice involvement and most recently (for the past 6 years) with families with an infant in the NICU.

Arvelle Balon-Lyon RN, BN Director, Health Innovation Group Acting Director, Toward Optimized Practice Alberta Medical Association Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada Arvelle Balon-Lyon has worked exclusively in leading health care improvement for the past 13 years. She has led multiple health innovation initiatives from the ground up, including writing proposals totaling over 20 million of successfully funded

initiatives. She has planned, implemented and delivered local and provincial improvement initiatives with measureable and published impact. Arvelle supported the introduction of practice facilitation in Alberta, Canada in 2004 and has collaboratively developed and implemented a provincial improvement facilitation training program. Arvelle has been faculty in over 20 access improvement collaboratives across Canada. Her current position as Assistant Program Director of the Alberta Toward Optimized Practice Program focuses on assisting over 8,000 Alberta physicians and their teams to implement evidence-based practices to enhance the care of their patients. The program balances the use of evidence and innovation to influence change. This is highlighted in the development and release of clinical practice guidelines within Alberta. TOP partners with government, provincial health care delivery organizations (AHS), physician organizations and researchers (at the University of Alberta and University of Calgary) to develop, deliver and study initiatives based on priority health system and clinical care issues. Arvelle was the initiative lead of The Alberta Screening and Prevention Initiative (ASaP) with the goal to engage 2000 primary care physicians in improving screening and prevention practices to their patient population.

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Arvelle is the Director of Health Innovation Consultants, and part of the Mark Murray and Associates team of faculty, advising physicians, teams and senior leaders across Canada on the principles that will reduce wait times and improve the delivery of health care. Arvelle completed a Bachelor of Nursing Degree from the University of Lethbridge in 1987, studied abroad in Edinburgh, Scotland on maternal child health and community midwifery and has over 25 years of experience in the delivery of clinical care in hospital, primary care and ambulatory care settings including labor and delivery and care of the newborn infant.

Sonia Lomeli Bonifacio MD Associate Medical Director, NeuroNICU Clinical Associate Professor Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford University School of Medicine Division of Neonatal & Developmental Medicine Palo Alto, CA

Dr. Sonia Lomeli Bonifacio joined the Stanford faculty in May of 2015 and is the Associate Medical Director of the NeuroNICU. Sonia is a native San Franciscan and completed all of her medical training, medical school through fellowship, at the University of California in San Francisco. She was on faculty at UCSF from 2009 to 2015 and was the Director of the Neuro-Intensive Care Nursery. Dr. Bonifacio is currently an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford. Her primary research interests are the neurodevelopmental outcomes of preterm and sick term newborns. During her fellowship, she worked under the mentorship of Drs. Donna Ferriero, Jim Barkovich, and Steven Miller. She plans to continue her work regarding the use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging as a predictor of outcomes in these at risk patient populations. In particular, she is interested in the impact of focused neurological care and its effects on neurodevelopmental outcome. Recent work includes studying the effect of hypothermia therapy on magnetic resonance imaging findings.

Barbara S. Boushon RN, BSN Lead Quality Improvement Faculty Facilitator VON NICQ Next2 Collaborative McFarland, WI Barbara S. Boushon, RN, BSN, serves in multiple roles to improve health care. Through Mark Murray and Associates, she currently works with large and small health care organizations across the United States and Canada to improve access to primary and specialty care, medical office flow and efficiency, and hospital flow. At the Institute

for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), she led learning collaboratives with health care organizations and government entities seeking to improve care for patients with chronic conditions such as asthma, depression, and HIV/AIDS disease. She also developed and led IHI’s first totally virtual collaborative with the topic of improving access to primary care. Also, she directed an initiative to reduce harm from falls on medical-surgical units as part of the safety and reliability work in IHI’s Transforming Care at the Bedside Initiative, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Through the National Quality Center (funded through the HIV/AIDS Bureau), she works with state and federal government to improve care for people living with HIV/AIDS disease and serves as faculty for developing quality improvement capacity, leadership potential, and facilitation skills for Ryan White

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Care Act grantees. With the Veterans Administration, she co-directed the national Transitioning Levels of Care Collaborative and the Patient Aligned Care Team Regional Collaboratives, and is now co-directing the national Specialty/Surgical Collaboratives and Access Academy. With Vermont Oxford Network, Barbara facilitated the work of the Infection Topic Group and the POD, and currently serves as the Lead QI Facilitator. Before becoming involved in these quality and process improvement activities, Barbara worked at Dean Health Systems in Madison, Wisconsin in multiple clinical and administrative roles including RN and RN Coordinator of sub-specialties, Director of Patient Care Services, Director of Software Development and Telecommunications, and Services Initiatives Administrator. In this last role, she led initiatives to improve both access to care and customer service throughout the health system. Previous to this, she also worked as an RN for the Red Cross, and as an RN in a Medical Intensive Care Unit.

Lori Brittingham, MSN, CNS, ACCNS-N Neonatal Clinical Nurse Specialist The Reading Hospital and Medical Center West Reading, PA

Lori Brittingham has been a nurse for more than 26 years and a NICU nurse for the last 15 years. Currently

she is a neonatal clinical nurse specialist at Reading Hospital and Medical Center in Reading, PA, and holds a

faculty position in the Neonatal Clinical Nurse Specialist program at the University of Pennsylvania School

of Nursing. Brittingham joined the NANN Board of Directors in 2011 and served two terms as Staff Nurse

Director-at-Large. She currently serves on NANN’s Board as President-Elect and she will assume the role of

President in November 2016. Prior to joining the NANN Board of Directors, Brittingham served as President

of NANN's Delaware Valley Chapter and remains an active member in that chapter.

Kelly J. Burch PharmD Pharmacy Specialist- Neonatology Emerson NICQ at Mercy Children’s Hospital St. Louis, MO Kelly Burch is a Pharmacy Specialist-Neonatology at Mercy Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, MO, providing comprehensive pharmaceutical care for patients in the NICU.

Her clinical work is directed at providing appropriate and safe use of all drugs in the NICU. Dr. Burch provides leadership in quality improvement for the NICU, pharmacy department and Mercy Children’s Hospital. She is a member of the VON Multidisciplinary Advisory Committee (MDAC) and has served as a local leader for both VON NICQ Next and iNICQ Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome collaborativeS. Dr. Burch and a team from LeBonheur Children’s Medical Center expanded the role of the clinical pharmacokinetics service relative to antibiotic use. Their experience was presented at the SHEA meeting in 1994, and was described in a paper titled, “Drug Use Evaluation of Antibiotics in a Pediatric Teaching Hospital”. This early experience in what is now called antibiotic stewardship, reflects a

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longstanding interest in improving antibiotic use. Her contributions to this project are anticipated to be a deep understanding of the NICU context, pharmacy systems and best-practices to assist teams in identifying actionable opportunities for measurable improvement.

Madge E. Buus-Frank DNP, APRN-BC, FAAN Director of Quality Improvement and Education Executive Vice President, Vermont Oxford Network Faculty, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College and University of Vermont Burlington, VT

Madge E. Buus-Frank DNP, APRN-BC, FAAN serves as Director of Quality Improvement and Education at Vermont Oxford Network and has been actively engaged in neonatal care for over 3 decades. Madge is an honors graduate from Boston College and the University of Connecticut where she recently earned her Doctorate in nursing. Her doctoral dissertation focused on evaluating the effectiveness and stability of Helping Babies Breathe in Zambia. Madge is an internationally recognized educator and consultant. Prior to her role at VON, she collaborated on the design, development and execution of innovative educational and clinical solutions for newborn intensive care units and health systems nationally and internationally. Madge was the Founding Editor-in-Chief for Advances in Neonatal Care: The Official Journal of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses, a peer-reviewed publication dedicated to advancing the art and science of neonatal care, serving for 5 years in this capacity. Madge was recently inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN) for her pioneering work in the field of neonatal care.

Wally A. Carlo MD Edwin M. Dixon Professor of Pediatrics University of Alabama at Birmingham Director, Division of Neonatology Director, Newborn Nurseries Birmingham, AL Dr. Carlo has a long-standing interest in respiratory disorders in neonates, including

minimizing lung injury. He has done research to optimize ventilatory strategies to reduce chronic lung disease and was involved in a multidisciplinary multicenter QI project to reduce chronic lung disease in neonates. Dr. Carlo has published over 280 articles in peer-reviewed journals on respiratory topics over the past 2 decades, all while being actively involved in clinical trials and teaching Pediatrics at the University of Alabama. He is currently the Director of Newborns at the University of Alabama Medical Center and Children's Hospital of Alabama.

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Sheri Carroll MD NICU Medical Director Betty H Cameron Women’s and Children’s Hospital Wilmington, NC Dr. Carroll 's interest is in quality improvement and she leads improvement teams at the local, state and national level. She has led a local infection reduction initiative at BHCWCH. She has been a state leader in the Perinatal Quality Collaborative of North

Carolina (PQCNC), a voluntary statewide collaborative of stakeholders that strive to make NC the best state to born. She led 18 NC hospital teams in a two year collaborative to reduce infections. She is also a faculty member of Vermont Oxford Network, a nonprofit, voluntary organization of over 950 Neonatal Intensive Care Units worldwide that collaborate to improve infant's health outcomes. She serves as a team leader for 6 to 8 hospital teams nationwide to collaborate in 2 year cycles to achieve shared goals, like reducing infection and working better in teams.

Chris Chambers RRT Supervisor, Respiratory Therapy University of Vermont Medical Center Burlington, VT Chris Chambers RRT acquired Associates degree in Respiratory Therapy from Champlain College in May 1995, Chris Chambers RRT has been an RRT since 1995. He is an active NICU and transport therapist since 1995, participated in NICQ since 2009 and is a Faculty and Advisory board member for VON since 2011. Currently Chris is a

supervisor of respiratory therapy at UVMMC.

Howard Cohen MD Medical Director, NICU Salem Hospital Practice Medical Director Northwest Newborn Specialists P.C. Portland and Salem, OR Dr. Howard Cohen has long contributed to the VON Community of Practice. He has

thirty-six years practicing neonatology, faculty positions at University of Illinois College of Medicine and

Oregon Health Sciences University. Twenty years actively participating in multiple quality improvement

collaboratives and projects as well as having hospital based administrative positions as Clinical Director

of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Officer.

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Kimberly A Costello D.O. Neonatologist St. Luke’s University Health Network Bethlehem, PA

Fellowship: Penn State University-Milton S. Hershey Med Center, 2004 - 2007 Internship: Heart of Lancaster Regional Medical Center, 2000 - 2001 Medical School: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, 2000 Residency: Penn State University-Milton S. Hershey Med Center, 2001 - 2004

Michael Cotten MD, MHS

Professor

Department of Pediatrics

Division of Neonatology

Duke University Medical Center

Dr. Cotton is an Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Duke University

Medical Center. His clinical interest are optimizing care for newborns with evidence-based practice;

special interest in infectious disease in low birthweight infants, perinatal asphyxia, congenital

diaphragmatic hernia, genome-guided approaches to neonatal diseases. His four major areas of

research are: Neuroprotection. Working with colleagues from Cell Therapies and neuroradiology, we

have initiated a pilot trial, funded by the DTRI, in providing autologous cord blood cells in the first 24

postnatal hours to infants with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy. This follows our involvement with the

two pivotal hypothermia studies, in which cooling decreased risk of death or disability, but among the

treated groups in both trials, > 40% of infants either died or survived with impairments, strongly

suggesting the need for further therapies.

Genomics. We led the NICHD Neonatal Research Network development of an Anonymized DNA bank of

samples collected from 1,000 extremely low birthweight infants, with phenotype information linked to

the samples. This resource will be the basis for multiple candidate gene, and genome wide scans to

assess the genetic contributions to risk of morbidities of extremely preterm birth.

Newborn Screening and New Technologies: I have collaborated with Drs. David Millington from Duke

and Vamsee Pamula, from Advanced Liquid Logic, on prototype new technology devices for use in

newborn screening for lysosomal storage disease as well as prototypes for potential use for screening

for severe combined immunodeficiency.

Microbiome in Micropreemies. Collaborating with Patrick Seed in Pediatric Infectious Diseases, we have

initiated studies that will hopefully lead to an understanding of how the evolving microflora that

inhabits the intestines of high risk, extremely preterm infants influences metabolism and developing

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immunologic function, and ultimately, health outcomes. I also conduct epidemiology research on

Neonatal practice variation within our center, and within the Neonatal Research Network centers, to

identify how variation in practice can influence outcomes.

Samir Gadepalli MS, MD, MBA

Clinical Lecturer Co-Director,

Pediatric Surgical Critical Care Association

Ann Arbor, MI

Originally from the northeast, Dr. Gadepalli has found a home in Ann Arbor. He completed his

undergraduate education at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY and medical school at Albany

Medical College in Albany, NY. His general surgical residency was at Morristown Memorial Hospital in

Morristown, NJ. While in training, he obtained an MBA through the University of Phoenix Online program

concentrating on Health Care Management. His educational accolades included Resident Teacher of the

Year awards twice during residency, culminating in being a Finalist for the Resident Award for Exemplary

Teaching, in 2007, given by the American College of Surgeons. He is currently obtaining a Masters in Health

and Health Care Research at the Institute for Health Policy and Innovation, in the North Campus Research

Center.

With interests in critical care and pediatric surgery, Dr. Gadepalli completed fellowships in both Surgical

Critical Care and Pediatric Surgery at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is board certified in General

Surgery, Critical Care and Pediatric Surgery. His practice encompasses all aspects of pediatric surgery,

including minimally invasive surgery, non-cardiac thoracic surgery, neonatal surgery, hepatobiliary and

pancreatic surgery, surgical oncology, abdominal, colorectal and genitourinary abnormalities, trauma and

critical care. His unique background allows expertise in the critical care needs of the surgical neonatal and

pediatric populations, including the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in children.

His research interests are in health care delivery and improving disparities, health care financing and cost-

effectiveness of surgical interventions, and improving outcomes through quality consortiums, evidence-

based guidelines and policy. He is a member of the following professional societies: American Pediatric

Surgical Association (APSA), Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), American Heart Association (AHA),

American College of Surgeons (ACS), American Medical Association (AMA), and Association for Academic

Surgery (AAS). He is certified in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and as an instructor in Adult and

Pediatric Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS).

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Jenene Woods Craig PhD NANT - Director of Education Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy Brenau University Norcross, GA Dr. Jenene Craig lives in metro Atlanta, GA and is on faculty in the School of Occupational Therapy at Brenau University. She has been in practice for 34 years, and serves as a national speaker supporting multidisciplinary work in the NICU with a

focus on parent-infant outcomes. Her research interests include psychosocial support of parents (parent-infant attachment), neuroprotection of the developing brain, and family-centered integrated developmentally supportive caregiving within the NICU, from delivery through discharge. She is currently on the Board of Directors for the National Perinatal Association and is in leadership with the National Association of Neonatal Therapists.

Jennifer Grow MD Neonatologist Akron Children’s Hospital Akron, OH

Medical School Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, OH Residency Pediatrics: Akron Children's Hospital, Akron, OH Fellowship Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine: University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI Academic Appointments Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, OH Associations American Academy of Pediatrics Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine

Peter Grubb MD Associate Professor of Pediatrics Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Medical Director Tennessee Initiative for Perinatal Quality Care Dr. Peter Grubb is a neonatologist in Nashville, Tennessee and is affiliated with

multiple hospitals in the area, including Maury Regional Medical Center and Vanderbilt University Medical

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Center. He received his medical degree from Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and has been in practice for more than 20 years. Dr. Grubb is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Primary Investigator, Chair of Oversight Committee and Medical Director, Tennessee Initiative for Perinatal Quality Care.

Paula Delmore RNC, MSN Manager, Department of Neonatology Wesley Medical Center Wichita, Kansas Paula Delmore is the manager of the Department of Neonatology at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas. She has administrative responsibility for the neonatal

mid-level care providers, perinatal outreach, research and neonatal case management. Until recently, she also collected and validated the VON VLBW and Expanded data sets. A new position has been added to her department which allows her more time to focus on facilitating her center’s participation in the Vermont Oxford Network Quality Improvement Collaborative. Paula’s team has a long standing history with VON, participating in the Database since 1987 and continuous participation in the improvement collaboratives since the first one in 1996. Paula also serves as a member of the VON Multidisciplinary Committee.

Dmitry Dukhovny MD, MPH VON Fellow Champion Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Oregon Health & Science University Neonatologist Doernbecher Neonatal Care Center Portland, OR

Dr. Dukhovny is a board-certified Pediatrician and Neonatologist and a Pediatric Health Services

Researcher. His academic focus involves applying cost-effectiveness analysis and decision science to

help optimize resource utilization and allocation in perinatal care, a critical issue given the current

constraints on the health care system. Dr. Dukhovny also has a strong interest and focus in medical

education and leadership. His local activities include teaching a pre-clinical course at Harvard Medical

School for the 1st year medical students, as well as serving as faculty for clinical discussion groups for

pediatric residents and journal club sessions for neonatology fellows. Recently, he started a junior

faculty mentorship program for the neonatology fellows, helping them transition from residency into

fellowship. His role as a Chief Neonatology Fellow provided a strong foundation for organization and

leadership, and led to a national position as the District I Fellow Representative to the Section on

Perinatal Pediatrics in the American Academy of Pediatrics, including the role as the representative to

the Organization of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Training Program Directors for 2010-2011, and

currently serving as the membership Chair. Lastly, he has served as the co-director of the Harvard

Newborn Epidemiology & Clinical Research Seminar (CME approved course) for the last 2 years, as well

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as presented and organized at workshops at national conferences, including Pediatric Academic

Societies, Vermont Oxford Network Annual Quality Congress, and Perinatal Workshop.

Michael S. Dunn MD, FRCPC Neonatologist Department of Newborn and Developmental Paediatrics Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Associate Professor Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Michael Dunn is a Senior Neonatologist working in the Women and Babies Program at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto. He is an established researcher who has spearheaded several large randomized trials examining the effect of neonatal therapies. He has been very involved in VON activities since 1992. He is, or has been, on the Steering Committees of several VON sponsored clinical trials including: Early Surfactant Replacement Trial, DR Management Trial, HeLP trial and the Extremely Low Birth Weight Follow up Project. He and the team from Sunnybrook have been active participants in three NICQ Collaboratives, including NICQ 2002 (Family Matters), NICQ 2005 (Senses and Sensibilities) and NICQ 2007 (Staffing for Quality and Safety). Dr. Dunn was also the Clinical Leader for the “Resuscitation and Stabilization” group of NICQ 2009 and has been a regular contributor to the Neonates Journal Club as an editor. Dr. Dunn serves on several local, national, and international bodies committed to improving the quality of neonatal-perinatal care. He is a member of the Ontario Provincial Maternal-Newborn Advisory Committee, the Maternal and Perinatal Death Review Committee to the Chief Coroner for the Province of Ontario, and the Canadian Neonatal Network. He is the past President of the Neonatal-Perinatal Section of the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) and was a liaison member of the Fetus and Newborn Committee of the CPS. He serves as a Member of the Consensus Committee to Establish Recommended Standards for Newborn ICU Design. Dr. Dunn is committed to the provision of quality care to NICU patients and their families, and believes that we, as health care providers, need to do everything in our power to give our newest citizens the best possible start in life.

Erika M. Edwards PhD, MPH Director of Data Systems and Analytics Vermont Oxford Network Research Assistant Professor Mathematics and Statistics University of Vermont

As Director of Data Systems and Analytics at Vermont Oxford Network, Erika Edwards

has developed content for and presented training programs on data and reporting resources for quality

improvement. She oversees all member reporting and database research, and participates in

development of data collection tools. In addition, she is a Research Assistant Professor of Mathematics

and Statistics at the University of Vermont. Prior to joining Vermont Oxford Network she was a

statistical analyst at the Vermont Department of Health, Boston University School of Public Health, and

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the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Erika has a M.P.H. and a Ph.D., both in Epidemiology, from

Boston University.

Richard A. Ehrenkranz MD Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Department of Pediatrics, Yale Medical School Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital Neonatal ICU New Haven, CT

Dr. Richard Ehrenkranz is currently a Professor of Pediatrics, and of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Ehrenkranz is a strong advocate of clinical research, especially randomized controlled trials. In the neonatal ICU setting, his research has focused on interventions that improve the clinical and neurodevelopmental outcomes of infants managed in the NICU. The relationship between in-hospital nutritional support and growth and neurodevelopmental outcomes in extremely preterm infants is one of his specific research interests. Other research interests include bronchopulmonary dysplasia/chronic lung disease, intraventricular hemorrhage, retinopathy of prematurity, neuroprotection for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, and neurodevelopmental outcomes of extremely preterm infants. He was the principal investigator representing Yale’s NICU in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network from 1991 to 2011. He is the author or co-author of over 200 papers, chapters and proceedings, and is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Society for Pediatric Research, the American Pediatric Society, and the American Society for Nutrition.

Danielle Ehret MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Pediatrics University of Vermont Children’s Hospital Director of Global Health Vermont Oxford Network Burlington, VT Danielle Ehret graduated with honors from Cornell University with a Bachelor of

Science degree in Human Biology, Health and Society. She received her MD from the State University of New York Upstate Medical University, during which she was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Following her medical training, she was recruited to the pediatrics residency at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital. While at Yale, she completed the pediatric global health track. As a resident, Danielle became a Master Trainer in the Helping Babies Breathe program and helped to educate local birth attendants in Rwanda. Danielle pursued her passion of global maternal child health by simultaneously completing her fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine while obtaining her Masters degree in Public Health at Harvard. She worked with Dr. Patricia Hibberd, Chief of the Division of Global Health at MassGeneral Hospital for Children. They utilized NIH Global Network site-specific data from Nagpur, India to evaluate Essential Newborn Care practices, and their relationship to neonatal outcomes in the Maternal Newborn Health registry. Locally, Danielle led a quality improvement project at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center with Dr. Munish Gupta involving the implementation of a timed umbilical cord clamping

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policy for preterm infants. Danielle was chosen to serve as co-chief fellow for 2014-2015. Her dedication to education was also recognized with the Excellence in Teaching Award from her fellowship, the House Officer Development Award and Von L. Meyer Award from Boston Children’s Hospital, and the Martha May Eliot Scholarship from the Harvard School of Public Health. Danielle joined the faculty at UVM Children’s Hospital Division of Neonatology in July 2015, as assistant professor. She was also named as the inaugural Director of Global Health for the Vermont Oxford Network. Under the mentorship of Drs. Jeffrey Horbar and Roger Soll, she seeks to devote her academic work with VON to the synergy of quality improvement and implementation of evidence-based neonatal care practices globally. Under her leadership, VON’s Black Lion NICU project in Ethiopia will continue to evolve to meet the goals of a 2015 post-Millennium Developmental goal era.

Jennifer L. Fang MD Fellow Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN

Dr. Fang obtained her medical degree from Mayo Medical School in 2002 and completed her pediatric residency at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University in 2005. Prior to starting fellowship, she practiced as a neonatal hospitalist for nine years. She is currently a third year fellow in neonatal-perinatal medicine at Mayo Clinic, and upon completion of her fellowship, she will remain on staff at Mayo. In December 2016, she will complete her Master's in the Science of Health Care Delivery through Arizona State University. She has been involved with the teleneonatology program since its inception 3.5 years ago. She currently serves as the Clinical Service Program Manager, focused on program improvement, development, and growth.

Victoria A. Flanagan RN, MS Perinatal Outreach Coordinator Director of Operations, Northern New England Perinatal Quality Improvement Network Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Lebanon, NH Victoria A. Flanagan RN, MS has been involved in international perinatal

improvement initiatives since the 1990’s in Russia, Egypt, Croatia, Kosovo. In 2010, she was involved in the launch of “Helping Babies Breathe”, an evidence-based educational program to teach neonatal resuscitation techniques in resource-limited areas. Since that launch, she has taught courses in the United States, Kenya and Sudan, Africa.

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Kimberly Fritz MSN, NNP-BC Lead NNP Randall Children’s Hospital NICU Portland, Oregon Kim graduated from Pepperdine University with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and subsequently from University of Portland with a Bachelor degree in Nursing. She

began her career in Labor and Delivery and quickly transferred to the NICU at Legacy Emanuel after she found herself much more interested in the babies’ needing intervention. Transport, resuscitation specialist and the PICC team kept her busy and engaged for a few years. Her passion for neonatal care lead her to get a Master’s in Child and Family Nursing from Oregon Health Sciences University and then a post Master’s Neonatal Nurse Practitioner certificate from the University of Washington. She continued her career for Legacy as a NNP and quickly took over the Lead NNP position. Kim has lead several quality improvement projects as the co-chair of the NICU Quality and Safety Council, with a great passion for infection prevention and central line care. Her most recent endeavor has been helping her team navigate the Telebaby project and the ever expanding role of the NNP in neonatal care.

Sissy Frost RN, BSN Vermont Oxford Network Coordinator The University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson, MS Sissy Frost RN, BSN is a Baccalaureate prepared registered nurse with a combined eight years of neonatal and pediatric clinical experience. She is currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Health Care administration. For the last two years, she has served as the Vermont Oxford Network Coordinator for the University of Mississippi Medical Center

in Jackson, Mississippi. In addition to her duties as Vermont Oxford Network Coordinator, she also co-chaired a number of quality improvement committees and task forces, such as Golden Hour and Neonatal Pain Management.

Marybeth Fry Med Lead Family Advisor VON NICQ Next2

Collaborative NICU Family Care Coordinator Akron Children’s Hospital Akron, OH The 2004 birth of Marybeth’s daughter at 28 weeks gestation and subsequent three

month NICQ stay introduced her to a world she never knew existed and she wanted other NICU families to know they weren’t alone. In January of 2008, Marybeth became an Akron Children’s Hospital Parent Mentor and Volunteer and began visiting NICU families each week as a graduate parent. She also became involved in NICU FACT (Family Action Collaborative Team), a group of NICU graduate families and staff working together to support NICU families and promote family-centered care in the unit. Marybeth attended her first VON Conference with the Akron Children’s Team in spring of 2010 and has been fortunate enough to attend every meeting with the team. In the fall of 2010, she became co-chair of NICU FACT and began working more closely with hospital staff on group’s initiatives. She began

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attending QuIP (Quality Improvement Council) meetings monthly and participated on NICQ8 conference calls weekly. In January 2013, Marybeth secured a paid parent position at Akron Children’s Hospital as the NICU Family Care Coordinator. This amazing opportunity has allowed her to be even more actively involved in furthering family-centered care and to see many of her volunteer projects come to fruition.

Sharyn Gibbins NP-Pediatrics PhD Director of Professional Practice Trillium Health Partners Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Sharyn Gibbins has been a neonatal nurse practitioner for over 20 years. Most recently, she has taken on the responsibility of Director of Professional Practice, accountable for the scopes of practice for all health care professionals in a 1200 bed

academic facility. Sharyn’s interests are with respect to the management of care for extremely low birth weight infants and introducing strategies to sustain change. Sharyn has worked with the Micro-premature Infant Care Homeroom to develop the NICQ Next ONSITE program and was responsible for facilitating components of the 2 day session in the spring of 2014.

James E. Gray MD, MS Associate Professor of Pediatrics Harvard Medical School Neonatologist Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, MA Dr. Gray, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, is a board-

certified neonatologist as well as a faculty member of Harvard’s Division of Clinical Informatics and Division of Newborn Medicine. He is Associate Director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as well as the Director of Patient Safety Research within the Division of Clinical Informatics. Dr. Gray has extensive experience with the evaluation of neonatal care and the integration of evolving information technologies into the assessment and provision of care. He has developed methods for performing cross-institutional comparisons of NICU outcomes, as well as for performing large-scale evaluations of public health programs. He has developed cutting edge uses of information technologies to be used in neonatal intensive care. He developed and evaluated Baby CareLink, a multi-faceted telemedicine program designed to provide individualized information and support to high-risk newborns and their families. Dr. Gray’s current research focuses on the use of computer based methods to study complex operational systems within healthcare. He has developed methods to assess deployment strategies for new technologies and is the architect of the technologies used in StaffLynx, a new computer-based approach to creating and maintaining clinician assignments.

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Jeffrey Gould MD, MPH

Professor of Pediatrics

Perinatal Epidemiology and Health

Outcomes Research Unit,

Stanford University

Jeffrey Gould is director of the Perinatal Epidemiology and Health Outcomes Research Unit in the

division of Neonatology at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s

Hospital. He also directs the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative (CPQCC), a network of 132

California hospitals that provide intensive care to newborns that have volunteered to submit and

compare uniform care processes and outcome data and conduct quality improvement initiatives for

their mothers and newborns. He has also developed an all California Neonatal Transport database and

the all California High Risk Infant Follow-up database till age 3 that are both linked to the CPQCC

dataset. Gould is a leading public health researcher in population-based studies related to neonatal and

perinatal diseases. Much of his research is focused on developing strategies to assess the quality of

perinatal care based on risk-adjusted indicators of neonatal and maternal morbidity. In 2006 he

received the National MCH Epidemiology Leadership award. In October, 2008 he received the American

Academy of Pediatrics Perinatal Section’s Education Award and in 2010 in Recognition of Lifetime

Achievements in Healthcare Services, the Society for Pediatric Research’s Douglas K. Richardson Award

for Perinatal and Pediatric Healthcare Research.

Erika Goyer Parent Advocate, Co-Chair of Family Advocacy Network of National Perinatal Association Austin, TX Erika Goyer lives in Austin, TX, and is the National Perinatal Association’s Board Member at Large as well as Co-Chair of NPA’s Family Advocacy Network. For more than a decade, Erika has worked in the nonprofit community providing health

education, peer-to-peer support, and community-based services for high-risk and underserved populations. She speaks to parents and professionals on the psychosocial needs of NICU parents, peer-to-peer support, family-centered discharge planning, developmental care, sibling support, and the unique needs of bereaved families.

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Munish Gupta MD, MMSc Neonatologist Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, MA Munish Gupta, MD, MMSc, is a staff neonatologist and the Director of Quality and Safety for the Department of Neonatology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston MA. He is also chair of the Neonatal Quality Improvement Collaborative of

Massachusetts.

Louis P. Halamek MD, FAAP Professor and Associate Chief, Education and Training Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics Stanford University Director, Center for Advanced Pediatric and Perinatal Education Attending Neonatologist, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Palo Alto, CA

Louis P. Halamek MD, is a Professor and Associate Chief for Training and Assessment in the Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, and (by courtesy) in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Stanford University. He is also a Senior Fellow in the Center for Aviation Safety Research and Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Aviation in the Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology at St. Louis University. He is a graduate of the Creighton University School of Medicine and completed residency and chief residency in Pediatrics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center followed by fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Stanford University. He is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in both Pediatric Medicine and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and is a Fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics. He has a clinical appointment at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford where he works in the level IV neonatal intensive care unit. Through ongoing collaboration with colleagues at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, and the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington, D.C., Dr. Halamek has learned the benefits of a cross-industries approach to risk assessment, safety and effectiveness. His current work centers on the development of hospital operations centers linked with sophisticated simulation capabilities, optimization of human performance during high risk activities such as resuscitation, analysis of human and system error, and human factors and ergonomics in healthcare. In 2002 Dr. Halamek founded the Center for Advanced Pediatric and Perinatal Education (CAPE, http://www.cape.lpch.org), the world's first such center dedicated to fetal, neonatal, pediatric and obstetric simulation, located at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital on the campus of Stanford University. He is currently a Special Consultant in Simulation- and Virtual Reality-based Learning to the U.S. Neonatal Resuscitation Program.

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Sue L. Hall MD, MSW, FAAP Neonatologist St. John’s Regional Medical Center Oxnard, CA Dr. Sue Hall is a neonatologist, former social worker, and author of the book For the Love of Babies; she lives in Ventura, CA. She served as Co-Chair of the National Perinatal Association’s Workgroup on Psychosocial Support of NICU Parents, created

the resource website www.support4NICUparents.org, and is a member of the NPA Board of Directors. She was the inaugural Chairperson of the Kansas Perinatal Quality Collaborative and served as Legislative Chair for the Kansas March of Dimes. She has lectured extensively across the country on topics related to psychosocial support of NICU parents.

Becky Hatfield University of Utah Hospital Parent Support Specialist, Parent to Parent Program Salt Lake City, UT Becky Hatfield has been an advocate for premature infants and their families for over 40 years. She is a founding member of Parent to Parent, the first support group for Newborn ICU families in the United States. Becky has been a member of the Board of Directors of the National Perinatal Association and served as co-chair

of their Family Advocacy Network. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Utah Perinatal Association, and is currently on the NICU Advisory Committee for the National March of Dimes and the Graven’s Developmental Consensus Panel. Becky works as Parent Support Specialist at the University of Utah Hospital, serving as a liaison between volunteers, hospital staff and new families with critically ill babies, or families hospitalized with high-risk pregnancies. Becky has presented at conferences throughout the country on numerous issues relating to prematurity and high risk pregnancy.

Pat Heinrich RN, MSN Quality Improvement Consultant Heinrich LLC Waltham, MA Patricia Heinrich, RN, MSN, is an independent quality improvement consultant with over fifteen years’ experience providing organizational and programmatic leadership and expertise in the science and methods of health care quality improvement and

system change. Prior to her improvement work, Pat spent over 20 years as a Maternal Child Health Nurse in various patient care, education, and leadership and management positions. While employed at the National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) from 1997-2009, Pat served as Nurse Planner and presenter for nearly all of NICHQ’s CME/CEU programs. Pat’s additional experience includes working as a planning team member developing curriculum and presenting for both CME/CUE and MOC

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certified programs for Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and NICHQ as a consultant. Pat has also served as a peer-reviewer for quality improvement related articles/publications over the last 10 years of her career.

Timmy Ho MD Neonatal Fellow Harvard Neonatal and Perinatal Fellowship Program Boston Children’s Hospital Boston, MA Timmy Ho is a third year neonatology fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital and is the first joint research fellow between the Harvard Pediatric Health Services Research Fellowship and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. He explores mechanisms of

improving the efficiency, workflow, and patient experience of healthcare delivery by applying fundamental skills in implementation science. An innovator, he has both participated in and mentored hackathons sponsored by the groups at MIT and Harvard, developed a mobile application to improve resident workflow, and hopes to lead multidisciplinary teams to transform how health care workers care for patients.

Jeffrey D. Horbar MD Chief Executive and Scientific Officer Vermont Oxford Network Jerold F. Lucey Professor of Neonatal Medicine University of Vermont Burlington, VT Dr. Jeffrey Horbar is a board-certified neonatologist and clinical scientist with extensive

experience in clinical research and its application to the improvement of neonatal care. He is currently the Jerold F. Lucey Professor of Neonatal Medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, Chief Executive and Scientific Officer of Vermont Oxford Network and Co-Editor of the Neonatal Review Group of the Cochrane Collaboration. Dr. Horbar has been responsible for the development of the Vermont Oxford Network Database which is used by over 950 NICUs around the world to monitor and improve outcomes for high risk infants and their families.

Mark L. Hudak MD Professor & Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, Chief, Division of Neonatology Associate Dean of Managed Care, University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville, FL

Dr. Hudak is a tenured Professor of Pediatrics and is Board Certified in Perinatal-Neonatal Medicine. He earned his medical degree at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, where he

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also completed his Pediatrics residency and neonatology fellowship. Dr. Hudak served on the Faculty at Johns Hopkins and was an Associate Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and Medical Director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Children’s Hospital of Buffalo. He joined the UF College of Medicine – Jacksonville in 1995 as a Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Neonatology. He currently serves as Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Managed Care, and continues to serve as Division Chief in Neonatology and Medical Director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Wolfson Children’s Hospital. Dr. Hudak is a versatile and productive academic researcher in clinical neonatology and community outreach and has publications in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Pediatrics, and other prestigious journals. He served as the Lead Investigator for the NIH National Children’s Study in Baker County, Florida from 2008-2013 and oversaw a project that exceeded its goals for recruitment, retention, and data quality. Dr. Hudak was a founding member of the FDA Pediatric Advisory Subcommittee and was appointed in 2013 to the FDA Pediatric Advisory Committee and the Neonatology Subcommittee. He was a member of the AAP Committee on Drugs for seven years and in 2014 was selected to chair the AAP Committee on Child Health Finance. He sits on the Florida Medicaid Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee. He was chosen as the first Robert C. Nuss Scholar of the Year for the UF College of Medicine – Jacksonville in 2011. He remains an active clinical member of the team of highly trained, Board Certified Neonatologists that provides 24-hour care at Jacksonville’s two Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Units at UF Health Jacksonville and Wolfson Children’s Hospital, as well as other hospitals in Jacksonville and the surrounding region.

Mike Hynan PhD Emeritus Professor of Psychology University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI Michael Hynan, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus of clinical psychology, who taught at U. of WI-Milwaukee for 33 years. After the premature birth of his son in 1980 Dr. Hynan wrote “The Pain of Premature Parents: A Psychological Guide for Coping” published

by University Press of America in 1987. At this time he began to research symptoms of posttraumatic stress and depression in parents of NICU babies. His publications have appeared in Journal of Perinatology and Journal of Traumatic Stress. He is the author of the Perinatal Posttraumatic Stress Questionnaire. He has given invited talks in over 20 states in the USA. Topics have included: Understanding the emotional reactions of NICU parents, screening NICU parents for posttraumatic stress and depression, the need for NICU psychosocial programs for families, and helping NICU fathers. Dr. Hynan is a member of the editorial board of The Journal of Perinatology, and he has served on the board of directors of the National Perinatal Association (NPA). Also, with Dr. Sue Hall, Dr. Hynan co-chaired an NPA task force for recommending interdisciplinary standards for psychosocial programs for NICU parents. The recommendations were published in the Journal of Perinatology in Dec., 2015. He is also responsible for organizing a discussion group of psychologists in the NICU under the auspices of NPA.

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Tom Jaksic MD, PhD W. Hardy Hendren Professor of Surgery Senior Associate in Surgery Surgical Director Vice-Chairman of Pediatric Surgery Harvard Medical School Center for Advanced Intestinal Rehabilitation Boston Children’s Hospital Boston, MA

Dr. Jaksic is a pediatric surgeon with a clinical and research experince in neonatal surgical disease, intestinal failure and the metabolism of critical illness. Since the start of his career, he has been involved in medical education. Currently, Dr. Jaksic is a Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and gives lectures to medical students on a regular basis. Additionally, he has given many invited national and international presentations pertaining to his areas of interest. Dr Jaksic is editor at the Journal of Pediatric Surgery.

Priscilla Joe MD Associate Director Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Director ECMO program UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland Oakland, CA

Priscilla Joe, MD, is the associate director of the intensive care nursery at Children’s Hospital Oakland. She specializes in treating critically ill babies and can discuss a wide range of conditions and treatments related to premature babies and infants with serious illnesses, injuries or birth defects. Dr. Joe is especially interested in improving care for infants with heart and lung failure. She is also the director of our pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) program, which uses advanced technology to support infants, children and teenagers whose hearts and/or lungs are weak or failing. Children’s Hospital Oakland has one of only four ECMO programs in Northern California. Dr. Joe also volunteers with two humanitarian groups, Project Vietnam and the East Meets West Foundation, which provide medical training, funding and medical equipment to third-world countries. She travels to Vietnam twice a year.

Katharine Johnson MD Neonatologist Methodist Children's Hospital San Antonio, TX Dr. Johnson graduated from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in 2006. She works in San Antonio, TX and specializes in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. Dr. Johnson is affiliated with Childrens Hospital Of San Antonio, Methodist Childrens Hospital, North

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Central Baptist Hospital and Northeast Baptist Hospital.

Heather Kaplan MD, MSCE Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Perinatal Institute and The James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati, OH Heather Kaplan MD, MSCE is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Perinatal

Institute and the James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC). Heather is a neonatologist and health services researcher interested in enhancing care delivery and studying how systems of care can be improved using innovative approaches. She completed her neonatal-perinatal fellowship training, including earning a Master’s degree of science in clinical epidemiology, at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia/University of Pennsylvania. She joined the faculty at CCHMC in August 2007. Heather’s early research focused on understanding variation in adoption of evidence-based practices in neonatal care and quality improvement as a strategy for implementing evidence in practice. With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, she studied the role of context in the success of quality improvement initiatives and developed a model, the Model for Understanding Success in Quality (MUSIQ). MUSIQ is a tool for developing theories about which aspects of context help or hinder a specific project, and designing and implementing tests of changes to modify those aspects of context. Her current work examines the way research and improvement networks (“learning networks”) can be used to improve care delivery and outcomes. She is specifically interested in scaling improvement to reach entire populations of patients and the ways technology, quality improvement methods, and N-of-1 trial methods can be combined to create a personalized learning healthcare system for the individual. Heather also has extensive experience with front-line quality improvement in perinatal care. Dr. Kaplan serves as the Improvement Advisor for the Ohio Perinatal Quality Collaborative (OPQC) neonatal improvement work. She also serves as a faculty expert for Vermont Oxford Network quality collaboratives and has been working with teams to improve their system of improvement by using MUSIQ to identify and modify key aspects of context that are affecting the success of the quality improvement projects and to help them engage with senior leadership around their improvement work.

William J. Keenan MD Professor of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology Saint Louis University Neonatologist Helping Babies Survive Steering Committee, American Academy of Pediatrics Board of Directors, Vermont Oxford Network Executive Director, International Pediatric Association St. Louis MO

Dr. William Keenan, a neonatologist at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center and professor at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, served as director of the neonatal intensive care unit at SSM Cardinal Glennon for 29 years and is considered a pioneer in the field of neonatal resuscitation. He

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was one of the founding members of the Neonatal Resuscitation Program, created by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Heart Association. For 30 years, Dr. Keenan has spent countless hours caring for premature and very sick babies in the neonatal intensive care unit at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center and in the region surrounding St. Louis. Dr. Keenan devotes much of his time to traveling to rural hospitals in Missouri and Illinois and caring for sick babies. Thousands of babies have overcome significant obstacles and thrived under Dr. Keenan’s expert care over the past three decades. "Dr. Keenan has worked tirelessly to improve the lives of babies not just in St. Louis or the United States, but around the globe," said Dr. Robert Wilmott, chief of Pediatrics at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center and chair of Pediatrics at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. "He has devoted his life to being a determined champion of those who are too small and too sick to help themselves. It is impossible to accurately convey the impact Dr. Bill Keenan has had on the babies and countless families who had little hope without his advocacy and his clinical innovations." In addition to his responsibilities at SSM Cardinal Glennon and SLU, Dr. Keenan also serves as co-chairman of the Helping Babies Breathe Global Implementation Task Force. Helping Babies Breathe—an international initiative of the American Academy of Pediatrics, USAID, Save the Children and the World Health Organization—strives to teach simple techniques to help babies who cannot breathe at birth. Most recently, Dr. Keenan has been elected as the executive director of the International Pediatric Association.

Kaitlin M. Kenaley MD Neonatology Fellow, PGY6 AI DuPont Hospital for Children Christiana Care Health System Thomas Jefferson University Kaitlin Kenaley MD is a fellow in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA, Christiana Care Health System in Newark, DE and

A.I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, DE. From 2011 to 2014 she was a Resident in Pediatrics at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA, Christiana Care Health System in Newark, DE and A.I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, DE. She obtained her Doctorate of Medicine in 2011 from Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in Hershey, PA.

Hannah King MPH Healthcare Consultant Berkeley, CA Hannah King is currently a Healthcare Consultant and former Director of the National Service Quality, at Kaiser Permanente. She worked with unit based teams (Microsystems) to improve or redesign processes to be patient and family-centered. She

has been a member of the Vermont Oxford Network NICQ faculty since 1999 where she has facilitated the FBI (Fight Bacterial Infections) focus group, the Bug Off! group, the SMERPs (Stopping Medication Errors from Reaching Patients), and the Discharge Management topic group. She has also contributed

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to the collaborative’s work by co-authoring the Safety Culture Workbook and presenting on "holding the gains” and other related topics. Hannah has a MPH from the University of California, Berkeley.

Steve Lassen PhD Psychologist Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Behavioral Pediatrics Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences University of Kansas Medical Center Kansas City, KS Dr. Lassen is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry and Behavioral

Sciences at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Child Psychology from the University of Kansas in 2006. He completed his residency in Clinical Child Psychology/Pediatric Psychology at Harvard Medical School and his postdoctoral fellowship in Pediatric Psychology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Lassen’s clinical and research interests include perinatal mental health, children with chronic or life-limiting illnesses and their families, as well as the impact of parental illness on children. Dr. Lassen also serves in leadership roles in various mental health and medical organizations and lectures regularly to regional and national audiences on a variety of mental health issues. He is the 2016 recipient of the Society of Pediatric Psychology’s Carolyn S. Schroeder Award for Outstanding Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology.

John Lester BSc Lead Facilitator and Emerging Faculty Alberta AIM Edmonton, Alberta, Canada John is passionate about quality improvement, particularly when it involves teams that provide healthcare services to patients and clients. Over the past 18 years he has held

a variety of positions in cardiac rehabilitation, chronic disease management, primary care management, and quality improvement in healthcare across Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. He has supported teams in Primary Care, Specialty Care and health care programs to improve the services they deliver. John is currently a faculty member and the Lead for Facilitation for Alberta AIM where he works with other faculty and facilitators to support health care teams in their improvement journey.

Stacey Lihn Mother and Parent Lead National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative (NPC-QIC) President, Sisters by Heart Phoenix, AZ

In December of 2009, Ms. Lihn earned the title of “heart mom” after her unborn daughter was diagnosed with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) – a rare and often fatal congenital heart defect. From the day of her diagnosis, at 19 weeks gestation, Ms. Lihn gained insight regarding the importance of learning networks and learning health systems. Her experience as a paralegal, advocating

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on behalf of persons suffering catastrophic injuries, built a strong platform to advocate for her child and others in the healthcare arena. Just one year after Zoe’s diagnosis, Ms. Lihn co-founded a national non-profit organization - Sisters by Heart - dedicated to newly diagnosed HLHS families. Through her work as Parent Lead with the National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative, Ms. Lihn has the opportunity to represent hundreds of congenital heart defect parents and patients, striving to improve healthcare in the pediatric cardiac field. She shares her first-hand experiences as a parent/patient advocate while networking with practitioners, legislators, and policy makers, most notably speaking at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in support of the Affordable Care Act. Ms. Lihn has spoken to leaders with the American Board of Pediatrics, American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Institute of Medicine, in a concerted effort to move learning networks and learning health systems towards the norm, rather than the exception. In January 2015, she became the first parent member of the American Board of Pediatrics Foundation.

George A. Little MD Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology Geisel School of Medicine Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Lebanon, New Hampshire Dr. Little is Professor of Pediatrics and of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the Dartmouth Medical School and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center where he is a neonatologist. He served for over a decade as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Maternal and Child Health at Dartmouth before it became separate

departments of Pediatrics and Ob/Gyn. In addition to clinical research, his interests have focused on perinatal health policy, systems development and regionalization, outcomes, reproductive and perinatal ethics, the family in the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) and international health. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). In addition to the AAP and ACOG he has been actively involved and served in leadership and consultative positions with a large number of organizations including NACHRI ( National Association of Childrens Hospitals and Related Institutions), NPIC ( National Perinatal Information Center), AHA ( American Hospital Association ) and the MOD ( March of Dimes) as well as federal and state governmental agencies . He is a producer of Dreams and Dilemmas , an award winning cinema verite film focused on parental involvement in clinical decision making as well as other films. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed publications. He has a strong career interest and involvement in global medicine. He was the initiating Co-Director of Helping Babies Breathe ( HBB), an American Academy of Pediatrics comprehensive effort to improve survival of babies in resource poor areas through a newly developed and field tested educational curriculum currently being implemented globally. He is presently a member of the HBB Planning Committee and serves as a country mentor for HBB in Malawi. He is also presently actively involved in improving pregnancy outcomes in Kosovo. Early in his career he served as a Peace Corps staff physician in Nigeria and Malawi and then as Regional Medical Officer for Africa. He has served with a US Agency for International Development ( USAID) Child Survival Project in Egypt and as a consultant to the Faculty of Medicine at the United Arab Emirates University in Abu Dhabi.

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Scott Lorch MD, MSCE Associate Professor of Pediatrics Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Harriet and Ronald Lassin Endowed Chair in Pediatric Neonatology Director, Center for Perinatal and Pediatric Health Disparities Research The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA

Scott A. Lorch MD, MSCE is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, fellowship director in the Division of Neonatology at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and the director of the Center of Pediatric and Perinatal Health Disparities at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. His research focuses on variations in health care use and outcomes of high-risk children, primarily infants born prematurely, and the role of providers, hospitals, and public policies to reduce these differences. He holds multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality examining the measurement of pediatric care quality; racial/ethnic disparities in pediatric health care; and the organization of perinatal delivery systems. Dr. Lorch was also an investigator in the Pediatric Quality Measure Program (PQMP) site at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, leading studies on the influence of various enrollment eligibility requirements on changing the assessed quality of states, and developing measures of neonatal intensive care quality. He has served on the Infectious, Reproductive, Asthma and Pulmonary Conditions (IRAP) Study Section at the National Institutes of Health, and the Addressing Health Disparities study section for PCORI. He is currently on the editorial board of Pediatrics and was the past chairperson of the Child Health Interest Group at AcademyHealth from 2013-2015.

Carolyn Lund RN, MS, FAAN Neonatal Clinical Nurse Specialist Children’s Hospital, Oakland Associate Clinical Professor, UCSF San Francisco, CA Carolyn Lund has been a Neonatal Clinical Specialist in the NICU at Children's Hospital Oakland for over 30 years, and is also an Associate Clinical Professor at the

University of California, San Francisco. As the science team leader for the evidence-based practice project on neonatal skin care for the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetrics and Neonatal Nurses and the National Association of Neonatal Nurses, the Neonatal Skin Care Guideline was first developed and then evaluated in 51 nurseries in the US in 2001. She also served as team leader on the revision of guidelines in 2007, and the current revision which is due for completion. She has contributed to knowledge of neonatal skin care through original research in the areas of skin maturation, skin integrity and adhesive damage, and how bathing affects the newborn’s skin barrier function and the skin microbiome.

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Faouzi Maalouf MD Clinical Fellow Vanderbilt University School Of Medicine Department of Pediatrics Nashville, TN Dr. Faouzi Maalouf, MD is a board certified pediatrician in Nashville, Tennessee. He is a

Research Fellow in Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. He holds a BS degree in Biology from the American University of Beirut in Beirut, Lebanon and a MD degree from the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. He completed his Residency in Pediatrics in 2014 with University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ.

John McGregor EdD Learning Systems Manager Vermont Oxford Network Burlington, VT

John McGregor has worked as an Online Learning Systems Manager for the past 7 years in the public and private educational industries. John earned his doctorate in

education at the University of Phoenix Arizona, where he also completed his Masters in Business Administration. John McGregor has worked in 15 states and 12 countries in Europe, Central America, and Asia supporting and training learners on multiple Learning Systems focusing on literacy development, sales training, and adult continuing education. John is currently the Learning Systems Manager at Vermont Oxford Network and is developing an online learning system that provides engaging and enhanced educational opportunities on timely topics. John is also a member of the Committee to Help Students Become Better Readers in the Burlington and Winooski, Vermont School Districts, and is a member of the Vermont User Experience (UX) Network.

Paula Meier RN, PhD, FAAN Director for Clinical Research and Lactation, NICU Professor of Women, Children & Family Nursing Professor of Pediatrics Rush University Medical Center Chicago, IL

Paula Meier PhD, RN, FAAN, is the director for clinical research and lactation in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and is a professor of women, children and family nursing and a professor of pediatrics at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. She has worked as a practitioner and researcher in the area of human milk, lactation and breastfeeding for premature infants and their mothers since 1975. Meier has conducted numerous externally-funded research and demonstration projects, and currently serves as the principal investigator for a 5-year, $2.76 million NIH-funded study, "Health Outcomes and Cost of Human Milk Feedings for Very Low Birthweight Infants." Her other external funding includes grants

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from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in collaboration with Duke University, and philanthropic gifts from the Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation, the Rossman Family Foundation and the Rush Woman's Board. She is a past recipient of philanthropic gifts from the McNeil Foundation and the Illinois Health Care Foundation. Dr. Meier has published over 80 peer-reviewed manuscripts, and serves as the President of the International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation and is a member of the Health Advisory Council for La Leche League, International. She was the recipient of the 2005 Distinguished Alumna Award from the University of Illinois, and the 2012 Faculty Research Award from Rush University.

Charles Mercier MD Professor of Pediatrics University of Vermont Chief, Division of Neonatal Perinatal Medicine University of Vermont Children’s Hospital Burlington, VT

Charles Mercier MD is the Chief of the Division of Neonatal Perinatal Medicine at Vermont Children’s Hospital, and a Professor of Pediatrics at the College of Medicine of the University of Vermont. He is a primary investigator for Vermont Oxford Network ELBW Follow-up Project and author of the Parental Interview and Reporting Questionnaire (PIRQ). He is a graduate of the Institute for Medical Simulation at Harvard/MIT and of the Chiefs of Clinical Services Program at the Harvard School of Public Health. At Vermont Children’s Hospital, he sits on the Executive Committee of the Quality Council and co-chairs the NICQ Collaborative Improvement team. At the University of Vermont, he is the Medical Director of the Vermont Perinatal Health Project of the Vermont Child Health Improvement Program. His research interests include neurodevelopmental outcomes of extremely low birth weight infants, workflow process and outcomes analysis, and perinatal health care quality improvement at the level 1 perinatal center.

Brenda Miller BFA Parent Coordinator University of Michigan CS Mott Children’s Hospital Brandon NICU Ann Arbor, MI Brenda has been a parent leader in the University of Michigan NICU since 1998, becoming part of the paid staff in 2002. Her full-time role as Parent Coordinator includes

development of programs and education for parents, peer support to families, quality improvement initiatives, and participation on unit and children’s hospital committees. She has been a Family Advisor with VON since 2006, serving as part of the faculty in the most recent collaborative. Her degree and background is in Fine Arts, with much of her career enjoyed as an illustrator and designer. Brenda’s daughter Emily was born at 26 weeks, 1lb, 5oz, and is now a freshman in college.

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Teesha Miller BS Parent to Parent Program Manager March of Dimes NICU Family Support Specialist Children’s Mercy Hospital Kansas City, MO Teesha holds an undergraduate degree in management and is currently pursuing a graduate degree in public health. She has served in various roles with a local health

system before assuming her current role as the Intensive Care Nursery Parent to Parent Manager at Children’s Mercy Hospital. The most interesting dynamic of this role is merging her trainer/educator expertise with compassionate memories of her personal experience as the ‘deer caught in the headlights’ when she felt as if her education and professional experience flew out the window during her NICU experience. Teesha’s goal is to bring patient and family-centered care alive in every interaction. Additionally, she would love to assist staff to be able to relate to every family by meeting them where they are. A person’s emotional state and ability to reason can change from moment to moment during a crisis. The basic human desire to be heard and understood never changes.

Biren P. Modi MD Instructor in Surgery Associate Surgical Director, Center for Advanced Intestinal Rehabilitation Department of Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital Harvard Medical School Boston, MA Biren Modi MD is an Instructor in Surgery and Associate Surgical Director at Boston

Children’s Hospital, Center for Advanced Intestinal Rehabilitation. He is intermittently involved in weekly Department of Surgery teaching conferences and has been a speaker for continuing education lectures on pediatric surgery and retinopathy. Dr. Modi is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Surgery, Publications Committee and is an ad-hoc reviewer for the Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, the Journal of Pediatric Surgery, and the Journal of Surgical Education and holds several department and hospital administrative roles at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Mindy Morris DNP, NNP-BC, CNS Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Extremely Low Birth Weight Program Coordinator CHOC Children's Hospital Orange, CA Mindy Morris DNP, NNP-BC, CNS is the coordinator of the Extremely Low Birth

Weight Program at CHOC Children’s Hospital in Orange, California. She has worked in the NICU for nearly 30 years as a nurse, a CNS, and a NNP where she has developed a passion and expertise in caring for the ELBW infant. She partnered with a neonatologist to develop a program and specialty unit within

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the NICU to care for this unique and most at-risk population via standardized care practices with a core dedicated team. The results of this ambitious QI initiative were published in Pediatrics in 2015. Mindy graduated from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas with her BSN, obtained her MS degree from California State University, Long Beach, her neonatal nurse practitioner certification from Loma Linda University, and her DNP from Brandman University. Mindy has participated with the team from CHOC Children’s, Orange in previous NICQ Collaboratives and has been a clinical faculty member since 2014.

Amy Nyberg BS March of Dimes NICU Family Support Specialist Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital Grand Rapids, MI Amy Nyberg is the parent advisor and March of Dimes NICU Family Support Specialist at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, MI. She started her work in quality improvement after her 2 oldest boys were born at 24 weeks gestation and

spent 120 days in the NICU in 1999. She was involved with the neonatal unit as a volunteer for 6 years before becoming the March of Dimes NICU Family Support Specialist in 2006. She has presented at multiple national meetings in regards to improving family-centered care in neonatology. She was awarded the 2013 March of Dimes National Award for NICU Family Support Project of the Year in recognition of exemplary work ensuring high quality, innovative programming, volunteer leadership, and overall impact as it informs and comforts NICU families. She currently serves as VON co-family leader for the POD and is a member of the VON NICQ Next Collaborative Advisory Board.

Alexa O’Dell Chair, NICU Family Advisory Council Benefis Health System Great Falls, MT Alexa’s family’s NICU experience in June 2006 with the premature birth of their 24-week twin girls is an example of love, courage and dedication. The O’Dell family experienced the loss of Riley at 30 hours of life due to a level four brain bleed. Carsyn, however, had a long hospital stay. During their 120+ day NICU

experience, Carsyn received care at three different facilities including Primary Children’s in Salt Lake City, UT, and Community Medical in Missoula, MT. In February 2008, Alexa became a charter member of the Benefis NICU Family Advisory Council, and has served as its Chair since its inception. The council’s recent focus is in educating families and encouraging parent participation throughout the NICU stay. Alexa has also served as the Benefis family representative for VON since April 2008. Alexa is a CPA and works full-time for the state of Montana as an auditor. Her undergrad degree is from Montana State University-Bozeman. She would also like to acknowledge her son, Cael, (who was 16-months at the time Carsyn was born) and her husband, John, who generously support these volunteer efforts by holding down the fort at home.

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Karna Padmani MD Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine doctor Michigan State University College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics & Human Development Division of Neonatology- Sparrow Hospital Lansing, MI

Dr. Padmani Karna is a neonatologist in Lansing, Michigan and is affiliated with Sparrow Hospital. She

received her medical degree from RNT Medical College and has been in practice for more than 20 years.

Nesha Park RN, BSN Coordinator NICU Quality Improvement Children’s Mercy Hospital Kansas City, MO Nesha is a 15 year NICU nurse veteran with bedside, discharge coordination, and quality improvement management positions held. I attained a BSN in 2007.

Sameer Patel MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics-Infectious Diseases

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Chicago, IL

Sameer Patel MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases and Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship at the Ann &

Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. As Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship, he is responsible for efforts at his hospital to promote the timely, appropriate, and judicious use of antimicrobials. He earned his medical degree from Rush Medical College, was a pediatric resident at Komansky Children's Hospital of Weill Cornell, and completed his pediatric infectious diseases fellowship at the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York at Columbia University Medical Center. He received a Master in Public Health from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. His clinical and research interests are focused on antimicrobial stewardship and improving healthcare quality. He has particular research experience in neonatal antimicrobials stewardship and has published many studies and lectured internationally in this field.

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Raylene Phillips MD, MA, FAAP, FABM, IBCLC Assistant Professor of Pediatrics/Neonatology

Loma Linda University School of Medicine

Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital

Loma Linda, CA

Dr. Raylene Phillips is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatology

at Loma Linda University School of Medicine and Loma Linda University Children's

Hospital in Loma Linda, CA. Dr. Phillips' areas of special interest are breastfeeding, skin-to-skin contact

(Kangaroo Care), family-centered developmental care, neuroprotection of the developing brain, and

mother-infant attachment.

Alan P. Picarillo MD, FAAP

Medical Director

NICU Henrico Doctors’ Hospital

Richmond, VA

Alan Picarillo received his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts in 1998

and completed his pediatric residency at the UMass Memorial in Worcester, MA. He

completed a fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine at UMass Memorial in 2001 and is board

certified in pediatrics and neonatal-perinatal medicine. He is currently the medical director of the level

3 NICU at Henrico Doctors' Hospital in Richmond, VA since 2016. Prior to his current position, he was

the medical director and the Chief of Neonatology at UMass Memorial Healthcare in Worcester, MA. He

has been involved in several quality improvement projects in both the NICU and the well infant

nurseries and was the co-director of the Massachusetts Neonatal Quality Improvement Collaborative

(MassNeoQIC), prior to his relocation to Virginia in 2016.

Joaquim M. B. Pinheiro MD, MPH Professor of Pediatrics Director, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program Clinical Quality and Safety Officer for Neonatology Albany Medical Center Albany, NY Dr. Joaquim Pinheiro is the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program Director

and Clinical Quality & Safety Officer for Neonatology at Albany Medical Center Hospital, and Professor of Pediatrics at Albany Medical College. He is a graduate of New York University School of Medicine, trained in Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and in Neonatology and Developmental Physiology at Yale-New Haven Hospital. His quality and safety work encompasses various areas of resuscitation, focusing particularly on neonatal airway management, aiming to characterize device and user factors which promote intubation safety and the prevention of unplanned extubations. As a member of the ASTM International Committee F29 on Anesthetic and Respiratory Equipment and the US Technical

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Advisory Group to the International Organization for Standardization, ISO/TC 121 - Anesthetic and Respiratory Equipment, Dr. Pinheiro has contributed to the development of airway manufacturing standards appropriate for neonates. He is the Albany Medical Center team leader in the multicenter Collaborative to Reduce Unplanned Extubations (CRUE) in NICU patients. Following previous experience as a co-investigator in multicenter trials of surfactant therapy, he has been the principal investigator in recent and current randomized trials of surfactant delivery via laryngeal mask airway (LMA) as an alternative to endotracheal intubation.

Daniel A. Pollock MD

Surveillance Branch Chief

Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion

National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Atlanta, GA

Daniel Pollock is a medical epidemiologist and the Surveillance Branch Chief in CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP). Dr. Pollock joined CDC in 1984 and has worked in agency’s programs in infectious diseases, informatics, environmental health, and injury prevention and control. In 2004 he moved to his current position as chief of the CDC branch that is responsible for national surveillance of healthcare-associated infections and other adverse events in healthcare. He is an active member of the Health Level Seven (HL7) data standards organization, and he has worked on electronic reporting solutions for multiple CDC surveillance systems. Dr. Pollock’s clinical background is in internal medicine and emergency medicine. He worked part-time as an emergency physician at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta from 1986 through 2007 and served as a Clinical Associate Professor in Emory University’s Department of Emergency Medicine.

Melissa Powell MSN, CRNP, NNP-BC Surgical Neonatal Nurse Practitioner CHOC Children's Hospital Irvin, CA

Melissa Powell MSN, CRNP, NNP-BC has worked as a bedside nurse at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia caring for the medical and surgical neonatal population for 6 years prior to being an NNP. She was a part of several unit and hospital wide committees focusing on education, quality improvement projects, and the training/mentoring of new RN's. As an NNP (2012-2015) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, she worked caring for the neonatal population with complex surgical needs. She has special interest in educating RN's about the care of the surgical infant and quality improvement projects to improve the care and safety of neonates in the NICU. At CHOC, she directs several quality improvement

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projects and nursing education initiatives for the surgical NICU and hospital in addition to being the clinical surgical NNP.

Jochen Profit MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Director of Perinatal Health Systems Research

Perinatal Epidemiology and Health Outcomes Research Unit

Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine

Stanford University

Palo Alto, CA

Dr. Jochen Profit received his medical degree from the Albert Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany. He completed pediatric residency training at Tufts University, and fellowships in neonatal-perinatal medicine and health services research at Harvard. From 2005 to 2013, Dr. Profit served as Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. In 2013, he joined the faculty at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he continues his research. Dr. Profit’s primary research interests are measuring and improving the quality of neonatal and pediatric health care delivery, with a focus on enhancing organizational effectiveness. He has received federal and intramural support for his research. Dr. Profit has served as a member of the National Quality Forum’s Steering Committee on National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Perinatal Care and on the National Priorities Partnership Action Team. He has also been a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Perinatal Pediatrics Technical Committee on Neonatal Quality Improvement. Dr. Profit has published in the areas of quality measurement and improvement, financial incentives, and cost-effectiveness, and has also given workshops, symposia, and other scientific presentations on his work.

Karen Puopolo MD, PhD Chief, Section on Newborn Pediatrics Pennsylvania Hospital Associate Professor, Clinical Pediatrics University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Philadelphia, PA

Karen M. Puopolo MD, PhD is a neonatologist who specializes in neonatal infectious diseases. She received her undergraduate degree in physics from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and went on to obtain her MD as well as a PhD in molecular physiology from the Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. She completed Pediatric residency and Neonatal-Perinatal fellowship training at Boston Children’s Hospital. Upon completing her fellowship, Dr. Puopolo was appointed to the faculty of Harvard Medical School and joined the staff of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Channing Laboratory, where she was an attending neonatologist and researcher from 2000-2014. Dr. Puopolo began her neonatal research career as a laboratory-based scientist investigating mechanisms of virulence in Group B Streptococcus (GBS). More recently her research has focused on the epidemiology of neonatal infection, with an emphasis on molecular epidemiology and risk

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assessment. Recent publications focus on the results of NIH-funded research describing the results of the largest case-control study of risk factors for neonatal early-onset sepsis done in the era of GBS prophylaxis. Dr. Puopolo is an elected member of the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Pediatric Society. She serves on the editorial board for NeoReviews. In addition, she serves on the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on the Fetus and Newborn, whose members study issues and current advances in fetal and neonatal care and make recommendations regarding national neonatal practice. Dr. Puopolo is currently on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She is a member of the Division of Neonatology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Section Chief for Newborn Pediatrics at Pennsylvania Hospital.

Leslie Roberts PhD Professor Population and Family Health Columbia University Medical Center New York City, NY Les Roberts is part of Popfam’s Program on Forced Migration and Health. He holds a

Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering and did a post-doctorate fellowship in epidemiology at the Centers for Disease Control’s Refugee Health Unit. Afterwards he worked for WHO in Rwanda during the 1994 Civil war, and then for the International Rescue Committee . Les has led over 50 surveys in 17 countries, mostly measuring mortality in times of war. In recent years he has taken part in studies to measure mortality in Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Zimbabwe and Central African Republic. His present research focuses on developing methods to document human rights violations, and on statistically representative surveillance methodologies. He teaches classes on applied epidemiology, water and sanitation, and on documenting human rights abuses.

Elizabeth Rogers MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Director, Intensive Care Nursery Follow Up Program

Assistant Clinical Director, Intensive Care Nursery

Benioff Children’s Hospital

University of California San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

Elizabeth Rogers MD graduated from Harvard University summa cum laude, and attended Stanford

University Medical School, obtaining MD in 2003. She completed pediatric internship and residency at

University of California San Francisco, finishing in 2006, subsequently completing fellowship in neonatal-

perinatal medicine at UCSF in 2010. Currently she is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF,

practicing neonatology and serving as the Director of the UCSF Intensive Care Nursery Follow Up

Program and Assistant Director of Neonatal Clinical Programs. Her research experience is in directing

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neurodevelopmental follow up ascertainment for neonatal clinical trials, and in outcomes after

periviable birth and neonatal critical illness.

Eduardo Salas PhD

Professor and

Allyn R. & Gladys M. Cline Chair in Psychology

Department of Psychology

Rice University

Houston, TX

Eduardo Salas is Professor and Allyn R. & Gladys M. Cline Chair of Psychology at Rice University. Previously, he was a Senior Research Psychologist and Head of the Training Technology Development Branch of NAVAIR-Orlando for 15 years. During this period, Dr. Salas served as a principal investigator for numerous R&D programs focusing on teamwork, team training, simulation-based training, human-to-human and human-to-automation systems, decision-making under stress, learning methodologies, trust development and performance assessment. Dr. Salas has co-authored over 350 journal articles and book chapters and has co-edited over 25 books. Dr. Salas has held numerous positions in the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society during the past 15 years. He is the past chair of the Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making Technical Group and of the Training Technical Group, and served on the Executive Council. He is currently the immediate Past President of the Society. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (SIOP and Division’s 19, 21 & 49), the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and the Association for Psychological Science. He received his Ph.D. degree (1984) in industrial and organizational psychology from Old Dominion University.

Renate D. Savich MD

Professor of Pediatrics

Chief, Division of Neonatology and

Newborn Services at the

University of Mississippi Medical Center

Jackson, Mississippi

Dr. Renate Savich, Professor of Pediatrics, is the Chief, Division of Neonatology and Newborn Services at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi. She is the Division Chief of the state’s only Level IV NICU with over 100 beds and a 15-bed Level II nursery. Her Division has 12 neonatologists, 5 neonatal hospitalists and 4 PhD research faculty. She is also on the Steering Committee of the newly organized Mississippi Perinatal Quality Collaborative, a joint effort of neonatologists and obstetricians in Mississippi to improve perinatal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. She was previously at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM. She received an M.D. degree at the Northwestern University School of Medicine in 1982 and completed pediatrics residency at Children’s Memorial Hospital (Northwestern University) before her fellowship training in neonatal/perinatal medicine from 1985-88 at the University of California, San Francisco. A fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics, Savich is currently the Chair of the American Academy of

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Pediatrics Section on Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, representing over 6000 neonatologists in the US. She is also a member of the editorial board of NeoReviews. She has extensive involvement in neonatal Global Health and is on the AAP Steering Committee for Helping Babies Survive. She has recently been appointed as the AAP Liaison to Ethiopia for the Saving 100,000 Newborns Initiative.

Pat Scheans DNP, NNP-BC

Neonatal Nurse Practitioner

Clinical Support for Neonatal Care for Legacy Health

Randall Children’s Hospital

Portland, OR 97227

Pat brings over thirty years of caring for newborns and their families to the field of

telemedicine. She received her BSN from the University of Oregon Health Sciences

Center, her NNP certification from South Dakota State University, and her Masters of Nursing with an

education specialty and DNP from Walden University. Her current job entails providing clinical support

for the 8000+ newborns of Legacy Health in Portland, Oregon. Away from work, Pat enjoys

opportunities to teach newborn care to health care staff abroad, most recently training NRP instructors

and STABLE Program instructors in Viet Nam.

Barbara K. Schmidt MD, FRCP Professor of Pediatrics Kristine Sandberg Knisely Chair In Neonatology Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Staff Neonatologist, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA

Barbara K. Schmidt MD, FRCP is a Professor of Pediatrics and Kristine Sandberg Knisely Chair in Neonatology, Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA and Staff Neonatologist, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She is also a Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at McMaster University in Canada and the PI of several international multi-center trials, including the Caffeine for Apnea of Prematurity (CAP) trial to evaluate the long-term safety of neonatal caffeine therapy in very low birth weight infants.

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Nancy G. Shay RRT-NPS Respiratory Therapy Team Leader Neonatal ICU OSF Saint Francis Medical Center Children's Hospital of Illinois Peoria, IL Education: Rock Valley College/Rockford, Illinois/Associates Degree/May, 1975 Saint Anthony Hospital School of Respiratory Therapy/Rockford, Illinois/Diploma/May, 1975 Professional Qualifications: Registered Respiratory Therapist/National Board for Respiratory Care/June, 1977 Neonatal Pediatric Specialty Credential/National Board for Respiratory Care/May, 1991 Licensed Respiratory Care Practitioner/State of Illinois/#194.002706 Neonatal Resuscitation Program Instructor/ID 602-6671 Professional Memberships: American Association for Respiratory Care Illinois Society for Respiratory Care Vermont-Oxford Network Core Leadership Team/Children's Hospital of Illinois

Jan Schriefer MBA, MSN, DrPH

Director of Pediatric Quality Improvement

Golisano Children’s Hospital at University of Rochester Medical Center

Assistant Professor,

Pediatric Hospital Medicine

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Rochester, NY

Dr. Schriefer has taught numerous continuing medical education courses and programs. She has been on the meeting planning committees for Institute for Health Care Improvement, HRSA, JACHO and NICHQ. She has presented on quality improvement topics more than 100 times. She has completed peer review as a quest editor for numerous journals. She has been an administrator and investigator on many grants. She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and Director of Quality Improvement for the Golisano Children’s Hospital at University of Rochester Medical Center. She is the lead author on Quality Improvement: An Overview in Pediatrics In Review August 2012. She just completed a HRSA funded grant for quality improvement of epilepsy care in children as a subcontractor to John Snow Incorporated. She is also involved in the perinatal simulation lab on a grant funded by HRSA and also NYS Department of Health. She is on a grant from NYS DOH related to obesity prevention. She is part of the NICU team responsible for maintaining the Vermont Oxford Network (VON) database at University of Rochester. She has been a quality improvement facilitator for VON since 2001. Previously, she was the Director of Outcomes Management at Spectrum Health/Helen Devos Children's Hospital. Before that, Dr. Schriefer worked at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, VT as a critical care nurse, cost accountant and quality improvement facilitator of the SICU early extubation QI project

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that won the USA Today and Mosby Quality Awards. At University of Michigan, her doctoral research focused on asthma quality of life surveys to predict resource utilization.

Joseph Schulman MD, MS

Director, NICU Quality Measurement and Improvement

California Children’s Services / Systems of Care

California Department of Health Care Services

Sacramento, CA

Dr. Schulman is a neonatologist and Director of NICU Quality Measurement and Improvement at the California Department of Health Care Services. He is also an adjunct Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. He received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, completed fellowship training at Duke University Medical Center, and received a M.S. degree in the evaluative clinical sciences from Dartmouth. His peer-reviewed publications center on NICU quality improvement, clinical informatics, and infection prevention/antibiotic use. He is the author of two books: Evaluating the Processes of Neonatal Intensive Care; and Managing Your Patients Data in the Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Units; each published by BMJ Books/Blackwell/John Wiley.

Robert E. Schumacher MD Professor of Pediatrics University of Michigan Medical Director C. S. Mott Children’s Hospital Brandon NICU Ann Arbor, MI

As a clinical investigator Dr. Schumacher has participated in multiple studies ranging from the use of ECMO in full term infants to artificial surfactant therapy in VLBW infants. He leads multiple quality improvement projects including standardizing the treatment of narcotic-exposed infants, and has presented results at an international conference. He and his coauthor, Dr. Stephen Patrick collaborated on a recent paper “Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and Associated Health Care Expenditures: United States, 2000-2009″ JAMA online first April 30 2012. His interests include the role of anecdotes in medicine, evidence-based medicine, and medical decision-making.

Ginny Shaffer Parent Navigator The Children’s Hospital at Providence Anchorage, AK Ginny has been in the role of Parent Navigator for The Children’s Hospital at Providence since 2006. During this time they have been able to begin to re-energize their parent volunteer groups, increase parent support offerings every month as well as provide

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monthly meals. Ginny was privileged to be included in the NICQ Collaborative Design team for the design and building of their new single-family room NICU. They have also been able to increase their family-centered care training for new staff from a 30-minute block of time to a 10-hour day.

Jared Shaw Clinical Systems Analyst Wesley Medical Center Department of Neonatology Wichita, KS

Jared has over 15 years of experience in data and technology, with a majority of that time spent focused on development, technology operations, and quality assurance. For the past six years he has served in the role of Neonatal Clinical Systems Analyst at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas, where he uses a variety of technologies to help advance the hospital’s mission, and turn the vision and ideas of leadership into reality.

Roger F. Soll MD President, Vermont Oxford Network H. Wallace Professor of Neonatology University of Vermont Burlington, VT Dr. Soll is the H. Wallace Professor of Neonatology at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, the President of Vermont Oxford Network, and Director of

Network Clinical Trials. Dr. Soll is an authority in evidence-based medicine and randomized clinical trials. He is the coordinating editor of the Cochrane Neonatal Review Group of the Cochrane Collaboration and author or co-author of the Cochrane Reviews of surfactant therapy. He is the author of numerous peer reviewed articles and book chapters on the subject of surfactant replacement therapy and evidence-based medicine. A native of New York City, Dr. Soll graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Genetics and History of Science in 1975. He received his MD degree from the University of Health Sciences/Chicago Medical School in 1978. He returned to New York City to complete his residency training in Pediatrics at Bellevue Hospital/New York University Medical Center in 1981. After 2 years with the Public Health Service, Dr. Soll returned to academic training. He completed the post graduate fellowship in Neonatal Perinatal Medicine at the University of Vermont in 1983 and has remained in Vermont ever since.

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Stephen Spurr MD Neonatologist Inova Fair Oaks Hospital Fairfax, VA

Dr. Stephen Spurr is a neonatologist in Fairfax, Virginia and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Inova Fair Oaks Hospital and Inova Fairfax Hospital. He received his medical degree from University of Glasgow Faculty of Medicine and has

been in practice for more than 20 years. He is one of 25 doctors at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital and one of 26 at Inova Fairfax Hospital who specialize in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine.

Arjun Srinivasan MD (CAPT, USPHS) Associate Director for Healthcare Associated Infection Prevention Programs Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta, GA Arjun Srinivasan MD envisions a future where patients are safer because healthcare-

associated infections have been stamped out and antibiotics are used correctly. Charting the path to this new reality, Srinivasan investigates hospital-associated disease outbreaks and conducts ground-breaking research into multi-drug resistant organisms and the use of antimicrobial drugs. Srinivasan directs CDC’s programs aimed at preventing healthcare associated infections. He advocates for everyone—from parents to farmers to doctors—to “Get Smart” and understand when antibiotics work, and when they don’t. A distinguished research scientist, Srinivasan also offers clear, crisp explanations of very real healthcare problems and the path toward solving them.

Eileen Steffen RNC-NIC NICU Quality and Research Coordinator Saint Barnabas Medical Center Livingston, NJ Eileen has worked in the NICU at Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston NJ for the past 31 years. During this time, she has had clinical experiences at various levels

including working as a staff nurse, Patient Care Coordinator, Clinical Instructor and now as NICU Quality and Research Coordinator. Eileen has participated in VON NICQ collaboratives since 2001. In 2005, her unit participated in the “Your Ideal NICU (YIN)” Project and Eileen functioned as the coordinator and was instrumental in implementing a NICU Family Advisory Council. She continues to work closely with these dedicated volunteers to improve the NICU experience for current and future NICU babies and their families. Currently, Eileen coordinates and leads staff at all levels to facilitate quality improvement and safety of care to the neonates they care for. She coordinates the NICQ efforts by working collaboratively with her team to plan, organize, implement, standardize and audit process improvements while identifying new

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areas to improve the quality and safety of care provided to the patients. She was honored to act as Clinical Leader for the “Milky Weigh” Nutrition group in NICQ 2009, for the POD Homeroom in NICQ 7 and NICQ 8. She is currently acting as ONSITE leader for the POD Micro-Premature Infant Homeroom as part of the NICQ Next: Innovations in Newborn Care. Since 2009, Eileen has been instrumental in helping to lead, plan, and educate during the early stages of the formation of the NJ NICU State Collaborative. She has worked as a member of the Planning Committee while working closely with the other state Collaborative leaders to help coordinate and implement quality improvement initiatives to improve the care provided to all neonates and their families. In addition, since 2012, Eileen has coordinated the NCABSI project at her site.

Bernard Thébaud, MD, PhD Senior Scientist, Regenerative Medicine, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute & CHEO Research Institute Pediatrician, Division of Neonatology, The Ottawa Hospital and the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Professor of Pediatrics, University of Ottawa University of Ottawa Partnership Research Chair in Regenerative Medicine

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Dr. Bernard Thébaud is a clinician-scientist recruited to Ottawa from Edmonton in 2012 to accelerate the translation of stem cell-based therapies for lung diseases. Dr. Thébaud is a senior scientist with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and a neonatologist with the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, where he provides care to critically ill newborns. He is also a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Thébaud obtained his MD at the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France in 1991 and trained in Pediatrics and Neonatology at the University Paris V in Paris, France, where he also obtained his MSc and PhD, before completing a 2 year post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta. Dr. Thébaud studies the mechanisms of lung development, injury and repair in order to design new treatments for incurable lung diseases. He has set out an ambitious research program in order to study clinically-relevant questions for translation into real-life applications. Over the next five years, his goal is to bring safe and effective cell-based therapies for lung diseases into the clinic, and thereby create vast improvements in patient outcomes. Dr. Thébaud has participated on numerous peer review committees and scientific advisory boards at the international, national and provincial level, including NIH and CIHR. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications, and given over 50 lectures at leading international meetings and institutions over the past 5 years. He received the “Rising Star in Perinatal Research” award from the CIHR Institute for Human Development, Child and Youth Health in 2008, and the “Best in Current Canadian Child Health Research” Sanofi Pasteur Research Award in 2007. Dr. Thébaud currently holds the University of Ottawa Partnership Research Chair in Regenerative Medicine.

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Lloyd J. Tooke MBChB Paediatrician, Neonatologist Groote Schuur Hospital University of Cape Town Cape Town, South Africa

Lloyd is a paediatrician and neonatologist working at the Groote Schuur Hospital neonatal unit which is

affiliated with the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He has special interests in congenital and

acquired infections of the newborn, especially HIV and syphilis, and the care of the extremely low birth

weight infant in resource poor areas. Life highlights include traveling through Africa in a Land Rover and

raising his 3 children. He is looking forward to finding some geocaches (not Pokemon) in Chicago.

Rachel Umoren MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

University of Washington

Seattle, WA

Dr. Rachel Umoren is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington. She graduated with a medical degree from the University of Calabar in 2003 and completed her pediatric residency and neonatal fellowship training at Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, Indiana in 2012. She has advanced training in clinical research and quality improvement with a Masters in Clinical Research from Indiana University (2010) and Certificate in Patient Safety and Quality from the University of Washington (2016). She also has advanced training in educational scholarship as a graduate of the Academic Pediatric Association Educational Scholars Program (Cohort VI). Dr. Umoren's research centers on the evaluation of emerging technologies such as virtual simulation for health professional training. These innovative strategies enable neonatal educators to implement and test quality improvement processes with the goal of improving neonatal care and decreasing infant mortality.

Rebecca J. Vartanian MD Assistant Professor Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI

Rebecca Jane Vartanian MD is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine within the Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases at the University of Michigan. She received her medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine and completed her

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Pediatrics and Neonatology training at the University of Michigan. Dr. Vartanian joined the faculty in 2010. Dr. Vartanian oversees and facilitates the quality improvement initiatives in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit, including multi-center collaborations within Vermont Oxford Network and the State of Michigan Quality Initiative. Her clinical interests include oxygen management in premature infants, optimization of neonatal nutrition, and the care of extremely low birth weight infants.

Lelis Vernon BA Volunteer Parent Baptist Children’s Hospital Miami, FL In 2008, Lelis became the first volunteer NICU parent to work with the NICU team. Since then she has worked to create, grow and coordinate all activities of the Parent Advisory Council (PAC). She provides leadership and support, from a parent’s

perspective, in the educational and programmatic activities that promote and implement family-centered care in the NICU. Lelis formally coordinates ways in which PAC family members can contribute to the improvement of health care quality provided in the NICU. She actively participates and collaborates in specific study groups and unit committees of the NICU (Baptist Children’s NICU FCC Committee, Vermont Oxford Network Team, QI teams).

Dr. Khawaja Ahmad Irfan Waheed MBBS, FCPS (Paeds, Pk), Fellowship in Neonatology (RCPCH, UK) Associate Professor of Neonatology The Children's Hospital & The Institute of Child Health Lahore, Pakistan

After completing his post-graduation in Paediatrics in 1998, Dr. Waheed started working in Paediatrics with special interest in Neonatology. In 2002, he moved full time to Neonatology. Dr. Waheed was the first one in Pakistan in Public sector to opt for this sub-specialty as full time dedicated Neonatologist. Hewas sent by the College of Physicians & Surgeons Pakistan in 2004 for Fellowship in Neonatology by the Royal college of Paediatrics & Child Health-UK that he completed in stipulated time of 2-years and returned to Pakistan in 2006. Since then, Dr. Waheed is serving as a Neonatologist in a tertiary-care Children's Hospital in Lahore-Pakistan. Currently, he holds the position of Associate Professor and is the lead consultant and the Head of the Department of Neonatology. He is also a supervisor and examiner in subject of Neonatology for College of Physicians & Surgeons Pakistan. Many of Dr. Waheed’s trainees have qualified their Fellowship in Neonatology awarded as 2nd Fellowship by the College of Physicians & Surgeons Pakistan. He has also published many research papers, both review & original, in national & international journals. Dr. Waheed has been part of the team that initiated HBB trainings in all the provinces of Pakistan and also received training in HBS in the first Asian regional workshop held in Bangladesh in 2015 and plans to start it

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in Pakistan. His experience is based on working with UNICEF and the Government as a 'Technical Member' for last many years in efforts to reduce NMR. Dr. Waheed has observed the strategy of Government & development partners and reasons for their failure to get the desired results. Based on his clinical knowledge and experience of working with these organizations, he has suggested an evidence based strategy that, he believes, if implemented in true spirit can improve NMR.

Lori Wakashige MPA:HA, LCSW Program Director Regional Outreach Randall Children’s Hospital NICU Portland, Oregon Lori Wakashige, MPA:HA, LCSW, is the Program Director for Regional Outreach at Legacy Health, a six hospital system, based in Portland, Oregon. Lori has worked for Legacy for the past 11 years, developing education programs and outreach services for

surrounding communities. Lori’s previous experience as a licensed clinical social worker, working with the mental health and geriatric populations, provided insight into barriers related to accessing specialty services and care coordination. In her current role, Lori is focused on integrating telehealth into clinical practice to improve access to specialty care and support efficient service delivery.

Bonny Whalen MD Assistant Professor Department of Pediatrics Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth Newborn Nursery Medical Director and Newborn/Pediatric Hospitalist Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Lebanon, NH

Bonny Whalen MD is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Dr. Whalen received her MD degree from the University Of Vermont College Of Medicine and completed her Pediatrics Residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. She then spent six years as a general pediatrician and newborn hospitalist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI before moving back to New England in 2005. She has spent the last 11 years as a general pediatrician specializing in newborn care, working as a newborn / pediatric hospitalist and Newborn Nursery Medical Director at the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock. Dr. Whalen co-leads quality improvement efforts in her hospital and region to improve care for newborns with perinatal substance exposure and with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome due to in-utero opioid exposure. Her work focuses on increasing baby- and family-centered care, improving neonatal outcomes and mother-baby bonding through rooming-in couplet care for NAS, empowering families to best care for their newborns through prenatal education and in-hospital support, and increasing breastfeeding rates in this vulnerable population through educating and encouraging abstinence prenatally and communicating with a mother’s outpatient treatment provider and the baby’s medical home to ensure safe breastfeeding after discharge. Dr. Whalen has co-led a qualitative study on the hospital experience of families as it relates to a mother’s opiate exposure in pregnancy and care of her newborn postnatally, and a hospital

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quality improvement project to be published in the journal Pediatrics in 2016 titled: "Rooming-in to treat neonatal abstinence syndrome: Improved family-centered care at lower cost." Dr. Whalen serves on a National Perinatal Association's workgroup to create national best practices, based on the best current evidence, to care for pregnant women with opiate use disorders and their at-risk babies, and served as faculty for the VON 3-year internet national collaborative (iNICQ) on Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.

Denise Zayack RN, BA, MPH Collaboratives Coordinator and Coach Division of Quality Improvement & Education Vermont Oxford Network Burlington, VT Denise Zayack RN, BA, MPH is a Collaboratives Coordinator and Coach, Division of Quality Improvement and Education in Vermont Oxford Network (VON). Denise has a long history with VON, collecting and submitting data in the early years of the

Network, co-leading NICQ teams and as a research project steering team member. As Operations Director of a Canadian NICU she advanced excellence in innovation, patient and family-centered, developmentally appropriate care and safety best practices. Denise mentored and coached interdisciplinary team members through collaborative quality improvement, effective team building, communication and professional development. Denise also worked as a Health Care Consultant to improve health outcomes for those with chronic illness. Denise’s academic preparation includes Nursing, a BA in Bioethics and an MPH with a concentration in quality improvement science from The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College, NH.

John Zupancic MD, MS, ScD Associate Professor of Pediatrics Harvard Medical School Associate Chief of Neonatology Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, Massachusetts 02215

Dr. Zupancic is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Associate Chief of Neonatology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His research and consulting work seek to improve the efficiency with which scarce resources are used in improving the health of children, and in particular, newborns. He has focused on performing and improving the validity of economic evaluations alongside neonatal clinical trials and on the use of computer modeling to determine best practice when evidence is currently lacking or where empirical studies are infeasible. He is also involved in various epidemiologic and health services investigations, including the Neonatology Canon Project, a large-scale systematic review of all randomized controlled trials in neonatology over a twenty-two year period. Dr. Zupancic has served as leader of the Value Initiative for Vermont Oxford Network’s Neonatal Intensive Care Quality Improvement Collaborative and is the Chair Elect of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Perinatal Pediatrics. His teaching and mentorship of fellows has been recognized locally through the Merton R. Bernfield Mentoring Award, awarded by the Harvard neonatology fellows, and nationally through the John M. Eisenberg Excellence in Mentorship Award, awarded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.