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SECTION ON PERINATAL PEDIATRICSNeWSleTTeR - SUMMeR eDITION, 2011

Toward Improving the Outcome

of Pregnancy III : Opportunitis

to Improv th car of

High-Risk NonatsSott Brns, MD, FAAP

In the early 1970’s, a report from Canada showed

that neonatal mortality was significantly lower inobstetric facilities with neonatal intensive care units(NICUs) compared to those without. This findingemphasized the importance of an integrated systemthat would promote delivery of care to mothers andinfants based on the level of acuity. The conceptprompted the March of Dimes, in 1976, to publishToward Improving the Outcome of Pregnancy

(TIOP I). Leaders in perinatal health collaborated onthis effort and introduced a model system for regionalized perinatal care, including definitions of levels of hospital care, whih d to th tmpat

for prinata rgionaization and improvd

prinata outoms. Endorsement of this documentby key professional organizations ensured theimplementation of the concepts advanced by TIOP I.Regionalization of care, along with evidenced-basedtherapeutic interventions (assisted ventilation,antenatal corticosteroids, etc.), contributed to themarked improvement in neonatal survival ratesduring the ensuing two decades.

To further these efforts, in 1993, the March of Dimespublished TIOP II, which emphasized theimportan of th prinata ontinuum of ar,

from pronption through infany. TIOP II

appeared just when the importance of qualityimprovement in U.S. health care was gainingattention. In December 2010, Toward Improving the

Outcome of Pregnancy: Enhancing Perinatal Health

Through Quality, Safety and Performance Initiatives

(TIOP III) was published by the March of Dimes andpicks up where the first two volumes left off,specifically in the arena of perinatal qualityimprovement. It is not meant to be a comprehensivetextbook on perinatal health, but rather an ation-

orintd monograph of thirtn haptrs that

highight provn prinips and mthodoogis,

Prinata Nws

“AT A GlANce”

lynn D. Witt, MD, editor

Toward Improving the Outcome of Pregnancy 1

Getting to Know…Howard Kilbride 2

View From the Chair 3

2012 Spring Workshop 42011 NCE Section Program 4

Apgar Awardee: Alan Jobe 6

Education Awardee: John Hartline 8

Landmark Awardee: Ola Saugstad 9

Committee Reports

TECaN 5

ONTPD 9

Coding 10

Membership 11

Practice 12

NANN 13

Research 14

NeoReviews Salutes Jayant Shenai 15

History: ROP 16

Late Preterm Birth Rate 16

District News 17

Executive Committee Roster 28

AWARDS: Call for Nominations 30

District Grants 32Russian Neonatology 33

Dr Forrest Bird - 2010 Pioneer Award 34

The Section in Action! 35

Vivian Thorn, Dsign/Prodution

Printing and mailing of this issue

supported through an educational

grant from Abbott Nutrition.

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as w as std safty initiativs and quaity

improvmnt programs, that providers and healthsystems can implement now that may significantly improveperinatal outcomes.

While the entire 140-page report contains importantinformation for all perinatal providers, Chapter 8, Applying

Quality Improvement Principles in Caring for the High-Risk

Neonate, is most specifically targeted to providers in theNICU. Chapter 8 authors include neonatologists JeffreyGould, Edward Donovan and Ann Stark. This haptr

dsribs four aspts of NIcU ar - measurement,reducing variation in process and outcome, safety andindividualized care - that with appropriat attntion an

rsut in signifiant improvmnts in outoms within

a 1- to 2-yar priod. A few of the recommendations inChapter 8 include:

• Quality Improvement initiatives should includemeasurable, time-bounded goals, timely feedback,transparency, evidence-based practices, as well asattention to individualized care of patients and their

families.

• As part of improvement efforts, neonatal care providersshould embrace concepts of patient- and family-centered care, encouraging active participation of women and families in their health care decision-making.

• NICU budgets should include support for outcomesmeasurement and at least one ongoing, active qualityimprovement initiative.

A opy of TIOP III has bn inudd in this dition of

Prinata Stion Nws. The TIOP III monograph as well

as a companion Executive Summary document can bedownloaded from www. marchofdimes.com/tiop. Manyindividuals and organizations came together to produceTIOP III, including a Steering Committee comprised of experts from the American Academy of Pediatrics, The

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and NeonatalNurses, The Joint Commission, the National Committee for Quality Assurance, and the March of Dimes. Also, an

Advisory Group, made up of 25 additional organizations,have committed to assisting with dissemination of thefindings of TIOP III. Special recognition and appreciationgoes to TIOP III Steering Committee Chair William Oh, as

well as TIOP III Steering Committee members DeborahCampbell and Ann Stark for so ably representing the

Academy.

The March of Dimes is confident that TIOP III will serve asa blueprint to improve pregnancy outcomes throughcollaborative perinatal quality improvement efforts in theyears to come. As you read through the report, it is our

hop that you wi find th inspiration, aong with th

toos, to tak prinata quaity improvmnt to nw

hights in your institution.

Gtting to Know...Howard Kibrid,

MD, FAAP

District VI Representative

Medical School: University of Washington (Seattle) School

of Medicine

Pediatric Residency: University of Colorado, Denver Children’s Hospital

Fellowship: Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center

Years in Practice: 23

Current Position: Neonatology Section Chief Vice Chair for PerinatologyChildren’s Mercy Hospital, University of Missouri -Kansas City School of Medicine

Family: Married with 3 daughters. My wife, Suzi, is a specialeducation teacher who has worked for over 20 years with

visually impaired children and is currently a visionconsultant for a metropolitan school district.

Megan, married with 2 children, Will (2 years old) and Justin(4 months). She is a Cornell University graduate in geologywith a masters degree in public health from University of Kansas and worked as a county public health officer untilJustin arrived.

Ashley, married to Brett, a hospital administrator, is anelementary school teacher for the past 10 years andcompleted two post graduate degrees in education atUniversity of Missouri-Kansas City. She is in administrationat an urban charter school with the goal to be a principal.

Sara graduated from Kansas University in biology, received

a BSN from Rockhurst University and worked as a nurse inpediatric dermatology for 2 years; currently she is in her 3rdyear of medical school at Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences.

How do you keep calm?: I try to find time each day to run.The physical exertion and quiet help me refocus andprioritize my thoughts for the day.

Favorite vacation: Getting away with my family to the quietbeaches of St. John, USVI

Favorite books: Wooden: a Lifetime of Observations and

Reflections On and Off the Court (John Wooden and SteveJamison); Beyond the Question of Intent: A Great American

Battle with a Deadly Industry (David Kessler); and any Alex

Cross novel by James Patterson.

What was the last app you bought?Monterey Wine Country app

Who would you like to swap lives with for a day?Bill Self, Kansas University men's basketball coach

Recent career highlight? 2011 opening of the Fetal HealthCenter at Children's Mercy Hospital with capability of deliv-ery of women with anticipated serious birth defects withinour children's hospital

The best piece of advice you've been given?

Live in the moment!

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Viw from th chair DWayn Pursy, MD, FAAP

Although I look forward to communicating with section membersin this twice annual column, I do hope to have an opportunity togreet you personally at the Section on Perinatal Pediatrics(SoPPe) program at the annual AAP National Conference andExhibition (NCE) in my professional backyard (Boston) onOctober 14-16. The NCE SoPPe program planning, which ischaired by Howard Kilbride (profiled in this newsletter issue), hasbrought together an exceptional group of speakers in sessionsthat will address current understanding and future directions in theprevention and treatment of chronic lung disease and in newbornresuscitation.

After the close of the Organization of Neonatal-Perinatal TrainingProgram Directors (ONTPD) meeting on Friday, the NCE will open

with the annual Merenstein Lecture. This year, Donna Ferriero,will discuss “Future Strategies for Neuroprotection andNeurotherapeutic Interventions in Newborns.” The annual ConeHistory Lecture, featuring Eduardo Bancalari speaking on “TheEvolution of BPD and Mechanical Ventilation”, scientific abstractpresentations, an update from the Committee on Fetus andNewborn, and the section member forum are included among themany offerings in the weekend program. The program concludeson Sunday afternoon with three concurrent skills workshops onresuscitation simulation, pulmonary function testing for theneonatologist, and a billing/coding review and update.

Each year at NCE we pause to formally recognize major contributors to newborn medicine, research, and education. Thisyear, Ola Saugstad will receive the Landmark Award, whichrecognizes individuals for landmark contributions in a specificarea of neonatology. John Hartline will receive the Education Award, which recognizes neonatologists for outstandingeducational contributions for health care students, professionals,and the public. Finally, Alan Jobe will receive the section’s highesthonor, the Apgar Award. This is presented annually to anindividual whose career has had a continuing influence on thewell-being of newborn infants. Congratulations to each of you andthank you for all you have done for babies.

I would like to now provide a brief summary of several activeissues of interest to the neonatology community. One of the mosthotly debated issues relates to the American Board of Pediatrics(ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program and

specifically, its part 4 requirement. MOC is required of allspecialties, not just pediatrics and its sub-specialties. All 24specialty boards of the American Board of Medical Specialtieshave agreed to a four part process to measure its six corecompetencies. In Part 4, Practice Performance Assessment,physicians must demonstrate their ability to assess the quality of care provided compared to peers and benchmarks and then applyevidence or consensus recommendations to improve that careusing follow-up assessments.

In neonatology, acceptable means for completing this requirementinclude the completion of patient improvement modules,participation in approved collaborative quality improvementprojects, and the publication of an approved QI implementation or


methods manuscript. Many concerns have been raised about howthe utilization of these means in neonatology: Do these activitiesmeet the objective of practice performance assessment? Arethese activities appropriate in a team-based, systems-focusedpractice like neonatology? Do the currently available patientimprovement modules support meaningful quality improvementactivity? Are there opportunities to capture the meaningful qualityimprovement activities that are already taking place, so that thoseparticipants are not “re-directed” to less meaningful activities that

meet the current part 4 standard? What can be done to supportthose neonatologists who do not have access to significant qualityimprovement resources that others, through large institutions or groups, may have available to complete the requirements?

The section’s executive committee is committed to help addressthese issues, and a group (including Carl Bose, David Burchfield,Patrick Carroll, Dmitry Dukhovny, Dick Powers, and DeWaynePursley) is working actively to engage and inform the ABP with thegoal of identifying solutions that will lead to achievable andmeaningful assessment and improvement of practice performanceWe’ll report on progress in this space in the next issue.

Another hot issue relates to the proposal for revised requirementsfor pediatric residency training that was recently circulated by the

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Among the proposed changes of relevance to neonatal-perinatalmedicine are a minimal requirement of two months of neonatalintensive care; a 10-16 month range of inpatient care; andelimination of the endotracheal tube placement technical corecompetency (replacing it with “understanding the indications,contraindications, and complications” of the procedurerequirement; bag-mask ventilation and umbilical venous catheter placement remain core competencies).

This proposal has many potential implications for requisiteknowledge and skills in both neonatal and pediatric care and couldpotentially impact the future supply of both neonatologists andpediatricians. Neonatal intensive care training in residencyprovides core training in resuscitation and stabilization of sicknewborns and experience in discerning sick from transitioningnewborns- both essential to general pediatric care. NICUs alsoprovide essential experiences in multi-disciplinary team-basedcare, complex care, prioritization and problem solving, and thecommunication of bad news. While the proposal continues tosupport time for career exploration and tracks, there is the potentiafor less preparation for neonatal-perinatal fellowship training. Froma workforce perspective, less inpatient time may reduce theperceived “value” of pediatric residents in training hospitals,resulting in fewer funded positions with the possibility of futurepediatrician shortages.

The Section, ONTPD, and the Council on Pediatric Subspecialistsamong other organized bodies, are preparing responses in the

mandated comment period.Finally, I’m certain that all of you who continue to provide neonatalintensive care have experienced critical drug shortages in your units. These shortages, which affect all specialties, are welldocumented on two websites: the FDA(http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/DrugShortages/default.htmand the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists(http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/DrugShortages/default.htmboth track them.

The shortages basically come down to supply (raw materials,manufacturing problems, recalls, etc) and demand (new

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Spring Workshop 2012Marh 30 - Apri 1, 2012

Sottsda, AZ

The Workshop on Perinatal

Practice Strategies (“the

Scottsdale meeting”)continues to grow and evolve.

We will meet next year March

30-April 1, 2012 at the Paradise

Valley resort in Scottsdale. Our theme is GPS for the

Neonatologist: Finding Leadership Everywhere,

continuing our focus on facilitating leadership skills,

along with sessions on coding and reports from our

Section and Academy leaders, from the Committee

on the Fetus and Newborn, and from the Trainee and

Early Career Neonatologists Group (TECaN).

Pnary sssions wi fatur prsntations by

Aan Job (pigntis), ena Funts (Hispanidisparitis in prinata ar) and car Hunt

(affin and nurodvopmnt), while breakout

sessions will address a variety of topics ranging from

clinical to financial and advocacy aspects of

neonatology in a rapidly changing health care

environment. Most importantly, this workshop

provides many opportunities to network with

colleagues in a relaxed and stimulating setting. You

will leave feeling informed and empowered to create

positive change in your practice, your patients, and

yourself. Save the date, and watch for a detailed

agenda with registration information by October!


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2011 AAP NceStion on Prinata

Pdiatris Program

Boston, MA

Friday, Otobr 14, 2011

(Boston Convention Center)

10:00-5:00 PM Organization of Nonata-Prinata

Training Program Dirtors (ONTPD)

5:15-6:00 PM Mrnstin ltur

Future Strategies for Neuroprotection and

Neurotherapeutic Interventions in Newborns

Donna Frriro, MD

6:00-8:00 PM Postr Sssion and Opning Rption

Poster Walk Discussions with Authors

Saturday, Otobr 15, 2011

(Seaport Hotel Plaza Ballroom)

8:00-10:45 AM Sintifi Abstrat Prsntations

John Zupancic, MD, Moderator

10:45-11:15 AM con History ltur

“The Evolution of BPD and Mechanical

Ventilation”

eduardo Banaari, MD

11:15-11:30 AM Stion Mmbr Forum

“What is Happening in the Section for

2011-2012”

DeWayne Pursley, MD, Section Chair

11:30-11:45 AM landmark Award - Oa Saugstad, MD

11:45-12:00 eduation Award - John Hartin, MD

Joint Section Program:

Perinatal Pediatrics and Pediatric Pulmonology

Ovrviw of Nonata chroni lung Disas:

Prvntion and Tratmnt

1:00-1:40 PM Pumonary car and Adjuntiv Thrapisfor Prvntion and Amioration of chroni

lung Disas

Roger Soll, MD

1:40-2:20 PM Dvopmnta Bioogy and Injury to th

Prtrm lung and Airway: Impiations for

long-Trm Pumonary Outom

Richard Martin, MD

2:20-3:00 PM Th Vasuar Bd and chroni lung

Disas: evauation and Tratmnt of

Pumonary Hyprtnsion and cor Pumona


indications, shortage of other products in same therapeutic class,stockpiling, etc.) issues. There are also clearly business factors,such as small margins and impending patent expirations, whichwill have an impact on supply.

Our units experience shortages of varying common neonataltherapeutics and include everything from parenteral traceelements to prostaglandin E. Specific shortages depend on howmuch supply pharmacies keep on inventory, other demands withinthe hospital, factors that impact our hospitals' or networks' specificbuying groups, etc.

So, what can be done about it? The AAP Committee on Drugs hasmade this a priority and, with the support of the AAP. There is afederal bill, "Preserving Access to Life Saving Medications Act",that would provide the FDA with the authority and information toassist in preventing further drug shortages. We anticipate thatthere may be opportunities to intervene with policy proposals toimprove the functioning and authority of the FDA Office of DrugShortages, which currently can only circulate information aboutdrug shortages but doesn’t have the authority to prevent or manage them. The FDA is currently planning a fall meeting on

drug shortages, and a strong presence will be mobilized for this.We have offered our support in these activities. This is animportant area of advocacy for the section. It couldn't hurt to havethe backing of the physicians caring for the sickest, smallest, andmost vulnerable patients....

As with the other issues described above, I would appreciate anythoughts or input you may have on this critical issue.

View from the Chair (cont’d)



TecaN

TECaN, the Trainees and Early Career Neonatologists

group, has very exciting news to share with the Section

membership. Over the past year, TECaN has grown steadily

and has engaged in many activities and endeavors to

advance both the Perinatal Section as well as the field of

Neonatology.

In the last few months, TECaN members been working hard

to inform trainees and early career neonatologists about the

benefits of AAP and Section membership. They have done

so by attending many of the regional educational

conferences, the national conferences, and even a few of the international conferences to spread the word about

TECaN, the AAP, and the Section. TECaN is proud to

announce that over 90 new members have joined the AAP

and the Section on Perinatal Pediatrics over the last year

because of these efforts. While Section membership fees

are waived for trainees, we feel strongly that extending

benefits to fellows during their training will gain attention for

what the Section offers and create life-long relationships

with the Section.

In addition to TECaN’s work on membership, the group has

representation on both the Perinatal Section Executive

Committee and ONTPD, as well as on some of the planning

committees for Section sponsored meetings, such as the

Spring Perinatal Practice Meeting. The Section leadership

has extended their willingness and desire to have TECaN

members as active participants in the Section and have

followed through by creating these positions. In return, we

hope to continue our recruiting and educational efforts to

encourage active Section membership.

TECaN has also created an active presence on many social

media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, and Linked-in.

These platforms allow dissemination of neonatology-related

news, articles, and other important information. They also

allow communication and networking among trainees and

early career neonatologists to improve knowledge, a senseof community, and possibly even quality of care.

These are only some of the accomplishments that TECaN

members have to their credit. Moving forward, TECaN

plans to continue these efforts and expand to other areas.

One of our goals is to expand the benefits of membership.

Currently, in conjunction with the Committee on Practice,

TECaN is working to help update and maintain the

Exploring and Evaluating Practices in Neonatal-Perinatal

Medicine. We have added references and educational

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Steven Abman, MD

3:00-3:05 PM Young Invstigator Awards

Presented by: John Zupancic, MD

3:20-4:00 PM lung Imaging and Pumonary Funtion

Tsting: can W Taior Thrapis for clD

With Mor Information?

Robert Castile, MD

4:00-4:40 PM Protratd BPD: Impat of Airway Injury,Intrvntions, and Outom

Howard Panitch, MD

5:20-5:45 PM Apgar Award Prsntation: Aan Job, MD

Sponsored by Abbott Nutrition

6:00-7:30 PM TecaN Soia Hour (Saport Trad cntr)

Sponsored by Abbott Nutrition

Sunday, Otobr 16, 2011

(Seaport Hotel Plaza Ballroom)

8:00-8:30 AM Snak Prviw: What’s Going to b Nw

in th 2012 “Guidins for Prinata car”

Presented by: Lu Ann Papile, MDChair, Committee on Fetus and Newborn

Joint Section Program: Perinatal Pediatrics and Neonatal

Resuscitation Program Undrstanding Transitiona

Nonata Physioogy: Providing car Appropriaty for

th Nwborn in th First Momnts of lif

8:30-8:35 AM Introdution: Chris Colby, MD

8:35-8:55 AM Top evidn-Basd changs in Nonata

Rsusitation

Jane McGowan, MD

8:55-9:25 PM Monitoring Oxygn Divry: Th Physioogy

of Oxygnation During Transition; What ar

th Standards for O2 MonitoringJohn Kattwinkel, MD

9:25-9:55 PM Distnding Prssur in th Divry Room:

Nw Toos, Nw Approah

Noah Hillman, MD

10:15-10:45 AM cV Support in th Divry Room –

can W Do It Bttr?

Myra Wyckoff, MD

10:45-11:10 AM Impat of Rsusitation Managmnt on

crbra Bood Fow – Impiations for

Outom

Shahab Noori, MD

11:10-11:35 AM Postrsusitation car: TmpraturManagmnt

Marilyn Escobedo, MD

11:35-11:50 AM NRP Rommndations in th Futur:

What Qustions Rmain?

Ola Saugstad, MD

11:50A-12:30 PM Panel Discussion/Audience Questions

12:30-1:30 PM Nonata carr Dvopmnt Sminar:

Tips on Transitioning - Fow to coagu

John Hartline, MD and Marilyn Escobedo, MD

TECaN report continued on Page 6 NCE Schedule continued on Page 7




2011 APGAR Award Dr. Aan Job

Alan H. Jobe, MD, PHD is the 2011 recipient of the Virginia Apgar award, conferred by the Academy to an individualwhose career has had a direct impact on the health andwellbeing of newborn infants. This honor recognizes thecareer of an extraordinary physician, scientist, teacher, andthought leader. Alan continues to impact the practice of perinatal pediatrics and inform our understanding of

respiratory in neonatal and obstetrical physiology. His workhas been seminal to our understanding of pulmonarymaturation, the physiology and biochemistry of pulmonarysurfactant, surfactant inactivation, and the hormones andinfectious diseases that influence pulmonary maturation inpreterm infants.

Alan has authored or co-authored more than 300 peer review publications and 172 chapters, reviews andeditorials. His research in published consensus statementshave provided the basis for multidisciplinary dialoguesregarding the optimal use of antenatal glucocorticoids for the prevention of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome,the best practices for surfactant replacement therapy, therole of post-natal corticoid steroids for management of neonatal chronic lung disease, and the role of chorioamnionitis in preterm labor, fetal inflammation, andlung maturation. Alan has the uncanny ability to focusdirectly on the key issues affecting perinatal pediatrics andclearly articulate the most logical strategy toward solvingthese challenging problems.

Alan has received continuous support from the NationalInstitutes of Health for more than 34 years. Innovativethinking and lucid presentation distinguish his work. Aan’s

rsarh ontributions hav bn ntra to th

voution of Nonata-Prinata Mdiin as a modrn

pdiatri subspiaty. His early studies definedfundamental principles of pulmonary surfactantmetabolism, the effects of lung injury and capillary leak onthe inhibition of surfactant. This work provides the basis for our current practices to limit lung injury in the perinatalperiod. Alan’s research has provided fundamental findingregarding pulmonary maturation, surfactant physiology,biochemistry and function, the use of antenatal steroids inclinical practice, synergies between surfactant replacementand pre-natal steroid treatment, the physiology andtreatment of bronchopulmonary dysplasia, and theimportance of therapies to minimize neonatal lung injury.

the benefits of membership. Currently, in conjunction

with the Committee on Practice, TECaN is working to

help update and maintain the Exploring and Evaluating

Practices in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. We have

added references and educational materials relevant to

starting a career after training, such as salary

information, important points to consider, negotiation

skills, and other related topics to the TECaN website atwww.aap.org/TECaN. We also plan to continue to

participate in planning meeting programming that will be

beneficial to those early in their careers as well as

trainees. We feel that these, along with some of our

other ongoing projects, will benefit the AAP, Section, and

Neonatology in general.

TECaN will be holding a reception for trainees and early

career neonatologists on Saturday, October 15th

immediately following the Apgar Award presentation at

the NCE in Boston. Please join us for food, drinks,

fellowship and learning. There will be an informal

educational lecture on the use of social media in

medicine as well as several members of the Perinatal

Section present for networking and questions. If you are

eligible for membership in TECaN, please feel free to

contact us for membership information, or visit the

TECaN website at www.aap.org/TECaN. You may also

contact Drs. Judy Aschner or Linda Van Marter, the

group’s advisors, or Dr. Christopher Young, TECaN

Chair at [email protected]

Christopher M. Young, MD

TECaN Chair and District X Representative

TecAN NeTWORKING eVeNTSAT THe 2011 Nce

Postr Wak & Rption

Friday, Otobr 14th, 5:15-8 pm

TecaN Rption, Saturday, Otobr 15th

6pm, following the Apgar AwardNo NCE registration needed for this event.

All trainees and early career neonatologists in thearea are invited.

Nonata carr Dvopmnt

Sunday, Otobr 16th, 12:30 - 1:30 pmFree box lunch for attendees.Come learn about how to find a job and what to dowith it when you get it!

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His work on early delivery room intervention, resuscitation,perinatal infection, has improved our understanding of their influence on the pathogenesis of neonatal lung disease.

Alan’s deep understanding of perinatal lung biology and thepractice of clinical neonatology led to his leadership in thedesign of the U.S. clinical trials to assess the efficacy of surfactant replacement. He worked closely with

investigators and manufacturers to develop and conductsound testing and validation of surfactant replacementtreatments. Alan’s testimony before the FDA regardingclinical trials, safety, and efficacy of surfactant replacementtherapy directly led to its approval for routine clinical use for the treatment and prevention of respiratory distresssyndrome in the United States.

Aan’s innovativ approah to sintifi invstigation

inuds th us of nov anima mods, most notaby

fta and prtrm ambs. His work is the basis for much of our current knowledge regarding effective delivery roomresuscitation, appropriate modes of mechanical ventilation,and surfactant physiology. It is important to note that Alan’sresearch activities are typically characterized by robustcollaborative interactions. His approach to scientificinvestigation inevitably enhances the productivity of all whohave the opportunity to work with him.

Aan has bn an outstanding mntor to rsidnts,

mdia studnts, fows, and sintists throughout

th word. Many of his trainees are leaders in neonatal andperinatal medicine today and established independentcareers to improve the care for preterm infants. Alan is arespected and sought-after teacher not only locally atCincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, butthroughout the United States and overseas. He is a regular

contributor to the Ipocrates Seminar Series, which providesstate of the art information for investigators and clinicians inEurope, Asia, and South America. He is a sought after speaker at international symposia and provides importantrelated service activities for international organizations.These include service as chair of the NICHD GlobalNeonatal Research Network and the DSNC for the NHLBIToll Surf Clinical Trial. He is a regular participant in the NIHconsensus conferences and strategic planning. He hasbeen an active participant in planning for programming atnational meetings including the American Thoracic Society,the American Pediatric Society, and the Society for Pediatric Research.

Alan’s contributions as a thought leader also extend toeditorial work. He has served as associate editor for Pediatric Research and the Journal of Pediatrics. The latter responsibility includes review of all neonatologysubmissions, a role he has served since 1997.

Alan remains an active investigator, clinician, and teacher.He is principle investigator of an NICHD program to studylung injury and repair following resuscitation in the preterminfant and serves as the Cincinnati PI for the Prematurityand Respiratory Outcome Program (PROP), a multi-center program funded by the NICHD to identify biomarkers for

BPD. He serves as a consultant for the Gates Foundation,looking to identify opportunities to employ novel technology toimprove maternal and infant outcomes in the developing world.

It is important to note that Alan is a gifted bedside clinician,serving as a Cincinnati Children’s attending physician for theUniversity of Cincinnati Newborn Intensive Care Unit. Hisclinical acumen and judgment engender profound respect

and appreciation from patient care, staff and families. Alanclearly enjoys the opportunity to work at the bedside. Heexemplifies the notion of the true physician scientist, movingbetween the clinical realm and laboratory with ease.

Alan’s academic achievements have not goneunrecognized. He received the Mead Johnson Award for research in pediatrics and the Academy of Pediatrics in1988, and more recently was the recipient of the ArvoYippo medal from the Pediatric Academics Societies of Finland, and the 2010 Thomas Hazinski DistinguishedService Award. In 2007 Alan was elected to the Institute of Medicine, one of only two active neonatologists in theUnited States with membership in that distinguished body.

Alan’s achievements as a scholar, clinician and leader,while exemplary, do not tell the whole story. I would beremiss if I did not also recognize Dr. Jobe’s extraordinarypersonal qualities. Despite a hectic schedule and anunending list of commitments, Alan remains thequintessential physician’s physician. He is easilyapproachable by all who interact with him from the newesttrainee and the most senior clinician. Alan’s extraordinarycharacter testifies to his commitment to the creation of newknowledge and applying the most rational and effectivecare for our vulnerable patient population. I find that all whowish to partake of his expertise will have that opportunity. I

am privileged to call Alan my colleague and will always begrateful for his ongoing friendship and collaboration.

This year Alan joins a distinguished list of Virginia Apgar award recipients. I am delighted that Alan’s name isincluded among that venerable cohort and look forward tohis ongoing contributions to the health and wellbeing of newborns throughout the world.

James M. Greenberg, M.D.

1:30-4:30 PM CONCURRENT SKILLS WORKSHOPS

1:30-2:45 PM A. Dbrifing in th Simuator, DivryRoom, and NIcU: What, Whn, Whr,

Why, and How?

Workshop Leader: Lou Halamek, MD

B. Pumonary Funtion Tsting for

th Nonatoogist

Workshop Leaders: Robert Castile, MD;Howard Panitch, MD; Stephen Abman, MD

c. coding Workshop

Workshop Leaders: Gil Martin, MD,Stephen Pearlman, MD

3:00-4:15 PM Repeat of Concurrent Workshops A, B, C

NCE Schedule (cont’d)

SECTION ON PERINATAL PEDIATRICS NeWSleTTeR - SPRING eDITION, 2011 www.aap.org/perinatal




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2011 eduationa

AwardJohn Hartin, MD

John V. Hartline, M.D. will be therecipient of the 2011 American

Academy of Pediatrics, Section on

Perinatal Pediatrics NationalNeonatal Educational Award.

John first began his focus on education by organizing theKalamazoo Symposium for Michigan Neonatologists in 1975and continued this state of the art interactive conference for 31 years. His innovative, futuristic approach to educationutilized an “audience response system” as another method toeducate. He was among the first to use this approach, whichis now state of the art in the education process.

Dr. Hartline participated in the initial organization of theNational Perinatal Association in 1975 where he promotedmultidisciplinary participation in education, policy

development and research. He first served on the board of NPA, became president, and was responsible for their educational meetings for many years.

Since its inception in the early 1990s, he has been amember of the planning and advisory group for theDevelopmental Environment of the NICU Project. Thisproject, fostered by former Apgar Awardee Dr. StanleyGraven and now chaired by Robert White, M.D., hasstimulated scientists throughout the world to exploreevidence relating to the impact of the nursery environmenton subsequent neonatal development. There have beenseveral Journal of Perinatology Supplements on this topic.Dr. Hartline continues to coordinate the scientific abstractswhich are presented each year at the annual meeting.

As a member of the executive committee on the Section of Perinatal Pediatrics, Dr. Hartline is Chair of the Committeeof Practice Management and was the lead author on thepublication “Understanding a Practice Venue” (J Perinatol

(2002;22:supplement 1). He is currently the Editor of theupdated “Evaluating and Exploring Practices in Neonatal

Perinatal Medicine” which is published on the PeriatalSection’s website. These materials contribute to theeducation of neonatal fellows, introducing them to thespectrum of neonatal practices, demographic issues, andnon-clinical areas important within practices. He has

presented seminars for fellows at Perinatal Sectionsessions at the NCE, at District perinatal meetings, and atthe PAS meeting.

Dr. Hartline chaired the Planning Group for the Section’sPerinatal Workshop from 2002 through 2005. Under hisleadership this meeting has involved to incorporate theconcepts of unit directorship, leadership, change-management, business skills, coding proficiency, andinterprofessional and interpersonal skills with the clinicalchallenges in the NICU. He continues to work with thePerinatal Workshop planning group to link the workshopprogram into the Section website.

Dr. Hartline was a member of the inaugural planningcommittee for NeoPrep and served on its planningcommittee for six years, laying the groundwork for one of the Section’s most successful educational activities. Healso served on the National Conference and ExhibitionPlanning Group from 2000 through 2010. With hisexperience in the use of audience-response technology, hesupported the expanded use of ARS at the NCE as a

means to promote education through audienceengagement.

Since 1999, Dr. Hartline has served on the PediaLink

Advisory Board. In addition he is one of the Editors of NeoReviews Plus. His responsibilities, in addition to writingquestions, include medical-editing of questions submittedby other authors, organizing the order of publication, andparticipating in the periodic peer-review sessions with theentire editorial panel. NeoReviews Plus has beenrecognized as a means to fulfill Part II of the new AmericanBoard of Pediatrics Maintenance of Certification Program inNeonatal Perinatal Medicine and provides case-based

material for discussions among trainees. In addition as amember of the Board of the National Perinatal InformationCenter, John has developed a program for patient data,quality improvement and outcomes analysis which hasbeen accepted by the American Board of Pediatrics in itsPart 4 Maintenance of Certification Program.

John presented at USAID-sponsored perinatal careconferences in Russia in May 2010 and March 2011regarding the educational role of regional centers for perinatacare. He also hosted a delegation from Russia to the NCEconference in 2010.

Dr. Hartline has been married for 46 years to Ginny, a now

retired school principal. They have three children, John Jr.,Doug and Susan and eight grandchildren. If John has anyfree time he enjoys traveling with Ginny to find new placesto explore and old haunts to relive memories.

It is in keeping with his character and commitment, thatafter retiring from clinical practice he has immersed himselfin AAP and Perinatal Section activities, becoming the onlyvolunteer physician of the AAP to be given his own officespace at the American Academy of Pediatrics Departmentof Education. In summary, Dr. Hartline’s educationalactivities demonstrate a comprehensive interest ineducation as the foundation for personal and professional

growth, excellence in care, and incorporation of theresources and opportunities within the AAP and thePerinatal Section.

John Hartline’s commitment to education over the past 37years proves that he is well deserving of the 2011 American

Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Perinatal PediatricsNational Neonatal Educational Award.

Gilbert I. Martin, M.D.



From th ONTPD chair Rita M. Ryan, MD, FAAP

Hi all – we are in the process of choosing the next Councilmembers. I am happy to announce that Sue Aucott will be thenew ONTPD Chair starting after the fall ONTPD meeting. Our new Council members (in a close vote) are Ward Ri,Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center; cathy Bnd,

University of Minnesota; and christian Dammann, TuftsUniversity.

Plans for the ONTPD meeting at the 2011 NCE are shaping upand will take place on Friday, October 14th in Boston, MA. Weare going to do a “pay as you go” dinnr on Thursday,

Otobr 13th, at lga Safood on long Wharf. DmitryDuchovny has made reservations for 8pm at the LegalSeafood right across from the aquarium. Please RSVP [email protected].

Starting July 1st, there are more specific statements in thecommon program requirements about QA /QI projectinvolvement:

• IV.A.5.d).(4) systematically analyze practice usingquality improvement methods, and implement changeswith the goal of practice improvement;

• VI.A.3. The program director must ensure thatresidents are integrated and actively participate ininterdisciplinary clinical quality improvement andpatient safety programs.

I received this information from Joe Gilhooly (soon to be Chair of the Peds RRC):

• VI.A.3. The new common requirements that go intoeffect 7/1 are pretty clear. Active participation meanshaving a major role in a project…but this can be a

group project tied to unit/dept/institutional QI activities.It does not mean a project they do solo or in isolation.We connect our fellows with different projects on our QI Dashboard (that are usually tied to outcomes fromour VO data). A faculty member is also connected tothese unit activities and they mentor the fellow in theprocess.

Nce 2011

We will have a session Friday morning with two speakers from10-12 (at the Boston Convention Center, room 52A). Our usuameeting will be on Friday 1-5pm at the same location.

Stephen Pearlman, MD on “Making the NICU Safer: Teach

Your Children Well” and Munish Gupta, MD on“Implementation of a Fellowship QI Modulein Your Program.”

Again, please consider supporting the Section (they supportONTPD) by attending the great meeting planned (detailedinformation available on the Section website athttp://www.aap.org/perinatal) for longer than just our meetingon Friday. S th dtaid Stion program shdu in

this nwsttr.

“Math Hartburn” – if you have concerns or questionsrelating to the match please do not hesitate to contact me([email protected] 843-876-1684).

2011 landmark AwardOa Saugstad, MD

During the last 30 years Dr. OlaSaugstad’s outstanding research hasmost essentially contributed to our current knowledge on the role of oxygen radicals in diseases of preterm

and term infants as well as onischemia-reperfusion injury inneonates.

Utilizing various in vitro systems and animal models, Dr.Saugstad has provided impressive and fundamental data onbasic physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology of themechanisms responsible for reoxygenation injury. Thirty yearsago, Dr. Saugstad established hypoxanthine as a newbiochemical system for the diagnosis of perinatal hypoxia.Years later, he was the first to propose that hypoxia-reoxygenation injury is caused by an excess of free toxicoxygen radicals generated during reoxygenation.

By now, there is increasing evidence that oxygen radicals playa crucial role in the pathogenesis of acute and chronicpulmonary and non-pulmonary diseases of preterm and terminfants. Besides his continuous basic research, Dr. Saugstadhas tested the hypothesis of ischemia– reperfusion injury andon oxygen toxicity in several clinical studies, includingprospectively designed controlled multicenter trials. Thescientific background provided in his exceptional basicresearch work is most essential for a proper understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms of oxygen radicaldiseases in preterm infants. Moreover, Dr. Saugstad’s clinicalresearch is of greatest relevance since it offers the uniqueopportunity to define means by which acute and chronicdisorders of preterm and term infants may be prevented or

even effectively treated. The current concept of resuscitationwith 100% oxygen has been seriously questioned by Dr.Saugstad’s data, and his fundamental work has finally beenaccepted by the medical community: Resuscitation of pretermand term infants will no longer be performed with 100%oxygen.

Dr. Saugstad is an outstanding scientist with a distinguishedresearch career who has achieved outstanding internationalstature in his field by virtue of his original, independent, andfocused creative contributions. He is internationally wellknown for his brilliant, didactically exceptional and humorouspresentations, as well as for his kindness and his warm andmodest character.

He is definitely one of very few European scientists andclinicians who have received the highest level of recognitionand appreciation by the international scientific communityreflected by numerous invited lectures which he has presentedat scientific meetings in all parts of the world. In addition, hisleading role as basic scientist and clinical researcher isimpressively documented by his active and dominant role ininternational scientific societies.

In the view of many European and American neonatologistsand scientists, Dr. Saugstad’s service to international neonatalmedicine and to medical science is unique and outstanding.





coding committ RportPhysiians at Tahing Hospitas

(PATH Guidins)

There are specific guidelines published by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) which detail therequirements for physician supervision of residents or students. This supervision typically occurs in either ateaching facility or in a physician’s office. Theseguidelines can be found on-line atwww.aap.org/pubserv/codingforpeds. In the past severalyears there has been a larger number of communityhospital NICUs involved in the teaching of trainees.Medical schools today are encouraged to offer their students a wide variety of clinical experiences. As hospitalbudgets are developed, financial consideration must begiven to the time involved in supervising trainees. There arecertain circumstances when teaching/supervisingphysicians can bill for their services. They may bill for services only if they:

1. Personally provide service

2. Are present during the key or critical part of the service performed

3. Have independently seen the patient andreviewed the management plan withthe resident/fellow or advanced practice nurse.

The first and third criteria are fairly clear. The second one isa little more nebulous. It states that the supervisingphysician performs the essential components with theresident/fellow or personally observes when these criticalcomponents are accomplished. What is meant by

‘observe’? Was hands on care provided by the supervisingphysician? Was the physician only physically present inthe room and not close to the resident/fellow? What isconsidered the critical portion of the service? Coding for

Pediatrics 2011 states, “the selected key or critical portionof the visit is at the discretion of the physician”. It is clear that this statement is very broad and subject tointerpretation.

CPT codes reflect the various levels of billed services.These services are dependent on the complexity of the

work performed and the documentation provided. As inmost situations, the documentation becomes paramount.Many years ago, a simple countersignature was the norm,but this is now unacceptable. As time progressed,statements such as “I agree with the above” or “I reviewedthe note with the resident/fellow and agree with the materiain the progress note” came into vogue but now these tooare unacceptable. There are now documentation guidelines

which have been provided by CMS.

Supervision of non-physician Allied HealthcareProfessionals (AHPs) is even more complex. Some stateshave their own policies regarding non-physician provider (NPP) billing. These policies are called Incident-ToRequirements and these are outlined in Transmittal 1776(www.hhs.cms.gov). It is interesting that payments for thesenon-physician providers are usually about 85% of thephysician payment schedule. The supervision of AHPs ismore complicated since many states have “scope of practice laws” which govern what AHPs are allowed to dowithout direct supervision. The non-physician provider may

also have their own National Provider Identifier (NPI)allowing them to bill for their services. As you can imaginethere are often times split or shared E/M services that areprovided by both the physician and the AHP. In this case,documentation of each individual’s portion is necessary andthe progress note should include the amount of time spentby each provider. Whether the AHP is employed by thephysician group or the hospital will impact whether the feescan be split. The documentation requirements by thephysician are greater when billing for care by AHPs ascompared with a residents or fellows. The physician mustbe familiar with their own state guidelines and also thepayer’s guidelines when AHPs are part of the healthcare

team

Physician supervision of trainees has become a veryinvolved issue. It is clear that physicians practicing in ateaching environment need to be familiar with theregulations that are part of the PATH guidelines so that theywill bill appropriately for the services that they have activelysupervised.

Stephen Pearlman, M.D.Gilbert I. Martin, M.D

coding committ Distrit e-mai Addrss

Stphn Parman, M.D. III [email protected]

Gibrt I. Martin, M.D. IX [email protected]

David Boam, M.D. VI [email protected]

Wiiam eng, M.D. VII [email protected]

chars Hoffmistr, M.D. VIII [email protected]

David Kantr, M.D. X [email protected]

edward lihty, M.D. V [email protected]

Rihard Motni, M.D. VIII [email protected]

Tov Rosn, M.D. II [email protected]

Td Rosnkrantz, M.D. I [email protected]

Stuart Wisbrgr, M.D. I [email protected]

Sott Dunan, M.D. IV [email protected]

David Ws, M.D. (rtiring in Novmbr 2011)

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committ on MmbrshipIvan Hand, MD, FAAP

The Perinatal Section is the largest section within the American Academy of Pediatrics with about 3000members, including international and affiliate members.Some of the fastest growing groups in our section are our post residency training members and our affiliate members.

TECaN, the Trainees and Early Career Neonatologistsgroup is our fastest growing group with over 90 newmembers joining in the past year. This group includestrainees, whose membership fees are supported by theSection, as well as early career neonatologists within thefirst 7 years of graduation from fellowship training. TheTECaN group has quickly become an integral part of our membership, participating in many of our planningcommittees as well as the Executive Committee and theONTPD. Membership in our section allows a newgeneration of neonatologists to learn, share experiencesand improve care for our patients and their families.

A second membership group that has grown over the yearsare our affiliate members. This group represents the alliedhealth professionals who work side by side with us everyday in our intensive care units. The section offers all themembership benefits we enjoy to our affiliates and enablesthem to participate in the rich array of educational andpractice based opportunities we offer.

Membership benefits include access to members-only websites including neonatology directories, Vermont-Oxford QI,the 2010 CPT/ICD CM Coding Toolkit and the Journal of

Perinatology. As always, additional benefits includereduced rates to the Fall NCE meeting, the Spring

Perinatal Practice Workshop and NeoPrep.

Your membership in the section and active encouragementof your colleagues; be they seasoned neonatologists,recent fellowship graduates or allied health professionals,strengthens our profession and enables the section tocontinue its work on your behalf.

AAP District VIII Sectionon Perinatal Pediatrics36th Annual Conference

Rd Rok Rsort

las Vgas, NV

May 31 - Jun 3, 2012

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coding Qustion

An 1190 gm infant at 29 weeks gestation is born at 1 AM. The delivery is attended by a neonatal nursepractitioner (NNP) who is employed by the hospital butworks under the supervision of the neonatologist. Theinfant has respiratory distress and is intubated in thedelivery room and given surfactant. The infant is

admitted to the NICU and soon is extubated to CPAP.You are called by the NNP and informed about thedelivery and the infant’s condition. Management of theinfant is discussed. You initially see and examine theinfant at 7 AM, at which time the infant is now in anoxyhood in 40% oxygen. A peripheral IV is in place andthe infant is receiving antibiotics.

The proper CPT code(s) is:

a. 99464, 99468

b. 99465, 31500-59, 99468

c. 99477

Look for the answer on page 27.

CAN/AAP District IX Sectionon Perinatal Pediatrics

18th Annual Conference

Current Topics and Controversies

in Perinatal and Neonatal Medicine

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Marh 2-4, 2012

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committ on PratiWhat’s your xprin with th eMR?

The Committee on Practice spent its April meetingconsidering approaches to facilitate the incorporation of safe and efficient electronic medical records in the NICUenvironment. As was again and recently illustrated by theIllinois case wherein a transcription error led to a massive

(and fatal) overdose of sodium chloride [presented on thefront page of the Chicago Tribune!], safety and efficiencycould be enhanced if the various information systems of themodern NICU were adapted for the neonatal patient andintegrated so as to avoid human error! While all that isevident to us, the health care system has yet to embraceour needs in a systematic fashion, requiring manyinstitutions’ neonatologists to evolve their own adaptationsto the otherwise adult-oriented records. In response tothese needs, the Section’s Committee on Practice is nowexploring the potential of creating a “recommendedstandards for electronic medical records used in neonatalintensive care” document [similar to the documents onrecommended standards for NICU design].

Underlying the committee’s thinking is SAFETY! As thefront-page garnering cases often show, a safer system isneeded and human error is often implicated. Using this

foundation, rviw th idas bow and giv us

fdbak basd on your xprin and idas.

A preliminary listing of “recommended standards for theEMR as applied to the NICU” could include the following:

• Integration with obstetrical data (mother’s chart anddelivery record) to import relevant data fields neededfor newborn care

• Convenient and efficient means to enter periodicnotes, observations, conclusions, and diagnoses.For intensive care, this functionality would need toallow for multiple notes and observations per day.

o The issue of notes by trainees (residents, fellows)would need to be addressed

o Procedure notes/entries should be standardizedagainst evidence-informed care packages, noting thatcheck-lists are used and the actual performer of theprocedure

• Consultation requests and recommendations need to

be readily accessible

• Ready access to actual images (e.g., radiography,ultrasonography, MRI scans), with note space for interpretation used for clinical care as well asdate/time of “official” interpretations

• Computerized Order Entry with dose and timingreviews based on infant’s gestational age, size, agesince birth, and pharmacokinetic data

• Laboratory data retrieval using reference rangesappropriate for infants gestational age, size, and age

since birth, with ability to track specified resultsover time.

• Review of physiologic monitoring data usingreference ranges appropriate for the patient, includingbut not limited to heart rate, respiratory rate, bloodpressures (mean, systolic, diastolic), temperature,oxygen saturation, etc.

• Nutritional calculations of (parenteral, enteral, andcombined) intake, with determinations of daily inputs ffor calories, protein, carbohydrates, vitamins,minerals, trace elements – all referenced againstage-appropriate standards

• Growth calculations and automatic charting on themost patient-appropriate charts [with desiredbenchmarks]

• Reporting formats allowing for summary informationneeded for day-to-day rounds, consultations,discharge summary, and transmittal of patient datainto the records used in the medical home

• Automated incorporation of selected data fields intocollaborative databases for quality improvement, withfull protection of patient (and family) confidentiality

• Ability to create project specific data retrieval asneeded for quality improvement (e.g. infectioncontrol).

• ___________________________________

leT US KNOW – dos this ist ovr th nds?

Which ones work, or need only minor (read: inexpensive)

changes in existing systems? Which need major revisionto be SAFE and EFFICIENT? Which, in their adult-orientedformats, are dangerous? How has use of the EMR affectedthe TIME required for record-keeping or for direct patientcare? The Committee needs your input.

Our goas: to give all our colleagues yet to confront theEMR the support they need to adapt to the EMR in thesafest and most-efficient manner; to eventually have EMRexamples which allow computers to give us more time withour patients and more time to use integrated data for quality improvement.

How to respond? Contact committee members, or sendyour response to [email protected] with “EMR ideas” in thesubject line.

The Committee on Practice: John Hartline & DeWaynePursley [Co-chairs]; Claudia Alleyne, Steve Block, BobCicco, Gil Martin, Scott Snyder, Michelle Walsh, Bob White.




been completed. We received approximately 550completed surveys which represents ~12% of theworkforce. Data is currently being analyzed. An executivesummary of the report will be published on our website andin Advances in Neonatal Care, the NANN journal. Acomplete report will be available for a fee.

NANN’s 27th Annua eduationa confrn,

"exporing th Sin and Pratiing th Art of Nonata car”, September 14-17, 2011 in Orlando, FL.

Advoay, Hot Topis

AAP/cOID changs to Red Book Rgarding RSV

Prophyaxis of Prtrm Infants

Since the RSV immunoprophylaxis guideline revisionspublished by the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases(COID) in 2009, NANN and NANNP have advocated for acritical appraisal of the evidence related to RSV prophylaxisof vulnerable infants. Due to concerns expressed by theNational Perinatal Association, the National Medical

Association and many others, the CDC Advisory Committee

on Immunization Practices (ACIP) formed an RSVWorkgroup whose stated goals were to "develop evidence-based recommendations for RSV prophylaxis”. Werecently learned that the RSV Workgroup had beendisbanded by the ACIP despite growing national concernfrom both the health care and public sectors regarding thelong term impact of the new dosing recommendations. Inresponse to this action, a resolution was introduced at the2011 AAP Leadership Forum calling for a multidisciplinaryreview of the guidelines prior to their reissue/modificationfor 2012. Despite a broad base of support for thisresolution, including the AAP Committee on MedicalLiability and Risk Management, the AAP Section on

Pediatric Pulmonology, and the Idaho Chapter of the AAP, itwas defeated 70-30 in general session. NANN/NANNPappreciates the support of Dr. Pursley, who spoke in favor of the resolution at the reference committee.

NANN/NANNP continues to support a multidisciplinaryreview of the guidelines and despite this recent defeat, hassent a letter to the AAP President and Executive Director toask that they convene such a task force to evaluate theCOID guidelines for RSV prophylaxis.

Impmntation of th lAce Mod of th APRN

consnsus Mod:

LACE is the implementation mechanism for the APRNConsensus Model which calls for standardizationamong states in all areas related to licensure,accreditation, certification, and education as follows:• The APRNs legal scope of practice to diagnose, treat

and prescribe• Recognized roles and titles of APRNs• Criteria for entry into advanced practice• Certification examinations that are accepted for entry-

level competence assessmentImplementation target date is 2015. NANNP fully supportsimplementation of this model and is part of the LACEimplementation task force.

Nationa Assoiation of Nonata

Nurs Pratitionrs (NANN)Dbra A. Sansoui, edD, APRN, NNP-Bc

NANNP Position Statmnts for Rviw/Rvision,

Dvopmnt for 2011

• DNP Position Statement (2008) Review/Revision

• NNP Fatigue and Shift Length Position Statement(2007) Review/Revision

• NNP Workload Position Statement (New)

Position Statmnts (2010)

Revised 3/10: Prevention of Bilirubin Encephalopathyand Kernicterus in Newborns

Reviewed 2/10: ICU Nurse Involvement in EthicalDecisions (Treatment of Critically Ill Newborns)

Revised 1/10: Requirements for Advanced NeonatalNursing Practice in Newborn Intensive Care Unit

Guidins 20115/2011: Evidence-Based Guideline for Management of Hypotension in The Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infant, co-authored by Dr. Lyn Vargo and Dr. Istvan Seri. Endorsedby AAP Perinatal Section. Available on NANNP websiteand to be published in Advances in Neonatal Care,

August 2011.

Guidins 2010

New 1/10: Education Standards & Curriculum Guidelinesfor Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Programs (NANNP)

Reviewed 5/10: Pain Assessment & ManagementGuideline for Practice, 2nd edition

Reviewed 5/10: ABCs of Genetics, 2nd edition

Pubiations 2010

Resource Guide: High Frequency, Jet and OscillatoryVentilation (NANNP)

Resource Guide: Cardiac Care of the Newborn Infant(NANNP)

Competencies and Orientation Tool Kit for NeonatalNurse Practitioners (NANNP)

Understanding Clinical Research: A Guide for the NewResearcher (NANNP)

Developmental Care of Infants and Newborns,2nd Edition

Pubiations for ras in 2011

Neonatal Nursing Scope & Standards of Practice, 2nd Ed

Transport Guidelines, 2nd Edition

NANN Guidelines for Neonatal Nursing Policies,Procedures, Competencies, and Clinical Pathways, 5th Ed

NNP Preceptor Manual (new)

NNP Workfor Survy

The NNP workforce survey, which is the first

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interleukin 6 (IL-6). We are studying how preterm birthsuppresses neurogenesis and pro-inflammatory cytokinesmediate this effect. Our approach is to assessneurogenesis and pro-inflammatory cytokines in autopsymaterials from premature infants and to evaluate the effectof pro-inflammatory cytokines on neurogenesis in a sliceculture model from prematurely delivered rabbit pups.

Sabrina Malik, MD is currently a third year fellow at MariaFareri Childrens Hospital in Valhalla, NY. Prior to fellowshipshe completed her pediatric training at University of Medicine and Dentistry, Newark NJ. During her fellowshipshe has worked in the Neuroscience Department under thementorship of Praveen Ballabh, MD who is a NIH-fundedinvestigator studying the effects of IVH and white matter injury in a premature rabbit pup model.

Sabrina is looking forward to a career in neuroscience and her long term goals are to develop mechanism based treatmentstrategies to prevent brain injury in premature infants.

Mariya Spasova, MD

“Anti-Inflammatory Interventions to Attenuate Ischemic Brain Damage inFetal Sheep”Women and Infants Hospital

Mentor: Barbara S. Stonestreet, MD

I am a second year fellow in neonatal-perinatal medicine atWomen and Infants Hospital and the Warren Alpert MedicaSchool of Brown University. I received my medical degreefrom the Medical University, Sofia, Bulgaria, and PhD fromthe University of Rostock, Germany. My current proposal iscomplementary to the work that I accomplished during myPhD regarding the growth-promoting effects of cytokines onstem cells in the injured brain. The focus of my work isimmunomodulary regulation of cytokines in the brain of theovine fetus. I would like to pursue a career in academicmedicine, with a research focus on neurodevelopmentalbrain injury.

The overall goal of this proposal is to develop a noveleffective therapeutic intervention to prevent and/or attenuate ischemia-related brain damage in the immaturefetal brain using a naturally derived immunomodulator,Inter-Alpha Inhibitor Proteins (IAIPs). IAIPs recently havebeen demonstrated to effectively down-regulate pro-inflammatory cytokines, including TNF-α and IL-6, in

several experimental animal models of newborn and adultsystemic inflammation and in models of inflammation-induced premature labor. Not only do these proteins havebeneficial immunomodulatory effects, but they also inhibitseveral known destructive serine proteases secreted byimmune cells. We hypothesize that systemic administrationof IAIPs or their cleavage products reduce the production ofpro-inflammatory cytokines and prevent/or attenuate thedevelopment of ischemia-reperfusion injury in thepremature brain.


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Rsarh committ RportKaus Awards for 2011-12

lisa c Bain, MD

“Factors Associated with InadequateScreening for Retinopathy of Prematurityin California”

University of California San FranciscoMentor: R. Adams Dudley, MD

Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is one of the major complications facing infants born prematurely. It is aleading cause of blindness in children and accounts for up to 10% of childhood blindness in developedcountries. Early identification of ROP and subsequenttherapy can prevent many of these infants frombecoming blind. The American Academy of Pediatricshas issued guidelines that identify infants at risk for ROP,and criteria for screening for this disease. While manyneonatal intensive care units (NICUs) have systems in

place to ensure that this screening takes place, it isunknown if these systems are effective, and what theactual rates of screening are across hospitals. We willuse the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative(CPQCC) database to assess the variability in ROPscreening rates across hospitals and to identify patientand hospital level factors associated with inadequateROP screening. These results will form the basis for afuture survey of NICU leadership, in which we will testthe relationship between the systems-level factors andROP screening rates. Those systems-level interventionsshown to improve screening rates can then be adoptedas standard operating procedure to impact screening

rates among neonates at risk for ROP.

Lisa is a first year Neonatology fellow at UCSF. She alsoreceived her MD from UCSF, and traveled to Boston for her residency training at the Massachusetts GeneralHospital for Children. Prior to medical school, sheworked at The National Quality Forum (NQF), a non-profit organization in Washington D.C. She lives in Palo

Alto, CA with her husband Alex, her son Oliver, and their cat Furio.

Sabrina K Maik, MD

“Effects of Preterm Birth on Neurogenesis”

New York Medical CollegeMentor: Praveen Ballabh, MD

My project examines how preterm birth affectsneurogenesis. Premature infants develop infection,hypoxia-ischemia, intraventricular hemorrhage andsystemic inflammatory response. These insultscontribute to inflammatory brain injury. Early birth has aninfluence on brain development and timing of neurobiological processes, including neuronaldevelopment, migration and differentiation throughproinflammatory cytokines, including tumor necrosisfactor-alpha (TNF-a), interleukin 1-beta (IL1-B), and




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Nonata-Prinata Rsarh

Mntorship Grant Award

The Neonatal-Perinatal Research Mentorship Grant Awardis currently a concept without resources and funding topromote this initiative and to provide the necessaryinfrastructure to administer. Consequently, it may be helpfulto review and to recommend the well-established NIH

Fogarty International Center Programhttp://www.fic.nih.gov/Pages/Default.aspx, which hasfunding and collaboration opportunities for new foreigninvestigators as a mechanism to support the concept for the development and sustained mentorship of junior facultyin developing countries.

Tookit for th Foow-up car

of th Prmatur Infant

We are pleased to announce that the “Toolkit for theFollow-up Care of the Premature Infant” became availablein May 2011. You may access the Toolkit at

www.preemietoolkit.com.The “Toolkit for the Follow-up Care of the Premature Infant”is a multidisciplinary, electronic, interactive toolkit with aweb-based interface, which has been developed over thelast five years by MedImmune. The National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) conducted the betatesting of this Toolkit and was involved in its further development. The Toolkit is organized into 6 sections:Introduction, Discharge Planning, Outpatient Follow-upCare, Parent/Caregiver, Tools, and References. It has beendeveloped for healthcare providers to assist in thetransition of the premature infant from hospital to outpatientcare, to facilitate accurate transfer of pertinent patientinformation and to help provide evidence-based practicalmeasures for consideration in the care of the prematureinfant. The Toolkit provides age-specific information thathighlights what is unique for the premature infant from birthto 12 months corrected age. The goal is to help improve thecare and outcomes of premature infants. The Toolkit canhelp facilitate care of the premature infant by generalpediatricians and other healthcare providers. These toolsare intended to complement the healthcare providers’ care;however, the Toolkit is not intended to be a substitute for or an influence on the independent clinical judgment of thehealthcare professional.

This Toolkit is a live site and we encourage you to beginsharing this website (www.preemietoolkit.com) andinformation with your institutions, community pediatricians,and other local groups who will find the information useful.We’re also exploring the possibility of linking to the toolkitfrom the AAP and Perinatal Section websites. Please sendall questions and feedback regarding this Toolkit to:

Doris Makari, MD at [email protected] Kumar, MD at [email protected] Ariagno, MD at [email protected] LaBella, MD at [email protected]

NeoReviewsPlus SautsJayant Shnai, MD, FAAP

NeoReviewsPlus, the online neonatology review self-assessment course sponsored by the AAP, enters its 9thyear in 2012. It is complementary to the online journal

NeoReviews, first published in 2000.As w ntr our 9th yar, w'd ik to rogniz Jayant

Shnai, MD, FAAP – founding ditor, mntor, writr,

and onsin of NeoReviewsPlus. After earning his"wings" writing questions and critiques for PREP-SA, Jay,with co-editor John Hartline, MD, FAAP, was asked todevelop a similar self-assessment exercise for neonatologists. NeoReviewsPlus was the first subspecialtyself-assessment program and has set an especially highbar for subsequent subspecialties to follow.

Under Jay’s oversight, the well-tested format and style of PREP-SA was modified to include an expanded critique of

the possible answer choices; this modification has beenvery well received by learners. Members of theNeoReviewsPlus writer’s group have benefited immenselyfrom Jay's modeling and mentoring. As of the end of 2011,NeoReviewsPlus will have published 960 questions andcritiques covering all 20 of the American Board of Pediatrics major content areas for Neonatology. Each of these questions has been improved directly and indirectlyby Jay: for questions he has personally written, he hasmodeled exceptional writing and clarity; for those he hasedited, he has added precision and accuracy; and for thosewe critiqued during face-to-face editorial board meetings,he has demanded evidence-based responses, accuracy in

critiques, and clarity of thought.

He has served as a leader, partner and mentor to elevencolleagues (including ourselves) on the editorial boardduring the last eight years and as he transitions to other projects, he has taken the responsibility to orient 4 newwriter/editors in the “Shenai edition of question and critiquewriting” this year.

Jay, many many thanks! Please accept the gratitude of our colleagues whose fellowship training, self-directededucation, teaching, garnering of Part 2 MOC credits,success on the boards, and, most importantly, improvemenin our practices of neonatology has been due in part to yourcommitment to NeoReviewsPlus.

William A Engle and John V HartlineMedical Editors, NeoReviewsPlus

JoDee Anderson, Dara Brodsky, Jeff Garland, Igor Gladstone, Diane Marshall, Ron Poland, Beena Sood,Lynne Willett, and Terry ZachCurrent or former members,NeoReviewsPlus Editorial Board



HistorySf exprimntation in th extrm: Th First

Human cardia cathtrization and its R-

Disovry for cinia Appiation

Tons N. K. Raju, MD, DcH

Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Healthand Human DevelopmentNational Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Ground-breaking scientific discoveries are seldom “eureka”moments. Rather, major discoveries are often ignored,forgotten, or misinterpreted by contemporary scientists,only to be rediscovered decades later. The story of the firsthuman cardiac catheterization and its eventual rediscoveryis a good example of the complex nature of discoveries andtheir translations into practice.

Early attempts to understand the mysteries of the heart ledto experiments by Stephen Hales, who in 1727 inserted a

glass tube into the carotid artery of a horse to measureblood pressure, and Claude Bernard, who in 1844measured blood temperature by inserting a mercurythermometer, also into a horse's carotid artery. Interest ininjecting drugs (e.g., chemotherapy) into the circulation inthe early 20th century led to attempts to catheterize theheart in living subjects.

In 1929, Werner Forssmann (Figure 1), a 25-year-oldsurgery resident in Berlin, first experimented in animals andcadavers, and then did one of the most daring self-experimentations in medical history. Withthe help of an unsuspecting operating roomnurse, Forssmann dissected a vein of hisown forearm, and as the horrified nurselooked on, inserted a 65 cm-long, “well-lubricated” ureteral catheter into his own rightatrium under fluoroscopic guidance, lookingat a mirror reflection of the image.

With the catheter in place, both of them walked to the x-rayroom and obtained the first x-ray of a catheter in a living

human heart (Figure 2). In a shortpaper, he published his findings(Figure 3), which became asensational news item in localnewspapers.

Upon learning of his self experimentation, Forssmann’ssuperiors were furious and theypromptly fired him. Forssmann leftcardiology and studied surgery. After World War II, he moved to a small

border town in Austria, where he settled, practicing urology.

In the 1940's, Andre Cournand, Himert Ranges andDickinson Richards, explored methods to study the heart,and re-discovered the forgotten paper by Forssmann. They

adapted it to study cardiac function innormal and diseased humans and inanimals. Their work led to cardiaccatheterization as a life-saving diagnosticand therapeutic procedure.

In 1956, Cournand, Richards and the all-but forgotten Forssmann shared the

Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicinefor their discoveries concerning heartcatheterization and pathological changesin the circulatory system.

Moral of the story: good work eventually gets recognized,some later than others. Such stories from medical historycontinue to educate us about the complex relationshipbetween discoveries and their translation.

Werner Forssmann(1904-1979)

The first X-ray with acatheter in a humanheart; please note thetip of the ureteralcatheter Forssmannused is in the rightatrium.

The title page of

Forssmann’s paper in Klin Wschr 1929:8, 2085-7

lat Prtrm Birth Rat

The National Child and Maternal Health EducationProgram Coordinating Committee (NCMHEP) of NICHD has launched a website and educationmaterial to address the national issue of rising latepreterm births. The following URLs offer CMEregarding this issue for your own use or for you torecommend to your healthcare colleagues.

Raising Awareness: Late Preterm Birth and

Non-Medically Indicated Deliveries Prior to 39Weeks

http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/736635_transcript?src=emailthis[cid:[email protected]]

http://www.nichd.nih.gov/ncmhep/index.cfm

The NICHD's National Child and Maternal Health

Education Program

http://www.nichd.nih.gov/ncmhep/index.cfm

NCMHEP provides a forum for reviewing,translating, and disseminating new research in the

field of maternal and child health through acoalition of the nation's most prominent healthcare provider associations, federal agencies,nonprofit maternal and child health organizations,and other partners.

Marilyn Escobedo,MD, FAAP




Vermont Oxford Network Data and Plans

Retinopathy of Prematurity

The Value Equation for NICUs

NICU Improvement Stories

Nurse Staffing

Global Neonatology

Discharge Management

Measurement for NICU ImprovementOpinion and Evidence-Based Medicine

Quality Improvement for Chronic Lung Disease

Qualitative Data for Improvement

.. And much more.

Meeting information and on-line registration areavailable at the Vermont Oxford Networkwebsite: www.vtoxford.org.

DISTRIcT II:

Srgio Goombk

NeW YORK

New York State Regional Perinatal CareCenters and New York State Department of

Health

The New York State Perinatal Association(NYSPA) held its annual conference on June9th -10th at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Albany,NY. This year’s conference theme was: “Twnty

Fiv Yars in Prinata Hath: looking Bak,

Moving Forward”. For more information aboutthe conference or NYSPA please visit theNYSPA website at www.nysperinatal.org.

Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York

(CCMC) (formerly Schneider Children's

Hospital)

Dr. Rihard Shanr , Chief of Neonatal-Perinatal and Associate Chairman of Pediatricsat Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New Yorkat North Shore University Hospital, was aninvited speaker at the National NeonatologyConference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 17-19,2011, where he gave several lectures onneonatal enteral and parenteral nutrition. In May,at the Pediatric Academic Societies meeting inDenver, CO, his group presented their researchwith fellows Kiran Bhat, John cianna, andwith resident Max Kirtsman. In June, Dr.Schanler will speak at the IPOKrATES meetingon Neonatal Nutrition in Jerusalem.

Dr Shanr is excited to announce the openingof the new women’s hospital at North Shore

University Hospital for early June. He is anxiousto determine the effect on breastfeeding nowthat all maternal-infant dyads have privaterooms. Stay tuned!

Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at Westchester

Medical Center/New York Medical College

Srgio Goombk (together with John

Hartin), moderated the Historical Perspectivessession at the PAS meeting in Denver. PraveenBallabh chaired (together with Donna Frriro)the PAS Topic Symposium “Novel mechanismsin perinatal brain injury”.

Distrit Nws

DISTRIcT I:

John Zupani

MASSAcHUSeTTS

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

The Department of Neonatology welcomedJonathan litt, a graduate of the Harvard

Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine FellowshipProgram, to its core faculty.

The next Nonata Quaity Improvmnt

coaborativ of Massahustts (NoQIc)

mting wi b hd on Sptmbr 22, 2011

in conjunction with the annual GriffinSymposium at the Best Western Royal PlazaHotel in Marlborough, MA. If you’d l ike moreinformation, please contact Munish Gupta [email protected].

Children’s Hospital

Graduating fellows of the Class of 2011 of theHarvard Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine FellowshipProgram were honored at a gala dinner on June8, 2011.

Apna Aggarwa has joined the neonatologygroup at Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York. chaitanya chavda has joined aneonatology practice in Dallas. Jnny Yu has joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University.Marin Touma will be on faculty at MattelChildren’s Hospital at UCLA. Children’s Hospitalwelcomed Jonathan litt and Moy lay to theHarvard Division of Newborn Medicine.

The Harvard Neonatal-Perinatal MedicineFellowship Program welcomed the Class of 2014, including ein cowan, emok

Dshmann, Mayya Gha, Kyoung Joung,

eniko Sajti, and Saia Ghanta.

U. Mass Memorial Medical Center

The Nw engand Assoiation of

Nonatoogy/Bradn Griffin Symposium wi

b hd Sptmbr 23, 2011 at the BestWestern Royal Plaza Hotel & Trade Center inMarlborough, Massachusetts. The Symposium,entitled “Moving into the 21st Century,” willinclude the following sessions:

Morning session:

Wiiam cohran, MD - An Iconoclast LooksBack: Were the Battles Worth it?

Robrt Insoft, MD - Evolve or Dissolve: ARoadmap for Success in Neonatal Transport for the 21st Century

Aan Wakr, MD - Pre-and Probiotics inPrematures: Have They Reached Primetime?

Afternoon session:

Rihard Martin, MD - Apnea and GE Reflux

cara Song, MD – Social Media in the NICU

District One Business Meeting

VeRMONT

Th Vrmont Oxford Ntwork 2011 Annua

Mting and Quaity congrss wi b hd

on Dmbr 3-4, 2011 in Washington, Dc.The meetings will include plenary presentations,interactive workshops, and a learning fair withvideos, and posters. Topics will include:


Kudos

Congratulations to our current Chief Fellow,Sabrina Maik, MD, on receiving the prestigiousMarshall Klaus Perinatal Research award for her project: “Effect of preterm birth onneurogenesis”

Kiran Dwarakanath won the award for the bestplatform presentation and Jonathan Mintzr

won the award for best poster presentation on

“Real-time cerebral, splanchnic, and renal NIRSin very low birthweight neonates” at the NewYork Perinatal Society’s 34th Spring Meeting.

Congratulations and the best of luck to our sixgraduating fellows: Jonathan Bau, Divya

chhabra, Nja Kirtok, Vnkata Majjiga, Raja

Snguttuvan, Kiran Dwarakanath!

Every year, the Committee on the Fetus andNewborn of NY Chapter 3 holds an annualPerinatal Day symposium. The theme for thisyear was Gut injury, nutrition and outcomes inthe high-risk infant; held at the Maria FareriChildren’s Hospital on May 12, 2011. We werefortunate to have illustrious speakers, such asDrs Rihard ehrnkranz from Yale School of

Medicine, camiia Martin from HarvardUniversity, Dan Thomas from University of Southern California, Satyan lakshminsurimha

from SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine andedmund laGamma from New York MedicalCollege share their vast knowledge andoutstanding works in research. Attendanceexceeded our expectations—there were a totalof 194 attendees, doctors, nurses, andrespiratory therapists, medical and nursingstudents from the trisate area. Plans of runningthe symposium for next year are well under way

We wish to congratulate Tara Randis, MD onbeing selected as a John M. Driscoll, Jr., MDChildren's Fund Scholar. Dr. Randis has alsobeen awarded a second grant as a recipient of a

2011 Irving Institute/Clinical Trials Office Pilot Award Columbia University Medical Center.

On March 20, 2011, the Taiwan Society of Neonatology celebrated the twentiethanniversary of the founding of the Society. Threephysicians were awarded for the outstandingcontribution for the society. Dr. Jn-Tin Wung

was highly honored to be one of them.

Dr. Rihard Poin has been named theProgram Chair for the NICHD NeonatalResearch Network.

NYU

5th Annual Neonatal Nursing Conference onJune 28th continues to be a joint collaboration

with NYU Neonatal Nursing and Dr. Marthacaprio, Clinical Director of the Tisch RPC andhas been a huge regional success in educatingneonatal nurses in the tristate area.

Research (new grants/studies):

Ikaria- Inhaled Nitric Oxide and Retinopathy of Prematurity- AM curatoa PhD and KD

Hndriks-Munoz. MD, MPH

Activity in Division Research presentations:

The Division welcomes Dr. Miha espiritu

who joins us after finishing his fellowshiptraining at Cornell.

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DISTRIcT III:

enda Anday

WASHINGTON, Dc

Children’s National Medical Center

Mariam Said graduated from fellowship inNeonatology at Children’s National MedicalCenter. Miriam will remain at Children’sNational Medical Center as an attending

neonatologist, Niki Nifratos also graduatedfrom the neonatology fellowship and will be thefirst trainee of the Fetal Medicine Fellowshipprogram at Children’s National Medical Center

New fellows at Children’s National MedicalCenter are: launi Mbourn from JacobiMedical Center, NYC; Nataia Andra Isaza

Brando from Albert Einstein Medical Center,Philadelphia

lamia Soghir will also join the Neonatologystaff at Children’s National Medical Center. Shecomes from Montefiore Hospital in New YorkCity.

Miha Young applied for and was awarded agrant for a visiting speaker. louis Bartoshsky

from A.I DuPont Hospital for Children wasinvited to educate genetics trainees and to givea lecture for pediatricians. The March of Dimesand United Healthcare also supported thisprogram.

MARYlAND

Johns Hopkins University

Graduating fellows are:con Hughs-Driso will be joining theDivision of Neonatology at University of Maryland; Aison chapman will be joining theDivision of Neonatology at VirginiaCommonwealth University

Current fellows: Amit Agrawa is serving as the

TECaN District III fellow representativeFaculty: Rn Boss received a K23 MentoredResearch Grant regarding parent-provider decision-making for high risk newborns. Shehas also been appointed as Associate Faculty atthe Johns Hopkins Berman Institute for Bioethics.

Maurn Gimor, eizabth cristofao,

Pama Donohu and Mari An completedan NIH sponsored evaluation of the existingliterature regarding iNO in preterm infants whichwas presented at the NIH consensusconference and published in Pediatrics.

christoph lhmann was appointed director of the Child Health Informatics Center for the AAP,

and joined the National Quality Forum’s newlyformed advisory committee on healthinformation technology

Susan Auott is currently serving as councilmember for the ONTPD, and will serve as chair of the council beginning this fall.

University of Maryland Medical System

The Center for Infant and Child Loss issponsoring the 21st Annual Verizon Wireless-SIDS Golf invitational to be held Monday,October 3, 2011 at Turf Valley Resort. To learnmore, call: 1-800-808-SIDS (7437) or 410-328-4642 or visit the website at:www.infantandchildloss.org

cynthia Barr convened the 3rd annualBaltimore-Washington and now VirginiaPerinatal club, focusing on training fellows onresearch presentations. Attendees includedsenior and junior faculty and fellows from theseven area neonatology programs.

Joyn lung was initiated in the Society for Pediatric Research at the Annual PAS meeting.

UMD welcomes the following New Faculty and

Staff: eias Abb is a graduate of theUniversity of Maryland Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship Program and will join theUniversity of Maryland as an Assistant Professoof Pediatrics. con Driso is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Neonatal-PerinataFellowship Program. Sara Moa is a graduateof the Medical University of SouthCarolina Neonatal-Perinatal FellowshipProgram. Dina e Mtway finished her neonatal-perinatal fellowship training fromBrown University. Dina has been working inEgypt and the Suez establishing new neonatalservices and programs.

Grants and Awards: Ros Mari Visardi wasawarded a five year R01 grant by theNational Institutes of Health (NIH). This grantwill fund a multicenter trial of Azithromycin toPrevent BPD.

Brnda Hussy-Gardnr, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, was awarded a $211,389 grantfrom the Baltimore City Health Departmentto continue Maryland’s PRIDE2 which includesthe Maryland's Premature Infant DevelopmentalEnrichment Program and the Pediatric Referralfor Infant Developmental Enrichment programs.Maryland's PRIDE2 is a collaborative endeavor between the Department of Pediatrics at theUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine and the Baltimore City Infants &Toddlers Program (BITP). The purpose of

Maryland's PRIDE2 is to provide a collaborativeeffort of identification, evaluation, and servicecoordination for infants in the University of Maryland Hospital for Children (UMHC)Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), whoattend the UMHC NICU Follow-Up Clinic, or who receive primary health care at Pediatrics atthe Harbor (PATH) who are eligible to receiveearly intervention services through the BITP.

Gai camron, a first year fellow, was awardeda $4,500 grant from Mead Johnson Nutrition for her research study entitled: “Assessment of Pediatric Residents’ Performance DuringDifficult Conversations with Simulated Parents ina NICU Setting”.

laToya Bats, Director of the Center for Infantand Child within the Division of Neonatologywas awarded a grant from First Candle tocompare the grieving in families who lose aninfant in the NICU to families who lose a baby toSIDS. This information will help her tailor interventions appropriate to the grievingprocess.

extra spia Nws!!

The University of Maryland Children’s Hospital isdesigning and building a new NICU: The 52 bedsingle room unit will be environmentally green,provide developmentally appropriate care, andbe based in family centered care. A parent will

Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo

Faculty Comings and Goings:

With Dr. Ryan leaving to be Chair of Pediatricsat MUSC, Satyan lakshminrusimha,([email protected]) will take over as Chief of the Division of Neonatology. Vasanth Kumar

and Bobby Mathw will take over as Director and Associate Director respectively of theFellowship Program.

Research (new grants/studies):

The University at Buffalo (UB) NeonatologyDivision, joined together with the University of Rochester (UR) Neonatology Division, and werehonored to be chosen as one of the NICHDNeonatal Research Network (NRN) Centers. TheURUB joint Center PI and Alternate PI will becar D’Angio (UR) and Satyan

lakshminrusimha (UB). Site “alternate PIs” willbe, in Buffalo, Ann Mari Rynods, MD, MPH,and, in Rochester, Ronni Guit, MD, PhD.

cataina Bazaiu will be graduating from our fellowship program and will be joining thedivision of Neonatology in Augusta, GA. Sheand Jayasr Nair presented at the PAS

meeting in Denver.

Satyan lakshminrusimha presented anoverview of the changes in the neonatalresuscitation guidelines and chaired a sessionon the physiologic basis of the new NRPguidelines with Dr. Patrik MNamara from theUniversity of Toronto.

Winthrop University Hospital

The March of Dimes has awarded Dr. Nazh

Hanna, Chief of Neonatology at WinthropUniversity Hospital, Prematurity ResearchInitiative grant entitled: “Carbon Monoxide as aNovel Therapy for Preterm Labor.” The major goal of this project is to investigate a new

therapeutic application of very low dose non-toxic inhaled carbon monoxide (CO) as apotential therapy for preterm labor.

The Division of Neonatology sponsored the 18thannual "Issues in Neonatology" Conference heldat Garden City Hotel in Long Island NY, onMarch 17th, 2011. Dr. Hanna was the co-chair and the organizer for the symposium attendedby 280 Neonatologists/Nurses/Obstetriciansfrom the greater New York region.

Dr. Hanna was invited to participate in theNICHD Scientific Vision Workshop onPregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes, February22-23, 2011, Bethesda, MD. Also Dr. Hanna wasa study section reviewer for the AmericanDiabetes Association (ADA) Research GrantReview Committee (RGRC), May 2011.

The Division of neonatology welcomes Dr.

Phyis Wan-Hun as a staff neonatologist joining the academic group at WinthropUniversity Hospital. Dr. Wan-Huen completedher training at the Morgan Stanley Children’sHospital of New York Presbyterian, ColumbiaUniversity Medical Center, New York, NY.

Dr. Hanna was the co-chair for post-graduatecourse for the International American Society of Reproductive Immunology annual meeting, heldin Utah, May 2010 and was selected a Co-Chair for the annual meeting, to be held in HamburgGermany, May 2012.

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accepted a position on staff at Central BaptistHospital in Lexington, KY.

Asha Ittoop has accepted a position on staff atHarrisburg Hospital in Harrisburg, PA.

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

The Division of Neonatology at The Children’sHospital of Philadelphia was ranked #1 in the2011-2012 U.S. News and World Report.

Phyis A. Dnnry was appointed: Reviewer,NIH New Innovator Awards, 2011 andMember, NIH Study Section CHHD-A, 2011.Jaquyn evans, Chair of the Children’sHospital Neonatal Consortium Database,released its first set of data from 25 quaternaryChildren’s Hospital NICU's at a national meetingin St. Petersberg. The Children’s HospitalNeonatal Consortium is holding a 2-dayConference in Kansas City September 26-27,2011 entitled, “Staffing, Scheduling, Educationand Training in Children's Hospital’s NICUs”which is open to all interested academicneonatologists. For a brochure and further information contact: [email protected].

Susan Guttntag served as the Respiratory

Cell and Molecular Biology Assembly ProgramChair for the American Thoracic Society 2011 Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. Susan isstepping down as Program Director for theNeonatal-Perinatal Medicine Training Programat CHOP effective June 30, 2011. Sott lorh

has been appointed Program Director for theNeonatal-Perinatal Medicine Training Programat CHOP effective July 1, 2011. Kvin Dysart

has been appointed Assistant Program Director.

Barbara Shmidt has been appointed to:Protocol Review Subcommittee, EuniceKennedy Shriver NICHD Neonatal ResearchNetwork, NIH; Chair, Concurrent ResearchSubcommittee, Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD

Neonatal Research Network, NIH.Mark Ogino was recently appointed to: Chair ofELSO, ECMO Specialist Credentialing TaskForce; Director of ELSO Adult VV ECMO for Respiratory Failure course and SimulationWorkshop in San Antonio TX. Mark produced atraining video “High Fidelity ECMO SimulationTraining Guide” with the Hanuola ECMOProgram of Hawaii.

Jason Stor was elected Treasurer of theEastern Society for Pediatric Research. Krry

Wis and Sharada Gowda have beenappointed to the attending faculty in the NICU atPrinceton University Medical Center.

Saima Aftab and Maria Fraga who just

completed their Neonatal-Perinatal FellowshipTraining Program at CHOP are joining theCHOP faculty as Assistant Professors of Pediatrics.

1st year Fellows include lori Ann christ fromCHOP, Hitsh Suryakant Dshmukh fromSUNY, Buffalo, erik A Jnsn from ColumbiaUniversity, NY, Shaon Sngupta from SUNY,Buffalo, and Dan Swarr from Baylor.

Graduating Fellows: Saima Aftab will be an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics atCHOP/Penn. Maria Fraga will be an AssistantProfessor of Pediatrics at CHOP/Penn. Jay

Pat will be joining the Division of Neonatology


be able to room in with their infant at all times.

To accommodate this new unit, UMB will behiring three additional academically orientedNeonatologists in the coming year. To applyfor a position, contact Dr. Cynthia Bearer, M.D.,Ph.D. by email, [email protected]

NEW JERSEY

Cooper Hospital Regional Medical Center

Gary Stah was elected into the AmericanPediatric Society.

MidAtlantic Neonatology Associates (MANA)

and Goryeb Children’s Hospital in Morristown

Gains Mimms has organized the 4th NewJersey neoForum that was held June 10, 2011at the Fiddler’s Elbow Country Club inBedminster, NJ. This highly successful meetingis sponsored by the MidAtlantic Neonatology Associates and Atlantic Health (MANA) inconjunction with the March of Dimes and the AAP Section on Perinatal Pediatrics through aDistrict III grant. Speakers at the June Forumincluded: eduardo H. Banaari, Rihard A.

ehrnkranz, Ni N. Finr, and Kristi l.

Wattrbrg.The fifth Annual New JerseyneoForum will be held Friday, June 8, 2012

MANA has established a Regional NeonatalBiobank, under the direction of chris ekman

and Amy Prsti. They will assess theusefulness of several biochemical markers of CNS injury in predicting long term neurologicoutcomes of high risk neonates.

eizabth ekman, Director of PreclinicalResearch at MANA, has been awarded two R01grants from the NIH to study neurodegenerativedisease. Bn l has been awarded a grant tostudy the potential utility of stem cells in themitigation of ischemic brain injury in neonatalmice. John ladino has been awarded a grant

to examine the influence of a variety of methylxathines in a rat model of neonatalstroke.

PeNNSYlVANIA

Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and

Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC

Amy Urban joined the faculty in July 2010 andhas been appointed Director of the NICUBereavement Program at Magee WomensHospital/Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Jn

Kosz is collaborating with the NationalPerinatal Information Center on a QI project atMagee Womens Hospital to reduce the hospitalreadmission rate of late preterm infants.

San Frdrik has been appointed Assistant

Chief Medical Information Officer at theChildren’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Toby

Yanowitz is the site PI on the NIH funded grantentitled “Prophylactic Phenobarbital after Resolution of Neonatal Seizures.”

Abr Azzuqua has developed the UPMCNICU Survival Pocket Cards for use byNeonatology Fellows, Pediatric Residents andNeonatal Nurse Practitioners at Magee WomensHospital and The Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Kayani Vats is the founder andyearly sponsor of the Sona Award to help poor and needy high school graduates to attain andcomplete a college education in Pelling,

Gayzing and Sikkim, India.

chars Bndr is enrolled in the Masters inJurisprudence in Health Law Program at LoyolaUniversity in Chicago. Barbara cohan is a co-investigator in the clinical research study entitled“Correlation of Neonatal Brain Imaging andNeurocognitive Assessment” funded by NINDS,NIH and The Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh/UPMC.

Burhan Mahmood was an invited speaker atthe 3rd Annual ECMO Educational Conferenceat The Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. He alsopresented at the platform presentation at theECMO and the Advanced Therapies for Respiratory Failure: 27th Annual CNMC ECMOSymposium, Keystone, Colorado.

Rik Tso was an invited speaker at thePittsburgh Chapter of Neurology NursingOrganization where he presented a lectureentitled: “Induced Hypothermia for Neuroprotection in Newborn Infants at risk for Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy.” Wiiam

Mcarran is supervising the medical studenteducation program for the Division of NewbornMedicine.

Congratulations to the graduating fellows: Misty

Good received the SPR David G Nathan Awardin Basic Research and SPR Fellow’s BasicResearch Award at the PAS/SPR meeting heldin Denver in May 2011. She was also thesubject of a highlight in the AAP PerinatalSpotlights. Misty will be joining the Magee andChildren’s Hospital of Pittsburgh faculty in July2011. Missa Riy will join the Magee andChildren’s Hospital of Pittsburgh faculty in July2011.

Kristin Suhri was awarded the Best TraineePresentation at the annual meeting of theSociety for Inherited Metabolic disorders. Shewill be joining the Neonatology faculty at UPMC

Hamot in Erie, Pakarin Johnson will be joiningPediatrix in Elmira New York in July 2011.

Kndra Ard will be joining our faculty as aJunior Attending in July 2011. She graduatedfrom the Neonatology Fellowship program at theUniversity of Vermont and rotated for severalmonths during her fellowship in the NICUs atMagee Womens Hospital and The Children’sHospital of Pittsburgh.

The Children’s Hospital of Milton S. Hershey

Medical Center

Penn State Children’s Hospital

chars Pamr is pleased to announce that theFellowship program is expecting the addition of

three new fellows in the upcoming academicyear. chars Pamr and Kim Haidt arebeginning work involving infant massage andnewborn stress as part of a large grant procuredin conjunction with the Department of Immunology & Microbiology and the Departmentof Human Development at Main Campus.

Timothy Pamr was elected to a four year termon the Penn State University Faculty Senate.Kristin Gass received a Children’s MiracleResearch Grant for her work, “Oropharyngeal Administration of Colostrum for Immune SystemStimulation for VLBW.”

Fellowship notes: Dborah Rd-Thurston has

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at Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Arizona. Kvin

Suivan will be joining the Division of Neonatology at Virtua Hospital in Voorhees, NJ.Ruth Sabrook will be staying at CHOP as anattending neonatologist/PL-7 completing her T32 research project.

The following Neonatologists were named ”TOPDOCS-2011” in Philadelphia Magazine: Ann

Ads, Phyis Dnnry, Haam Hurt, andDavid Munson.

The following Neonatologists were named byCastle Connollly, LTD as the “Top Doctors whoSpecialize in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine-2011”: Ann Ads, Phyis Dnnry, Wiiam

Fox, Haam Hurt, Jant lioy, and David

Munson.

The following Neonatologist were named toCHOP’s Resident Teaching Honor Role: Mary

cay Harris, Haam Hurt, Harsh Kirpaani,

David Munson, and Miha Posnhng.

Miha Posnhg won the 2010-2011 IstvanSeri, MD, PhD Faculty Teaching Award voted bythe Neonatal Fellows. Mari Gianntta wonfirst place at the Public Health Poster Session of

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia,Section on Public Health and PreventiveMedicine. Sara DMauro and Anni Giaon

won the “Patient-Oriented Research Award” atThe Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia 2011Research Day.

Jant lioy is the recipient of the followingawards:“Joanne Decker Memorial Work LifeBalance Mentor Award” given by CHOP’sgraduating residents class of 2011, and“Outstanding Leadership Award” SuddenCardiac Awareness-AED Program, St. AndrewCatholic Education Center.

Rba Simmons received the followingawards: “Boyd Orr Award” from the Royal

Nutrition Society of the United Kingdom and the American Diabetes Association Research Award. Jason Stor received the 2011 FacultyYoung Investigator Award from the EasternSociety for Pediatric Research

lakshmi Srinivasan received the Junior Investigator Pilot Grant Program (JIPGP) awardfor her research. This award is jointly funded bythe Clinical and Translational Research Center (CTRC) and the Institute for TranslationalMedicine and Therapeutics (ITMAT)

Jffry Grds served on the faculty for theEvidence Based Neonatology Conference inStockholm, Sweden. Phyis Dnnry was aninvited guest lecturer at the Pediatric Academic

Societies meeting 2010. Vancouver, BCBarbara Shmidt was an invited speaker at theNational Institutes of Health ConsensusDevelopment Conference: Inhaled Nitric OxideTherapy for Premature Infants. Bethesda, MDand “Evidence-based neonatology - today andtomorrow”, Stockholm, Sweden.

Miha Posnhg was a guest lecturer at the2nd International Symposium of NeonatalMedicine – Respiratory and Intensive Care,Guangzhou, China and the 3rd AnnualWorkshop for Neonatal Respiratory Disease,Guangzhou, China.

Jaquyn evans was a guest lecturer at the

following: Grand Rounds at Sheik KhalifaMedical Center in Abu Dhabi and the Al WaslChildren’s Hospital in Dubai and invitedparticipant at the National Medicaid andMedicare Service Symposium to improveperinatal mortality in the U.S.

Harsh Kirpaani presented the followinglectures: QI Webinair sessions of the VermontOxford Network and Hot Topics inNeonatology”, Quebec City.

Mark Ogino was an invited lecturer at SEECMOconference, Edmonton Alberta Canada

John chuo received a grant from ArtannLaboratories for his research project,“Endotracheal Tube Monitors for Neonates”.John received a grant from the PA Departmentof Public Welfare for his project entitled,“Overcoming workflow barriers to medication”.Sara DMauro received a grant from TheThrasher Research Fund for: “Systemichypotension following patent ductus arteriosus(PDA) ligation: the role of adrenal immaturity (amulticenter study)”.

Barbara Shmidt was awarded a multi-center

grant from the NICHD, Clinical Center for NICHD/Neonatal Research Network and servesas the PI. Rba Simmons was awarded anRO1 from the NIH for her research entitled,“Epigenomic, physiological andtransgenerational consequences of BPA”.

Fellows Awards:

Anni Giaon was selected by PennMedicine’s ITMAT [Institute for TranslationalMedicine and Therapeutics] for the Junior Investigator Pilot Grant Program. Daphn

Rmy and eif In were awarded the Mary E.Groff Charitable Trust Fellowships in ClinicalResearch Methods.

eizabth Fogia has been accepted into the

Pediatric Hospital and Outcomes ResearchTraining (PHEOT) Program, 2011-12. Anni

Giaon received an award for her researchentitled, “Quality of Reporting in Neonatal andInfant Randomized Controlled trials” at CHOP’sPoster Day.

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

This spring the Division of Neonatology atThomas Jefferson welcomed two new facultymembers:

Zubair Aghai - Director for Research. Hereceived his neonatal fellowship training atCornell University and came to TJUH fromCooper University Hospital-Robert WoodJohnson Medical School where he served bothas the director of research and the sitefellowship program director. His researchinterests are the role of inflammatory mediators,transcription factors and epigenetics in thedevelopment of chronic lung disease, non-invasive detection methods for GER, andnon-invasive ventilation

Ursua Nawab - came from the University of Texas-Houston. Her interests lie in qualityimprovement processes and will serve in her new capacity as Medical Director of the ICN atJefferson.

St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children

Maria Divoria organized the 14th Annual “ADay with the Newborn,” held January 28, 2011at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. Thekeynote speaker was eduardo Banaari, fromthe University of Miami Miller School of Medicine who enlightened the audience with histalk entitled, “Automation of RespiratorySupport: Fact or Fiction?” Other speakers at thesymposium were enda K. Anday,Jant e.

larson, Jan-Mih Hasot, Isab

Hamon, Dani H. conway, and Suzann M.Touh.

Yanik Vibrt was accepted at the HarvardUniversity School of Public Health for TheCommonwealth Fund/Harvard UniversityFellowship in Minority Health Policy. Yanickreceived a scholarship for the accelerated MPHprogram. She will be in Boston for 9 monthsand will return to St. Christopher’s after obtaining her degree. Yanick has been active inhelping the victims of the Haitian earthquakewhere she applied the skills she learned frombecoming a Master Trainer for Helping BabiesBreathe.

Hathr Frnh in collaboration with Ann

Ads from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have organized the second annualNeonatology Fellows’ Boot Camp held in July foall 1st year fellows in Neonatal-PerinatalMedicine for District III. A total of 31-32 fellowsare expected to attend this year’s session whichis a 2-day training and educational experienceincluding simulation and formal didacticteaching. The program was funded in 2010 andthis year with a District Grant from the AAPPerinatal Section

Nik Obiri is graduating from the SCHCneonatology fellowship program and will be joining the faculty at St. Christopher’s, DrexelUniversity College of Medicine as AssistantProfessor.

In May 2010, the Section of Neonatal-PerinataMedicine at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, DUCOM, presented 13 abstracts andplatform presentations at the Society for Pediatric Research in Denver, CO.

OnSite Neonatology

David Hoffman has been selected to become a2011 Medtronic Global Hero sponsored by the“Twin Cities In Motion” and the MedtronicFoundation. This program was started fiveyears ago to celebrate runners who, with thehelp of medical technology, have continued tolead a full, active life and whose courage andzest for life serve as an example and an

inspiration to others. David is one of 24applicants chosen from more than 150applicants from around the world. He will berunning the Medtronic TC 10 Mile on October 2,2011 in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St.Paul.

DISTRIcT IV:

Wiiam Wash

KeNTUcKY

The Kentucky Perinatal Association held itsannual meeting June 5-7 at Lake CumberlandState Park in Jamestown, KY. Speakers

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included David H. Adamkin, University of Louisville; Karn D’Apoito, VanderbiltUniversity; Ira H. Gwob, Michigan StateUniversity, Don T. Grangr , University of Kentucky; John D. Morrison, St. ElizabethHealthcare (Edgewood KY); Aana Oak, StElizabeth Healthcare (Edgewood KY); John

O’Brin, University of Kentucky; edward

O’Ni, University of Louisville; and Ruth Ann

Shphrd, Kentucky Cabinet for Health and

Family Services.

Additionally, Amy Sn, BSN, University of Kentucky, completed her 2-year term asPresident of the Kentucky Perinatal Association.Pam Hodgs, Western Baptist Hospital,Paducah KY, moved to the office of Presidentand eri Rynods, M.P.H, University of Kentucky, was elected to the office of President-Elect. John O’Brin, University of Kentucky,was elected Treasurer, the office vacated by Dr.Reynolds. Don Grangr , M.P.H., University of Kentucky, completed his Masters of PublicHealth Degree. His capstone project was titled:Components of a Successful Model for Statewide Neonatology Quality ImprovementCollaboration. eri Rynods, M.P.H.,presented his research at the Southern Societyfor Pediatric Research Annual Meeting.

Thitinart Sithisarn, Tonia Rid, and Nino

Soomon, University of Kentucky, presentedtheir research at the Southern Society for Pediatric Research Annual Meeting, and at thePAS-SPR Annual Meeting.

In May, Sott D. Dunan, MHA, AssistantProfessor Division of Neonatal Medicinecompleted and received a Master's Degree inHealthcare Administration through the GillingsSchool of Global Public Health at the Universityof North Carolina - Chapel Hill, In April, Scott D.Duncan was inducted into the Theta Chapter of Delta Omega (Honorary Society in PublicHealth) for scholarship, and in July, he waspromoted to Associate Professor, Division of Neonatal Medicine, Department of Pediatrics,University of Louisville School of Medicine.

NORTH cAROlINA

Wake Forest

After 35 years of serving babies and families innorthwest North Carolina, Robrt Diard,

founding Section Chief of the NeonatologySection at Wake Forest, has announced that heplans to retire in June 2011. Locally, Bobestablished the Wake Forest regional neonataltransport team, the Infant Follow Up Program,and the NICU at the Forsyth Medical Center.

Bob’s service to mothers and childrenthroughout North Carolina included tenure asthe Chair of the Forsyth County Board of Healthand serving as the Chair of the Governor’sCommission for the Reduction of InfantMortality. In his honor, the Neonatology Sectionhas established the Robert G. Dillard Resident Award which will be awarded to the pediatricresident at Wake Forest School of Medicine whobest exemplifies Bob’s commitment to family-centered care of hospitalized neonates.

Mario Rojas, MPH, will be joining the faculty of Wake Forest School of Medicine in September 2011. Rojas will assume the role of MedicalDirector at The Sara Lee Center for Women’s

Health NICU at Forsyth Medical Center.

lisa Washburn’s research on antenatalsteroids and blood pressure of very low birthweight adolescents has received another 5years of funding from NICHD.

Miha O’Sha is a new member of the DataSafety Monitoring Committee for the NICHDNeonatal Research Network. He recentlycompleted the Helping Babies Breathe Master

Training. He is the Co-Principal Investigator for the NIH-funded ELGAN-2 Study.

Five Wake Forest faculty – lisa Washburn,

Jnnifr Hdrman, Qing Yang, Ptr

Pori, and Miha O’Sha - presentedresearch findings at the Pediatric AcademicSocieties 2011 Meeting in Denver, CO.

laura Raynor , a former ECU resident, joinedus as our newest faculty member last July,having completed her fellowship inCharlottesville, VA. Dani Wash, fromJacksonville Fl, will be joining us as our 2ndPediatric surgeon this July.

June 14th was thegroundbreaking

ceremony for the newJames and ConnieMaynard Children’sHospital, followingtheir recent gift of $9million to the projectand an additional $1.5million for an endowed chair in pediatrics.

This fall we will continue our collaboration withHarvard on a continuation of the multi-center ELGAN trial, which recently received a 5-year award from the NIH.

Our neonatal-perinatal fellowship programcontinues to thrive. This year we graduatedthree senior fellows, one of whom will be staying

on to complete his pediatric residency. Inaddition, following last winter’s site visit, wereceived a full 5-year re-certification from the ACGME, with not a single concern, warning, or citation!

TeNNeSSee

The Mildred Stahlman Division of Neonatologyat Vanderbilt University will host the 31st annualneonatology symposium - Advances andControversies in Neonatal Medicine. This year’sconference will be held on Thursday and Friday,November 3-4, 2011 at the Hilton Garden Inn inNashville, TN. Please join Course DirectorsJayant Shnai and Stvn Meroy and adistinguished invited faculty, which includes

cami Fung (University of Utah School of Medicine), Aistair Phiip, (Stanford School of Medicine) Rihard Shanr (Hofstra UniversitySchool of Medicine), Ronad Soko (Universityof Colorado School of Medicine), Jffry

Whitstt (University of Cincinnati College of Medicine) for what promises to be anoutstanding educational program.

Tennessee Initiative for Perinatal Quality Care(TIPQC) hosted its 4th Annual Meeting,attended by nearly 300 stakeholders fromacross TN and surrounding states. Our featuredspeakers this year included the former Governor of TN, Phi Brdsn, Dr. Robrt lawrn

(Shands Hospital, University of Florida,

Gainesville) and Gauthaum Sursh

(Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital). The TIPQCmembership has been engaged in multiplesuccessful statewide QI projects including: (1)Sustainment of the NICU AdmissionTemperature Project, (2) CLABSI reduction inthe NICU – demonstrating a 75% statewidereduction in CLABSI; (3) Human Milk 4 NICUBabies Project (4) OB Reducing ElectiveDeliveries before 39 Weeks Project; (5) OB

Breastfeeding Awareness. TIPQC is lead byPtr Grubb, Medical Director, Brnda Barkr ,Projects Manager, Susan Drummond, RN, OBInitiatives Manager and MK Ky, PhD, QualityConsultant.

The Monroe Carrell Jr. Children’s Hospital at

Vanderbilt

Congratulations are extended to caudia

Forz, Maria Giam-Krakaur and erin Posa

on completion of their fellowship training inNeonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Vanderbilt. Wealso welcome our new first year fellows:Missa ldy and Anamika Mukhrj, bothfrom Vanderbilt and Bnjamin Makowiak

from University of Washington, Seattle.

The Vanderbilt Division of Neonatology washonored to have as visiting professors in the firshalf of 2011: lu-Ann Papi (Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital), John

Bnjamin, (University of Alabama, Mobile),Riki Godstin (Duke University), Ann Stark

(Baylor College of Medicine) and Patti lin

(Emory University)

The Vanderbilt Division of Neonatology is verypleased to welcome to its faculty Maria Giam-

Krakaur and erin Posa who are bothcompleting their fellowships in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Vanderbilt. We are alsoexcited about the addition of four NICUhospitalists to our faculty ranks: Drs Patrik

Homs, Say Monahan, Dupr Hath andHuntr Butr .

Congratulations go to the following VanderbiltNeonatology Faculty and Fellows for their accomplishments, awards, and honors: Mg

Rush was promoted to Professor of Pediatricsand is serving as Acting Chair of the Departmenof Pediatrics (as well as maintaining her role asChief of Staff at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’sHospital at Vanderbilt). Jffry Rs has beenawarded tenure as Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt. Judy Ashnr isPrincipal Investigator of a new 5 year T-32fellowship training grant from NHCHD entitled“Preventing Prematurity and Poor PregnancyOutcomes". Nathai Maitr is the recipient of a3rd year of support on the NIEHS InstitutionalK12 award.

The Division bids a fond farewell andcongratulates Mario Rojas in his new role asthe Medical Director of the NICU at The SaraLee Center for Women’s Health at ForsythMedical Center. Mario will be leaving us to jointhe faculty at Wake Forest University HealthSciences in September 2011.

The Mildred Stahlman Division of Neonatologywas ranked 11th in the nation by US News andWorld Report in 2011. The 83 bed NICU andacademic programs of the division aresupported by 30 division faculty, including 8

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NIH-funded investigators with over $14 million inextramural grant support.

DISTRIcT V:

Mih Wash

INDIANA

University of Indiana, Riley Childrens Hospital

The First Annual Indiana University NeonatologySymposium was held in conjunction with the

46th Annual Riley Hospital for Children PediatricConference in Indianapolis on May 24th. Theconference included presentations by Dr.

Stvn Abman from the University of Colorado,Dr. Robrt Whit from Memorial Hospital inSouth Bend, Indiana, and Drs. Mn-Jan l

and Brnda Poindxtr from IndianaUniversity. A variety of workshops were alsooffered including simulation in Neonatology andnon-invasive ventilation techniques in the NICU.

The Section of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine atIndiana University is thrilled to welcome two newfaculty members. Dr. Shawn Ahfd and Dr.

liz Wtz will both be joining the Section inJuly. Dr. Ahlfeld completed his fellowship trainingat IU during which he was the recipient of theMorris Green Research Fellowship and theMidwest Society for Pediatric Research Metcoff Award. Shawn has secured a K12 award tocontinue his studies investigating the arrest of alveolar development in neonatal lung disease.Dr. Wetzel completed her fellowship training atCincinnati Children’s; she will continue her research in use of simulation to improveoutcomes in the NICU.

MIcHIGAN

University of Michigan

The Holden NICU at C.S. Mott Children’sHospital joined the NICHD Neonatal ResearchNetwork as a satellite site to Wayne State

University, and began enrolling patients inNovember 2010.

Neonatology Faculty: Mohammad Attar will bepromoted to associate professor in September.Kar Dsh was recently promoted to assistantprofessor.

Stvn M. Donn was: Course co-director, 19th Annual Middlesbrough International NeonatalConference and Advanced VentilatoryWorkshop, and Visiting Professor, The JamesCook University Hospital, University of Durham,England; re-appointed Chair, AAP Committee onMedical Liability and Risk Management; andappointed as alternate Medical Specialtyrepresentative to the National Practitioner Data

Bank.New faculty: Kat Stany (Sheridan Healthcareof New Mexico, Lovelace Womens Hospital, Albuquerque, New Mexico) was appointed tothe position of Clinical Assistant Professor inJune 2011, following recent faculty additionsRah chapman (09’, from Yale University,associate professor), Naomi lavntha (’09from University of Chicago, lecturer), andRba Vartanian (’10 from University of Michigan, lecturer).

Graduating neonatal fellows: Win Boon will be joining the neonatology practice at ParkviewHospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Aaron


Anthony Thi D.O., recently trainedneonatologist from Louisville, will be joining thepractice of Central Ohio Newborn Medicine inColumbus, Ohio beginning July 1, 2012. Thecurrent physicians in the group are craig W.

Andrson M.D., Rihard Morai, M.D., Barry

Haprn M.D., Apurwa Naik M.D., Andrw

Bardn M.D., Bth Baisdn M.D. and Sarah

corrivau M.D.

Rainbow Babies & Childrens Hospital

Rihard Martin, holder of the Drusinsky-Fanaroff Endowed Chair in Neonatology atRainbow is stepping down as Division Chief atRainbow after serving in that role for 13 yearsand previously as Division Co chief since 1985!He will continue to play an active mentorshiprole at Rainbow, provide leadership for the NIHfunded respiratory neurobiology researchprogram, and be a role model grandparent. Atthe international level he co-chairs the annualBangkok International Neonatology meeting,and in 2012 has been an invited speaker inPortugal, Egypt, Italy and Germany. He isdelighted that his colleague of many yearsMih Wash is assuming the role of Division

Chief of Neonatology at Rainbow and looksforward to many more years of a productivecollaboration.

The Division at RB&C is also pleased to havewelcomed the following faculty:

Moira crowy, MD Dr. Crowley graduated fromfellowship at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphiaand joined the faculty where she will focus her career as a clinician-educator.

Mary eain Patrinos, MD joins the divisionfrom New Mexico. Dr. Patrinos will join our clinical practice and serve as Co-Director of NNPs.

Prasad Ahanti, MD joins RBC as Director of

Western Neonatology Operations. Dr. Achantimost recently practiced at The Cleveland ClinicFoundation Fairview Hospital.

Ptr MFarand, PhD has joined the faculty asa Researcher in our RespiratoryNeurodevelopment core. Dr. McFarlandrecently completed his post-doctoral training atUniversity of Wisconsin in Madison.

The division bids farewell to Dr. Kara Drivr

who will return home to University of Mississippiin Jackson where she joins the faculty as an Assistant Professor and will focus on NeonatalOutcomes.

Toledo Childrens Hospital

Howard Stin, M.D. presented on Neurally Adjusted Ventilation (NAVA) in the Neonate atthe 'Spanish Pediatric Intensive Care Congress'in Salamanca, Spain in May 2011. HowardStein, M.D. and Kim Firestone, BS, RRT from Akron Children's Hospital NICU presented aNAVA symposium at the 'White Nights NeonatalConference' in St Petersburg, Russia in May2011.

ONTARIO

McMaster University

Saroj Saiga was awarded the 2011 DouglasRichardson Award at the Pediatric AcademicSociety Meetings for her ground breaking

Swnson will be joining Minnesota NeonatalPhysicians P.A. at Children’s Hospitals andClinics of Minnesota-Minneapolis and AbbottNorthwestern Hospital. Senior fellow Sott

Shahingr will graduate in June of 2012.

NICU hospitalists: Jssia Fay, Aim

lyton, Anna litt, Arika Gupta, andKathrin Augr (RWJ Clinical ScholarsProgram) will join Amanda long (headneonatal hospitalist), Sana Ahmd, andchristin Stah as faculty this summer. Sara

Smith will be relocating this summer andcontinuing work as a pediatric and adulthospitalist at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Children's Hospital of Michigan and Hutzel

Women's Hospital; Wayne State University

Fellow Graduates for Wayne State University2011: Nimisha Gupta, MD, Namrata Sud, MD,

Roopai Bapat, MD

Participants are invited to attend the 2011Society of Michigan Neonatologists Conference,on September 28, 2011, at Crystal GardensBanquet Center, Brighton MI. The GuestSpeaker will be Rihard Poin, MD.

We will also sponsor the 9th Annual EnriqueOstrea Lectureship, on Nov. 3-4, 2011, at HutzelWomen's Hospital and Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI. Guest Speaker David

Adamkin, MD will speak on Adult Outcomes of Early Neonatal Nutrition.

OHIO

Columbus Pediatrix Medical Group

Dr. Jui Rihtr is the most recent addition tothe 11 neonataologists in the ColumbusPediatrix Medical Group Practice. She finishedher neonatology fellowship at the NationwideChildren's Hospital in the summer of 2010.Later this summer, the practice will also be

welcoming Dr. Joshua Godbrg, who will alsobe out of Nationwide Children's, and Dr.

chrissy Saron who is finishing her fellowshipat the Cincinnati Children's Medical Center Neonatology Program. Dr Randy Mir

continues as the Medical Director of theNationwide Children's NICU at Mt. Carmel St. Ann's. Dr. John Sguin continues as theMedical Director of the Nationwide Children'sSCN at Dublin Methodist Hospital. Dr. Patrik

Wa, though curtailing some of his clinicalresponsibilities, will be continuing on as theMedical Director of the Nationwide Children'sNICU at Riverside Methodist Hospital. Dr.

Nany Hansn is stepping down from her postas the Chair of Pediatrics at Riverside Methodist

Hospital. She will be replaced by another member of the practice, Dr. Margart Davis.

Nationwide Childrens Hospital

In May 2011 Nationwide Children’s Hospital wasone of four hospitals to receive recognition for successful improvement projects by the ChildHealth Corporation of America (CHCA). TheNeonatal Services Team’s entry in the WasteReduction Category, ‘Neonatal CareCollaborative to Decrease Length of Stay’received Honorable Mention for their efforts indecreasing length of stay in the NeonatalIntensive Care Unit (NICU).

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was appointed Vice Chair of Perinatal Services,Department of Pediatrics.

Fix Okah was appointed Assistant Dean of Career Advising at the University of Missouri –Kansas City School of Medicine in 2011. Gary

Ptttt was selected as president of theMissouri State Medical Association (MSMA) for 2011-12. Winston Manimtim was a guestlecturer in Spring 2011 in the Philippines, invitedby the Society of Newborn Medicine. Vydhi

Murthy and Kimbry Thornton are the twonew neonatology/perinatology fellows at CMH,beginning in July 2011. Dani Rd will becompleting fellowship and will join theneonatology faculty at CMH in October 2011.

NeBRASKA

Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Omaha

Children's Hospital and Medical Center inOmaha will host "New Frontiers in NeonatalMedicine” on October 7. Guest speakers will beJay Godsmith and Jo Fradr . Registrationand conference information can be obtained bye-mailing [email protected]

Nio Birg will finish her fellowship in

Minnesota and join the University of Nebraskaand Children's Hospital and Medical Center Neonatology group in July.

WIScONSIN

University of Wisconsin

The Division of Neonatology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Meriter HospitalNICU, are pleased to welcome newneonatologist, Jami limjoo, who is joiningafter completion of fellowship at the University oSouthern California and Children's Hospital of LA.

DISTRIcT VII:

Wiiam eng

The AAP District VII Perinatal Section met onFebruary 18, 2011, at the InterContinental HotelNew Orleans, LA in conjunction with the AnnualMeeting of the Southern Society of PediatricResearch (SSPR). This meeting was entitledthe 10th Annual Red Hot "Chili" TopicsSymposium. The purpose was to offer aneducational and informational meeting for AAPPerinatal Section District VII members andguests.

The theme for the 2011 meeting: No Guts, No

Glory: Prevention and Treatment of Neonatal

Short Bowel . Aki Mahshwari, M.D.,University of Illinois at Chicago spoke on“Necrotizing Enterocolitis: A Fresh Perspectiveand enrio Bndtti, M.D., FAcS, Universityof Illinois at Chicago presented “Living with aShort Gut: Options for Intestinal Rehabilitationand Transplant.

This Meeting is supported through a restrictededucational grant from Abbott Nutrition, AbbottLaboratories, Inc. and by funding from the AAPPerinatal Section. In addition, attendees weregiven an update of the current events of thePerinatal Section and were given theopportunity to discuss or present items relevantto Perinatal Care and/or District VII business

contributions to Neonatal Outcomes Researchparticularly Quality of Life Assessments from theviewpoint of the surviving VLBW. Rg Sauv

was awarded the 2011 DistinguishedNeonatologist Award from the Neonatal-Perinatal Section of the Canadian PediatricSociety.

DISTRIcT VI:

Howard Kibrid

SAVe THe DATe: DISTRIcT VI PeRINATAl

PeDIATRIcS MeeTING: “Controversies inNeonatal Clinical Care” to be held at the HyattRegency in Chicago, Illinois, on September 16-17, 2011. Friday morning concurrent sessionswill include the fellows’ session: “Neonatology:The Long View and Mapping a Career inNeonatology” (John Hartin and Kathn

Wathrston), and “Billing and CodingUpdate” (ed lihty), with “Maintenance of Certification: The View from SoPPe” (DWayn

Pursy). At the Friday luncheon, DeWaynePursley will discuss Section activities nationally,including opportunities and benefits of

membership, and Joshua Ptrikin will discussthe formation and evolution of the District VI Association of Neonatologists. Afternoon topicswill include an update on “PPHN” and “HIE andTherapeutic Cooling” (Robin Stinhorn), andan overview of “iNO Use in Preterms” (Wiiam

Truog). Saturday sessions will focus on topicsrelated to neonatal nephrology, early onset GBSinfection, human milk banking, breast feedingpreterms, palliative care in the NICU, and NRPguideline updates. Speakers include Jo

Fradr, Tarah coaizy, Kumar Pravn,

Jnnifr Jtton. The Saturday luncheon willoffer a debate between Bi Madow and Jo

Fradr , moderated by John lantos, on“Reviving the Slow code in the NICU.” For more

information and registration, visitwww.medpubinc.com

IllINOIS

University of Illinois at Chicago

Dharmapuri Vidyasagar , Prof Emeritus Dept.of Pediatrics, University of Illinois at Chicago,has been awarded a Fulbright-Nehru VisitingLecturer grant for 4 months (October 2011- Jan2012) to teach at Science Health AlliedResearch Education (SHARE) Hyderabad, APIndia.The Fulbright-Nehru grant is jointly fundedby the United States and Government of India.His activity and lectures will focus ondevelopment of regional perinatal programs,postgraduate education, and development of

research programs. He has invitations to visitseveral medical institutions, including AIIMS inDelhi, PGI in Chandigarh, JIPER in Pondichery,BJ Medical College in Ahmedabad, IndiraGandhi Institute of Child Health in Bangalore,KLES University in Belgaum, India.

Northwestern University at Chicago

Moy Ba, third-year fellow at Northwestern,won the Fellow's Basic Science award at thePAS meetings this year. Her study was entitled:“Smooth Muscle Knock-Out of HIF-1 in thePulmonary Circulation Attenuates Vascular Remodeling and RV Hypertrophy in ChronicHypoxia.” Coauthors were Robrt W. Dttman

and Pau T. Shumakr .

IOWA

Mercy Medical Center, Des Moines

Tri Wahig has left and Joan Nod joined thepractice at the Variety Club NICU at MercyHospital in January 2011. Dr. Nold completedpediatric residency at the University of Iowa andneonatal fellowship at the University of Minnesota.

KANSAS

Stormont-Vail Healthcare, Topeka

Su Ha is author of a book entitled FOR THELOVE OF BABIES: One Doctor’s Stories AboutLife in the Neonatal ICU, published byWorldMaker Media, and available onamazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. Thebook relates 16 compelling stories aboutindividual babies and their families as they journey through the NICU, and also providesmore than 100 references from the medicalliterature that help to provide context and depthto the medical, social, and ethical topics whichare woven into the stories. In addition,numerous web resources are presented for parents or professionals who wish to learn more

or who wish to connect with others aroundspecific topics. More information on her website: www.suehallmd.com.

MINNeSOTA

University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota Amplatz Children'sHospital moved into a new home in April 2011featuring all-private, 390-square-foot rooms in astate-of-art building housing the medical,surgical, PICU, CVICU, and BMT wards.

The University of Minnesota added two newneonatal faculty members in 2010. erin Stpka

completed her fellowship in neonatal-perinatalmedicine at Rainbow Babies and Children's in

Cleveland, OH in 2005. She then joined theNICU staff at Fairview Hospital, a ClevelandClinic facility, and was there until 2010 when she joined the faculty at Minnesota. Erin joins Mary

Pyipow and Nany Fahim to make up the coreclinical team for the NICU program at twoaffiliated hospitals, North Memorial and MapleGrove. Sara Ram joined the faculty inNovember 2010 after completion of her neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship at theUniversity of Minnesota.

MISSOURI

Children’s Mercy Hospitals & Clinics,

Kansas City

Children’s Mercy Hospital was selected to

participate as a clinical center in the NICHDNeonatal Research Network, beginning April2011. Bi Truog is site principal investigator.

For the third consecutive period, the Children'sMercy ECMO program has been awarded theELSO Excellence in Life Support Award,effective until 2012. Jan Paotto is theneonatology medical director of ECMO at CMH.

The Fetal Health Center (FHC) at Children’sMercy Hospital initiated delivery service withinthe children’s hospital for pregnant women withidentified serious fetal anomalies in March 2011.Howard Kibrid is co-director of the FHC, and

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with Perinatal Section Representative(s).

ARKANSAS

University of Arkansas for Medical

Sciences/Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Little

Rock

Ashy S. Ross, NPM Fellowship Director, wonthe University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences2011 Residency Educator of the Year Award.The award is given annually to a fellowship and

residency program that demonstratesexcellence in graduate medical education.

Jffry R. Kaisr was invited to speak at theShaare Zedek Medical Center, Division of Neonatology, in Jerusalem, Israel in October,2010. Dr. Kaiser’s mentee, Xiawi Ou, PhD,recently won the prestigious InternationalSociety for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine,Seed Grant for Combining DiffusionTractography and fMRI.

eizabth Kim, NPM fellow, won the Best Abstract Award at the 2011 UAMS Departmentof Pediatric Fellow’s Day which is an opportunityto highlight scholarship of pediatric fellow’sacross the Arkansas Children’s Hospital campus

and is supported by the UAMS Department of Pediatrics and the Arkansas Children’s HospitalResearch Institute.

The following NPM fellows received grantsupport for their research: Dawn Rvs andAmy Brunt.

New faculty in the Section of Neonatologystarting July 1st include: carri Brown, Assistant Professor, Medical Home/PalliativeCare; eizabth Kim, Assistant Professor,Neonatologist; and Jnnifr Purvis, AssistantProfessor, General Pediatrician

lOUISIANA

Winston Koo has joined LSU Health Sciences

Center, Shreveport in April 2011 as Chief of Neonatology and Professor of Pediatrics. Hisexpertise includes bone mineral and vitamin Dmetabolism in neonates. He is a member of theSociety for Pediatric Research, Pediatric Academic Society and several nutritional andbone societies. He was the past president of the American College of Nutrition, and medicalDirector at Hutzel Hospital at Wayne StateUniversity in Detroit, MI prior to joiningLSUHSC-S.

MISSISSIPPI

Jak D. Owns of Newborn Associates inJackson notes that the Mississippi Perinatal Association, a multidisciplinary perinatal health

advocacy/education organization, has been re-established. This organization had been activein the past, but became inactive and shut downabout 10 years ago. A well attended single-dayconference was held in March within 6 monthsof getting the organization up and running. Thiswas accomplished with an educational grantfrom MedImmune and organizational/administrative help from St Dominic's Hospital,in Jackson. The group seeks membershipenrollment from perinatal and primary healthcare professionals, public health professionals,parents and parent advocates, health careindustry leaders, academicians and communityprofessionals, public and private practitioners,

Evidence-based Neonatal Pain Management atEvidence-based Neonatology – Today andTomorrow, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2011. Shealso served as an external examiner at theUnited Arab Emirates University Medical Schoolat Al Ain, June 2011.

Mary Ann Mcaffr served as Chair, andCoordinator of the first Child Health Plan for theState of Oklahoma, 2011.

Rita Raman was invited to speak on fivenutrition related topics at the First Annual MEAPCongress, Dubai UAE, April 2011. She was alsoan invited speaker on “Rule of Nutrients inTolerance”, Barranquilla, Columbia; Cali,Columbia; Medellin, Columbia, February 2011.

New grants include an NIH COBRE award, “TheRole of SP-A in Oxygen Induced Retinopathy”awarded to Faizah Bhatti (PI); and OUHSCCollege of Medicine Alumni Association grant, “APilot Study Evaluating Biomarkers in NecrotizingEnterocolitis” awarded to Shy lawrn (PI)

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Baylor College of Medicine

Vivk Vijayamadahavan (Third year NPMfellow) and Krithika lingappan (Second year NPM fellow) were awarded PAS Travel Grants.

Xanthi couroui presented at The 26th AsiaPacific Academy of Ophthalmology Congress,Sydney, Australia, March 2011.

Anga Fors received the Arnold J Rudolph Award for outstanding 3rd year NPM Fellow.

Bhagavatua Moorthy was awarded Grant2R01ES009132-09A2 06/23/11-02/29/16.Molecular mechanisms of cytochrome P4501A1expression. The major goals of this project areto determine the mechanisms of sustainedinduction of CYP1A1 in liver and other tissuesby polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Other

activities included a keynote lecture at theInternational Conference and Exhibition onPharmaceutical Biotechnology, Hyderabad,India, June 2011

lui A. Papi has retired from her position athe College.

Dani Rios received the Thrasher ResearchFund Early Career Award.

Aina Sadarriaga, a graduating fellow from theBaylor Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship program,was appointed Assistant Professor of PediatricsBaylor College of Medicine as of July 1, 2011.

Miha e. Spr was elected President-electof the 45,000 member Texas Medical

Association (TMA) on May 14, 2011. Dr. Speer will assume the Presidency of TMA May 2012.In the capacity of President-elect he was aparticipant in the 6th Annual Border Caucusmeeting in Washington, DC, June 21-23, 2011.

lonard Wisman received the Alkek Award foPilot Projects in Experimental Therapeutics. Healso presented at the European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases Meeting, inHague. Netherlands, June, 2011.

UT Houston

eri eihnwad has joined the faculty as an Associate Professor. In July he gave thekeynote address at the REASON Conference in

etc. Dr. Owens is the president and contactperson for those interested in joining([email protected]; alternative contact:Moni Wks, MPA Secretary,[email protected]).

OKlAHOMA

Newborn Specialists of Tulsa

Newborn Specialist physicians have been re-appointed as teaching faculty for the

Department of Pediatrics and OB/GYN at theOklahoma University College of CommunityMedicine and Department of Pediatrics atOklahoma State University Center for the HealthSciences. Members of the group are craig

Andrson, Rah Davis-Jakson, Miha R.

Gomz, Anga Karathanos, Robrt lawson,

Miha lnhart, Shamim A. Maik, lisa

Owns, Raymond Sandrs, and Parkr

Simon. All are Adjunct Clinical AssistantProfessors at Oklahoma State University.

The Eastern Oklahoma Perinatal Center at SaintFrancis Hospital in Tulsa, OK, has moved intoits new 50 bed single patient room NICU andhas been re-named The Henry Zarrow NICU at

The Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis. TheNICU recently unveiled a plaque honoring thesupport and philanthropic work of Mr. Zarrow atthe Children’s Hospital. The unit has an 8 bedtransitional nursery making the total bedcapacity 58. The NICU includes activetransport, inhaled nitric oxide, ECMO, CVsurgery and body cooling programs.

The Hillcrest Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in thePeggy Helmerich Women’s Center, directed bylisa Owns, has expanded its treatmentcapabilities to include the use of inhaled nitricoxide and whole body cooling.

Parkr Simon joined Newborn Specialists.

Newborn Specialists is an active participant in

the clinical trial of Inhaled Nitric Oxide toPrevent BPD in Extremely Preterm Infants(NEWNO) with Miha R. Gomz serving asthe Principle Investigator, Raymond Sandrs

as Co-Investigator and Jnnifr lorton, MSN, ARNP as Clinical Research Coordinator.

Newborn Specialists has assumed responsibilityfor staffing the Freeman Health System NICU inJoplin, Missouri, which was established anddirected by Dr. Miha Port for the last 17years. Dr. Porte is relocating to another positionin Ohio and his hard work and dedication aregreatly appreciated.

University of Oklahoma

Arn Fouks and Haa chaaban are newfaculty this academic year. Dr. Foulkscompleted his Fellowship at both the OU HealthSciences Center and the University of TexasMedical Branch. He completed his Residencyat Oklahoma State University Center for HealthSciences. In August 2011 Dr. Chaaban will jointhe team following the completion of her residency at the University of Maryland MedicalCenter. She completed her Fellowship at BrownUniversity.

Marjori Markoni starts July 1 as a Fellow,following her residency at the University of Toledo.

Dr. Mariyn esobdo was invited to speak on

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The following Fellows in NPM have receivedgrant support: Visha Kapadia, Nathan

Sundgrn, John eri Sparks, and Mih

Mikhal. Dr. Kapadia was selected for platformpresentation at Perinatal Pediatrics 77thPerinatal Developmental Medicine SymposiumNov 11-14, 2010

Dr. Kapadia, Dr. Sparks, Maria Afandor, Tara

DuPont, and Joshua Frankfurt all gaveexcellent presentations at the 2010 SouthCentral Conference on Perinatal Research, Austin, TX. Dr. Afanador was selected as oneof the TECan spotlight trainees.

The Parkland NICU Resuscitation Team washonored as “Annual Health Care Heroes” by TheDallas Business Journal. The ARCH programwas recognized as “Service ExcellenceChampions” by Childrens’ Medical Center.

The Sibling Visitation Program in the ParklandNNICU was featured on the local NBC affiliate.

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AlASKA

The NICU at The Childrens Hospital atProvidence Alaska received the John MEisenberg award for patient safety & quality bythe National Quality Forum and the JointCommision for its innovative work on eliminatingcatheter related blood stream infections in theNICU.

ARIZONA

Diamond Children's Medical Center/University

Medical Center at the University of Arizona

Diamond Children's is the only academicchildren's hospital directly related to a College ofMedicine in Arizona. We have been very active

in recruitment and have a stellar group of youngenergetic faculty. On board for a year, Ranjit

Kyat joined us from the University of Tennessee - Memphis. This past January, Jo

livingston who recently completed fellowshipat the University of New Mexico moved toTucson. This April, Mo Badr joined our facultyafter completing fellowship at the University of Connecticut. And to round out our group,Rah Garnr will be joining us this July fromthe University of Florida. The Section continuesto be very active in NIH funded activity in thepathogenesis of neonatal necrotizingenterocolitis.

cOlORADO

liz Thio was recently been named to theNeoReviews Plus Editorial Board. Thank you tothe Colorado Chapter of the AAP for their support of her nomination to this endeavor!

Dan Sattrwhit, Amy MaRithi, and Jan

Paisy provide Neonatology Coverage for Poudre Valley Health System (PVHS)inNorthern Colorado. In late June the University ofColorado Hospital signed a non-binding letter of intent with Poudre Valley Health System todevelop a joint operating agreement for their hospitals. The arrangement could have greatbenefits not just for patient care but for theresearch and education that are additional fociof the medical school. Poudre Valley Health

A review group, December 7-9, 2010.

Kaii Sth was voted Chair-Elect of the Boardof Directors for the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE). Also,she is Chair of the Examination Committee,responsible for the creation of the IBLCEexamination. IBLCE is the global authority thatdetermines the competency of practitioners inlactation and breastfeeding care and iscelebrating its 25th year in 2010. In addition, Dr.Stehel was selected to be Co-Chair of the TexasPediatric Society Fetus and NewbornCommittee.

Myra Wykoff gave a workshop “Basicsimulation set-up and facilitation” NRP CurrentIssues Seminar, and an address “Delivery roommanagement and initial stabilization of theELBW infant” both at the 2010 NCE AAP held inSan Francisco, CA in October 2010. In June2011 she was elected Co-Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Neonatal ResuscitationProgram Steering Committee. Also, she waschosen as one of the two Faculty Mentors of theYear by the CMC Housestaff for 2010-11. Dr.

Wykoff and Rashmin Savani were awarded a

grant from Ikaria to study iNO in piglet asphyxia.Rashmin Savani received the 2010 PerinatalPhysician Excellence Award from March of Dimes.

Pabo Sanhz gave presentations at the XXIICurso Internacional de Pediatría, Viña del Mar,Chile, September, 2010, II CongresoInternacional de Infectología Pediátrica yVacunas, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the XXBrazilian Congress of Perinatology, Rio deJaneiro, Brazil, November 21010.

Phiip Shau, Divisions of Neonatal-PerinatalMedicine and Pulmonary and Vascular Biology(PVB) and chiko Mino (PVB) recentlyauthored two important manuscripts in The

Journal of Clinical Investigation.The Dean of UTSouthwestern Medical School awarded Dr.

Shau an endowed chair, entitled: “AssociatesFirst Capital Corporation Distinguished Chair inPediatrics”

Dr. Shau spoke at the NIH ConsensusDevelopment Program, Bethesda, MD, Oct,2010, was a keynote speaker for the 30th Annual Pratt Lectures, Cincinnati Children’sMedical Center, and Boston Children’s Hospital,Harvard Medical School, Research Poster Symposium, June 2011.

Vitoria Urih, a graduate student in theIntegrative Biology Program and a trainee in Dr.Shaul’s lab, was selected as a recipient for the

42nd Annual Sigma Xi abstract honor.Jui Mirpuri was awarded a CCRAC(Children’s Clinical Research AdvisoryCommittee) Grant for 2 years. In addition, shewas awarded the Children’s Health ResearchCareer Development Award (K12). emiy Osir

received a grant from UT System for PatientSafety and Medical Education. The focus is onimproving patient handoffs between theresidents and evaluating if improved handoffscan decrease adverse events for patients.

Bi eng was re-elected to the ExecutiveCommittee of the Section on PerinatalPediatrics.

Coventry, England on Prevention of Central Line Associated Infections and in December hespoke on “Adjunctive Therapies to Prevent BPD”and “Cardiopulmonary Interactions in Difficult toVentilate Newborns” at the Federation of Asianand Oceanic Perinatal Societies in Delhi, India.Dr. Eichenwald will be assuming the role of Division Director, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicineon July 1, 2011. Also, he has also been named Assistant Dean for Children's Health Care

Quality at UTHealth. He was an invited speaker at the 4th Annual Neonatology Symposiumsponsored by the Colombian NeonatologySociety in Bogota, Colombia in June, 2011.

Ursua Nawab is a recent graduate of the UT-Houston Quality and Safety Academy.

Poina Gfr is a recent graduate of the UT-Houston Quality and Safety Academy.

Susan e. Dnson was recognized as theMedical Honoree at the March of DimesSignature Chef’s Gala in Houston. Dr. Densonwill be retiring at the end of this academic year after more than 35 years of service to theUniversity, Children’s Memorial HermannHospital, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. She was honored at a retirementgala attended by colleagues, former trainees,friends, family and former patients and their families at the hospital in June, 2011.

Amir Khan is President-elect of the SSPR.

Jon Tyson was presented with the President’sScholar Award for Teaching in April, 2011, thehighest academic honor for faculty at themedical school.

Kathn Knndy spoke on “Use and Misuseof Subgroup and Secondary Analyses in ClinicalTrials” at the NIH Consensus Conference onInhaled Nitric Oxide Therapy for PrematureInfants in October, 2010.

Patrik Jons was presented the 2010 - 2011Dean's Teaching Excellence Award for histeaching of fellows and residents at UT Houston.

John chapman and chiamaka Anji, bothgraduates of the UT Houston Neonatal-PerinatalMedicine Fellowship Program, will be joining thefaculty in July, 2011. Dr. Chapman’s interest is inInformation Technology and electronic medicalrecords, and Dr. Aneji will be devoted to theeducational program in neonatology for the UTHouston pediatric residents.

UT Southwestern, Dallas

We are welcoming five new members of theNPM Division in 2011: Jams Moor (Emory),Vnkatakrishna Kakkiaya (LSU Shreveport),J. Ws logan (UNC), Natai Frost (UTSW)and Visha Kapadia (UTSW). Dr. Moore willserve as Director of the Children’s MedicalCenter NICU (the CMC NICU opened severalyears ago and recently was ranked 19th best inthe country by US News & World Report).

The UTSW Neonatal Research Network grantreceived funding for another 5 years.Congratulations to Pabo Sanhz, lu Brion,

Roy Hyn and many others.

liz Hyn completed the extensiverequirements for her doctoral program. chars

Rosnfd served as grant reviewer for theCanadian Institute of Health Research, Clinical

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knowledge and expertise between manycountries in the global community using thetelehealth technologies”.

Jan Fur was appointed Interim DivisionChief of Neonatology at the University of NewMexico. Ron Poand is continuing as a member of the editorial/writing board of NeoReviewsPlus.

Rnat Savih has received NIH grant support

for 4 formative research projects related to theNational Children’s Study. Dr. Savich is one of the Co-Investigators for the University of NewMexico Study Center. She was also appointedto the editorial board of NeoReviews.

Kristi Wattrbrg was faculty for the 2011Salzburg Columbia Seminar in Maternal & InfantHealth May 15 - 21 (sponsored by the OpenMedical Institute, a program of the American Austrian Foundation), and presented topics onprenatal inflammation; postnatal steroid use;relative adrenal insufficiency; treatment of hypotension. Dr. Watterberg has stepped downas Division Chief for the Division of Neonatologyat the University of New Mexico.

In addition, the Fellowship program had 3graduating senior fellows: Aison livingston,now at the Tucson Medical Center in Arizona,Josph livingston, now at Arizona HealthSciences Center in Tucson, and Kn

Rihardson, now at Utah Valley RegionalMedical Center in Provo. Tara DuPont will be joining the faculty at the University of NewMexico, after finishing fellowship at University of Texas.

OREGON

Eugene

Dougas lonard continues to expand thesimulation-based NRP training at Sacred HeartRiverbend and at our referral centers through

outreach.

Igor Gadston received the Osternig awardfrom the University of Oregon for clinicalteaching in human physiology.

WASHINGTON

John Muigan, the founder of the Level IIINICU at Tacoma General Hospital, Tacoma, WAhas retired as of June 24th after 34 years of practice in Tacoma. Dr. Mulligan opened theNICU in 1977 where it was located in 1 room.The NICU is the regional referral center for southwest Washington with an active transportteam and has grown to average 800admissions/year. For 20 years theneonatologists practiced as an independentgroup but in 1997 became part of PediatrixMedical Group of Washington. Dr. Mulligan wasthe NICU Medical Director for 31 years.

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System is made up of two acute-care hospitals(Poudre Valley in Fort Collins and MedicalCenter of the Rockies in Loveland, which itself has a partnership with Regional West HealthServices in Scottsbluff, Neb.) and a network thatprovides care across a 50,000-square-mile areathat encompasses northern Colorado, Nebraskaand Wyoming.

HAWAII

Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children

Knnth Nakamura was recently named theChair of Pediatrics, University of Hawai'i, John A. Burns School of Medicine. Dr Nakamura willcontinue his role as Chief Medical Officer of Kapi'olani Medical Specialists.

Vnkataramam Baaraman has stepped downas Division Head of Neonatology to begin hisnew position as Vice Chair of Pediatrics, John A.Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai'i

chars Na has been named the new DivisionHead of Neonatology at Kapi'olani MedicalCenter for Women and Children and theDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Hawai'i,

JABSOM. He will continue his role as MedicalDirector of the NICU at KMCWC.

The University of Hawaii School of Nursingalong with UCSF successfully completed a twoyear NeoRisk program funded by a HRSA grantto train NNP's. The three regional NICU's onOahu were the primary clinical site for training of the students in addition to UCSF. There were atotal of four graduates of the program last year with two of them now working at KapiolaniMedical Center for Women and Children with athird graduate just completing her certificationrequirements and will join the KMS medicalgroup in September.

Tripler Army Medical Center

Shrrn Batts and Thornton Mu havecompleted their Neonatal-Perinatal Medicinetraining at the joint Fellowship Program at Tripler Army Medical Center and Kapi'olani MedicalCenter. Batts will be a staff neonatologist atWomack Army Medical Center, at Fort Bragg,NC. Mu will remain at Tripler Army MedicalCenter as a staff neonatologist. In addition, Muwas elected to serve as the AAP UniformedServices Chapter West Community Access ToChild Health (CATCH) Grant Facilitator

NeW MeXIcO

Upcoming meeting:

2011 Amazing Newborns Conference

Optimizing Outcomes for Late Preterm Infants: A

Little Baby with Big Needs November 9-11 2011 Albuquerque Marriott Uptown

Da Avrson is continuing to workinternationally to develop programsincorporating telehealth that can address UnitedNations Millennium Development Goals #4 and#5 to decrease significantly children's mortalityunder age 5 and decrease maternal mortality.They are seeing increasing interest andsophistication in addressing neonatal issues aswell as demonstrated by this photo from ahospital in Nepal foothills of the Himalayasoutside Kathmandu. Dr Alverson notes “As youknow there are opportunities to share

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California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative

(CPQCC)

The Perinatal Quality Improvement Panel of CPQCC recently completed its second multi-center collaborative project, the Neonatal BreastMilk Nutrition Quality Initiative in May 2011. Itsthird multi-center collaborative project, Delivery

Room Management of the Newborn Infant

recently began with the first learning session inJune 2011. These collaboratives follow theformat of the Institute for HealthcareImprovement which has been highly successfulin demonstrating results for participatingcenters. CPQCC will continue to sponsor suchprojects linked to the development of evidencebased toolkits posted on the website. There are10 toolkits currently available, and these arerevised on an ongoing basis, every 3-5 years. A

new format for quality improvement, NICU QI,was introduced this year, also based on thetoolkits but geared more for the individual centerrather than a collaboration of multiple sites.Thirty-seven centers in the State areparticipating in the NICU QI Delivery RoomProject in addition to 25 centers in theCollaborative. A prospective trial is underway tomeasure outcomes with both formats comparedto control centers from the CPQCC database.

In addition to the prospective delivery roommanagement QI trial, CPQCC has numerousongoing collaborative research projects usingCPQCC's multiple datasets. Projects includesafety attitudes, whole body cooling, genetics oBPD and variations in PDA management.

California Association of Neonatologists (CAN)

The annual CAN/District IX scientific meeting,Current Topics and Controversies in

Perinatal and Neonatal Medicine was heldagain in San Diego in March. This was the mossuccessful meeting yet in the 17 year history of this conference. There were over 200registrants with the theme being controversies incare of ELBW infants. Our outgoing CANpresident, Vijay Dhar, was the program directorand driving force behind this year's fantasticprogram. The official meeting was preceded bya day of workshops, which included "Life After Fellowship," organized by Andy Hopper, theCPQCC Workshop, "Best Practices in Maternal-fetal Care and Quality Improvement", directedby Pau Shark and Pau Kurtin and the"Neonatal CPT Coding Update" by Gi Martin.Dates for the meeting next year are March 2-4,2012 and the location will be the same,Coronado Island Marriott Hotel. The planningcommittee is finalizing another outstandingprogram of national and international speakers.

Vijay Dhar of Childrens Hospital Orange Countystepped down as CAN president and Andy

Hoppr took over the leadership of our organization in March. Stv Godman waselected Vice President and President-elect.Bob Kah, remains as the Secretary Treasurerof CAN. CAN is faced with some major

challenges this year keeping up with the rapidlychanging healthcare environment on thenational and state level. In addition to itseducational misson, CAN is the representativebody of over 500 neonatologists in the State of California with a mission of improving theoutcome of pregnancy and the care of newborninfants. This has become quite a challenge inthe environment of healthcare reform wheremost models are geared toward the provision ofhealthcare for adult patients. Fortunately, withthe advocacy of CAN's government advisorycommittee, the Children's Specialty CareCoalition, the AAP District IX Leadership andWashington-based Department of Federal Affairs of the Academy we can provide a voice

for neonates and the physicians who providetheir care.




Loma Linda University

Additions to the faculty starting this year include:

Adrian lavry, MD, Dr. Lavery completed hisneonatology fellowship in Cincinnati Children’sHospital in 2008. Dr. Lavery comes to LomaLinda from Georgia where he has worked withthe Neonatology Associates of Atlanta from2008 until 2011. Tabitha Soomon, MD, whorecently completed her neonatology fellowship

at Loma Linda University Medical Center in2011. Giang Truong, MD, who did her pediatric resident training at Loma LindaUniversity, where she also completed her neonatology fellowship training in 2011.

Gi Martin, MD, was designated ClinicalProfessor of Pediatrics, at Loma Linda MedicalCenter. In addition, he was the Guest Editor ina recent Festchrift supplement issue of theJournal of Perinatology honoring the career of Phillip Sunshine.

The Division of Neonatology at Loma LindaUniversity Medical Center has lost a very dear friend and colleague. On May 15th, 2011, Jant

(emry) Ninnis passed away following a long

illness. Dr. Ninnis joined the Department of Pediatrics and Division of Neonatology in 1985.Janet was instrumental in the development of many of the neonatal programs for which theinstitution is renowned. These included suchprograms as the Neonatal Infant HeartTransplantation program, Nurse-Managed InfantTransport Program, and the development andsupport of the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner program. Janet was a consummate teacher and a dedicated, conscientious physician. Shewas committed to the education of nurses,nurse practitioners, medical students, pediatricresidents, and neonatology fellows. Her care of sick infants was characterized by empathy andthorough attention to detail. Her energy, smile,

and friendship will be deeply missed by all whowere blessed to know her.

UCLA

UCLA is a new member of the NeonatalResearch Network (NRN) grant starting January2011. Uday Dvaskar is the PI.Dr. Shrin

Dvaskar was named the Chairman of theDepartment of Pediatrics at UCLA startingFebruary 2011.

Stanford

Dr. Ron Ariagno attended the 16th Congress of Federation of Asia and Oceania PerinatalSocieties (FAOPS) Conference Dec. 13-18th inNew Delhi, India to learn more about global

Neonatology/Perinatology practices and tonetwork with neonatology leadership about his,Dr. lou Haamk’s, and Dr. Jff Goud’sHelping Babies Breathe (HBB) proposal whichwill focus on the impact of the effectiveness of HBB training on neonatal outcomes.

A Festschrift to honor Dr. Phiip Sunshin waspublished in Journal of Perinatology in April2011 (Volume 31, Supplement 1). Dr. Gibrt

Martin is the Editor of this Supplement. Dr. Ron

Ariagno and Dr. Phiip Sunshin were alsohonored at the Stanford Medical Staff Gala onMay 7th, 2011. Dr. Ariagno was recognized for "clinical excellence and the art of compassionate care" and received a honorarylifetime Medial Staff appointment. Dr. Sunshine

was honored among the few currently activefaculty or staff who had been recipients of

lifetime clinical excellence awards, including theRambar-Mark Award, which Dr. Sunshinereceived in 2010.

Dr. David Stvnson received the Maureen Andrew Mentor Award at the Pediatric AcademicSocieties Annual Meeting in Denver, CO in May2011. This highly prestigious award honorsindividuals who have served as exemplarymentors for trainees and junior faculty who havesuccessfully developed investigative careers inthe field of child health research. Dr. Wiiam

Bnitz was an invited speaker addressing thePDA treatment dilemma at the Hot TopicsConference in Washington D.C., December 2010. He was also an invited speaker on thistopic at the annual CAN-AAP Conference March4-6, 2011 at the Coronado Island Marriott inCoronado, California.

Dr. Susan Hintz (Stanford University) was aninvited speaker at the Vermont Oxford Network Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. inDecember 2010 where she presented data onlong-term outcomes of premature infants withNEC, and discussed the ongoing NICHDNeonatal Research Network Necrotizing

Enterocolitis Surgery Trial (NEST), which iscurrently enrolling. Dr. Hintz also was an invitedspeaker at the annual regional neonatologyresearch conference at the UniversidadeFederal do Rio Grande do Sul and Hospital deClínicas in Porto Alegre, Brazil in April 2011.

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Congratulations to Aan Spitzr, MD, Senior Vice President for Research, Education, andQuality for Pediatrix Medical Group, who wasappointed by Secretary of Health and HumanServices, Kathn Sibius, to serve on the

National Advisory Council for HealthcareResearch and Quality of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Thisappointment will be for three year term.

On November 3, 2010, the 34th AnnualInternational Conference, Miami Neonatology2010, kicked off with its Advances in NeonatalRespiratory Care Workshop at theFontainebleau Resort on Miami Beach. Thefollowing day over 900 doctors, nurses, andrespiratory therapists representing 37 differentcountries, attended the most successfulconference to date since its inception in 1973.The one day workshop and three dayconference featured ten of the most renownedpediatric, perinatal, and neonatal doctors from

around the world, as well as 19 University of Miami faculty and the two original program co-directors, Dr. eduardo Banaari and Dr.

chars Baur . Plans are already underway for the 35th Annual International Conference to beheld October 27th – 29th, 2011.

Also from Miami, Dr. Karn Young wasawarded the Micah Batchelor Award for Excellence in Children’s Health Research at theUniversity of Miami Miller School of Medicine for “Importance of c-kit in lung development andrepair”. Dr. Shu Wu was awarded a grant fromthe Marta Marx Fund of Scleroderma

Brown, PhD and Thrsa Gauthir , MD. Andour exciting third addition, Hidi Karpn, MD,comes to us from Baylor’s Texas Children’sHospital, Houston, TX. Dr Karpen’s area of interest includes nutrition and liver injury as wellas education. She will also be assistant director of the fellowship program. Thrsa Gauthir ,

MD has been named the new fellowship directorsince the departure of Dr Moore. She has alsobeen awarded from the 2011 Emory Children’sPediatrics Research Center Pilot Grant for her research in Alveolar macrophage functioning inthe neonatal CF lung. And finally another graduation occurred this spring. Ira Adam-

chapman, MD completed her MPH which willfurther advance the depth of our DevelopmentalProgress Program’s initiatives.

The University of Florida hosted Gorg

Simbrunr, MD, the founder of IPOKRaTES, asits 18th Annual Donald Eitzman VisitingProfessor in Neonatology on April 28-29 wherehe spoke on: “The Development of IPOKRaTES.” Jo Nu, MD was appointed to

the “Mucosal Immunology” Study Section atNIH. He was also named as an associate editorfor NeoReviews and PLOS1, a new open-access resource from the Public Library of Science. David Burhfid, MD was named amember of the NICHD Peds Subcommitteestudy section. chris Young, MD, a June 2011graduate of the University of Florida trainingprogram, will continue serving as the Chair of TECaN and represent District X on thiscommittee.

Foundation for “Mechanisms of CTGF-inducedlung fibrosis”. Two fellows, Dr. luis Fip

Miranda and Dr. Dpthi Aapati were awarded2010 Advancing Newborn Medicine Grantssponsored by the Ikaria Company.

Emory Regional Perinatal Center announces theretirement of J. Dvn cornish, MD. Dr Cornish,the former Department Acting Chair/Chair of Emory Pediatrics from 1994-2003 madeincredible contributions to Emory and toperinatal medicine, highlighted by establishingthe ECMO service at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston. Devn will continue hisextraordinary service not as a neonatologist; butas Elder in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His immediate plans include movingto Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic with hiswife and son to share ecclesiastical and servicefor Church activities in all of the Caribbean aswell as some areas in South America.

Also Emory announces that Jim Moor, MD ismoving to Dallas as the new NICU MedicalDirector at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas.

As we embark in changes with members leavingwe are excited about Ravi Pat, MD graduatingfrom our fellowship program and joining thedivision where we expect his career will behighlighted by quality improvement initiatives.Sowmya Mohan, MD will also be joining thefaculty this academic year. She graduated fromour fellowship program in 2010 followed by anintensive, productive year in basic scienceresearch under the mentorship of lou Ann



exutiv committ Rostr 2010-2011

DWayn M Pursy MD MPH FAAP

Chairperson

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Ctr Dept of Neonatology330 Brookline Ave Rm RO-318Boston, MA 02215-5400Phone: (617)667-3276Fax: (617)667-7040

[email protected]: 10/31/2010-10/31/2012

car l Bos MD MPH FAAP

Immediate Past Chair

University of North Carolina HospitalsDiv of Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine101 Manning Dr, CB #7596Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7596Phone: 919/966-5063Fax: 919/[email protected]: 10/31/2010-10/31/2012

David J Burhfid MD FAAPDISTRICT X, Chairperson Elect

Univ of Florida College of MedicineDept Pediatrics/NeonatologyPO Box 100296Gainesville, FL 32610-0296Phone: (352)273-8985Fax: (352)[email protected]: 11/01/2010-10/31/2012

John A F Zupani MD SD FAAP

DISTRICT I, Exec Comm Member

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Ctr Dept Of Neonatology, Rose 318330 Brookline AveBoston, MA 02215-5400Phone: (617)[email protected]: 11/01/2009 - 10/31/2012

Srgio G Goombk MD MPH FAAP

DISTRICT II, Exec Comm Member

Regional Neonatal Center Maria Fareri Childrens HospitalPediatrics/Neonatology

100 Woods RoadValhalla, NY 10595-1530Phone: (914)[email protected]: 11/01/2010-10/31/2013

enda K Anday MD FAAP

DISTRICT III, Exec Comm Member

St Christopher's Hospital for ChildrenDiv NeonatologyE Erie Ave at Front StPhiladelphia, PA 19134Phone: (215)[email protected]: 11/28/2005 - 10/31/2012

Wiiam F Wash MD FAAP

DISTRICT IV, Exec Comm Member

Vanderbilt Children's HospitalDiv Neonatology2200 Children's WayNashville, TN 37232-0005Phone: (615)[email protected]

Term: 11/01/2006 - 10/31/2012

Mih c Wash MD FAAP

DISTRICT V, Exec Comm Member

5500 Prestwick LaneHighland Heights, OH 44143-1971Phone: (216)844-3759Fax: (216)[email protected]: 11/01/2005 - 10/31/2011

Howard W Kibrid MD FAAP

DISTRICT VI, Exec Comm Member

614 W 57th St

Kansas City, MO 64113-1126Phone: (816)234-3596Fax: (816)[email protected]: 11/01/2006 - 10/31/2012

Wiiam D eng MD FAAP

DISTRICT VII, Exec Comm Member

University of Texas SouthwesternMedical Center / Neonatal-Perinatal5323 Harry Hines BlvdDallas, TX 75390-9063Phone: (214)648-3906

Fax: (214)[email protected]: 02/10/2009 - 10/31/2012

Rnat D Savih MD FAAP

DISTRICT VIII, Exec Comm Member

UNM Health Science Center Pediatrics/Neonatology

ACC 3rd Fl / MSC 10 5590 Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001Phone: (505)272-3967Fax: (505)[email protected]

Term: 11/01/2006 - 10/31/2012Rihard J Powrs MD FAAP

DISTRICT IX, Exec Comm Member

Good Samaritan HospitalNeonatology2505 Samaritan Dr, St 304San Jose, CA 95124Phone: (408)559-2261Fax: (408)[email protected]: 11/01/2007 - 10/31/2013

Avroy A Fanaroff MD FAAP

Of-Counsel; History Committee

Chairperson

Case Western Reserve UniversityDiv Neonatology / RBC 310011100 Euclid AveCleveland, OH 44106-1716Phone: (216)844-3387

Fax: (216)[email protected]

AAP SecTION lIAISONS

Ronad l Ariagno MD FAAP

Chairperson, Research Committee

Stanford University Medical Center Neonatal & Developmental Med750 Welch Rd Ste 315Palo Alto, CA 94304-1510Phone: (650)723-5711


Judy lynn Ashnr MD FAAP

Co-Leader Strategic Plan (Leadership)

TECAN Mentor

Professor of PediatricsVanderbilt University Medical Center Rm 1111 Doc Off Tower 2200 Children’s WayNashville, TN 37232-005Phone: (615)322-3476Fax: (615)343-1763

[email protected] R Bhatt MD FAAP

Database Committee Chairperson

732 Via San SimonClaremont, CA 91711-1570Phone: (909)427-5848Fax: (909)[email protected]

Vinod K Bhutani MD FAAP

Committee on Fetus and Newborn

Stanford University Medical Center Div of Neo/Dev Medicine

750 Welch Rd Ste 315Palo Alto, CA 94304-1510Phone: (650)723-5711Fax: (650)[email protected]

John V Hartin MD FAAP

Subcommittee on Practice

Co-Chairperson

1259 Prestwick LnItasca, IL 60143-1975Phone: (630)773-0036Fax: (630)773-0048

[email protected]




Garrtt K lam MD

Liaison, Society for Maternal-Fetal

Medicine

UT Chattanooga902 McCallie AveChattanooga, TN 37403Phone: (423)[email protected]

Tons N K Raju MD DcH FAAP

Liaison, National Institutes of Health

281 Shadow Glen CtGaithersburg, MD 20878-7417Phone: (301)402-1872Fax: (301)[email protected]

Rita M Ryan MD FAAP

ONTPD Chairperson

Medical University of South CarolinaChair and Professor, PediatricsPediatrician-in-Chief,

MUSC Children’s Hospital135 Rutledge AvenuCharleston, SC 29425-5610Phone: (843)8761684Fax: (843)[email protected]

Dbra A Sansoui edD APRN

NNP-Bc Liaison, NANN

3663 Whippoorwill BlvdPunta Gorda, FL 33950-7670Phone: (631)444-3298Fax: (631)444-3136

[email protected]

AAP STAFF

Jim couto, MA

Director, Division of Hospital

and Surgical Services

American Academy of Pediatrics141 Northwest Point BlvdElk Grove Village, IL 60007Phone: (847)434-7656Fax: (847)434-8000

[email protected]

Vivian Thorn

Division of Hospital

and Surgical Services

American Academy of Pediatrics141 Northwest Point BlvdElk Grove Village, IL 60007Phone: (847)[email protected]

exutiv committ Rostr 2010-2011

Sonia Obrmyr Imaizumi MD

FAAP

Liaison, Section on Home Care

604 Conshohocken State RdPenn Valley, PA 19072-1437Phone: (856)342-2265Fax: (856)[email protected]

Gorg litt, MD, FAAP

NRP Liaison and Chair, Global

Health Committee

Dartmouth-Hitchcock ClinicDept of PediatricsChildren’s Hospital at DartmouthLebanon, NH 03756Phone: (603)653-6063Fax: (603)[email protected]

edward e lawson MD FAAP

Editor, Journal of Perinatology

Johns Hopkins UniversityDiv Neonatology600 N Wolfe St Nelson 2-133Baltimore, MD 21287-0005Phone: (410)955-5259Fax: (410)[email protected]

Gibrt I Martin MD FAAP

Chair, Coding Committee

415 S Mannington PlWest Covina, CA 91791-2254Phone: (626)332-8981


Stphn A Parman MD FAAP

Chair, Coding Committee

462 Baneswood CircleKennett Square, PA 19348Phone: (302)733-2410Fax: (302)[email protected]

Ann R Stark MD FAAP

Chair, Education Committee

6 Braeswood Ct.

Houston, TX 77030-4360Phone: (713)[email protected]

linda J Van Martr MD MPH FAAP

Website Committee Chair

TECaN Mentor

Children’s HospitalNewborn Medicine/Hunnewell 4300 Longwood AveBoston, MA 02115-5724Phone: (617)[email protected]

Bob Whit MD FAAP

Perinatal Workshop Planning Group

Chairperson

Memorial Hospital of South Bend615 N. Michigan StSouth Bend, IN 46601-1033Phone: (574)[email protected]

lynn D Witt MD FAAP

Newsletter Editor

Children’s Hospital and Med Center 8200 Dodge StOmaha, NE 68114-4113Phone: (402)[email protected]

christophr Young MD FAAP

TECaN Chair

2501 North Patterson StreetValdosta, GA 31602Phone: (352)372-8635

[email protected]

ORGANIZATION lIAISONS

Wanda Barfid MD MPH FAAP

Liaison, Centers for Disease Control

(CDC)

4770 Buford Highway NE, MS K-22 Atlanta, GA 30341Phone: (770)[email protected]

Sott D Brns MD MPH FAAP

Liaison, March of Dimes1275 Mamaroneck AveWhite Plains, NY 10605-5201Phone: (914)[email protected]

Mith Godstin MD FAAP

Liaison, National Perinatal Association

1175 Campus St, Suite 11121Loma Linda, CA 92354Phone: (909)[email protected]

Krista Jangaard MD FRcPc

Liaison, Canadian Pediatric Society IWK Health Centre5850/5980 University AvePO Box 9700Halifax, Nova Scotia B3K6R8CANADAPhone: (902)[email protected]

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2012 VIRGINIA APGAR AWARDIN PERINATAL PEDIATRICS

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Dd: Mrch 16, 2012

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[email protected]/434-7656

The Apgar Award is sponsored by a grant from Abbott Nutrition and will be presented at the meeting of the Perinatal Section during the 2012 National Conference & Exhibition of the American

Academy of Pediatrics in New Orleans, LA.

Dmbr 4-6, 2011

Omni Shorham Hot

Washington, Dc

For over 30 years, Hot Topics has been THEpremiere neonatal conference, with more than

1,000 neonatologists and perinatologistsattending each year.

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[email protected]/434-7656

The Neonatal Education Award is sponsored by a grant from Mead Johnson Nutrition and will be presented at the meeting of

the Perinatal Section during the 2012 National Conference &

Exhibition of the American Academy of Pediatrics in New Orleans,LA.

2011 NEONATALLANDMARK AWARD


Dd: Mrch 16, 2012

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SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF

NEONATOLOGISTS26th Annual Conference

May 24 - 27, 2012

Marco Island Marriott

Resort and SpaMarco Island, Florida

www.southeastneo.org

This activity is jointly sponsored by grants from:

Mead Johnson Nutritionals

American Academy of Pediatrics ~ Perinatal Section (District X)

Guest FacultyRobert Christenson, MD Michael Kaplan, MB, ChB

Cami Martin, MD Richard Martin, MD

Laura Riley, MD Fernando Moya, MD

SAN Contact person: Barry D. Chandler, M.D., PresidentPhone: (954) 838-2628 E-mail: [email protected]

The Florida Society of Neonatologists and AAP District X Perinatal

Section will also hold their meetings during this conference.

CME Credits: Registration is for physicians only.Norton Healthcare designates this continuing medical

education activity for 17 credit hours in AMA PRA Category

1 Credits™. For more information related to CME, please

email at:

[email protected]

Rgistr onin at: www.southastno.org

The Section on Perinatal Pediatrics offers grants for educational or organization purposes within the individualperinatal districts of the Academy. The grant award is up to$4,000 per district. Applicants must be members of theSection on Perinatal Pediatrics. The following guidelinesshould be followed when submitting for funding:

1. Focus of the grant must be on perinatal pediatrics.

2. The purpose of the grant may be educational,organizational or both.

3. District-wide programs directed toward general andsubspecialty pediatricians will be prioritized.

4. Grants may be used jointly by neighboring districts.

5. Grant applications must include title, purpose,specific objectives, target audience,proposal/program content and budget.

6. Applications should be discussed with your DistrictRepresentative on the Section’sExecutive Committee prior to submission.

7. The planned activity should not conflict with theSection’s spring workshop (March 30-April 1, 2012)

or the AAP ‘s National Conference(October 20-23, 2012)

8. Following the sponsored program, a copy of thebrochure, number of people attending andtheir professional affiliations and programevaluations results should be submitted as soon aspossible after the meeting or by June 30, 2013 toJim Couto, MA, Director,Division of Hospital & Surgical Services,141 Northwest Point Blvd.,Elk Grove Village, IL 60007.

Th submission dadin is Marh 15, 2012. Proposals

should be sent to Jim Couto, MA at the above address. Aletter of support from the District Representative on theExecutive Committee of the Section on Perinatal Pediatricsis recommended and should be forwarded with theproposal.

candar of evnts

Distrit VI confrn

Chicago, ILSeptember 16-17, 2011

AAP Nce

Boston, MAOctober 14-18, 2011

NoPReP cours

New Orleans, LAJanuary 21-27 2012

cAN/Distrit IX confrn

Coronado Island, CAMarch 2-4, 2012

2012 Spring Workshop on

Prinata Prati Stratgis

Scottsdale, AZMarch 30 - April 1, 2012




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After the initialparticipation in thefirst RussianConference onRegionalization inTver, Russia [May 2010] and the successful visit of the delegation from Russia to the 2010 NCE, twoadditional contacts between the Section and our Russian colleagues have followed, both sponsored bythe United States Aid for International Development[State Department] through University ResearchCompany, LLC, Bethesda MD—project director Nicole

Simmons. Many thanks to Nicole for her collegialityand competence in negotiating these visits.

In May, John Hartline and Ann Stark of the Sectionand Michael Greene from ACOG were invited toparticipate in the Second Conference onRegionalization of Perinatal Care in Russia held inIvanovo, about 200 miles from Moscow. Ivanovoserves as the Regional Perinatal Center for its localarea. Presentations included didactic topics anddiscussions of challenges faced in a multilevelperinatal system and visits to the Perinatal Center,local community hospitals, and prenatal clinic.

[Picture 1: Drs. Stark, Greene, and Hartline with thePerinatal Center Staff, Ivanovo Russia]

On their return to Moscow, Drs. Stark and Greeneaddressed colleagues at the Kulakov Center inMoscow followed by tour of their facilities, including aneonatal intensive care unit founded in 1974. Of

interest, its director related similar shifts in mortalityfor very low birth weight babies over the past 35years as we have seen here in the United States. Dr.Hartline presented a draft “umbrella agreement” fromthe AAP to the Kulakov Center, which we hope willfoster formal agreements in education and ininvestigation.

At the end of the Moscow visit and capitalizing onprevious contacts made with neonatologists from theRussian State Medical University, Drs Stark andHartline visited their facilities, including a newly-builtstate-of-the-art simulation center with separatefacilities for newborn, pediatric, and adult simulation

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training. After presenting a case-simulation,students and faculty discussed the introduction of simulation into their training.

Lou Halamek, MD, FAAP, [Stanford University], amajor innovator and experienced teacher of simulation with international experience, traveled toMoscow in June to participate in simulation for education sessions hosted by the Kulakov Center and sponsored by USAID. This second contactexpanded on the introductory sessions onsimulation held at the 2010 NCE and demonstratedwhen the Russian delegation visited Woman andInfants Hospital in Rhode Island.

Russian colleagues are interested in exploringadditional opportunities for collaboration ineducation, publications, training, and research. The

AAP, through the Perinatal Section and International

Office, continues contacts in Russia. SeveralRussian pediatricians and neonatologists participatein the International Pediatric Association, whoseExecutive Director is Perinatal Section member and

Apgar Awardee William Keenan. Section membersinterested in these opportunities or others, shouldcontact John Hartline [AAP Department of Education & Perinatal Section], Jon Klein [AAPInternational Office], Deb Campbell [AAP PerinatalSection], Bill Keenan [IPA], or Jim Couto, PerinatalSection Manager.

Submitted by John Hartline, MD, FAAP

Dr Forrst Bird2010 Pionr Award

Winnr

Dr. Forrest Bird turned 90years old earlier this monthand celebrated his birthdaywith a large bash inviting theentire community of Sandpoint, Idaho, about 50 US and

Canadian aviators, members of the military, and enoughphysicians to staff a medium size urban hospital.

Beginning his medical career with innovations in highaltitude airplane respiratory support during WWII, Dr. Bird isbest known in Pediatrics for his invention of the Baby BirdVentilator, first distributed widely in 1970. With ubiquitousdistribution world wide and still in use in areas of Russiaand China, this inexpensive but robust little green unit,exclusively pneumatic powered, has saved endlessneonatal and pediatric lives since its first venture intoneonatal intensive care. Bird adult capable ventilators, likethe Mark 7, first introduced in 1955, and entries into the

Russia continued

anesthesia arena are just a few other major contributions to theinitiation of the era of current medical practiceand intensive care.

Significantly equal

inventions and patentsin the aviation andpneumatic tool industry make Dr. Bird one of the mostprolific and eclectic inventors in not only our time, butessentially for all time. Current endeavors in care of chroniclung disease, including Cystic Fibrosis, with his IPV(Intermittent Percussive Ventilation), and neonatal,pediatric and adult intensive care with his high frequencyVDR (Volumetric Diffusion Respirator) make it look like theage of 90 is just another milestone in a very long andfulfilling career.

His 90th birthday event washeld at the Bird Museum of

Aviation and Invention, near Sandpoint, ID. An eclecticcollection of military aviator, civiaviation, medical invention,including a working EmersonIron Lung, and general

inventions of significance is housed in this free, open to thepublic, fantastic museum collection.

I am attaching several pictures from the day at Dr. Bird's. It

was a gorgeous day in North Idaho and over 50 aviators

showed up to land on the Bird air strip and join in the

celebration of his 90th birthday. The event must have had a

turn out of over 400! The Pioneer Award presentation wentwell and was hugely well received by Dr. Bird and the entire

audience. Acknowledgement of Dr. Bird's contribution to

the health of children world wide was absolutely

appropriate for his 90th birthday! I believe he was truly

touched by this award, having received awards from

various Presidents of the United States and others, this is

the first based on his huge role in the care of newborns and

children. The museum has a

major goal of education and

inspiration of children and

Forrest now spends some of

his time teaching and

inspiring kids at the museum.I think the circle is becoming

fulfilled!

Carl J. Bodenstein, MD




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