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Division of Neonatology Academic Year 2018
Annual Report
Department of Pediatrics
University of Washington and
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Division of Neonatology |Academic Year 2018 Annual Report
TABLE OF CONTENTS
OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................. 4
PERSONNEL ............................................................................................................ 7
CLINICAL ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................. 12
Medical Consultation Program/Children’s Communication Center ..................................................... 12
Infant Ground Transport Program........................................................................................................ 12
Infant Development Follow-Up Clinic .................................................................................................. 12
Neonatal-Perinatal Database…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..13
TEACHING ACTIVITIES .......................................................................................... 13
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Training Program ................................................................ 13
Resident Education ............................................................................................................................. 157
Medical Student Education……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 17
NEST Program ....................................................................................................................................... 17
RESEARCH FUNDING ............................................................................................ 18
Active Research Funding ...................................................................................................................... 18
Pending Research Funding (Applications) ............................................................................................ 23
CLINICAL, RESEARCH, AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES ................................................ 24
PUBLICATIONS: JULY 2017 – JUNE 2018 ............................................................... 34
Peer-Reviewed Articles......................................................................................................................... 34
Chapters, Textbooks ............................................................................................................................. 41
Other Publications ................................................................................................................................ 43
PRESENTATIONS BY INVITATION .......................................................................... 43
FACULTY ORG CHART ........................................................................................... 53
OVERVIEW
Mission Statement: We will improve neonatal outcomes by
Providing outstanding evidence-based neonatal clinical care
Educating the next generation of neonatal caregivers
Advancing neonatal scholarship
History of Division Faculty:
The Division of Neonatal Biology and Respiratory Diseases of the Department of Pediatrics at the
University of Washington was officially created in 1963 with the recruitment of Dr. Tim Oliver. He then
recruited Dr. W. Alan Hodson from Johns Hopkins in 1966 as a second faculty member. A third faculty
member, Dr. Dick Wennberg, was added in 1969 and a fourth, Dr. David Woodrum, in 1971. Dr. Oliver left
Seattle in 1971 to become Chair of Pediatrics at Pittsburgh and Dr. Hodson became head of the Division,
a position he held until 1997 when he stepped down and Dr. Christine Gleason was recruited from Johns
Hopkins as Division Head of Neonatology. At that time, Pulmonary Medicine officially became its own
division under the direction of Dr. Greg Redding. Since 1997, the Division has substantially expanded its
clinical activities, research programs, and its outstanding neonatal fellowship training program. Dr.
Gleason stepped down as Division Head in 2014 when Dr. Sandra Juul was successfully recruited January
2015.
History of Division Research:
Between 1966 and 1970, research funding for the Division was obtained from the NICHD with a Neonatal
Biology Training Grant, an individual research award, and a satellite clinical research center. In 1972,
Division members worked together with members of the Department of Medicine to obtain a 5-year
Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) Grant in respiratory disease from the NHLBI. This SCOR became an
independent pediatric pulmonary SCOR when it was renewed in 1976, with a second 5-year renewal in
1982. In 1987, a Program Project grant entitled “Pathophysiology of Respiratory Disorders of the
Newborn” was funded through the NHLBI for a 5-year period ending in 1992. From 1992 to the present,
the Division’s scholarship has diversified; new directions in developmental neuroscience were included
beginning in 1998 after Dr. Christine Gleason became Division Head. In 2000, Dr. Sandra Juul was
recruited. NIH-funded bench research programs focused on neurodevelopment and neonatal
neuroprotection, with translation to multicenter clinical trials of erythropoietin (Epo) neuroprotection.
The addition of senior scientist Dr. Colin Studholme to the Division in 2011 brought state of the art
neuroimaging techniques for fetal and neonatal brain imaging. The overarching basic science research
goal of the Division is to improve the neurodevelopmental outcomes of at-risk infants. Clinical research is
focused on neuroscience, medical education, ethics and global neonatal-perinatal health. In 2013, Dr.
Juul was awarded a $10.1 million UO1 grant supporting a 5-year multi-center clinical trial investigating
Epo as a neuroprotective agent in extremely preterm infants, and in 2016 a second U01 grant was
awarded to study the neuroprotective effects of Epo for term infants with hypoxic ischemic
encephalopathy. Dr. Dennis Mayock is the Associate Division Head for Clinical Research.
Division Clinical Services:
University of Washington Medical Center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (Level IV):
Thomas P. Strandjord, MD, Medical Director; David Loren, MD, Assoc. Medical Director
The UWMC NICU admits critically-ill newborns from one of the highest risk obstetric services in the nation.
The multi-professional perinatal and NICU teams have special expertise in management of the most fragile
growth-restricted and premature fetuses and newborns. The high-risk perinatal program receives
obstetrics referrals from throughout the WWAMI region for fetal abnormalities, severe maternal illness,
and extreme prematurity and is the site of delivery for the most complex birth defects, including infants
requiring EXIT procedures for airway anomalies. Additional advanced services include therapeutic
hypothermia and the full range of ventilation strategies including inhaled nitric oxie, high –frequency
oscillatory and jet ventilation. The NICU medical team includes neonatal faculty, neonatal fellows,
neonatal nurse practitioners, neonatal hospitalists, pediatric residents, interns and medical students. The
inter-professional team includes dedicated respiratory therapists, neonatal pharmacists, dieticians,
physical therapists, speech language pathologists and social work support. The nursing team includes
three tiers of RN expertise and leadership. A state-of-the-art 50-bed NICU opened October 2012. The new
unit includes 42 single-bed rooms with space for a family member to stay with their infant plus several
additional rooms for multiples as well as an integrated OR for surgical procedures. Patients are cared for
by one of two multi-disciplinary teams, a resident-based team, and an NNP/hospitalist team. The UWMC
NICU’s care model includes 24/7 coverage by in-house residents and, mid-level intensivists (fellow or
NNP/hospitalist), under the direction of attending neonatologists. In AY 2017, the UWMC had 1,924
deliveries with 468 NICU admissions. The average daily census was 31.3 with 134 preterm infants weighing
less than 1500 grams at birth and an average daily census of 3.4 on ventilators.
Seattle Children’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (Level IV):
Robert DiGeronimo, Medical Director; Zeenia Billimoria, MD, Assoc. Medical Director
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Seattle Children’s Hospital is the highest rated Level IV NICU in the
Seattle area and serves as the major tertiary referral center for medically and surgically complex neonates
in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle Children’s NICU admits nearly 500 patients annually and has over 500
affiliated faculty that represent all pediatric subspecialties including: 12 pediatric surgeons, 5 pediatric
neurosurgeons and 4 pediatric cardiac surgeons – more than any other hospital in the region. The
Children’s NICU provides the full spectrum of neonatal medical care including therapeutic hypothermia
for acute hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, seizures, high frequency ventilation, inhaled nitric oxide and
ECMO for severe respiratory failure, renal replacement therapy including dialysis and surgical expertise in
the areas of congenital diaphragmatic hernia, intestinal failure, bowel atresia, craniofacial anomalies,
reconstructive pelvic medicine, post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus, neural tube defects and neurovascular
malformations. In addition, we offer multidisciplinary care teams providing neuro-critical care and
management of bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Daily rounds with the medical team incorporate the
patient’s family, NICU nurses, dietician, pharmacist and respiratory therapist. The NICU team accepts
admissions of critically ill neonates up to 44 weeks’ post menstrual age (i.e., up to 4 weeks after due date)
from the 5-state WAMI region. The Seattle Children’s Hospital NICU’s care model includes an in-house
fellow or Advanced Neonatal Practitioners and attending neonatologist 24/7. Seattle Children's Prenatal
Diagnosis and Treatment Program partners with the University of Washington to provide care for
pregnant women and their families when pregnancy is complicated by known or suspected conditions in
the developing fetus. Our program integrates obstetric, neonatology and pediatric specialty care for
families facing complicated pregnancy management or decision-making.
Overlake Hospital Medical Center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (Level III):
Shilpi Chabra, MD, Medical Director; Krystle Perez, MD, Assoc. Medical Director
In 2012, Overlake Hospital opened a new NICU with a total capacity of 18 beds, 13 of which are single-bed
rooms with space for a family member to stay near their infant. This model fits in well with the
patient/family-centered care provided by the Neonatology team. This facility boasts Nutrition follow up,
exclusive breastmilk feedings and same day cardiac consults. The Overlake Hospital NICU’s care model is
24/7 in-house Advanced Neonatal Practitioners under the direction of attending neonatologists. In AY
2017, Overlake had 3,797 deliveries with 346 NICU admissions. The average daily census was 8.0 with 13
preemies weighing less than 1500 grams at birth, and an average daily census of 0.05 on ventilators.
Providence Regional Medical Center Everett Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (Level III):
Michael D. Neufeld, MD, MPH, Medical Director; Anna Hedstrom MD, Assoc. Medical Director
Providence Regional Medical Center Everett’s 29-bed capacity NICU opened on Mother’s Day in 2002. The
unit was developed through the efforts of an alliance between PRMCE and Seattle Children’s Hospital.
Individual rooms provide privacy for patients and their families. The multidisciplinary team meets daily
with parents and concentrates on family-centered care, teaching parents how to take care of their infants,
especially those with special needs. In preparation for discharge, parents are provided in-depth
instruction on how to manage emergencies that may arise in the home, including the need for CPR. The
care model at PRMCE is 24/7 in-house Advanced Neonatal Practitioners under the direction of attending
neonatologists. In AY 2016, PRMCE had 4,815 deliveries with 641 NICU admissions. The average daily
census was 21.9 with 48 preemies less than 1500 grams at birth with an average daily census of 1.3 on
ventilators.
UW Medicine/Valley Medical Center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (Level III)
Christina Long, DO, Medical Director; Christopher Traudt, MD, Associate Director
In July 2017, Neonatologists and Advanced Neonatal Practitioners from University of Washington/Seattle
Children’s Hospital began a collaborative effort to staff the NICU at UW/Valley Medical Center. The unit
has a 29-bed capacity. The single bed rooms provide space and privacy for our patients and their families.
Two, unique, infant stabilization rooms allow immediate resuscitation of infants in the NICU after birth
without requiring transport after stabilization. Valley has a robust high- risk perinatal clinic and the
Neonatologists work closely in conjunction with the high-risk team to provide consults for families
prenatally. The Valley NICU uses a multi-disciplinary approach to patient care with NICU dedicated
pharmacists, dieticians, physical therapists, speech therapists, respiratory therapists, social work, and
NICU nurses. This multi-disciplinary staff meets with families to provide the best family-centered care for
our patients. Advanced services provided at Valley include therapeutic hypothermia with 24/7 Pediatric
Neurology support and a large range of ventilation strategies including high-frequency oscillatory
ventilation. Advanced Neonatal Practitioners staff the NICU with 24/7 in- house coverage under the
direction of attending Neonatologists. In FY 2017, Valley had 3745 number of deliveries with 383 NICU
admissions.
Franciscan Health Care System; St Joseph Medical Center (Level III); St Francis (Level II)
Stephen Welty, MD, Medical Director; Elizabeth Flanigan MD, Associate Medical DIrector
Franciscan Health Care System includes a network of hospitals with approximately 9,000 deliveries
annually at its 5 obstetrical facilities: St Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma, St Francis Hospital in Federal
Way, St Elizabeth Hospital in Enumclaw, Harrison Medical Center in Silverdale, and Highline Medical
Center in Burien. St Joseph Medical Center has a licensed capacity of 23 neonatal beds and has 24/7 in-
house Advanced Neonatal Practitioners supported by faculty neonatologists. St. Francis Hospital has a
licensed capacity of 10 Level II beds, with medical care from local pediatricians, with consultation and
attendance at high-risk deliveries as needed from SCH Advanced Neonatal Practitioners and/or
neonatologists. St. Elizabeth is a critical access hospital with 345 deliveries a year. Seattle Children’s
Hospital partnered with the Franciscan Health Care System to begin providing Neonatology services and
medical direction on April 1, 2013, and St. Joseph Medical Center opened its new Level III NICU in June
2013. This partnership has made it possible for the vast majority of patients to stay within their community
while receiving excellent care for their fragile newborns. In AY 2017, St. Joseph’s had 4,132 deliveries with
423 NICU admissions. Our average daily census was 17.3 with 58 premature infants weighing less than
1500 and 10 weighing less than 1000 grams at birth. With the new emphasis on non-invasive ventilation,
we average between 3 and 5 babies on nasal CPAP per day. We have recently expanded our care to
provide inhaled nitric oxide for infants with hypoxic respiratory failure.
PERSONNEL
Sandra E. Juul, MD, PhD W. Alan Hodson Endowed Chair in Pediatrics Professor of Pediatrics Head, Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics Maneesh Batra, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Pediatrics Associate Director, Pediatric Residency Program Zeenia Billimoria, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Associate Medical Director, NICU, Seattle Children’s Hospital Shilpi Chabra, MD Associate Professor of Pediatrics Medical Director, NICU, Overlake Hospital Medical Center Pattaraporn Chun, MD Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Robert DiGeronimo, MD Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Medical Director, NICU, Seattle Children’s Hospital Medical Director, Infant Ground Transport Program, Seattle Children’s Hospital
Cyril Engmann, MD Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Global Health Global Program Leader/Director, Maternal, Newborn, Child Health & Nutrition, PATH Elizabeth Flanigan, MD Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics Associate Medical Director NICU, St. Joseph’s Medical Center Christine A. Gleason, MD Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics Megan Gray, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Associate Director, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Training Program Sarah J. Handley, MD Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Physician Liaison, Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Program, Seattle Children’s Hospital
Anna Hedstrom, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Associate Medical Director NICU, Providence Regional Medical Center Everett Melinda Hendrickson, MD Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics J. Craig Jackson, MD, MHA Professor of Pediatrics Associate Division Head, Regional Neonatal Program Development Elizabeth N. Jacobson, MD Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Site Physician Sponsor, Children’s Hospital Neonatal Consortium, Seattle Children’s Hospital Director of Quality, Neonatology Regional Network Christina Long, DO Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics Medical Director, NICU, Valley Medical Center David Loren, MD Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Medical Director, NICU, University of Washington Medical Center
Course Director PEDS669, Medical Student Elective in NICU, University of Washington Medical Center
Dennis E. Mayock, MD Professor of Pediatrics Associate Division Head, Scholarship and Clinical Research
Michael D. Neufeld, MD, MPH Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics Medical Director, NICU, Providence Regional Medical Center Everett Pratik Parikh, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Krystle Perez, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Associate Medical Director, NICU, Overlake Hospital Medical Center Taylor Sawyer, DO, MEd Associate Professor of Pediatrics Director of Medical Simulation, Seattle Children's Hospital Director, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Training Program Director of Outreach Education, Neonatal Education & Simulation Based Training (NEST) Program Associate Division Head, Education Kendra Smith, MD Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Thomas P. Strandjord, MD Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics Medical Director, NICU, University of Washington Medical Center Colin Studholme, PhD Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Bioengineering Adjunct Professor of Radiology Christopher Traudt, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Associate Medical Director, NICU, Valley Medical Center Rachel Umoren, MD, MS Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Linda Wallen, MD Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Associate Division Head, Clinical Operations Elliott Weiss, MD, MSME Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Assistant Professor, Division of Bioethics
Stephen Welty, MD Professor of Pediatrics Medical Director, NICU, St. Joseph’s Medical Center
Fellows:
Year Name Pediatric Residency Program
3rd Year Meenakshi Dutta, MD Tulane University Kendell German, MD University of California San Francisco Jeanne Krick, MD Madigan Army Medical Center
2nd Year Teresa Lam, MD Loma Linda University Medical Center
Patrick Motz, DO, MPH Wright State University
1st Year Brianna Brei, MD, MPH Rush University Medical Center
Shubha Setty, MD Emory University
2018-2019 Incoming Fellows
Sarah Kolnik, MD, MBA New York University
Katherine Kenningham, MD University of Washington
Seattle Children’s Hospital Neonatal Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant Program: (4)
April Morris, ARNP, Manager, Advance Practice Services, Overlake Hospital Medical Center
Meg Keith, MSN, ARNP, Supervisor, Seattle Children’s Hospital
Kim Gustafson, MSN, ARNP, Supervisor, Franciscan Health System
Carol Otto MSN, ARNP, Supervisor, Valley Medical Center
This program provides NP/PA services at four regional medical centers in collaboration with Seattle
Children’s Hospital and the Division of Neonatology.
University of Washington Medical Center Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Program: (6)
Shwu-Shin Hou, MN, ARNP, NNP-BC, Program Manager
Jennie Collins, MD
Amy Dunn Caldwell, ARNP
Jennifer Fesinmeyer, ARNP
Tiffany Stanley, ARNP
Research Staff:
Daniel Moralejo, PhD, DVM, Research Scientist Kylie Corry, MS, Research Scientist Tommy Wood, MD, PhD, Post Doc HEAL Grant Project Team: Sandra Juul, MD, PhD, Principal Investigator; Clinical Coordinating Center Dennis Mayock, MD, Site Principal Investigator
John Feltner, Lead Clinical Coordinator (HEAL) Isabella Esposito, Research Coordinator Elizabeth Jacobson, MD Craig Jackson, MD, MHA Pratik Parikh, MD Krystle Perez, MD, MPH Thomas Strandjord, MD Christopher Traudt, MD Linda Wallen, MD Elliott Weiss, MD, MSME
PENUT Grant Project Team:
Sandra Juul, MD, PhD, Principal Investigator; Clinical Coordinating Center
Dennis Mayock, MD, Site Investigator
Bailey Clopp, Lead Clinical Coordinator (PENUT)
Colin Studholme, PhD, Biomedical Imaging Computing Group
Christopher Traudt, MD, Imaging Data Analysis
Biomedical Image Computing Group:
Colin Studholme, PhD, Principal Investigator
David Hunt, PhD, Senior Fellow
Mary Kociuba, PhD, Senior Fellow
Mengyuan Liu, Graduate Student
Ipek Ozdemir, PhD, Visiting Scientist
Thilo Strauss, PhD, Senior Fellow
Viktoria Taroudaki, PhD, Senior Fellow
Gwendolyn Van Steenkiste, PhD, Senior Fellow
Hirofumi Watari, PhD, Senior Fellow
Administrative Staff:
Paula Sword, MHA, Division Administrator
Jake Hawksworth, MHA, Director of Medical Specialties Neonatology, SCH
Marissa Atienza, Fellowship Program Administrator
Lisa Wormke, BA, MPA, Grants Manager
Samantha Soler, Administrative Assistant, UW
Neil Kline, Office Assistant, UW
Kathy Peltz, Senior Administrative Assistant, SCH
Stacy Bishop, Senior Administrative Assistant, SCH
CLINICAL ACTIVITIES
MEDICAL CONSULTATION PROGRAM/CHILDREN’S COMMUNICATION CENTER
The Division provides 24/7 neonatal consultation services and medical control for neonatal ground and
air transport for the 5-state WWAMI region for about 400 patients per year.
NEONATAL TRANSPORT PROGRAM
Robert DiGeronimo, MD, Medical Director
Neonatal transport services for Seattle Children’s and it’s affiliated hospital partners is provided by
dedicated teams from Seattle Children’s and Airlift Northwest. Our transport team are leaders in safe
newborn transport and have ground, rotor and fixed wing capability. Teams are comprised of specially
trained transport nurses and respiratory therapists. Infants from referral centers throughout the WWAMI
(Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho) region are transported to facilities best suited to their
needs. Services provided include en-route cardiopulmonary monitoring, conventional ventilator support,
high frequency ventilation, administration of nitric oxide, blood gas analysis and mobile extracorporeal
membrane oxygenation for critically ill patients too unstable to move via other means. Team members
are trained in the interpretation of x-rays, newborn resuscitation, endotracheal tube placement, insertion
of umbilical catheters, treatment of pneumothoraces, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, blood pressure
management, complex congenital heart disease and other newborn emergencies. Members of the
Division of Neonatology serve as Medical Control Providers for all transport missions.
INFANT DEVELOPMENT FOLLOW-UP CLINIC
William Walker, MD
The University of Washington Infant Development Follow-Up Clinic (IDFC) was provides critical screening and follow up for high risk infants cared for in the UWMC and SCH NICUs. It also provides interdisciplinary training, and follow up for patients in clinical research studies such as PENUT and HEAL. Current staffing includes developmental pediatrics, neonatal neurology, neonatology, advanced practice nursing, psychology, audiology, nutrition, physical and occupational therapy, and social work. Scheduled IDFC evaluations occur at 4 and 12 months corrected age, and 24, 36, and 54 months chronological age. Very low birth weight infants (weighing less than 1500 grams at birth) are prioritized for follow-up. Other infants with specific neonatal concerns, e.g., chronic lung disease, intracranial hemorrhage, infection, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and selected surgical patients are also followed.
Approximately 600 high-risk infants and children are seen annually in the clinic. About 40 percent of these visits are with infants during the first year of life. The most recent innovation is the Late and Moderate Preterm Babies (LAMBs) Follow-up Clinic which opened in June 2018. This clinic serves infants born between 32 0/7 and 36 6/7 weeks gestation, with a birthweight of 1500 grams or greater, and a NICU length of stay 5 days or greater. Scheduled evaluations for LAMBs occur at 4-6 months corrected age, 12 months corrected age, and 24 and 36 months chronological age.
NEONATAL-PERINATAL DATABASES
Michael D. Neufeld, MD, MPH and Thomas P. Strandjord, MD, Database Coordinators
The University of Washington Medical Center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit maintains a quality improvement and research NICU database that includes all infants admitted to the NICU, as well as all infants delivered at UWMC over 22 weeks gestation. The database is maintained by Division staff and faculty. In addition, since 2000, the University of Washington NICU has participated in the Vermont-Oxford Network (VON) database for 401-1500 gram infants. Data is selected for inclusion in the NICU database by consensus of the neonatology faculty and fellows. The NICU database contains a superset of the data required by the VON database and as such includes extensive admission, diagnostic, outcome and local QA/QI data. The outcome (morbidity and mortality) data is generated annually and reviewed with the faculty and fellows. In addition, ad hoc queries are performed at the request of fellows and faculty and reviewed as a group.
Elizabeth Jacobson, MD, Site Physician Sponsor, Robert DiGeronimo, MD, Co-Sponsor
Seattle Children’s Hospital belongs to the Children’s Hospitals Neonatal Consortium of more than 30
children's hospital Level IV NICUs. This allows for involvement in benchmarking and quality evaluation
and improvement initiatives for the SCH NICU through the Children’s Hospitals Neonatal Database.
Robert DiGeronimo, MD, Site Physician Co-Sponsor
Seattle Children’s Hospital belongs to the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO), an
international non-profit consortium of over 350 health care institutions dedicated to the development
and evaluation of novel therapies to support organ failure. Participation in ELSO affords the opportunity
to participate in and query the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation database to support clinical
research, quality improvement and evidence based guideline recommendations.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
NEONATAL-PERINATAL FELLOWSHIP TRAINING PROGRAM
Taylor Sawyer, DO, MEd, Program Director
Megan Gray, MD, Associate Program Director
The Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Training Program at the University of Washington began in
the mid-1960s. Our mission is to educate and inspire the next generation of neonatologists who will
provide state-of-the-art, evidence-based clinical care, and to assist and mentor them in finding and
pursuing their scholarly passion so they are poised to be the future academic leaders of our field. During
their 3 years of training, fellows spend a total of 56 weeks on clinical service: 46 weeks on rotations in the
two teaching hospital NICUs (Seattle Children's Hospital & University of Washington Medical Center); 8
weeks on clinical services including perinatology, cardiac ICU, and pediatric surgery; and 2 weeks in one
of the Division's community hospital NICUs. Fellows also attend NICU follow-up clinic 8 half-days each
year. Additionally, fellows achieve a high degree of scholarly/ academic competence in order to excel in a
career in academic neonatology. We have designed our program to provide ample protected time for
scholarly activities. Our research areas of focus include neuroscience, global health, education/simulation,
quality improvement, and biomedical ethics. We have strong research mentors both within and outside
the Neonatology Division. As of 2017, 59 neonatologists have successfully completed their clinical and
research training in our program, and more than 50% have pursued an academic career. Our graduates
have a 1st time board pass rate of 100% over the past 5 years.
DIVISION FELLOWSHIP GRADUATES:
Note: The program was inactive 7/95 – 6/99.
Name Years of Training
Current Position/Institution:
Richard Wennberg 1966-1968 Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington (Retired from the University of California, Davis), Seattle, WA
Thomas Helmrath 1967-1969 Medical Director, Riverside Hospital, Columbus, OH
Robert Hall 1968-1970 Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri, Mercy Children’s Hospital
David Woodrum 1969-1971 Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Colby Parks 1969-1971 Private Practice, Anchorage, AK
Ron Bloom 1969-1971 Professor of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Errol Alden 1970-1972 Executive Director, American Academy of Pediatrics
Thomas Nelson 1971-1973 Professor of Pediatrics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Rosemary Orr 1971-1973 Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Jacquelyn Bamman 1972-1974 Director, Neonatal & Pulmonary Medicine, Ventura County Hospital, Ventura, CA
Janet Murphy 1972-1974 Associate Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, University of Washington(Retired), Seattle, WA
David Belenky 1973-1975 Private Practice, Seattle, WA
John Prueitt 1973-1975 Private Practice, Seattle, WA
Paul Hinkes 1973-1975 Private Practice, Glendale, CA
John Yount 1973-1975 Private Practice, Salem, OR
Robert Guthrie 1974-1976 Professor of Pediatrics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Jonelle Rowe 1974-1976 Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT
Charles Haberkern 1975-1977 Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Robert Perelman 1975-1977 Director, Department of Education, American Academy of Pediatrics
William E. Truog 1976-1978 Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO
Dale Kessler 1976-1978 Director, Neonatal Medicine, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME
Dennis Mayock 1979-1981 Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Kelly Wright 1979-1981 Private Practice, Memphis, TN
Greg Sorensen 1982-1984 Vice President, Medical Affairs, Bon Secours Health System, Richmond, VA
J. Craig Jackson 1982-1985 Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Richard Badura 1982-1985 Private Practice, Seattle, WA
Jon Watchko 1983-1986 Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Gary Twiggs 1985-1987 Private Practice, Newport Beach, CA
A.C. Hoffmeister 1985-1987 Private Practice, Eugene, OR
Sandra Juul 1986-1989 Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Charles Davis 1987-1989 United States Navy
Thomas Strandjord 1987-1990 Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Matt Lee 1989-1992 Research Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
James Berger 1990-1993 Private Practice, Ogden, UT
Valerie Newman 1993-1994 Private Practice, Portland, OR
Peter Tarczy-Hornoch 1992-1995 Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Michael Neufeld 1999-2003 Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Eric Leung 1999-2003 Private Practice, Renton, WA
David Anderson 2000-2003 Private Practice, Walnut Creek, CA
Susan Miller 2002-2005 Private Practice, Naples, Florida
Robert Mertz 2002-2005 Private Practice, Seattle, WA
Eric Demers 2002-2005 Private Practice, Seattle, WA
Katherine Salinas/Simon 2004-2006 Private Practice, Austin, TX
Maneesh Batra 2004-2007 Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Marcella Mascher-Denen 2005-2008 Private Practice, Corpus Christi, TX
Jessica Slusarski 2006-2009 Associate Professor, Brown University, Providence, RI
Annie Nguyen-Vermillion 2007-2010 Private Practice, Seattle, WA
Janna Patterson 2007-2010 Senior Vice President, Global Child Health and Life Support
Andrew Beckstrom 2008-2011 Private Practice, Seattle, WA
Elizabeth Jacobson 2008-2011 Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Pattaraporn Tanya Chun 2010-2013 Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Rachel Fleishman 2010-2013 Assistant Professor, Drexel University College of Medicine; St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, PA
Anna Hedstrom 2011-2014 Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Stacey Soileau 2011-2014 Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, LA
Shaun Odell 2012-2015 Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, Provo, UT
Vijayeta (Vij) Rangarajan 2012-2015 Private Practice, Seattle, WA
Eric Peeples 2013-2016 Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska
Jayalakshmi (Ammu) Ravindran
2013-2016 Private Practice, University of San Francisco
Gillian Pet 2014-2017 Johns Hopkins University
Anita Shah 2014-2017 Private Practice, Children’s Hospital of Orange County
Meenakshi Dutta 2015-2018 Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Kendell German 2015-2018 Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Jeannie Krick 2015-2018 Neonatologist, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA
RESIDENT EDUCATION
Maneesh Batra, MD, MPH, Associate Director, Pediatric Residency Program
Our faculty, fellows, and advanced neonatal practitioners are involved in several aspects of the core
training program for pediatric residents. Currently the University of Washington Pediatric Residency
Program accepts 43 residents per year. All residents complete one 4-week rotation in the UWMC NICU
during their intern year and one or more rotations in the UWMC NICU and SCH NICU over the course of
their subsequent 2 years of residency. Additionally, University of Washington family practice residents
rotate through the UWMC NICU for 2-4 weeks. For all of these trainees our faculty, fellows and advance
neonatal practitioners provide bedside teaching during the rotation. Additionally, our Division has been
responsible for training all pediatric interns in the Newborn Resuscitation Program (NRP). Finally, several
of our faculty are invited to participate each year in the WWAMI (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska,
Montana, Idaho) visiting professor program.
MEDICAL STUDENT EDUCATION
David Loren, MD, Course Director
An elective rotation in the UWMC NICU is offered to 4th year medical students. Division faculty also
lecture in various medical school courses (for example, Ethics) and offer research experience for students
in their laboratories. In addition, selected faculty have participated in the University of Washington’s
medical school “College Faculty” program.
NEONATAL EDUCATION AND SIMULATION-BASED TRAINING (NEST) PROGRAM
Rachel Umoren, MD, MS, Program Director; Taylor Sawyer, DO, MEd, Director of Outreach
Education; Thomas Strandjord, MD, Director of Clinical Integration; Megan Gray, MD, Director of
Kinesthetic Learning
In 2014, the Division of Neonatology joined an elite group of neonatal divisions who own and operate a dedicated neonatal simulation program. The Neonatal Education and Simulation-based Training (NEST) Program sets the UW and Seattle Children’s Division of Neonatology apart and highlights the Division’s dedication to simulation-based education. The mission of the NEST Program is to improve neonatal outcomes through advanced technology-enhanced training and simulation research. The program’s vision is to provide international leadership in neonatal education, simulation-based training and scholarship. Current projects include: ‘boot camps’ for residents and fellows, neonatal resuscitation training, neonatal procedural skills training, development of a computer-based perinatal counseling simulator, and virtual reality neonatal disaster training. The NEST program works to improve the care of neonates in the Seattle region by conducting educational outreach with pediatric providers and neonatal transport teams.
RESEARCH FUNDING
ACTIVE RESEARCH FUNDING
Maneesh Batra, MD, MPH
2016-2018 AID-OAA-F-16-00026 USAID, Saving Lives at Birth (SLAB) Grand Challenges Validation Grant “Mobile WACh NEO: Communication Empowering Mothers and Newborns” PI: Jennifer Unger Collaborator/Co-Investigator, Effort 1%: M. Batra SLAB, Total award: $250,000
2015-2017 Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Center for Clinical and Translational Research Academic Enrichment Fund “Does an Elevated Respiratory Severity Score Correlated to Hypercapnia in Neonates?” PI: Anna Hedstrom, Mentor, Co-Investigator: M. Batra SCH, Total Award: $24,312
2015-Present Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens Endowment for International Child Health Research and Education), Seattle Children’s Foundation Role: Manager and Steward Principal: $500,000, Annual Disbursement: $25,000
2014-2017 U01HL111478 NIH-NHLBI “Multi-center trial of limiting PGY2&3 resident work hours on patient safety (ROSTERS study)” PI: Czeisler CA (Brigham and Women’s Hospital) Seattle Site Co-Investigator, Effort 5%: M. Batra NIH, Annual Direct Costs (Seattle Site): $238,000
Shilpi Chabra, MD 2017-2018 UWHA Research grant, “Point-of-Care Ultrasound for PICC line monitoring (PUP): a pilot
study” Role: Mentor and Co-Investigator Total Direct Costs: $1,200 + $2,000 2018-2019 UW Neonatal Biology Research Fund, “Long-term effects of Pregnancy Infections and
Behaviors on Child and Adult Health” Role: Co-Investigator Annual Direct Costs: $5,000
Robert DiGeronimo, MD 2015-2017 IRB_00083501, University of Utah/Intermountain Medical Center DiGeronimo (PI)
Discovery Labs, Prospective Observational Study of Respiratory Support Provided to
Premature Infants at Risk for Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Role: Co-investigator (Site PI)
Cyril Engmann, MD
2017-2020 Scaling up Early Childhood Development: Expanding Nurturing Care in the early years. MNCHN Program Lead: C. Engmann Grant from the Conrad Hilton Foundation, Total Award: $8,200,000
2016-2020 Advancing Maternal Immunization. MNCHN Program Lead: C. Engmann Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Total Award: $9,000,000
2016-2018 Milk Banking, Compendium for Capacity Building & Best Practice Assessment. Program Lead: C. Engmann Grant from the Family Larsson Rosenquist Foundation, Total Award: $1,277,300
2016-2020 Technical Assistance for Nutrition, Chair of Consortium: C Engmann Grant from the Department for International Development, United Kingdom Total Award: $20,000,000
2015-2018 Scaling up Human Milk Banking in Vietnam and India, Co-investigator: C. Engmann Cargill Foundation, Total Award: $ 2,000,000
2014-2018 Maternal Child Survival Program: Grant from the United States Agency for International Development, Program Lead: C. Engmann, Total Award: $10,000,000
2015-2018 Optimizing the Health Extension Program (OHEP) in Ethiopia: Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Co-PI: C. Engmann, Total Award: $5,000,000
2014-2018 Making Every Baby Count Initiative (MEBCI): Grant from the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, PI: Cyril Engmann , Total Award: $12,421,572
Christine Gleason, MD
2016-2017 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Policy Fellowship Total Award: $165,000
Megan Gray, MD
2017-2018 “Speaking up for Patient Safety” UW Patient Safety Innovations Program Role: Co-Investigator, Total Award: $50,000 annually
2016-2018 “Multimodal Simulation for Emergency and Disaster Preparedness” Academic Enrichment Fund Program, Seattle Children’s Hospital Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Total Award: $50,000 annually
Anna Hedstrom, MD
2017-2019 Use of the respiratory severity score (RSS) to predict intubation (CPAP failure) in very preterm neonates. For study of the use of the RSS to predict CPAP failure/intubation in
neonates < 32 weeks. Seattle Children’s Hospital, CCTR Role: Principal Investigator, Total Award $60,000 (0.1 FTE)
2017 “Use of the respiratory severity score (RSS) to predict intubation (CPAP failure) in very preterm neonates” Division Support for additional statistical analysis, Division of Neonatology. Role: Principal Investigator, Total Award: $5,737
2012-Present Adara Development, “For International Travel to Uganda. I provide annual nursing and physician educational updates on neonatal topics, assist in design of unit protocols for care delivery and data collection and support the implementation of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) and oxygen blending” in the Kiwoko Hospital NICU Travel Funding, Award: ~$2,500 annually
Craig Jackson, MD, MHA
2016-Present Site co-investigator (0.05 FTE) on NIH-funded HEAL Study, a national, multi-center, randomized clinical trial: “High-dose erythropoietin for asphyxia and encephalopathy” (PI: Sandra Juul).
Sandra Juul, MD, PhD
2018-2020 Epigenetic biomarkers of cerebral palsy in the ELGAN CP Alliance. Sandra Juul, MD, PhD and An Massaro, MD Co-PIs. Total Award: $179,925
2017-2019 Uridine neuroprotection in neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Sandra Juul, MD, PhD, PI. Total Award: $489,128
2016-2022 High-dose Erythropoietin for Asphyxia and Encephalopathy (HEAL) CCC. 1U01NS092764-01A1, NINDS. Sandra Juul, MD, PhD and Yvonne Wu MD, MS, Multi-PIs. Total Award: $10,100,000
2013-2018 Preterm Erythropoietin Neuroprotection Trial (PENUT Trial) CCC. 1U01NS077953-01 NINDS. Sandra Juul, MD, PhD, PI. Total Award: $10,145,741
2013-2018 Biomarkers of neonatal encephalopathy in a nonhuman primate model. 5R01HD073128-02. Sandra Juul, MD, PhD, PI. Total Award: $3,233,245
Dennis Mayock, MD
2016-2022 High-dose Erythropoietin for Asphyxia and Encephalopathy (HEAL) CCC. 1U01NS092764-01A1, NINDS. Role: Co-Investigator, Total Award: $10,100,000
2013-2018 Preterm Erythropoietin Neuroprotection Trial (PENUT Trial) CCC. 1U01NS077953-01 NINDS. Role: Co-Investigator, Total Award: $10,145,741
2016-2018 Developmental Impact of NICU Exposures (DINE) Study. NICHQ. Role: Site Investigator
Pratik Parikh, MD
2015-2018 NIH/NINDS 5R21NS093154-02. Novel ferret model of preterm encephalopathy Co-Investigator. Total Funding: $424,875.00
2017-2019 Academic Enrichment Fund. Does Nanocurcumin protect the preterm brain from injury? Role: Principal Investigator, Total Funding requested: $25,000
2018-2020 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Uridine neuroprotection in neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury. Role: Co-Investigator. 01/01/2018 to 7/1/2019. Total Funding: $489,128.00
Taylor Sawyer, DO, MEd
2017-2019 NIH/NICHD1 R21 HD089151-01A1. Improving safety and quality of tracheal intubations in neonatal ICUs. Role: Co-PI, Total Award: $275,000
2016-2018 UW CoMotion Innovation Fund. University of Washington CoMotion, A Novel Airway Device for Neonates: The iLMA. Role: PI, Total Award: $50,000
Kendra Smith, MD
2014-Present Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company. A Multi-center, Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Double-blind, Two-armed, Parallel Group Study to Evaluate Efficacy and Safety of IV Sildenafil in the Treatment of Neonates with Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn or Hypoxic Respiratory Failure and at Risk for Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension, with a Long Term Follow-up Investigation of Developmental Progress 12 and 24 Months after Completion of Study. Annual Direct Costs: $51,827
2015-2018 United Therapeutics. Intravenous Remodulin (Treprostinil) as Add-on Therapy for the Treatment of Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn. Annual Direct Costs: $97,718
2015-2018 Ladybug Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Foundation. Liquid ventilation for lung protection and recruitment. Annual Direct Costs: $94,000
Colin Studholme, PhD
2013-2018 NIH NIBIB. “Motion robust mapping of human brain functional connectivity changes in utero.” Year 1 Award: $499,857
2013-2018 NIH NINDS. Motion robust mapping of human brain microstructure and macrostructure in utero (Competing renewal of High resolution in-utero mapping of fetal brain development from combined MRI). Year 1 Award: $459,691
2013-2017 Oregon Health Science University. “Characterizing the FASD of the cerebral cortex in utero with DTI.” Year 1 Award: $54,378
2014-2017 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. “Gestational malnutrition – a preventable cause of cognitive impairment in children.” Year 1 Award: $90,000
2013-2018 NIH NINDS. Preterm Epo Neuroprotection Trial (PENUT Trial) Clinical Coordinating Center (CCC). Award: $1,789,418
Christopher Traudt, MD
2013-2018 NIH/ R01 HD073128-01A1 (Juul) . Biomarkers of neonatal encephalopathy in a nonhuman primate model. Role: Collaborator.
Rachel Umoren, MD
2017-2019 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, “eHBB: Virtual reality technology to improve newborn healthcare delivery in low and middle income countries.” Role: PI (25% FTE) Total Award: $1,109,135
2017-2018 Center for Leadership & Innovation in Medical Education (CLIME) Small Grant Program (PI Burns), “TeamBITS Online - Expanding Access to Teamwork Training for Medical Students,” Role: Co-Investigator, Total Award: $4,163
2016-2018 Seattle Children’s Academic Enrichment Fund Program (PI Gray), “Multimodal Simulation for Emergency and Disaster Preparedness,” Role: Co-Investigator Total Award: $50,000
2017-2018 Safety Innovations Program (PI Kim), “Speaking Up for Promoting the Culture of Safety: Piloting the SPEAK-PREP Tool,” Role: Consultant, Total Award: $50,000
2017-2018 Indiana Minority Health Coalition State Master Research Plan (PI Place), “Evaluating Evidence-Based and Culturally Sensitive Communication Recommendations on Interconception, Prenatal, and Infant Health and Safety for the Hispanic/Latino(a) Populations in Indiana,” Role: Consultant, Total Award: $19,992
2017-2020 Indiana State Department of Health: Safety PIN (PI Litzelman), “WeCare Plus: An Innovative, Community-Based Collaboration to Decrease Infant Mortality,” Role: Consultant, Total Award: $2,100,000
PENDING RESEARCH FUNDING (APPLICATIONS)
Anna Hedstrom, MD
2018-2020 Saving Lives at Birth Validation Grant: Validation and Feasibility Study of a Low-Cost US Agency for International Development, PI, Total Amount: ~$50,000
Sandra Juul, MD, PhD
2018-2020 NIH/NINDS. R21. Is darbepoetin neuroprotective in rat model of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy? Role: Principal Investigator.
2018-2020 NIH/NINDS. R21. Is darbepoetin neuroprotective in ferret model of preterm neonatal
encephalopathy?
Role: Principal Investigator.
Dennis Mayock, MD
2018-2023 Co-analysis of Longitudinal Fetal Brain and Placenta Functional MRI in Healthy and Growth Restricted Pregnancies. NICHD Role: Co-Investigator
Pratik Parikh, MD
2018-2022 NIH/NINDS. RO1Nanocurcumin for neuroprotection in neonatal HIE. Role: Co-Investigator.
2018-2020 NIH/NINDS. R21. Is darbepoetin neuroprotective in rat model of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy? Role: Co-Investigator.
2018-2020 NIH/NINDS. R21. Is darbepoetin neuroprotective in ferret model of preterm neonatal
encephalopathy?
Role: Co-Investigator.
CLINICAL, RESEARCH, AND TEACHING ACTIVIT IES
Maneesh Batra, MD, MPH
Clinical Interests: Newborn health, survival and long-term outcomes in developed and developing country
settings.
Scholarly Focus: Epidemiology and newborn outcomes in developed and developing country settings. Dr.
Batra has been involved with a series of studies involving the Washington State Birth Events Records
Database (BERD) including: environmental risk factors for ventricular septal defects, pregnancy outcomes
among Somali women, risk factors for recurrent shoulder dystocia, and effects of mode of delivery on
pregnancy and newborn outcomes. His primary interests revolve around improving newborn care in
resource-poor settings. He has been involved with developing guidelines of care in a special care nursery
in central Uganda since 2002.
Administration/Education Roles: Associate Director of the pediatric residency program and co-director
of the residency pathways in global health and community pediatrics/advocacy. He is involved with the
clinical training of students, residents, and fellows at the University of Washington and with the training
of health workers of all levels in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia.
Zeenia Billimoria, MD
Clinical Interests: Providing care to critically ill, high-risk newborns as part of a multi-disciplinary team. Caring for neonates requiring ECMO.
Scholarly Focus: Dr. Billimoria’s interests lie in studying outcomes of neonates in Washington State using the CHARS database. She is currently studying the outcomes of early term infants. She also has an interest in telemedicine and is working on projects with the NEST team.
Administration/Education Roles: Dr. Billimoria is the Associate Medical Director of Seattle Children’s
Hospital NICU. She participates in simulation education with special interest in ECMO simulation.
Shilpi Chabra, MD
Clinical Interests: Dr. Chabra is passionate about all aspects of the care of infants with gastroschisis. She helped develop the clinical pathway guidelines used pre and postnatally at UW and SCH, and continues to update and review these guidelines.
Scholarly Focus: Effects of prematurity and small-for-gestational age on outcomes of fetal gastroschisis; Optimal ultrasound formulae to assess fetal growth restriction; Use of ultrasound checklist to determine the timing of delivery in fetal gastroschisis; histopathological evaluation of intrauterine demise of fetal gastroschisis; trends in gastroschisis and diaphragmatic hernia outcomes using national database.
Administration/Education Roles: Medical Director of the NICU at Overlake Hospital with multiple relevant quality improvement projects such as effects of empiric antibiotic treatment on exclusive breastfeeding rates; effects of 2017 AAP Hepatitis B vaccine guidelines on newborn vaccine success; effects of 39 week initiative on late preterm and early term births. She helped establish the Overlake infant nutrition clinic which serves as Washington State DOH model for preterm infants’ safe transition from hospital to home, and she is a physician advisor for Washington State DOH. She is extremely passionate about trainee
wellbeing and educating Pediatric residents/fellows who are the future generation of Neonatology providers.
Pattaraporn Chun, MD
Clinical Interests: Providing care to critically ill infants, with an emphasis on implementing evidence-based
neuroscience and neurobehavioral knowledge to optimize neurodevelopmental outcomes of high-risk
newborns.
Scholarly Focus: Dr. Chun’s research interest includes neurodevelopment and neuroprotection for infants
at high risk of developmental delay. She has studied metabolite changes as potential biomarkers of brain
injury in a non-human primate model. She is pursuing a graduate degree in Neuroscience at the University
of Washington.
Administration/Education Roles: Through mentoring medical students, pediatric residents and neonatal
fellows, Dr. Chun’s primary teaching goal is to promote self-directed learning with a focus on bedside
critical thinking and incorporation of evidence based medical knowledge.
Robert DiGeronimo, MD
Clinical Interests: Neonatal respiratory failure management, ECLS, BPD, surgical diseases of the newborn,
transport medicine.
Scholarly Focus: Outcomes based research in tertiary care Children’s Hospital level IV NICUs using large
multicenter databases to include the Children’s Hospital Neonatal Database Collaborative (CHND) and the
Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO). Dr. DiGeronimo is currently the co-site sponsor for
Seattle Children’s Hospital for the CHND and is involved in numerous study focus groups in the areas of
congenital diaphragmatic hernia, necrotizing enterocolitis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, ECMO and
hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy. He is also involved in numerous NICU quality improvement initiatives
involving NICU care at Seattle Children’s Hospital as well as nationally.
Administration/Education Roles: NICU Medical Director for Seattle Children’s including oversight
responsibility for neonatal ECMO and transport. He is involved with the clinical training of residents,
fellows, nurse practitioners and PA students at Seattle Children’s as well as at other Seattle Children’s and
University of Washington affiliated teaching sites.
Cyril Engmann, MD
Clinical Interest: Maternal, newborn and child health and survival, optimizing nutrition and early
childhood development in low and high-income settings; assuring holistic, family-centered, high quality
care to infants and their families in community and facility settings.
Scholarly Focus: Dr Engmann is widely regarded as a global leader in the field of maternal, newborn child
health and nutrition (MNCHN). He is regularly invited to partner with a broad cross-section of stakeholders
including United Nations agencies such as the World Health Organization and UNICEF, private
foundations, academic centers and non-governmental organizations. He frequently leads MNCHN policy,
implementation and educational dialogues with national governments including the Governments of
India, South Africa, Mozambique, Ethiopia and Ghana. He chairs a consortium that advises Britain on how
best to spend and invest its overseas development money on nutrition through conducting in-depth
country and international-level research and analysis, and regularly conducts educational briefings at the
US Senate. Cyril remains passionate about the generation, transfer, preservation and pragmatic utilization
of knowledge through interdisciplinary collaborations, establishing strategies, and executing integrated
programs that improve the human condition and put bold solutions into action.
Administration/Education Roles: Cyril Engmann is the Global Program Leader for Maternal, Newborn,
Child health and Nutrition at PATH, an international non-governmental health organization driving
transformative innovation to save lives in 70 countries. The MNCHN departments work spans the value
chain from research, policy and planning, technical assistance, program and implementation science at
global and national level, and represents funding received from a wide variety of sources including the
National Institutes of Health & Centers for Disease Control, private foundations such as Gates, CIFF, Hilton,
Family Larsson Rosenquist, and governments including USAID & DFID.
Elizabeth Flanigan, MD
Clinical Interests: Providing evidence based care to critically ill, high-risk newborns that is family centered.
Her specific areas of interest include neonatal resuscitation, minimizing invasive ventilation, effective
communication with parents, and neurodevelopmental outcomes.
Scholarly Focus: Dr. Flanigan is primarily an academic clinician who is working to improve care of infants
by bringing evidence based care to the bedside.
Administrative/Education roles: Dr. Flanigan is the Associate Medical Director of the NICU within the
Franciscan Healthcare System within this role she is focused on quality improvement and protocol
development. Providing quality education and mentoring of fellows, residents and medical students, with
emphasis on clinical thinking and communication.
Christine A. Gleason, MD
Clinical interests: Dr. Gleason’s primary areas of interest are the prevention of prematurity, ethical issues
at the “limits of viability,” neonatal pain management and neonatal abstinence syndrome.
Scholarly focus: Health policy, particularly maternal and newborn care issues, and the scholarship of
integration. She is particularly interested in writing and editing books (Avery’s Diseases of the Newborn
for example).
Administrative/Education roles: Dr. Gleason has been a co-editor of Avery’s Diseases of the Newborn, a
major neonatal textbook, for the last three editions. She is also the Deputy Medical Editor of the Neonatal
SubBoard of the American Board of Pediatrics. Her administrative duties include being
Secretary/Treasurer of the American Pediatric Society, on the Executive Committee of the Pediatric
Academic Societies Annual Meeting, and she is a member of the Coordinating Committee for the
International Neonatal Consortium.
Megan Gray, MD
Clinical Interests: The application of evidence based medicine to optimize growth and healing for all
infants who require intensive care. She has a focus on maximizing the breastmilk and/or breastfeeding
experience for mother baby dyads and preserving early family bonding.
Scholarly Focus: Improving medical education and emergency preparedness for all team members in the
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). She is investigating how interdisciplinary simulation can lead to
improvements in clinically relevant outcomes and measures of teamwork. She is the Director of Kinestatic
Learning in the Neonatal Education and Simulation-Based Training Program (NEST) where she is
investigating how to use motion based technology to deepen our understanding of how providers perform
chest compressions.
Administration/Education Roles: Resident, fellow and interdisciplinary education through simulation and
other technology based platforms. She works with Drs. Sawyer, Umoren and Strandjord as part of the
NEST Program to provide education for neonatal care teams within the WWAMI region.
Sarah Handley, MD
Clinical Interests: ECMO in the neonate and management of the chronically ill/surgical neonate. Administration/Education Roles: She is committed to fellow and resident education and assists in the
Fellows' Curriculum Conference (Comprehensive review of Neonatal Board Topics over 3 years). She is
also active in quality improvement in our community neonatal intensive care nurseries, along with
outreach teaching in the community, and serves as liaison between the Seattle Children’s Hospital
Neonatal Nurse Practitioner program and neonatology attending teams.
Anna Hedstrom, MD
Clinical Interests: Interdisciplinary, family-focused neonatal intensive care and investigation of targeting
respiratory support to a newborn's specific needs
Scholarly Focus: Dr. Hedstrom’s research has focused on clinical research and the implementation of
neonatal intensive care in resource limited areas globally. In particular she researches ways to provide
safe, ethically sound and scientifically supported continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) for
newborns. She has also designed and implemented a novel data collection process in a rural Ugandan
NICU with which she is able to assess clinical course and outcomes real-time. Her current research focuses
on the use of a respiratory severity score as a tool to predict increased respiratory support after birth. This
includes investigation of use of a respiratory score to guide support decisions including “in and out”
surfactant administration.
Administration/Education Roles: Dr. Hedstrom is the Associate Medical Director of the neonatal unit at
Providence Regional Medical Center Everett. Her teaching includes medical students, residents,
neonatology fellows, nurse practitioners and physician assistants at the University of Washington and
Seattle Children’s Hospital as well as instructing providers in the community and abroad in neonatal care
and resuscitation.
Melinda Hendrickson, MD
Clinical Interests: Focus on reduced ventilator induced lung injury with application of non-invasive
ventilation methods in the preterm infant and better growth and neurodevelopmental outcomes of NICU
babies with improved nutritional practices.
Scholarly Focus: Implementation of potentially better practices to reduce chronic lung disease. Extremely
low birth weight infants have high incidence of chronic lung disease following treatment of acute
Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Chronic lung disease in preterm infants is a marker for long term
neurodevelopmental outcomes and contributes to hospital length of stay. With less invasive respiratory
support, chronic lung disease rates may decrease and severity may decrease with other members of the
neonatology division, she will monitor the impact of new practice management guidelines in the delivery
room on the development of chronic lung disease
Administration/Education Roles: Resident and fellow education in the NICU as well as mentoring the NNP
staff in university affiliated community nurseries.
J. Craig Jackson, MD, MHA
Clinical Interests: Prenatal neonatal counseling; critically ill infants with complex surgical and/or pediatric
subspecialty problems.
Scholarly Focus: Development of workshops for teaching empathetic communication skills and how to
best help parents make difficult therapeutic decisions for their children.
Administration/Education Roles: Lead neonatology consultant in the Seattle Children’s Prenatal
Diagnosis Clinic and the University of Washington Maternal-Infant Care Clinic; member of the CONNECT
program leadership team (for enhancing clinician communication skills); Associate Division Head for
Regional Neonatal Program Development; member of Children’s University Medical Group Board of
Directors; chair of the CUMG contracting committee; CUMG representative on the Clinical Integrated
Network Finance Committee; member of the SCH/UW pediatric intern retreat steering committee;
division educator on professional billing documentation and compliance.
Elizabeth N. Jacobson, MD
Clinical Interests: Quality of care of newborns, including those with congenital, surgical and/or multi-complex disorders. Dr. Jacobson pursues multi-disciplinary, evidence-based, guideline-directed, and individualized management for these patients. Scholarly Focus: Evidence-based guideline development for neonates, particularly those undergoing surgical operations. Administration/Education Roles: Director of Quality, Division of Neonatology; Site Physician Sponsor for SCH NICU in the Children’s Hospitals Neonatal Consortium and Database. Clinical training of medical students, residents, and fellows, as well as neonatal PAs.
Sandra Juul, MD, PhD
Clinical Interests: Optimizing care for the critically ill newborn with a particular focus on discovering and
implementing neuroprotective approaches to care.
Scholarly interests: Dr. Juul's research mission is to improve the neurodevelopmental outcomes of at risk
neonates. As such, she has focused on developing neonatal models of brain injury, neuroprotective
interventions, biomarkers of neonatal disease, and discerning and maintaining iron sufficiency in the
preterm infant. Animal models used or developed in her lab include the Vannucci model of hypoxia
ischemia, middle carotid artery occlusion as a model of stroke, and novel models of neonatal stress in
rodents, a ferret model of preterm encephalopathy, and a nonhuman primate model of perinatal
asphyxia. Dr. Juul has been fortunate to translate her bench research on erythropoietin (Epo)
neuroprotection to the bedside, and is now principal investigator of the ongoing NIH funded clinical trial
of Preterm Epo Neuroprotection (PENUT), and co-principal investigator of a multicenter phase III of Epo
neuroprotection in term infants with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HEAL).
Administration/Education Roles: Dr. Juul became Division Head in Jan 2015, and has been actively
recruiting and hiring new research and clinical faculty. Nationally, she is currently the Chair of the neonatal
sub-board of the American Board of Pediatrics (yes, writing exam questions!), is a member of the
Committee of the Fetus and Newborn and liaison to the AAP Executive Committee and is Chair of the
Developmental Brain Disorders NIH study section, and co-editor of Avery’s Diseases of the Newborn, 10th
edition. She is a sought after speaker at National and International meetings. Locally, Dr. Juul participates
in the research education of undergraduate students, residents and fellows in her lab, as well as the
clinical education of pediatric residents and neonatology fellows. She is also a member of the promotions
committee.
Christina Long, DO
Clinical Interest: Providing family-centered care for all NICU patients. Scholarly Focus: Administration and quality improvement to improve neonatal outcomes. Dr. Long has an
interest in continuing to develop evidence-based guidelines for management of neonatal problems and
assessing their effectiveness in improving neonatal care and outcomes.
Administration/Education Roles: Serves as the NICU Medical Director at Valley Medical Center. Dr. Long
is involved in teaching medical students, residents, fellows, and nurse practitioner students during their
NICU rotations.
David Loren, MD
Clinical Interests: Innovating family centered strategies for developing comprehensive multi-disciplinary
care plans in the neonatal ICU. Dr. Loren is passionate about engaging families in partnerships with the
clinical care team. He describes his motivation as “In this I believe...a society is defined by how it provides
care for its most vulnerable members.”
Scholarly Focus: Dr. Loren studies inter-professional and parent-provider communication centered on
issues of transparency and accountability. He is a principle investigator and co-investigator on several
projects studying communication of unanticipated outcomes and disclosure of medical errors throughout
the continuum of perinatal and newborn care. He is interested in how clinical care teams maintain – and
lose – situational awareness and how teams debrief crisis situations. He is also collaborating with leaders
in patient advocacy to produce documentaries exploring how parents and clinical team members
integrate their experiences of the newborn ICU.
Administration/Education Roles: He mentors and supports residents and fellows at the University of
Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital NICUs. His administrative responsibilities include serving as
the Associate Medical Director of the UWMC NICU and course director for medical students rotating in
the NICU at the University of Washington. Dr. Loren also leads Neonatal Resuscitation Program courses
for residents, clinical faculty and community providers.
Dennis E. Mayock, MD
Clinical Interests: Evaluation of therapies that may potentially improve the neurodevelopmental
outcomes of preterm and term infants. Foster interest in neonatal trainees in clinical research project
design, management and completion.
Scholarly Focus: Clinical research activities that have the potential to improve the quality of life for NICU
patients, not only while inpatients but also the long term improvement in their health. This focus includes
the multiple clinical activities:
- Participation in studies that minimize the development of bronchopulmonary dysplasia such as
inhaled nitric oxide and late surfactant treatments.
- Evaluation of whether high dose erythropoietin treatment has neuroprotective effects in pre-
term and term infants.
Administration/Education Roles: Associate Division Head for Scholarship and Research in the Clinical
arena. Design programs to educate future clinical researchers. Education responsibilities include training
future pediatricians, neonatologists, neonatal nurse practitioners, and NICU nursing staff.
Michael D. Neufeld, MD, MPH
Clinical Interests: Long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes of premature infants. He is also interested
in quality improvement, patient safety, eliminating nosocomial infections, and medical education.
Scholarly Focus: His research has focused on maternal infection and the risk of cerebral palsy in term and
preterm infants and markers of inflammation and the risk of severe retinopathy of prematurity. He
mentors MPH students studying perinatal epidemiology as well as Neonatology fellows and
Developmental and Behavioral Medicine fellows interested in neonatal outcomes.
Administration/Education Roles: Medical Director of the NICU at Providence Regional Medical Center in
Everett (PRMCE), where he has developed a 3rd-year rotation for neonatal fellows. He is also Medical
Director of the Neonatal Transport Team at PRMCE. Along with Tom Strandjord, he manages the Division's
clinical database, participation in the Vermont Oxford Network, and developed a database of patients
seen in the High-Risk Infant Follow-up clinic. He mentors neonatology fellows in data management and in
research projects using the databases.
Pratik Parikh, MD
Clinical Interests: Neonatal neuroprotection, neonatal pain and neurodevelopmental outcomes.
Scholarly Focus: His area of research is neonatal neuroprotection. He research is focused towards
understanding mechanism of neuronal injury in term and preterm infants. Simultaneously testing novel
molecules for neuroprotection in animal model of neonatal brain injury. He is developing a pilot study, to
look at curcumin as a potential neuroprotective agent in neonatal hypoxic injury model. Pratik is also
interested in preterm brain injury and has developed a novel rodent model of preterm brain injury and
also is working with Dr. Juul in developing a Ferret model of preterm brain injury.
Administration/Education Roles: Resident and fellow education in the NICU
Krystle Perez, MD, MPH
Clinical Interest: Providing evidence-based care for critically ill newborns, improving neonatal care and outcomes in developed and developing countries, and medical education. Scholarly Focus: Dr. Perez’s scholarly focus is on global health specifically revolving around the mechanisms to improve neonatal care and outcomes in low resource environments. Her area of expertise falls primarily in low resource settings in Latin America and the Caribbean. Administration/Education Roles: Resident and fellow education in the NICU and the Associate Medical Director, Overlake NICU
Taylor Sawyer, DO, MEd
Clinical Interests: Neonatal resuscitation and care of extremely premature infants.
Scholarly Focus: Medical education and the use of medical simulation to improve clinical skills and patient
outcomes.
Administration/Education Roles: Dr. Sawyer is the Director of Medical Simulation at Seattle Children's
Hospital, Director of the UW/Seattle Children's Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship Training Program, Director
of Outreach Education for the UW Neonatal Education and Simulation-based Training (NEST) Program,
Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Simulation and Innovative Learning Methods, an
Executive Committee Member of the International Pediatric Simulation Society, a member
of International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) Neonatal Delegation, and a member of the
Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Steering Committee. He is an active educator and is involved in
multiple graduate and continuing medical education courses and workshops locally, regionally, and
nationally.
Kendra Smith, MD
Clinical interests: Dr. Smith's clinical focus is on lung injury prevention in preterm and term neonates. She works clinically on strategies to minimize lung trauma in infants requiring ventilation due to respiratory failure in the neonatal period.
Scholarly Focus: Dr. Smith is the site Principal Investigator at Seattle Children’s Hospital for two industry-sponsored trials (United Therapeutics trial entitled “Intravenous Remodulin (Treprostinil) as Add-on Therapy for the Treatment of Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Safety and Efficacy Study”, and for the Pfizer study titled “A multi-centre, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, two-armed, parallel group study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of IV Sildenafil in the treatment of neonates with persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn or hypoxic respiratory failure and at risk for PPHN, with a long term follow-up investigation of developmental progress 12 and 24 months after completion of study treatment.” She is also working on a hospital-based study entitled “Liquid Assisted Ventilation for Lung Recruitment and Protection in Patients with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Requiring Extracorporeal Life Support” which is funded by private monies from the Ladybug Foundation. To promote improved care for infants while on transport she works with others in the Division on telemedicine for our transport services.
Administration/Education Roles: Dr. Smith is involved in the Extracorporeal Life Support Program at Seattle Children’s Hospital and serves on the Steering Committee, which focuses on improving techniques to maximally support newborn infants not responsive to conventional therapies. She also serves as the
Manager of Divisional Respiratory Care Programs with the goal of promoting improved ventilation strategies for neonates requiring ventilatory support in our region.
Thomas P. Strandjord, MD
Clinical Interests: Improving outcomes of premature infants, with particular interest in delivery room
resuscitation.
Scholarly Focus: Quality Improvement and medical education in newborn care and resuscitation. His
current projects include the use of video recording of newborn resuscitations in the education of newborn
caregivers. He also studies the use of simulation in the training of medical personnel in the Newborn
Resuscitation Program and advanced life support.
Administration/Education Roles: He serves as the Medical Director for the neonatal intensive care unit
of the University of Washington Medical Center. He also assists in the management of a clinical database
of all infants admitted to the University of Washington Medical Center NICU. This database serves as a
resource for quality improvement projects and clinical research projects.
Colin Studholme, PhD
Scholarly Focus: Fetal and neonatal brain imaging. Dr Studholme has brought expertise in computational
imaging, imaging physics and image analysis to pre-natal and post-natal imaging. His group has been
developing and applying new imaging and image analysis tools to more accurately and robustly map early
brain functional and structural connectivity before and shortly after birth, to provide markers for
abnormal development and brain injury. His work at UW has expanded to recruiting and scanning a large
cohort of normal pregnancies to construct a reference database for how the normal human brain develops
before birth and how brain anatomy varies at different gestational ages during pregnancy. In addition to
studying normal brain growth he is involved in projects on neurodevelopmental abnormalities such as
ventriculomegaly, fetal alcohol exposure, fetal cardiac abnormalities and intra-uterine growth restriction.
In addition to his ongoing research in this area, he is a co-investigator on the randomized controlled trial
of Epo neuroprotection in extremely preterm infants (PENUT Trial), with the specific aim of evaluating
brain growth of Epo treated infants as compared to controls.
Christopher Traudt, MD
Clinical Interest: The application of family-centered care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The NICU can be very intimidating to parents and he believes that care of the infant is incomplete without parental guidance throughout the NICU stay. Scholarly Focus: Dr. Traudt participates in ongoing division studies of neurodevelopment and
neuroprotection in both animal models and in the PENUT and HEAL trials. His particular expertise is in MRI
analysis. He is investigating the effects of neonatal brain injury on cerebellar development.
Administration/Education Roles: Associate Medical Director for Valley Medical Center. He is an active
teacher of both Residents and Fellows in the NICU as well as in the laboratory setting.
Rachel Umoren, MD
Clinical Interest: Education and family support for parents with infants in the NICU
Scholarly Focus: Simulation research with the goals of safe patient care and improved clinical outcomes.
Her research interests include the use of emerging technologies, including virtual and augmented reality
simulations as an investigative methodology in the areas of teamwork, communication, and neonatal
resuscitation in local and global health settings.
Administration/Education Roles: She is the Director of the Neonatal Education and Simulation Training
(NEST) Program
Linda Wallen, MD
Clinical Interests: Dr. Wallen is passionate about the practice of evidence-based medicine. She is an avid
life-long learner, and applies her knowledge to the care of our critically ill newborns. She is particularly
involved with improving the respiratory outcomes of extremely preterm infants.
Scholarly Focus: Coordination of evidence-based guidelines for management of neonatal problems at all
Division sites of practice, with the goal of measuring the effect of guidelines on the quality of care.
Administrative/Education Roles: She coordinates the clinical schedule and the delivery of care at all of
the NICUs staffed by the Division of Neonatology. She works directly with the medical directors at the
community sites to develop strong medical management and excellent care. Additionally, she is working
with medical directors at community NICUs to implement guidelines of care and quality improvement
initiatives. Dr. Wallen has a passion for teaching and continuing to learn through teaching. She believes
that evidence-based practice should be the cornerstone of clinical practice, and is working to establish
evidence based guidelines for management of common neonatal problems.
Elliott M Weiss, MD, MSME
Clinical Interests: Newborn health, ECMO, neonatal bioethics
Scholarly Focus: Dr. Weiss’s primary research interest is in the area of medical decision-making, with a
special focus on parents as decision makers for their sick infants in the NICU. This work encompasses
several different facets of decision making. For example, how do we decide which NICU interventions
require parental awareness, concurrence, verbal agreement, or signed consent? This decision is currently
largely influenced by historical factors, local custom, and perceived liability concerns with less
consideration of parental preferences. How do we present medical decisions? Insights from behavioral
economics suggest that choice architecture and bias are crucially important—and have been largely
ignored within medicine. When is a decision made? We structure communication and consent as though
decisions are made the moment choices are presented by the physician, but it is likely the decision was
made far earlier. In sum, Dr. Weiss aims to understand how parents approach decision-making to better
tailor consent practices to their values and preferences.
Administration/Education Roles: Dr. Weiss co-leads monthly resident ethics teaching rounds at the
UWMC and SCH NICUs. He is also the track director of neonatal bioethics, which promotes bioethics
research among neonatology trainees. He created the Neonatology and Decision-Making interest group
that meet twice a month to discuss topics pertinent to clinical and research neonatal ethics. He also serves
on the SCH ethics committee.
Stephen Welty, MD
Clinical Interest: General Neonatology, comprehensive care in patients with severe BPD. Non-Invasive
Respiratory support.
Scholarly Focus: QA: Guideline development for nasal CPAP and measuring the effect. Guideline and
Critical Pathway Development for lowering gestational age at SJMC, measuring outcomes. Mentoring
remains a focus for junior faculty and fellows. He is one of the founding members of the national BPD
collaborative and remain involved there in an advisory capacity.
Administration/Education Roles: Dr. Welty is the Medical Director of the Franciscan Health System
Neonatal service line in the South Sound area.
PUBLICATIONS: JULY 2017 – JUNE 2018
(Faculty, Fellow)
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
2017 1. Arora G, Russ C, Batra M, Butteris S, Watts J, Pitt M. “Bidirectional Exchange in Global Health:
Moving Toward True Global Health Partnership” Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2017 Jul;97(1):6-9. PMID: 28719333
2. Arora G, Condurache T, Batra M, Butteris SM, Downs T, Garfunkel L, Newcomer CL, Perkins KE, Schubert C, St. Clair NE. “Miles Away Milestones: A Framework for Assessment of Pediatric Residents during Global Health Rotations.” Academic Pediatrics. 2017 July; 17(5):577-9. PMID: 28088525
3. Wilson PM, Kemper KJ, Schubert CJ, Batra M, Staples BB, Serwint JR, McClafferty H, Mahan JD, Pediatric Resident Burnout and Resilience Study Consortium (PRB-RSC). “National Landscape of Interventions to Improve Pediatric Resident Wellness and Reduce Burnout.” Acad Pediatr. 2017 Sep 14. pii: S1876-2859(17)30492-8 (Epub ahead of print). PMID: 28919483
4. Steenhoff AP, Crouse HL, Lukolyo H, Larson CP, Howard C, Mazhani L, Pak-Gorstein S, Niescierenko ML, Musoke P, Marshall R, Soto M, Butteris SM, Batra M, on behalf of the American Board of Pediatrics Global Health Task Force “Partnerships for Global Child Health.” Pediatrics. 2017 Sep 20. pii: e20163823. (Epub ahead of print). PMID: 28931576
5. Fell DB, Azziz-Baumgartner E, Baker MG, Batra M, Beauté J, Beutels P, Bhat N, Bhutta ZA, Cohen C, De Mucio B, Gessner BD, Gravett MG, Katz MA, Knight M, Lee VJ, Loeb M, Luteijn JM, Marshall H, Nair H, Pottie K, Salam RA, Savitz DA, Serruya SJ, Skidmore B, Ortiz JR; WHO taskforce to evaluate
influenza data to inform vaccine impact and economic modeling. “Influenza epidemiology and immunization during pregnancy: Final report of a World Health Organization working group.” Vaccine. 2017 Oct 13;35(43):5738-5750. PMID: 28867508
6. St Clair NE, Pitt MB, Bakeera-Kitaka S, McCall N, Lukolyo H, Arnold LD, Audcent T, Batra M, Chan K, Jacquet GA, Schutze GE, Butteris S, on behalf of the American Board of Pediatrics Global Health Task Force. “Global Health: Preparation for Working in Resource-Limited Setting.” Pediatrics. 2017 Oct 26:e20163783 (epub ahead of print). PMID: 29074610
7. Vaidya V, Arora S, Patel N, Badheka A, Patel N, Agnihotri K, Billimoria Z, Turakhia M, Friedman P, Madhavan M, Kapa S, Noseworthy P, Mei Cha Y, Gersch B, Asirvatham S, Deshmukh A. Burden of arrhythmia in pregnancy. Circulation. 2017;135(6):619-621. PMID: 28154000
8. Vaidya V, Arora S, Patel N, Badheka A, Patel N, Agnihotri K, Billimoria Z, Turakhia M, Friedman P, Madhavan M, Kapa S, Noseworthy P, Mei Cha Y, Gersch B, Asirvatham S, Deshmukh A. Response by Vaidya et al to Letter Regarding Article, "Burden of Arrhythmia in Pregnancy". Circulation. 2017; 136(2):244-245. PMID: 28696274
9. Chabra S. Consistent terminology needed for estimation of outcomes of prematurity. JAMA Pediatr. 2017 Aug 1; 171(8):810. PMID: 28604928
10. Chabra S. Estimates of perinatal death: a global health initiative! J Perinatol. 2017 Nov; 37(11):1248.
PMID: 2913853
11. Friddle KM, Yoder BA, Hartnett ME, Henry E, DiGeronimo R. Can a risk factor based approach safely reduce screening for retinopathy of prematurity? Int J Pediatr. 2017; doi: 10.1155/2017/9372539
12. Crezee KL, DiGeronimo RJ, Rigby MJ, Carter RC, Patel S. Reducing Unplanned Extubations in the NICU following Implementation of a Standardized Approach. Respira Care 2017. Aug;62:1030-1035
13. Kavle J, Mehanna S, Hassan M, Gulsen S, Engmann CM. Program considerations for integration of nutrition and family planning: Beliefs around maternal diet and breast feeding within the context of the nutrition transition in Egypt; Matern Child Nutr 2017; 0:e12469
14. Goodman DM, Ramaswamy R, Jeuland M, Srofenyoh EK, Engmann CM, Olufolabi AJ, Owen, MD. The Cost Effectiveness of a Quality Improvement Program to Reduce Maternal Mortality in a West African Regional Hospital: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. PLOS One; July 14, 2017; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180929
15. Laar A, Kotoh A, Parker M, Milani P, Tawiah C, Soor S, Anakware JP, Kalra N, Lutterodt H, Tandoh A, Engmann C, Pelto G. An exploration of edible palm weevil larvae (akokono) as a new source of nutrition and livelihood: perspectives from Ghana stakeholders. Food and Nutrition Bulletin 2017; Dec 38 (4): 455-467
16. Kavle JA, LaCroix E, Stevens H, Engmann CM. Addressing barriers to exclusive breastfeeding in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review and programmatic implications. Public Health Nutrition 2017: Dec 20 (17)3120-3134
17. Gray M, Delaney H, Umoren R, Strandjord, Sawyer T. Accuracy of the nasal-tragus length
measurement for correct endotracheal tube placement in a cohort of neonatal resuscitation
simulators. J Perinatol. 2017 Aug;37(8):975-978 2017. PMID: 28471440
18. Hofstetter AM, Lacombe K, Klein EJ, Jones C, Strelitz B, Jacobson E, Ranade D, Ward ML, Mijatovic-Rustempasic S, Evans D, Wikswo M, Bowen MD, Parashar UD, Payne DC, Englund JA. Risk of Rotavirus nosocomial spread of inpatient pentavalent rotavirus vaccination. Pediatrics. 2018;141(1):e20161110. doi: 10.1542/peds.2017-1110
19. German K, Vu P, Grelli K, Denton C, Lee G, Juul S. Zinc Protoporphyrin-to-heme Ratio and Ferritin as Measures of Iron Sufficiency in the NICU. The Journal of Pediatrics. 2017 Dec 4. PMID:29212619
20. Frymoyer A, Juul SE, Massaro AN, Bammler TK, Wu YW. High-dose erythropoietin population pharmacokinetics in neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy receiving hypothermia. Pediatr Res. 2017;81(6):865-72. doi: 10.1038/pr.2017.15. PubMed PMID: 28099423; PubMed Central PMCID: PMCPMC5476365.
21. Ryan M McAdams, Ronald J McPherson, Raj P Kapur and Sandra E Juul. Focal Brain Injury Associated with a Model of Severe Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy in Nonhuman Primates. Dev Neurosci. 2017, 39: 107-123. DOI-10.1159/000456658. PMC5519439
22. McAdams RM, Fleiss B, Traudt C, Schwendimann L, Snyder JM, Haynes RL, Natarajan N Gressens P, Juul SE. Long-Term Neuropathological Changes Associated with Cerebral Palsy in a Nonhuman Primate Model of Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy. Dev Neurosci. 2017, 39: 124-140. DOI-10.1159/000470903. PMC5519434
23. Peeples ES, Ezeokeke C, Mourad PD, Juul SE. Evaluating a targeted bedside measure of cerebral perfusion in a non-human primate model of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. J Ultrasound Med 2017. doi: 10.1002/jum.14426 PMID: 28960438
24. Mulkey SB, Ramakrishnaiah RH, McKinstry RC, Chang T, Mathur AM, Mayock DE, Van Meurs, KP, Schaefer GB, Luo C, Bai S, Juul SE, Wu, Y. W. Erythropoietin and Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings in Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy: Volume of Acute Brain Injury and 1-Year Neurodevelopmental Outcome. J Pediatr. 2017;186:196-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2017.03.053. PubMed PMID: 28456387.
25. Stroustrup A, Teitelbaum S, Aschner J, for the DINE Study. (Mayock DE - Site Investigator). The canary in the coal mine: the value of preterm infant environmental heath cohorts. JAMA Pediatr, 171:1139-1140, 2017. Online 10/23/17. (PMID: 29059271).
26. Starr M, Sawyer T, Jones M, Batra M, McPhillips H. A simulation-based quality improvement approach to improve pediatric resident competency with required procedures. Cureus. 2017;9(6):
e1307. DOI 10.7759/cureus.1307
27. Davidson L, Utarnachitt R, Mason A, Sawyer T. Development and testing of a neonatal intubation checklist for an air medical transport team. Air Medical Journal. 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.amj.2017.09.010
28. Kamino, Daphne and Studholme, Colin and Liu, Mengyuan and Chau, Vann and Miller, Steven P and Synnes, Anne and Rogers, Elizabeth E and Barkovich, A James and Ferriero, Donna M and Brant, Rollin and others,"Postnatal polyunsaturated fatty acids associated with larger preterm brain tissue volumes and better outcomes.", Pediatric Research, 2017
29. Wild, Heather M and Heckemann, Rolf A and Studholme, Colin and Hammers, Alexander,"Gyri of the human parietal lobe: Volumes, spatial extents, automatic labelling, and probabilistic atlases", PloS one,12(8) 2017
30. Umoren RA, Poore JA, Sweigart L, Rybas N, Gossett E, Johnson M, Allen M, Scott PJ, Truman B, Das R. TeamSTEPPS Virtual Teams: Interactive Virtual Team Training and Practice for Health Professional Learners. Creative Nursing: A Journal of Values, Issues, Experience, and Collaboration. 2017:23(3). PMID: 28789739
31. Scott LF, Shieh C, Umoren RA, Conard T. Care Experiences of Women Who Used Opioids and Experienced Fetal or Infant Loss. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing. 2017 Nov 1;46(6):846-56. PMID: 28950109
32. Parikh P, Juul SE. Neuroprotective strategies in Neonatal brain injury. J Pediatr. 2017. 192:22-32. DOI-10.1016/j.jpeds.2017.08.031
2018 1. Batra M, McPhillips H, Shugerman R. “Improving Resident Use of Mental Health Resources: Its Time
for an Opt-Out Strategy to Address Physician Burnout and Depression.” JGME. In press.
2. Pak Gorstein S^, Batra M^, Johnston B, Grow M, Grant A, Shugerman R, Lago S, Stapleton FB, McPhillips H. “Training Pediatricians to Address Health Disparities: An Innovative Residency Track Combining Global Health with Community Pediatrics and Advocacy.” Academic Medicine. (^co-first authors) Accepted for publication.
3. Chabra S. Exact Days of Gestation Necessary for Infants at Borderline Viability. J Perinat Med. 2018 Jan 26;46(1):113-114. PMID:29288618
4. Chabra S. Resident burnout: Urgent need for peer-appointed 'Wellbeing Officers' to strengthen resilience, Acad Psychiatry. 2018 Feb;42(1):179-180. PMID: 28819867
5. Chabra S. Precise gestational age definitions needed for palivizumab prophylaxis in preterm infants. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2018 Mar 1;197(5):680. PMID: 29019701
6. Chabra S. Small for Gestational Age and Low Birthweight: Distinct Entities. Am J Gastroenterol. 2018 Mar;113(3):441-442. PMID:29535438
7. Chabra S. Standardized categories of ‘preterm births’ vital to study risks for prematurity. BJOG. 2018 Apr;125(5):633-634. PMID:29318714
8. White B, Bierer R, Patel S, Friddle K, Presson A, DiGeronimo R. Assisted Home Feedings at Time of Discharge from a Tertiary Care Children’s Hospital NICU. Submitted to Journal of Ped Surgery
9. Natarajan G, Murthy K, Zaniletti I, Cook N, DiGeronimo R, Dizon M, Hamrick S, McKay VJ, Rao R, Smith D, Dykes F, Reber K, Padula M, Pallotto EK, Short BL, Mathur AM, Massaro AN. Withdrawal of Life-support in Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy. Submitted to Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
10. Lokangaka A, Tshefu A, Bauserman M, Engmann CM, Bose CLA Comparative efficacy trial of simplified antibiotic regimens for treating newborns and infants with severe infections in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Accepted February 2018, Maternal Health, Neonatology and Perinatology
11. Carnahan E, Milani P, Svenja J, Lalwani T, Manus C, Goodyear L, Engmann C. Developing a model to estimate the population reach of social impact products in low and middle-income settings. Submitted March 2018, Journal of Evaluation
12. Mokdad A, Khalil A, Troeger C, Rao PC, Blacker BF, Brown A, Colombara DV, De Hostos EL, Engmann CM, Guerrant RL, Haque R, Houpt ER, Kang G, Korpe PS, Kotloff KL, Lima AL, Petri Jr WA, Platts-Mills JA, Shoultz DA, Forouzanfar MH, Reiner Jr RC, Hay SI. Quantifying the comprehensive burden of Cryptosporidium diarrhoea: morbidity, mortality, and long-term consequences of infection among children under 5. Submitted March 2018 Lancet Global Health
13. Reiner R, Khalil AI, Troeger CE, Blacker BF, Rao PC, Brown A, Atherly D, Bourgeois LA, Brewer TG, Cassels FJ, Engmann CM, Houpt ER, Kang G, Kotloff KL, Levine MM, Luby SP, MacLennan CA, Pan WK, Pavlinac PB, Platts-Mills J, Qadri F, Riddle MS, Ryan ET, Shoultz DA, Steele AD, Walker R, Walson JL, Sanders JW, Wierzba TF, Mokdad AH, Murray CJL, Hay SI. The substantial burden of Shigella and enterotoxigenic E. coli: an analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 Corresponding. Submitted April 2018, Lancet Global Health
14. Kothari M, Pullman T, Coile A, Huestis A, Garrett D, Engmann C. Exploring associations between water, sanitation and anemia through 47 nationally representative Demographic and Health Surveys. Submitted April 2018, Annals of New York Academy of Science
15. Hwang, MJ, Newman R, Philla, K, Flanigan, E. Use of Insulin Glargine in the Management of Neonatal Hyperglycemia in an ELBW Infant. 2018 Apr; 141(5). PMID: 29610159
16. German K, Vu P, Grelli K, Denton C, Lee G, Juul S. Zinc Protoporphyrin-to-heme Ratio and Ferritin as Measures of Iron Sufficiency in the NICU. The Journal of Pediatrics. Accepted for publication.
17. Ittleman B, German K, Scott E, Walker V, Flaherman V, Szabo J, Beavers J. Umbilical Cord Nonseverance and Adverse Neonatal Outcomes. Under Review by Pediatrics
18. Gray MM, Umoren R, Harris S, Strandjord T, Sawyer T. Use and Perceived Safety of Stylets for Neonatal Endotracheal Intubation: A National Survey. Journal of Perinatology. Submitted for Publication, January 2018.
19. Hedstrom AB, Gove NE, Mayock DE, Batra M. Performance of the Silverman Andersen Respiratory Severity Score in predicting PCO2 and respiratory support in newborns: a prospective cohort study. Journal of Perinatology. 2018. PMID: 29426853
20. Hofstetter AM, Lacombe K, Klein EJ, Jones C, Strelitz B, Jacobson E, Ranade D, Ward ML, Mijatovic-Rustempasic S, Evans D, Wikswo M, Bowen MD, Parashar UD, Payne DC, Englund JA. Risk of Rotavirus nosocomial spread of inpatient pentavalent rotavirus vaccination. Pediatrics. 2018;141(1):e20161110. doi: 10.1542/peds.2017-1110
21. Starr MC, Askenazi DJ, Goldstein SL, MacDonald JW, Bammler TK, Afsharinejad Z, D. Brophy P, Juul SE, Mayock DE, Hingorani SR. Impact of processing methods on urinary biomarkers analysis in neonates. Pediatr Nephrol. 2018;33(1):181-6. doi: 10.1007/s00467-017-3779-0. PubMed PMID: 28821985.
22. Juul SE, Comstock BA, Heagerty PJ, Mayock DE, Goodman AM, Hauge S, Gonzalez F, and Wu YW. High-Dose Erythropoietin for Asphyxia and Encephalopathy (HEAL): A Randomized Controlled Trial: Background, Aims, and Study Protocol. Neonatology, 2018; 113: 331-338. DOI: 10.1159/000486820
23. Anita Shah, Benjamin S. Wilfond, Amy Silvia, Kerry Hancuch, David Woodrum, Patrick Heagerty, Robin K. Ohls, Sherry Courtney, Ivan D. Frantz, Semsa Gogcu, Christine Bishop M, Kaashif A. Ahmad, Charmaine Kathen, Sandra Juul. Informed Consent for a Neonatal Clinical Trial: Parental Experiences and Perspectives. J Perinatology doi.org/10.1038/s41372-018-0119-6
24. Guido Wassink, Joanne Davidson, Christopher Arthur Lear, Sandra Juul, Frances Northington, Laura Bennet, and Alistair J. Gunn.A working model for hypothermic neuroprotection. The Journal of Physiology. doi: 10.1113/JP274928
25. Krick J, Gray M, Umoren R, Lee G, Sawyer T. Premedication with paralysis improves intubation success and decreases adverse events in very low birth weight infants: A prospective cohort study. J Perinatol. 2018. In press.
26. Krick J and Chabra S. On "End of Life Decision-Making for Extremely Preterm Infants." J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs. 2018 Feb 14. [Epub ahead of print]
27. Krick J, Kironde T, Hendrickson M. The Well-Appearing Cyanotic Infant. Neoreviews. Mar 2018, 19(3) e173-175.
28. Massaro AN, Wu YW, Bammler TK, Comstock B, Mathur A, McKinstry R, Chang T, Mayock D, Mulkey SB, Van Muers K, Juul S. Plasma biomarkers of brain injury in neonatal hypoxic-ischemic
encephalopathy. J Pediatr 194;67-75, 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2017.10.060
29. Metcalf RA, Khan J, Andrews J, Mayock D, Billimoria Z, Pagano MB. Severe ABO hemolytic disease of the newborn requiring exchange transfusion. Submitted, J Pediatr 1/6/18
30. Motz P, Umoren R, Maicher K, Danforth D, Kett J, Gray M, Sawyer T. Virtual antenatal encounter and standardized simulation assessment (VANESSA): A pilot study. J Med Internet Res. 2018. In press.
31. Parikh, P., Juul, SE. (2018). Neuroprotective strategies in neonatal brain injury. J Pediatr. 2018 Jan;192:22-32, PMID: 29031859
32. Dhillon SK, Lear CA, Galinsky R, Wassink G, Davidson JO, Juul S, Robertson NJ, Gunn AJ, Bennet L. The fetus at the tipping point: modifying the outcome of fetal asphyxia". J PHYSIOL. 2018 May 17. doi: 10.1113/JP274949. [Epub ahead of print]
33. Andrea Joseph, Thomas Wood, Chih-Chung Chen, Kylie Corry, Jessica M. Snyder, Sandra E. Juul, Pratik Parikh, Elizabeth Nance. Curcumin-Loaded Polymeric Nanoparticles for Neuroprotection in Neonatal Rats with Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy. Nano Research, In press 2018
34. Wood T, Snyder J, Corrie K, Moralejo D, Parikh P, Juul SE. Ontogeny of white matter, motor skills, and toll-like receptor expression in the neonatal ferret. International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience. doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2018.05.006
35. Sawyer T, Burke C, McMullan M , Yalon L, Valdivia H, Chan T, Roberts J. Impacts of a pediatric extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) simulation training program: reactions, learning, behaviors, and clinical results. Acad Peds. 2018. Under review.
36. Sawyer T, Lee H, Aziz K. Anticipation and preparation for every delivery room resuscitation. Semin Fetal Neonatal Med. 2018. Under review.
37. Wong J, Manhas D, Campbell D, Moussa A, Sawyer T. Procedural experience of Canadian neonatal-perinatal medicine fellows. Postgraduate Medical Journal. 2018. Under review.
38. Johnston L, Sawyer T, Nishisaki A, Whtifill T, Ades A, French H, Glass K, Dadiz R, Bruno C, Levit O, Gangadharan S, Zhong J, Scherzer D, Arnold J, Stavroudis T, Auerbach M. Neonatal intubation competency assessment tool: Development and validation. J Peds. 2018. Under review.
39. Foglia E, Ades A, Sawyer T, Glass K, Singh N, Jung P, Quek BH, Johnston L, Barry J, Zenge J, Moussa A, Kim J, DeMeo S, Napolitano N, Nadkarni V, Nishisaki A, for the NEAR4NEOS Investigators. Landscape of Neonatal Intubation Practice and Outcomes in the International NEAR4NEOS Registry. Pediatrics. 2018. Under review.
40. Jamie O. Lo, Victoria H. J. Roberts, Matthias C. Schabel, Xiaojie Wang, Terry K. Morgan, Zheng Liu, Colin Studholme, Christopher D. Kroenke,and Antonio E. Frias, “Novel Detection of Placental Insufficiency by Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Nonhuman Primate”, Reproductive Sciences,
Reproductive Sciences, 2018 Jan;25(1)
41. Waldorf, Kristina M Adams and Nelson, Branden R and Stencel-Baerenwald, Jennifer E and Colin Studholme, and Kapur, Raj P and Armistead, Blair and Walker, Christie L and Merillat, Sean and Vornhagen, Jay and Tisoncik-Go, Jennifer and others,"Congenital Zika virus infection as a silent pathology with loss of neurogenic output in the fetal brain", Nature medicine, 2018
42. Umoren RA, Scott PJ, Sweigart L, Gossett E, Hodson-Carlton K, Johnson M, Jones JA, Poore JA, Rybas N, Truman B, Das R. A comparison of teamwork attitude changes with virtual TeamSTEPPS® simulations in health professional students. Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice. 2018 Mar 31;10:51-5.
43. Umoren R, Gray M, Schooley N, Billimoria Z, Smith K, Sawyer T. Effect of telemedicine on transport management of simulated neonatal patients. Air Medical Journal. 2018. Under review.
44. Umoren RA, Mohammed MA, Oyerinde K, Vaucher YE, Behrmann AT, Canarie M, Dudani R, Kurbasic M, Moore MJ, Torres AR, Vides M, Staton D. International Community Access to Child Health– 10 Years of Action. Pediatrics. Accepted for publication, April 2018
45. Weiss EM, Fiester A. “From ‘Longshot’ to ‘Fantasy’: Obligations to Patients and Families When Last-Ditch Medical Efforts Fail.” Am J Bioeth 2018; 18(1): 3-11.PMID:29313768
46. Weiss EM, Xie D, Cook N, Coughlini K, Joffe S. Characteristics Associated with Preferences for Parent-Centered Decision Making in Neonatal Intensive Care. in press JAMA Pediatrics
47. Miller KE, Coleman RD, Eisenberg L, Henriksen J, Lantos JD, Weiss EM. Ethics Rounds: Unilateral Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Therapy in a Severely Impaired Child. in press Pediatrics
CHAPTERS, TEXTBOOKS
2017
1. Gray MM. Modes of Ventilation. Organization of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Training Program Directors’ National Neonatal Flipped Classroom Program. American Academy of Pediatrics, 2017
2. Umoren RA, Gray MM, Thomas A, Nilsen, T. EVAC: Evacuation of Vulnerable and Critically-ill patients 360 simulation. Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA, 2017
3. Cheng A, Eppich W, Sawyer T, Grant V. Debriefing: The state of the art and science in healthcare simulation. In: Nestel D, Kelly M, eds. Healthcare Simulation Education: Evidence, Theory and Practice. 1st Ed. Hoboken NJ: Wiley-Blackwell; 2017: 158-164
2018
1. Ledbetter D, Chabra S, Javid P. Contribution to chapter: Abdominal wall defects. In: Avery’s diseases of the newborn, Tenth edition. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier, 2018. NLM ID: 101704338
2. Engmann C, Batra M. “Global Neonatal Health.” In Avery’s Diseases of the Newborn, 10th Edition. Editors: Christine A Gleason and Sandra E Juul, 2018. Chapter 4; p23-41
3. Hostetter MK, Gleason CA (2018). Fungal Infections in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, in Avery’s Diseases of the Newborn, 10th edition. Gleason CA & Juul SE (eds). Elsevier
4. Gleason CA, Juul S (eds) (2018). Avery’s Diseases of the Newborn, 10th edition. Philadelphia: Elsevier.
5. Jackson JC: Respiratory Distress in the Preterm Infant. In Avery’s Diseases of the Newborn, 10th Edition, ed. Juul & Gleason. 2018
6. Juul SE and Christensen RD. Developmental hematology. In Avery’s Diseases of the Newborn, 10th edition. Eds, Gleason and Juul 2018
7. Juul SE, Fleiss B, McAdams R, Gressens P. Neuroprotection strategies for the newborn. In Avery’s Diseases of the Newborn, 10th edition. Eds, Gleason and Juul 2018
8. Long C, Campbell, DE. Discharge Planning for the High Risk Newborn Requiring Intensive Care. Campbell DE, (ed), American Academy of Pediatrics Neonatology for Primary Care, 2nd edition, Elk Grove, IL, American Academy of Pediatrics, in press.
9. Nafday S, Long C. Respiratory distress and Breathing Disorders in the Newborn. In the American Academy of Pediatrics Neonatology for Primary Care, Campbell DE (ed), Elk Grove Village, IL, American Academy of Pediatrics, in press.
10. Fleishman RA, Mayock DE. Neonatal Pain and Stress: Assessment and Management. In: Gleason CA, Juul SE. Avery’s Diseases of the Newborn, Elsevier, Philadelphia, 10th Ed., Chapter 34, 2018.
11. Sawyer T, Gray MM, Umoren RA. Umbilical Line Placement. Chapter in AAP Neonatal Simulation Guidebook. Forthcoming in 2018.
12. Sawyer T, Gray MM, Umoren RA. Manikins and Task Trainers. Chapter in AAP Neonatal Simulation Guidebook. Forthcoming in 2018.
13. Sawyer T, Ali N. Resuscitation of the Newborn. In: Gomella T, ed. Neonatology: Management, Procedures, on-Call Problems, Diseases, and Drugs. Stamford, Conn: Appleton & Lange; 2018: In press
14. Smith, KM (2018) Extracorporeal life support in neonates in Neonatology, 8th edition, TL Gomella (ed.), Appleton and Lange
15. Colin Studholme, Ellise Ward, Michael Hirano, Jason Cacutt, Michelle Tiedeman, Kirby Souter, Manjiri Dighe, “The confound of fetal movements on measures of placental function”, the first ISMRM workshop on MRI of the Placenta, Feb 2018
16. Traudt C, McAdams R. Brain Injury in the Term Infant. Avery’s Diseases of the Newborn, 10th edition, Philadelphia, PA, WB Saunders, 2018
17. Wallen LD, Gleason CA. “Perinatal Substance Abuse” in Avery’s Diseases of the Newborn, 10th edition, Elsevier Saunders, 2018
18. Ferrieri P, Wallen LD. “Neonatal Bacterial Sepsis and Meningitis” in Avery’s Diseases of the Newborn, 10th edition, Elsevier Saunders, 2018
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
2017
1. Shah, A., Jolley, J., & Parikh, P. (2017). A Cyst in the Umbilical Cord. NeoReviews, 18(12), e729-e733.
doi:10.1542/neo.18-12-e729
2018
1. Litzelman D, Gardner A, Einterz R, Owiti P, Wambui C, Huskins JC, Schmit-Wendholt K, Stone GS, Ayuo P, Inui TS, Umoren RA. On Becoming a Global Citizen: Transformative Learning through Global Health Experiences. Annals of Global Health. 2017 Aug 15. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2017.07.005
PRESENTATIONS BY INVITATION (JULY 2017 – JUNE 2018)
2017
1. Batra, M. “Newborn Health and Survival.” SCH Physician Assistant Fellowship Program. Jul 2017.
2. Batra, M. “Preventing and Mitigating Physician Burnout to Improve Wellbeing and Resilience.”
Pediatric Grand Rounds, Children’s Hospital of Michigan – Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.
3. Chabra S, Strandjord T, Peeples E. Longer Non-Invasive Ventilation in Extremely Low Birth Weight
Infants is Associated with Increased Risk of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia, Children’s Hospital
Network Consortium (CHNC) Annual Meeting in Columbus, Ohio, Oct 4 – 6, 2017, Poster
Symposium; Shilpi Chabra, presenting author
4. Chabra S, Bridges M, McRae M, Strandjord TP. Systematic implementation of EOSC on
breastfeeding rates by empiric treatment of maternal chorioamnionitis-exposed newborns.
Vermont Oxford Network Annual International Quality Congress, Chicago, Oct 27-29, 2017, Poster
presentation; Shilpi Chabra, presenting author
5. Chabra S, Bridges M, McRae M, Strandjord TP. Effects of Sepsis Calculator implementation on
breastfeeding rates by empiric treatment of maternal chorioamnionitis-exposed newborns., Clinical
Care Congress meeting, Overlake Hospital, Bellevue, Nov 15, 2017, Poster presentation; Shilpi
Chabra, presenting author
6. Chabra S. Invited Speaker, "Incidence of gastroschisis in Washington state", Pediatric Surgery
department of McLane Children's Hospital, Temple, Texas. Sept 2017
7. Chabra S. Invited Speaker, "Development of prenatal clinical pathway for gastroschisis ", Pediatric
Surgery department of McLane Children's Hospital, Temple, Texas. Sept 2017
8. Chabra S. Invited Speaker, “Ten Commandments of Neonatology Fellowship”, SWAN conference,
Temple, Texas. Sept 2017
9. Chabra S. Visiting Professor, “Epidemiology and global incidence of gastroschisis”, Dayton Children's
Hospital, Dayton, Ohio. Oct 2017
10. Chabra S. Visiting Professor, “Family and Parent Centered care in the NICU,” Dayton Children's
Hospital, Dayton, Ohio. Oct 2017
11. Chabra S. Visiting Professor, “Gastroschisis: embryology and epidemiology”, Mount Sinai Children's
Hospital, Chicago, Illinois. Oct 2017
12. Chabra S. Visiting Professor, “Parents as partners in Care in the NICU”, Mount Sinai Children's
Hospital, Chicago, Illinois. Oct 2017
13. Chabra S. Visiting Professor, “Non-invasive ventilation in extremely preterm infants: Outcomes on
BPD”, Providence Alaska Medical Centre, Anchorage, Alaska. Dec 2017
14. Chabra S. Invited speaker, “Gastroschisis Epidemiology and the Rising incidence of gastroschisis in
Washington state”, American Academy of Pediatrics sponsored Department of Pediatrics Grand
Rounds, Providence Alaska Medical Centre, Anchorage, Alaska. Dec 2017
15. Chabra S. Invited speaker, ‘Outcomes of Non-invasive ventilation and Neurally adjusted ventilatory
assist (NAVA)’: University of Washington Fellowship Orientation conference, Seattle, WA. Jul 2017
16. Chabra S. Invited speaker, ‘Probiotics in neonates’: Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee meeting,
Overlake Hospital, Bellevue, WA. Aug 2017
17. Chabra S. Invited speaker, ‘Prolonged non-invasive ventilation and outcomes of bronchopulmonary
dysplasia’: University of Washington, Respiratory Therapists educational conference, Seattle, WA
Aug 2017
18. Chabra S. Invited speaker, “Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Annual QI presentation”, Overlake
Hospital QI Committee, Overlake Hospital and Medical Center, Bellevue, WA Aug 2017
19. Chabra S. Invited speaker, ‘Impact on breastfeeding rates by empiric treatment of maternal
chorioamnionitis-exposed newborns’. Pediatrics Section meeting, Overlake Hospital and Medical
Center, Bellevue, WA. Sept 2017
20. Chabra S. Invited speaker, ‘Neonatal intensive care quality outcomes and goals’. Quality
improvement Committee, Overlake Hospital and Medical Center, Bellevue, WA. Sept 2017
21. Chabra S. Invited speaker, ‘Non-Invasive Ventilation and Outcomes’, National Association of
Neonatal Nurses, Pacific Northwest Chapter, Cedarbrook Lodge, Seattle, WA. Nov 2017
22. Chabra S. Invited speaker, ‘Decreased admissions to NICU and improved breastfeeding rates by use
of sepsis calculator for treatment of maternal chorioamnionitis-exposed newborns: Quality
Improvement VON project’. Pediatrics Section meeting, Overlake Hospital and Medical Center,
Bellevue, WA. Dec 2017
23. Chabra S. Invited speaker, ‘Promoting Provider Resilience and Well-being’. Seattle Children’s
Advanced Practice Providers meeting, Overlake Hospital and Medical Center, Bellevue, WA. Dec
2017
24. Engmann, C. “Through the looking-glass: Global and country-level innovations and initiatives in
maternal, newborn, child health and nutrition.” London, UK, Keynote speaker: Pediatrics, Nov 2017
25. Engmann, C. “Addressing barriers to exclusive breast-feeding: Evidence and lessons learnt from
Baby Friendly Country Programs.” Buenos Aires, Argentina, Moderator: International Congress on
Nutrition, Nov 2017
26. Engmann, C. “Ethical challenges and implications of sharing, selling and donating human milk.”
Buenos Aires, Argentina, Moderator: International Congress on Nutrition, Nov 2017
27. Engmann, C. “From Evidence to policy: What it takes to bridge the gap.” Buenos Aires, Argentina,
Chair: International Congress on Nutrition, Nov 2017
28. Engmann, C. “A coming of age for Early Childhood Development: Global initiatives in research, policy
and planning.” Seattle, WA, Invited speaker: University of Washington Division of Neonatology, Sept
2017
29. German K, Vu P, Grelli K, Denton C, Lee G, Juul S. Measuring iron sufficiency in critically ill neonates.
Platform session: AAP District VIII Section on Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Annual Conference.
Seattle, WA, 2017.
30. German K. Iron Sufficiency in Infants: An interdisciplinary, national advocacy project. Platform
session: 2017 UW LEND Day. Seattle, WA, 2017.
31. German K, Vu P, Grelli K, Denton C, Lee G, Juul S. Iron Sufficiency in the NICU. Platform session: Western Conference on Perinatal Research. Palm Springs, CA, 2017.
32. Krick J, Umoren RA, Lee G, Gray MM, Harris S, Sawyer TL. Use of Paralytics for Nonemergent
Neonatal Intubation in Very Low Birth Weight Infants. 2017 AAP National Conference and Exhibition,
Chicago, IL, Oct 16-19, 2017. Poster Presentation. Presenter: J Krick.
33. Jeanne Krick, MD; Shefali Haldar, BS, PhD(c); Anna Synder, MD, MA; Douglas Opel, MD, MPH. The
Parental Experience of Uncertainty in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Conference on Military
Perinatal Research; San Antonio, Texas; Nov 2017 [Platform Presentation].
34. Hendrickson, M. Invited Speaker, Introduction to High Frequency Oscillator, Neonatology Fellow
orientation lecture, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle WA. Jul 2017.
35. Jackson, CJ. Missoula, MT: “Case review of neonatology transfers from Community Medical Center
to Seattle Children’s from Oct 2016 through June 2017” Jul 2017.
36. Jackson, CJ. Yakima, WA: “Case review of neonatology transfers from Virginia Mason Memorial
Hospital to Seattle Children’s during 2017” Sept 2017
37. Wood T, Moralejo D, Corry K, Gebert JT, Snyder JM, Traudt CM, Juul SE. Characterization of Motor
and Reflex Development in a Novel Ferret Model of Encephalopathy of Prematurity. PAS 2017
38. Jessica M. Snyder, Pratik Parikh, Thomas Wood, Daniel Moralejo, Kylie Corry, Christopher Traudt,
Sandra Juul. A Novel Ferret Model of Encephalopathy of Prematurity: In Development. PAS 2017
39. Gebert TJ, Wood T, Corry K, Juul SE, Parikh PK. Curcumin is anti-inflammatory and reduces
microglial cell death during oxygen-glucose deprivation. PAS 2017
40. An N. Massaro, Theo Bammler, James MacDonald, Sandra Juul. Epigenetic biomarkers of cerebral
palsy in extremely low gestational age neonates (ELGANs) – A pilot study. PAS 2017
41. Adam Frymoyer, Sandra E. Juul, An N. Massaro, Theo K Bammler, Yvonne W. Wu. High-Dose
Erythropoietin Population Pharmacokinetics in Neonates with Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy
Receiving Hypothermia. PAS 2017
42. Anita Shah, Benjamin Wilfond, Amy Silvia, David Woodrum, Sandra Juul. Parental Attitudes Toward
Neonatal Clinical Trial Enrollment. PAS 2017.
43. Grace D, Holland M, Hou SS, James N, Loren D, Newson D, Strandjord T, Pierce S, Podruchny A,
Stanley T, Thompson K, Umoren R. “Teamwork in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Focus on Team
Training and Teamwork in the Delivery Room”, Poster presentation, The Vermont Oxford Network
Annual Quality Congress, Chicago, IL. Oct 2017
44. Perez, K. “Breastfeeding: A Nicaraguan Experience using ECEB.” Invited Speaker at the Northwest
Donor Human Milk Symposium, Sept 28th 2017 at PATH, Seattle, Washington.
45. Sawyer, T. Invited speaker: Washington State Medical Association (WSMA), CME Provider
Conference, Seattle, WA. Presentation title: “Measuring Performance.” Oct 2017
46. Smith, K. “Ventilating the Critically Ill Neonate.” Fellow’s Onboarding Lecture. University of
Washington, Seattle, WA. July 2017
47. Smith, K. Pulmonary Hypertension in the Newborn.” Fellow’s Onboarding Lecture. University of
Washington, Seattle, WA. July 2017
48. Smith, K. “Neonatal Extracorporeal Life Support.” Fellow’s Onboarding Lecture. University of
Washington, Seattle, WA. July 2017
49. Smith, K. “Extracorporeal Life Support in Neonates.” Presentation, Joint Neonatal, Cardiac, PICU
Fellow’s ECLS Class, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA. July 2017
50. Smith, K. Transport Skills and Simulation Day. Arranged skills stations for intubation, chest tube
insertion in a piglet, umbilical line placement and cardioversion. Simulation: premature infant with a
pneumothorax who arrests. Nov 2017
51. Smith, K. “Transport Simulation: Premie with a pneumothorax who arrests.” Fellow’s Conference.
Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA. Sept 2017
52. Smith, K. “Transport Simulation: PPHN/pulmonary hemorrhage/shock.” NNP Conference. Seattle
Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA. Oct 2017
53. Studholme, C. ISMRM Workshop on Motion Correction in MR/MRS. Invited Speaker. Sept 2017
54. Studholme, C. MICCAI 2017 workshop on developing brain segmentation, Medical Image Computing
and Computer Assisted Interventions. Sept 2017
55. Traudt, C. Invited Speaker” Fellows Neonatology Fellows Conference, University of Washington
Seattle, WA Presentation Title: “High Frequency Jet Ventilator.” Jul 2017
56. Traudt, C. Respiratory Care Provider Training Day, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle
WA, Title: High Frequency Jet Ventilator. Oct 2017
57. Kieran K, Umoren RA, Patak L, Henz P. Identifying Differences in Structure and Content of Medical
Conversations With and Without Interpreters. International Conference on Communication in
Healthcare. Baltimore, MD. Oct 11, 2017. Presenter: K Kieran
58. Umoren, R., Invited speaker. Virtual NICU TeamSTEPPS Training. Vermont Oxford Network NICQ-
NEXT2 Teams and Teamwork Homeroom Webinar. Aug 22, 2017
59. Umoren, R., Invited speaker. eHBB: Virtual reality technology to improve newborn healthcare
delivery in low and middle-income countries. eHBB Project Meeting. Oxford, UK. Nov 13, 2017
60. Umoren, R., An Educators Approach to Developing Usable Prototypes for Serious Games in Open
Simulator. 2017 OpenSimulator Community Conference. Decr 10, 2017
61. Umoren, R., Invited speaker with E Jacobson, M Gray. SCH NICU renovation warehouse mock up
report out. Sept15, 2017
62. Umoren, R., Invited speaker. eHBB: Virtual reality technology to improve newborn healthcare
delivery in low and middle-income countries. Sept26, 2017
63. Weiss EM, Blumenthal-Barby JS, Danis M, Kon AA, Marshall MF. “Shared Decision-Making in the ICU:
New Empirical Evidence to Inform Best Practice.” Panel Presentation, American Society of Bioethics
& Humanities, Kansas City, MO, Oct 2017
64. Weiss EM, Antiel R, Opel D, Janvier A. “Personalized Decision-Making in Pediatrics: Who Should Be
at the Center of Medical Decisions?” Panel Presentation, American Society of Bioethics &
Humanities, Kansas City, MO, Oct 2017
2018
1. Dighe M, Sienna L, Chabra S. Estimation of Fetal Weight in Gastroschisis By Fetal Thigh Thickness.
Presented at 2018 American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, New York, Mar 2018
2. Chabra S. Invited speaker, ‘Promoting wellbeing and development of Resilience in Providers’. Seattle
Children’s Advanced Practice Providers meeting, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA. Jan 2018
3. Chabra S. Invited speaker, ‘Implementation of Angeleyes Camera system in the NICU’. Faculty
meeting, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA. Feb 2018
4. Chabra S. Invited speaker, ‘AAP guidelines for Hepatitis B vaccine’. Pediatrics Section meeting,
Overlake Hospital and Medical Center, Bellevue, WA. Feb 2018
5. Chabra S. Invited speaker, ‘Hepatitis B vaccine: Paradigm shift’. Pediatrics Section meeting,
Overlake Hospital and Medical Center, Bellevue, WA. Feb 2018
6. Chabra S. Invited speaker, ‘Neonatal Hepatitis B elimination by 2020’. Seattle Children’s Advanced
Practice Providers meeting, Overlake Hospital and Medical Center, Bellevue, WA. Feb 2018
7. Chabra S. Invited speaker, “Moderate and Late Preterm infants: Outcomes and Economic burden”,
Regional Neonatology Grand Rounds, Seattle Children’s Hospital. Mar 2018
8. Gray MM, Thomas A, Umoren R. Title: Evacuation of Vulnerable and Critical Patients: A Virtual
Reality Simulation. 2018 Serious Games and Virtual Environments Showcase. 18th International
Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare. Los Angeles, CA. Jan 14, 2018. Presenter: M Gray
9. Gray M, Thomas A, Umoren RA. Evacuation of Vulnerable and Critical Patients (EVAC): Multimodal
simulation for nurse-led patient evacuation. Accepted at the 10th International Pediatric Simulation
Symposia and Workshops. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 14-16, 2018. Presenter: R Umoren
10. Jessica L. Wisnowski, Raj Kapur, Gail H. Deutsch, Stefan Bluml, Sandra E. Juul. Validating MRS lipids
as biomarkers of brain injury in a non-human primate model of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic
encephalopathy. Hershey 2018
11. Juul, SE. Keynote speaker: A Day with the Newborn; an investment in our future. Title: Neonatal
Neuroprotection. St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, PA. Jan 26, 2018
12. Juul, SE. Visiting Professor, Washington University, St. Louis Missouri. Grand Rounds. Title:
Neuroprotective Strategies for High Risk Newborns. Feb 22- 23, 2018
13. Jeanne Krick, MD; Shefali Haldar, BS, PhD(c); Anna Synder, MD, MA; Elliott Weiss, MD, MSME;
Douglas Opel, MD, MPH. The Parental Experience of Uncertainty in the Neonatal Intensive Care
Unit. Western Conference on Perinatal Research; Indian Wells, California; Jan 2018 [Platform
Presentation].
14. Jeanne Krick, MD. When Parents and Doctors Disagree. Department of Pediatrics Morning Report;
Madigan Army Medical Center; Tacoma, Washington; March 2018 [Invited Speaker].
15. Jeanne Krick, MD. A Parent's Request to Withhold a Cancer Diagnosis from a Teenager. Monthly
Bioethics Forum; Madigan Army Medical Center; Tacoma, Washington; March 2018 [Invited
Speaker].
16. Jeanne Krick, MD; Shefali Haldar, BS, PhD(c); Anna Synder, MD, MA; Douglas Opel, MD, MPH. The
Parental Experience of Uncertainty in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Seattle Children's Resident
and Fellow Research Day; Seattle, Washington; Apr 2018 [Platform Presentation].
17. Jeanne Krick, MD; Shefali Haldar, BS, PhD(c); Anna Synder, MD, MA; Douglas Opel, MD, MPH. The
Parental Experience of Uncertainty in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. AAP District VIII Section on
Neonatal Perinatal Medicine Annual Conference; Midway, Utah; Jun 2018 [Platform Presentation].
18. Eldredge LC, Creasy RS, Juul SE, Mayock D, Ziegler SF. M2-like monocyte/ macrophage populations
evolve in tracheal samples from infants at risk for bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Accepted for Mini-
Symposium Presentation. American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, May 18-23,
2018.
19. Pratik Parikh, Andrea Joseph, Chih-Chung Chen, Kylie Corry, Tommy Wood, Mike McKenna, Rick
Liao, Sandra Juul, Jessica Snyder, Elizabeth Nance. Curcumin-loaded brain-penetrating nanoparticles
for the treatment of neonatal HIE. Hershey 2018
20. Du N, Johnston L, Forson-Dare Z, Bruno, C, Sawyer T. Pediatric Resident Procedural Experience in
the Contemporary Training Environment. Eastern Society for Pediatric Research Meeting.
Philadelphia, PA. Presenter: Du N. Mar 2018
21. Sawyer, T. Invited speaker: American Heart Association Get with the Guidelines Resuscitation.
Session type: Webinar. Presentation title: “Newly Born Cardiac Arrest: How GWTG Resuscitation is
Addressing this Unique Patient Population.” Mar 2018
22. Sawyer, T. Grand Rounds, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA. Presentation title: “Little Airway,
Big Problem: Improving Neonatal Intubation Safety. Jan 2018
23. Smith, K. “Pulmonary Hypertension in the Newborn.” Physician Assistant Fellow’s Lecture. Seattle
Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA. Mar 2018
24. Smith, K. “Neonatal Extracorporeal Life Support.” Physician Assistant Fellow’s Lecture. Seattle
Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA. Mar 2018
25. Studholme, C. ISBI 2018, “Challenges in Quantifying Fetal Brain Macrostructure and Microstructure
Before Birth”, Sept 2017
26. Umoren RA. NICU TeamSTEPPS: Teamwork training for NICU professionals. 2018 Serious Games and
Virtual Environments Showcase. 18th International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare. Los
Angeles, CA. Jan 14, 2018. Presenter: R Umoren
27. Burns R, Umoren RA. TeamSTEPPS Online: Teamwork Training for Medical Students. 2018 Serious
Games and Virtual Environments Showcase. 18th International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare.
Los Angeles, CA. Jan 14, 2018. Presenter: R Umoren.
28. Burns R, Umoren RA. TeamSTEPPS Online Simulation: Expanding Access to Teamwork Training for
Medical Students. Accepted at the 10th International Pediatric Simulation Symposia and Workshops.
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 14-16, 2018. Presenter: R Umoren.
29. Umoren RA, Lee H, Gray MM, Strand M, Sawyer T, Josephsen J, Chitkara R, Ramachandran S,
Weiner G, Billimoria Z, Motz P, Strandjord T, Stavroudis T, Pantone G, Cabrera A, Nikirk S, Ades A.
Neonatal Resuscitation Program eSimulation Effectiveness for Episodic Learning and Retention.
Accepted at the 10th International Pediatric Simulation Symposia and Workshops. Amsterdam, the
Netherlands, May 14-16, 2018. Presenter: R Umoren.
30. Umoren RA, Invited speaker. University of Washington Department of Pediatrics Neonatology
Division Conference Series, Team Building for Physician Assistant Neonatology Fellows. Jun 21, 2018
31. Umoren RA, Invited speaker. Teleresuscitation, Teletransport, Telerounding – new evidence for telemedicine in neonatal care. Feb 24, 2018
32. David Askenazi, Kerry Hancuch, Russell Griffin, Patrick Heagerty, Patrick Brophy, Sandra Juul, Stuart Goldstein, Sangeeta Hingorani. Prevalence of acute kidney injury (AKI) in extremely-low gestational age neonates (ELGANs) stratified by gestational age (GA) groups. PAS platform 2018
33. Mietzsch U, Nawab O, Strait E, Wisnowski J, Juul S, Wu Y. Use of sedation for neonatal MRI: change in practice variation within a multi-center trial. PAS 2018
34. LC Eldredge, R. Creasy, N. Gove, DE Mayock, SE Juul, S. Ziegler. Examining pulmonary monocyte/macrophage populations in BPD pathogenesis
35. German K, Parikh P, Comstock B, Wittington D, Juul S. Urine hepcidin and iron regulation in preterm infants. PAS 2018
36. German K, P Vu, J Irvine, SE Juul. Reticulocyte Hemoglobin Values in Preterm Infants. PAS 2018
37. Eric Peeples, Kerry Hancuch, Bryan Comstock, Sandra Juul. Variability in Hydrocortisone Dosing for Extremely Preterm Infants: A Multi-Center Analysis. PAS 2018
38. Christopher M Traudt, Kerry Hancuch, Dennis Mayock, Manjiri Dighe, Patrick Heagerty, Sandra Juul. Timing and Progression of Cranial Ultrasound (CUS) Abnormalities in Extremely Low Gestation Neonates (ELGANs). PAS 2018
39. Massaro, Bammler, Comstock, Yu and Juul . Dried blood spots (DBS) are not a reliable biospecimen for blood-based biomarkers of brain injury in neonatal. PAS 2018
40. Massaro, Bammler, Comstock and Juul. Epigenetic Mechanisms of Erythropoietin (Epo) Induced Neuroprotection in Extremely Low Gestational Age Neonates (ELGAN). PAS 2018
41. Osayame Ekhaguere, Steven McElroy, David Kasper, Thomas Mechtler, Sandra Juul, Miriam Zimmerman, Bryan Comstock, John Widness. Lysosomal Enzyme Activities Does Not Predict Development of Necrotizing Enterocolitis. PAS 2018
42. Hallie Morris, Amit Mathur, Jessica Wisnowski, Bryan Comstock, Yvonne Wu, Ashok Panigrahy, Stefan Bluml, Sandra Juul, Robert McKinstry. Inter-Rater Agreement of the Washington University Neonatal Brain MRI Scoring System Remains Stable Across Severity of Injury in HIE. PAS 2018
43. Snyder JM, Parikh PK, Corry K, Wood T, Larmore M, Johnson B, Moralejo DH, Traudt CM, Juul SE. Ontogeny Of Toll-Like 3 And 4 Receptor Expression And White Matter Development In The Ferret Brain. PAS 2018
44. Mietzsch U, Nawab O, Strait E, Wisnowski J, Juul S, Wu Y: Use of sedation for neonatal MRI: change in practice variation within a multicenter trial
45. Pratik Parikh, Andrea Joseph, Chih-Chung Chen, Kylie Corry, Tommy Wood, Mike McKenna, Rick Liao, Sandra Juul, Jessica Snyder, Elizabeth Nance. Curcumin-loaded brain-penetrating nanoparticles for the treatment of neonatal HIE. Hershey 2018
46. Jessica L. Wisnowski, Raj Kapur, Gail H. Deutsch, Stefan Bluml, Sandra E. Juul. Validating MRS lipids as biomarkers of brain injury in a non-human primate model of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. Hershey 2018
47. Thomas Wood, Daniel Moralejo, Kylie Corry, Jessica Snyder, Sandra Juul. Characterization of Early Pathology and Motor Development in a Novel Ferret Model of Encephalopathy of Prematurity. PAS 2018
48. J.L.Wisnowski, Y.Wu, S.Bluml, A.Panigrahy, A.Mathur, S.Juul, R.McKinstry. Implementing a Standardized MRI Protocol for Neonatal Hypoxic-ischemic Encephalopathy Across Sites and MRI Platforms in a Phase III RCT. PAS 2018
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS (OVERSIGHT & DIRECTION):
DIVISION HEAD: Sandra Juul
LEADERSHIP COUNCIL:
Craig Jackson, Taylor Sawyer, Thomas Strandjord, Dennis Mayock, Linda Wallen, Robert DiGeronimo
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS:
Fellowship Training Program
Pediatric Residency Program
Medical Students Clerkship
Faculty CME/Performance Improvement
Regional Outreach
NEST
SCHOLARSHIP/RESEARCH:
Clinical
Basic/Translational
Educational/Simulation
Global Neonatal-Perinatal Health
Clinical Informatics
Quality Improvement
CLINICAL AFFAIRS:
Clinical Operations/NICU Medical Direction
Service Contracts
Transport Program
NNP Programs
High-Risk Infant Follow-Up
Prenatal Diagnosis/Counseling
Strategic Planning
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL SERVICE:
World Health Organization
PATH
AAP
MOD
NIH Study Section
University of Washington Division of Neonatology
Faculty Organizational Chart
Mission Statement: We will improve the neonatal outcomes of pregnancy by:
Providing outstanding evidence based neonatal clinical care
Educating the next generation of neonatal caregivers
Advancing neonatal scholarship