Division of Neonatology Academic Year 2019

Annual Report

Department of Pediatrics

University of Washington and

Seattle Children’s Hospital

Division of Neonatology |Academic Year 2019 Annual Report

TABLE OF CONTENTS

OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................. 4

PERSONNEL ............................................................................................................ 8

CLINICAL ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................. 13

Medical Consultation Program/Children’s Communication Center .................................................... 13

Infant Ground Transport Program....................................................................................................... 13

Infant Development Follow-Up Clinic ................................................................................................. 13

Neonatal-Perinatal Database………………………………………………………………………………………………………….14

TEACHING ACTIVITIES .......................................................................................... 15

Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Training Program ............................................................... 15

Neonatology Fellow Research Curriculum..........................................................................................16

Resident Education .............................................................................................................................. 19

Medical Student Education…………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 19

NEST Program ...................................................................................................................................... 19

RESEARCH FUNDING ............................................................................................ 20

Active Research Funding ..................................................................................................................... 20

Pending Research Funding (Applications) ........................................................................................... 25

CLINICAL, RESEARCH, AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES ................................................ 26

PUBLICATIONS: JULY 2018 – JUNE 2019 ............................................................... 39

Peer-Reviewed Articles........................................................................................................................ 39

Chapters, Textbooks ............................................................................................................................ 46

Other Publications ............................................................................................................................... 47

PRESENTATIONS BY INVITATION .......................................................................... 48

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 in 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; Toby Cohen, 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 oxide, 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 NICU

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 2018, the UWMC had 1910

deliveries with 509 NICU admissions. The average daily census was 37 with 21 preterm infants weighing

less than 1500 grams at birth and an average daily census of 3.7 on ventilators.

Seattle Children’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (Level IV):

Robert DiGeronimo, MD, 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 NNP 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. In AY 2018, the SCH NICU had 483 admissions. The average daily censures was 26.8 with 69 preterm infants weighing less than 1500 grams at birth and 14 ECMO days.

UW Medicine/Northwest Hospital and Medical Center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (Level II):

Toby L Cohen, MD, Medical Director; Thomas P. Strandjord, MD, Assoc. Medical Director

In November of 2018 Northwest Hospital Special Care Nursery, a Level II NICU began a collaborative effort

with the UW Division of Neonatology and Seattle Children’s Hospital to support care for infants born

prematurely at greater than 32 weeks, as well as term infants who may be suffering from a variety of

neonatal conditions including but not limited to breathing difficulties and infections. Northwest Hospital

delivery service sees approximately 1100 newborn infants annually. Although historically the service

delivers primarily low risk patients there is always the potential need for the expertise provided by 24/7

in house coverage by our team of Advanced Neonatal Practitioners who have immediate access to

consultation with UW/SCH neonatologists and a premier critical care neonatal transport system. The unit

is being remodeled to support the focus on family centered care with increased opportunity and available

space for couplet care.

UW Medicine/Valley Medical Center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (Level III)

Christina Long, DO, Medical 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 AY 2018, Valley had 3474 number of deliveries with 212 NICU

admissions.

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 2018, PRMCE had 4603 deliveries with 602 NICU admissions. The average daily

census was 22.5 with 49 preterm infants weighing less than 1500 grams at birth.

Franciscan Health Care System; St Joseph Medical Center (Level III); St Francis (Level II); Highline Medical

Center (Level II):

Stephen Welty, MD, Medical Director; Elizabeth Flanigan MD, Associate Medical Director; Meenakshi

Dutta MD, Highline 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 that receive medical care from local pediatricians, with consultation

and attendance at high-risk deliveries as needed from SCH Advanced Neonatal Practitioners and/or

neonatologists. For 12 hours/day, Saint Francis has in house coverage with the Advanced Neonatal

Practitioners with support from Neonatology Providers and for the other 12 hours/day, Neonatology

provides coverage directly and via telemedicine. Highline Medical Center has a licensed capacity of 5 Level

II beds, with inpatient Level II care and consultative services provided by Seattle Children’s Neonatologists

on call. 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, and

Highline Medical Center began its collaboration with Seattle Children’s in November 2018. 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. On 1/22/18, we lowered the gestational age at which

we would manage patients at SJMC to 25 weeks when previously we had used 27 weeks gestation for our

threshold of care at SJMC. With the continued emphasis on non-invasive ventilation as our primary mode

of respiratory support, we average between 4 and 6 babies on nasal CPAP per day and less than one baby

per day on invasive ventilatory support. In September of 2018, we expanded our care to provide inhaled

nitric oxide for infants with hypoxic respiratory failure and we utilized it on three patients with excellent

clinical responses. In AY 2018, St. Joseph’s had approximately 4100 deliveries with 480 NICU admissions.

Our average daily census was 17.0 with 44 premature infants weighing less than 1500 and 14 weighing

less than 1000 grams at birth.

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 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 Toby Cohen, MD Professor of Pediatrics Medical Director, NICU, Northwest Hospital Associate Medical Director, NICU, University of Washington Medical Center Pattaraporn Chun, MD Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Robert DiGeronimo, MD Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Medical Director, NICU, Seattle Children’s Hospital Neonatal Medical Director, Neonatal Transport and Extracorporeal Life Support Programs, Seattle Children’s Hospital Meenakshi Dutta, MD Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Medical Director, NICU, Highline Medical Center 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

Kendell German, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Director of Research, Infant Development Follow-Up Clinic 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, Division of Neonatology Quality and Safety Medical Director, Neonatology Regional Network Site Physician Sponsor, Children’s Hospital Neonatal Consortium, Seattle Children’s Hospital Janessa Law, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Christina Long, DO Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics Medical Director, NICU, Valley Medical Center Davia Loren, MD Associate Professor of Pediatrics

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

Ulrike Mietzsch, MD

Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Medical Director, Neuro-NICU, Seattle Children’s Hospital

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 Mihai Puia-Dumitrescu, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Pediatrics 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 Andy Shih, PhD Associate Professor of Pediatrics Principal Investigator at the Shih Lab at Seattle Children’s Research Institute Kendra Smith, MD Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Thomas P. Strandjord, MD Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Medical Director, NICU, University of Washington Medical Center Associate Medical Director, NICU, Northwest Hospital

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 Director of the Neonatal Education and Simulation Training (NEST) Program

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 Thomas Wood, BM BCh, PhD Assistant Research Professor of Pediatrics

Fellows:

Year Name Pediatric Residency Program

3rd Year Teresa Lam, MD Loma Linda University Medical Center

Patrick Motz, DO, MPH Wright State University

2nd Year Brianna Brei, MD, MPH Rush University Medical Center

Shubha Setty, MD Emory University

1st Year Sarah Kolnik, MD, MBA New York University

Katherine Kenningham, MD University of Washington

2019-2020 Rushabh Shah, MD Albany Medical Center

Ben Al-Haddad, MD, MSc, PhD University of Washington

Seattle Children’s Hospital Neonatal APP Program: (8)

April Morris, MN, ARNP, Manager, Advance Practice Services

Chris Cooper, ARNP, DHP, Supervisor, Swedish Medical Center Issaquah

Meg Keith, MSN, ARNP, Supervisor, Seattle Children’s Hospital

Kim Gustafson, MSN, ARNP, Supervisor, CHI-Franciscan Health System

Vanessa Rothstein, PA-C, Supervisor, Providence Regional Medical Center Everett

Carol Otto MSN, ARNP, Supervisor, Valley Medical Center

This program provides Neonatal APP services at eight regional medical centers in collaboration with

Seattle Children’s Hospital and the Division of Neonatology.

University of Washington Medical Center Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Program: (9)

Shwu-Shin Hou, MN, ARNP, NNP-BC, Program Manager

Jennie Collins, MD

Amy Dunn Caldwell, ARNP

Jennifer Fesinmeyer, ARNP

Tiffany Stanley, ARNP

Kimberly Jones, ARNP

Catherine Baker, ARNP

Mary Akers, ARNP

Rocio Humphrey, ARNP

Research Staff:

Daniel Moralejo, PhD, DVM, Lab Manager Kylie Corry, MS, Research Scientist Cole Fisher, Research Scientist Tommy Wood, BM BCh, PhD, Research Assistant Professor HEAL Grant Project Team: Sandra Juul, MD, PhD, Principal Investigator; Clinical Coordinating Center Dennis Mayock, MD, Site Principal Investigator and Executive Committee 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 and Executive Committee Bailey Clopp, Lead Clinical Coordinator (PENUT) Todd Richards, PhD, Lead Physicist 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

Tracy Anderson, Fellowship Program Administrator, SCH

Lisa Wormke, BA, MPA, Grants Manager

Samantha Soler, Administrative Assistant, UW

Jennifer Pavey, Fiscal Analyst, 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; Christopher Baker, MSN, MBA, RN C-NPT, Clinical Manager

Neonatal transport services for Seattle Children’s and its 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, and Idaho) region are transported to Seattle Children’s.

Services provided include various modes of non-invasive 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 conventional support.

INFANT DEVELOPMENT FOLLOW-UP CLINIC

Emily Myers, MD; Kendell German, MD; Nina Natarajan, MD

The University of Washington Center on Human Development and Disability offer the Infant Development Follow-Up Clinic and the Late and Moderate Preterm Baby Clinic to provide interdisciplinary neurodevelopmental assessments for infants at risk for developmental differences. Infants receive standard evaluations at 4, 12, 18, and 24 months, then annually through 5 years old. Developmental Pediatrics, Neonatal Neurology, Neonatology, Advanced Practice Nursing, Psychology, Speech/Language Pathology, Audiology, Nutrition, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy and Social Work staff the clinic. The clinic sees approximately 2500 infants and children annually. The clinic also provides interdisciplinary training and follow-up for patients in clinical research studies.

Infants who qualify to be seen in these clinics are those that meet any of the following criteria:

Infants born before 36 weeks gestation

Birthweight of <1500g

Infants exposed in-utero to drugs or alcohol

Infants with prenatal, perinatal, or neonatal brain injuries (IVH, HIE, stroke)

Infants with complex medical disease requiring, selected surgical interventions

Infants who required a neonatal intensive care unit hospitalization.

Recent changes to these clinics include the introduction of the Reach Out and Read program; and the creation of the Seattle Children’s Hospital Committee on Infant Developmental Follow-Up that provides guidance on developmental follow-up needs for children discharged from the Seattle Children’s Hospital NICU. Ongoing research in the clinic includes follow-up for the PENUT and HEAL trials, the evaluation of the Reach Out and Read program in the NICU and follow-up clinics and the creation of a patient database to facilitate quality improvement and outcomes research.

NEONATAL-PERINATAL DATABASES

Michael D. Neufeld, MD, MPH; 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 and

focus groups on specific diagnoses, such as severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia, congenital

diaphragmatic hernia, and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.

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 2018, 62 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 first time board pass rate of 100% over the past 5 years.

NEONATALOGY FELLOW RESEARCH CURRICULUM

Meenakshi Dutta, MD, Kendell German, MD, Pattaraporn Chun, MD

The Neonatology Fellow Research Curriculum is a program that spans all three years of Neonatology

fellowship. This program aims to provide structured research education as well as individualized research

guidance. At monthly to quarterly meetings, fellows meet as a group to discuss progress on their research

projects and trouble-shoot problem areas. Brief structured didactic teaching is provided on Biostatistics

topics and interactive lectures are led by program staff or guest speakers on such topics as mentorship,

research support services and grant writing. The goal of this curriculum project is to support fellows in

their completion of fellowship requirements for scholarly productivity and spur their interest in a career

in academic medicine.

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 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 Private Practice, 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 Assistant Professor Washington University, St. Louis

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

Teresa Lam 2016-2019 Private Practice, Providence Medical Center, Anchorage, Alaska

Patrick Motz 2016-2019 Private Practice, Kaiser Permanente, Roseville, California

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. 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, and Idaho)

visiting professor program.

MEDICAL STUDENT EDUCATION

Davia 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

Research

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

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

Shilpi Chabra, MD 2017-2019 NIH/NICHD R21 HD089151, Improving Safety and Quality of Tracheal Intubations in

Neonatal ICUs. Role: Co-Investigator and Site PI, Total Award: $275,000

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

2018-2019 NIH/NICHD/Subcontract Duke University HHSN-27520100003I, “PK and safety of commonly used drugs in lactating women and breastfed infants.” Role: Co-Investigator, Annual Direct Costs: $79,000

Cyril Engmann, MD

2014-2018 Maternal Child Survival Program: Grant from the United States Agency for International Development, Program Lead: C. Engmann, Total Award: $10,000,000

2014-2018 Making Every Baby Count Initiative (MEBCI): Grant from the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, Program Lead: Cyril Engmann, Total Award: $12,421,572

2015-2018 Scaling up Human Milk Banking in Vietnam and India, Co-investigator: C. Engmann Cargill Foundation, Total Award: $ 2,000,000

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

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 Advancing Maternal Immunization. MNCHN Program Lead: C. Engmann Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Total Award: $9,000,000

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

2017-2020 Scaling up Early Childhood Development: Expanding Nurturing Care in the early years. Grant from the Conrad Hilton Foundation. Role: MNCHN Program Lead, Total Award: $8,200,000

2018-2023 Demographic and Health Surveys-8. United States Agency for International Development, Role: Program Lead, Total Award: $5,070,891

Kendell German, MD

2019-2020 Urine F2-Isoprostanes and Oxidative Stress in ELGANs and Correlation with Iron Administration. Thrasher Research Fund, Early Career Award. Role: PI, Total Award: $26,750

Megan Gray, MD

2016-2019 Multimodal Simulation for Emergency and Disaster Preparedness, Academic Enrichment Fund Program, Seattle Children’s Hospital. Role: Co-PI, Total Award: $50,000 annually

2017-2018 Speaking up for Patient Safety, UW Patient Safety Innovations Program. Role: Co-Investigator, Total Award: $50,000 annually

2018-2019 Development and Validation of a Milestone-based Prenatal Counseling Communication Scale, UW Center for Leadership & Innovation in Medical Education Grant. Role: PI, Total Award: $5,000

2018-2020 The Organization of Neonatal Training Program Directors National Neonatology Curriculum Project, AAP Section on Neonatal Perinatal Medicine Educational Grant. Role: Co-Investigator. Total Award: $25,000

2018-2020 The ONTPD National Neonatology Flipped Classroom Curriculum and the Development of Best Practices for Flipped Classroom Facilitation, SPARK-Ed - Penn Medicine Grant. Role: Co-Investigator, Total Award: $5,000

Anna Hedstrom, MD

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

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)

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

2013-2019 Preterm Erythropoietin Neuroprotection Trial (PENUT Trial) CCC. 1U01NS077953-01 NINDS. Sandra Juul, MD, PhD, PI. Total Award: $10,145,741

2013-2019 Biomarkers of neonatal encephalopathy in a nonhuman primate model. 5R01HD073128-02. Sandra Juul, MD, PhD, PI. Total Award: $3,233,245

2015-2018 NIH/NINDS 5R21NS093154-02. Novel ferret model of preterm encephalopathy Sandra Juul, MD, PhD, PI. Total Award: $424,875

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

2017-2019 Uridine neuroprotection in neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Sandra Juul, MD, PhD, PI. Total Award: $489,128

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

2019-2021 Stem cells in addition to hypothermia for neuroprotection in perinatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, Thrasher Grant Research Foundation. Role: Co-PI, Total Award: $26,750

Janessa Law, MD

2019-2021 Stem cells in addition to hypothermia for neuroprotection in perinatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, Thrasher Grant Research Foundation. Role: PI, Total Award: $26,750

Dennis Mayock, MD

2013-2019 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

2016-2022 High-dose Erythropoietin for Asphyxia and Encephalopathy (HEAL) CCC. 1U01NS092764-01A1, NINDS. Role: Co-Investigator, Total Award: $10,100,000

2018-2020 Exploring Postnatal Nephrogenesis in Prematurity Born Neonates. Seattle Children’s Research Institute Center for Clinical and Translational Research Pediatric Pilot Fund, Role: Co-PI

Ulrike Mietzsch, MD

2015-2020 Impact of Neonatal Neurocritical Care Service Line, Riley Children’s Foundation. Role: PI, Total Award: $227,000

2016-2023 High-Dose Erythropoietin in Asphyxia and Encephalopathy (HEAL), NINDS. Role: Site PI until 10/18, now Co-Site PI, Total Award: $101,300

2018-2020 HEAL-EEG – Neurophysiologic measures of Epo treatment for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), NINDS. Role: Site PI Indiana University School of Medicine, Total Award: $23,428

Pratik Parikh, MD

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

2019-2021 Neonatal Biological Research Award, Exosome derived from erythropoietin preconditioned neural stem cell as neuroprotective agent in in-vitro model of neonatal brain injury. Role: PI, 1/1/19 to 12/31/2021, Total Funding: $6,000.

2019-2021 Thrasher Early Career Award. Urine F2-Isoprostanes and Oxidative Stress in ELGANs and Correlation with Iron Administration. Role: Co-Investigator, 01/01/2019 to 12/31/2021. Total Funding: $25,000.00

Mihai Puia-Dumitrescu, MD, MPH

2019-2020 Multinational and multicenter Phase 2b trial: A double-blind Randomized, Sham-Controlled, Parallel-Group, Dose-Ranging Study to Determine the Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability of AeroFactTM (Aerosolized SF-RI-1), Role: PI

Taylor Sawyer, DO, MEd

2017-2019 Improving safety and quality of tracheal intubations in neonatal ICUs. NIH/NICHD1 R21 HD089151-01A1. Role: Co-PI, Total Award: $275,000

2018-2020 Next Generation Integrated Curriculum and Trainer for Neonate Resuscitation. NIH/NICHD R21 HD091687. Role: Co-PI, Total Award: $259,918

Andy Shih, PhD

2017-2022 Deciphering the Cerebral Microinfarct and its Role in Vascular Cognitive Impairment, R01 NS097775. Role: PI, Total Award: $1,964,790

2018-2020 Cytoskeletal Dynamics of Brain Pericytes and Impact on Capillary Flow, R21 NS106138. Role: PI, Total Award: $275,000

2019-2021 The Effects of Amyloid Beta on Pericyte Remodeling and Brain Capillary Function In Vivo, R21 NS106138. Role: PI, Total Award: $275,000

2019-2020 Deep In Vivo Two-photon Imaging of White Matter Pericytes During Ischemia, Albert Trust Foundation. Role: Co-PI, Total Award: $75,000

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

2013-2018 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

2016-2019 Multimodal Simulation for Emergency and Disaster Preparedness, Seattle Children’s Academic Enrichment Fund Program (PI Gray). Role: Co-PI, Total Award: $50,000

2017-2019 eHBB: Virtual reality technology to improve newborn healthcare delivery in low and middle-income countries, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Role: PI, Total Award: $1,109,135

2017-2020 WeCare Plus: An Innovative, Community-Based Collaboration to Decrease Infant Mortality, Indiana State Department of Health: Safety PIN (PI Litzelman). Role: Consultant, Total Award: $2,100,000

2018-2019 Development and Validation of a Milestone-based Prenatal Counseling Communication Scale, Center for Leadership & Innovation in Medical Education (CLIME) Small Grant Program (PI Gray). Role: Co-PI, Total Award: $5,000

Elliott Weiss, MD, MSME

2017-2019 Parental Attitudes in Neonatal Clinical Trial Enrollment: Decision-Making Preferences and Reasoning among Participants and Non-Participants, Clinical Research Scholars Program (CRSP) Intensive Path, Center for Clinical & Translational Research. Role: PI, Total Annual Award: $58,000

PENDING RESEARCH FUNDING (APPLICATIONS)

Megan Gray, MD

2018-2020 mHealth Care for Sick Kids: Faster Transport using NLM Resources, National Institutes of Health – G08. Role: Co-Investigator

2018-2020 Patient Safety Learning Laboratory to Improve the Safety of Neonatal Interfacility Transfers in a Regional Care Network, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Role: Co-Investigator

Anna Hedstrom, MD

2019-2021 Saving Lives at Birth Validation Grant: Validation and Feasibility Study of a Low-Cost US Agency for International Development. Role: PI, Total Award: $50,000

Sandra Juul, MD, PhD

2019-2024 Preterm birth, neuroinflammation, and susceptibility to subsequent brain injury. NINDS, Role PI. Total award: $7,706,729.00

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

2019-2024 NIH/NINDS, 5R21NS093154-02, Novel ferret model of preterm encephalopathy. Role: Co-Investigator, 07/15/2015 – 06/30/2017. Total Funding: $424,875.00

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 is also interested in telemedicine and has been 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 has a keen interest in helping decrease bronchopulmonary dysplasia in the extremely low birth weight preterm neonates especially with regards to the role of non-invasive ventilation and vitamin A. She is extremely passionate about management of infants with gastroschisis, both prenatal and postnatal. She helped develop the Seattle Children’s gastroschisis clinical pathway that is being used statewide, and continues to update and review these guidelines.

Scholarly Focus: Mainly involves outcomes of gastroschisis, especially with regards to the effects of prematurity and small-for-gestational age including the optimal ultrasound formulae to assess fetal growth restriction and utility of a checklist to determine the timing of delivery. Other interests include long-term effects of pregnancy infections on child health; bronchopulmonary dysplasia and role of non-invasive ventilation; evaluation of safety of commonly used drugs in lactating women and breastfed infants; outcomes of late and moderately preterm infants and trends in gastroschisis and diaphragmatic hernia outcomes using large database.

Administration/Education Roles: As a member of the AAP Advocacy committee and the Washington Chapter Vaccine subcommittee, she has advocated for childhood vaccinations and assisted in dissemination of 2017 AAP Hepatitis B vaccine guidelines. She is extremely passionate about resident and fellow ‘trainee wellbeing’ leading a national workshop on “Promoting physician wellness”. She has been involved in several quality improvement projects such as effects of effects of 39-week initiative on late preterm births and empiric antibiotic treatment for maternal chorioamnionitis on success of exclusive breastfeeding. She served a physician advisor for Washington State Hospital Association and helped establish the Overlake infant nutrition clinic, which serves as Washington State Department of Health model for preterm infants’ safe transition from hospital to home. She loves educating Pediatric residents/fellows and mentors several Pediatric Residents and Neonatology Fellows who are the future of Neonatology.

Toby Cohen, MD

Clinical Interests: Improving care of premature and term infants with focus on delivery room stabilization and potentially better practices to optimize both short- and long-term outcomes. Other interests include the provision of optimal nutritional practices for preterm infants for avoidance of long term complications associated with prematurity, management of pulmonary hypertension in preterm and term infants, use of non-invasive ventilatory strategies to avoid ventilator associated complications, and equity in perinatal healthcare delivery.

Scholarly Focus: Quality Improvement utilizing an interdisciplinary team-based approach for positive culture change in the NICU. Current projects include implementation of ELBW infant care bundles in the delivery room and NICU with focus on the “Golden Hour” to implement best practices for transitioning preterm newborns during a time of increased vulnerability, and focus on decreasing catheter related blood stream infections in the NICU.

Administration/Education Roles: Serves as the Medical Director at University of Washington -Northwest (Level II) and as Associate Medical Director at University of Washington Medical Center- Montlake (Level III NICU). Provides resident and fellow education, works collaboratively with the APP teams at the University and community NICUs on Quality Improvement, and provides staff education in the NICU.

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 quaternary care Children’s Hospital NICUs using large

multicenter databases to include the Children’s Hospital Neonatal Collaborative (CHNC) Database, the

Extracorporeal Life Support Organization and Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Study Group. Dr.

DiGeronimo is currently the co-site sponsor for Seattle Children’s Hospital for the CHNC 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 affiliated teaching

sites.

Meenakshi Dutta, MD

Clinical Interests: Care of critically ill neonates, with special focuses on newborns with complex multi-

system disorders, critical respiratory failure and pulmonary hypertension, and neonates undergoing

stabilization for inter-facility transport.

Scholarly Focus: Dr. Dutta’s prior research interests have included quality improvement and neonatal

transport. She is not currently involved in active research, but participates in division-based and site-

specific quality improvement work throughout the Seattle area.

Administration/Education Roles: Dr. Dutta serves as medical director for the Neonatal ICU at Swedish

Issaquah and the Special Care Nursery at Highline Medical Center in Burien, WA. She is the supervisor for

the division’s neonatal hospitalist program, and acts as faculty lead for the neonatal fellowship research

education curriculum.

Cyril Engmann, MD

Clinical Interest: Maternal, newborn and child health, development and survival; optimizing maternal, newborn and child nutrition, growth 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 in the USA and with national governments including the Governments of the United Kingdom, India, South Africa, Mozambique, Ethiopia, 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.

Kendell German, MD

Clinical Interests: Working as part of a family-centered, interdisciplinary team aimed at providing

evidence-based and developmentally-appropriate critical care for hospitalized infants.

Scholarly Focus: Dr. German’s research focuses on improving neurodevelopmental outcomes for NICU

patients and graduates. She is the PI of ongoing research studies aimed at evaluating the effects of

supplemental iron administration on markers of oxidative injury in the brain and neurodevelopmental

outcomes in formerly preterm neonates. She is also engaged in collaborative research activities between

the NICU and follow-up clinics including evaluating the effects of a reading intervention program and the

establishment of a databased aimed at facilitating developmental outcomes research and quality

improvement studies.

Administration/Education Roles: Dr. German is involved with educational projects aimed at NICU follow-up training and NICU graduate care at the University of Washington, and nationally through the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics and the American Academy of Pediatrics. She serves as the Director of Research for the Infant Development Follow-Up program, the co-director of the Reach Out and Read program at the University of Washington and is a member of the Seattle Children’s Hospital Committee on Infant Developmental Follow-Up.

Christine A. Gleason, MD

Clinical interests: Dr. Gleason’s primary areas of interest are neonatal drug development, 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 (all kinds!) and textbook editing (Avery’s Diseases of the Newborn for example).

Administrative/Education roles: Dr. Gleason has been co-editor of Avery’s Diseases of the Newborn, a major neonatal textbook, for the last three editions. She also serves as Medical Editor of the Neonatal SubBoard of the American Board of Pediatrics. Her national leadership roles include 1) Secretary/Treasurer of the American Pediatric Society; 2) Member of the Board of Directors of PAS Inc. (Pediatric Academic Societies' annual meeting); 3) NICHD Data & Safety Monitoring Committees for two clinical trial networks (neonatal & maternal-fetal medicine); 4) 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 Research

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. With her colleagues in Tacoma, she developed a family

medicine residency curriculum for a NICU rotation at St Joseph Medical Center.

J. Craig Jackson, MD, MHA

Clinical Interests: Prenatal neonatal counseling; neonatal palliative care; critical care of infants with

complex surgical and pediatric subspecialty problems.

Scholarly Focus: Development of methods to teach empathetic communication skills to clinicians, and

methods to help parents make difficult medical decisions for their fetuses and newborns.

Administration/Education Roles: Associate Division Head for Regional Neonatal Program Development;

neonatology liaison to the Prenatal Diagnosis Clinics at Seattle Children’s Hospital and the University of

Washington Medical Center; member of the CONNECT program leadership team for teaching

communication skills to clinicians; member of Children’s University Medical Group Board of Directors;

chair of the CUMG Contracting and Payer Relations Committee; member of CUMG Physician Education,

Billing, Compliance Committee; CUMG representative on the Clinical Integrated Network Finance

Committee; member of the SCH/UW Pediatric Intern Retreat Steering Committee; and 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: Quality and Safety Medical Director, Neonatology Regional Network; Site Physician Sponsor for SCH NICU in the Children’s Hospitals Neonatal Consortium/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 high-

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 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 past 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.

Janessa Law, MD

Clinical Interests: Practicing evidence-based medicine to optimize care for critically ill neonates with a focus on improving neurodevelopmental outcomes in high-risk infants. Scholarly Focus: Dr. Law’s research focus includes neuroprotection and neuro-repair for neonates affected by hypoxic ischemic brain injury at birth. She studies the use of human neural stem cells as a possible treatment option in a rodent model of hypoxia-ischemia. She is also part of the Juul Lab team studying the potential use of erythropoietin to decrease neonatal brain injury. Administration/Education Roles: Whether working with advanced neonatal fellows or starting medical students, Dr. Law's primary teaching goal is to demonstrate and encourage critical thinking and inquiry while seeking to practice evidence based medicine.

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.

Davia Loren, MD

Clinical Interests: Dr. Loren is passionate about engaging families in partnerships with the clinical care

team. She describes her 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. She has been 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. She is interested in how clinical care teams

maintain – and lose – situational awareness and how teams debrief crisis situations. She 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: She mentors and supports residents and fellows at the University of

Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital NICUs. Her administrative responsibilities include 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.

Ulrike Mietzsch, MD

Clinical Interests: Neonatal Neurocritical Care and Transport – Dr. Mietzsch has a longstanding special

interest in neonates with congenital or acquired brain injury and strives to provide the best available care

to these patients. Dr. Mietzsch’s clinical and research focus is in neonatal neurocritical care with emphasis

on bringing together a multidisciplinary team to provide optimal treatment. This is based on the latest

evidence, use of advanced diagnostic and therapeutic technologies during transport, hospital stay and

beyond.

Scholarly Focus: Quality improvement research that evaluates the impact of a neonatal neurocritical care program on short and long-term outcome of neonates with congenital or acquired brain injury. Clinical research activities include participation in multicenter trials to improve the outcome and quality of life for babies with brain injury. The research studies evaluate the neuroprotective effects of high-dose erythropoietin in term neonates with birth asphyxia and its effect on neurophysiologic markers on EEG.

Administration/Education Roles: Dr. Mietzsch currently serves as the Medical Director of the NeuroNICU at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Educational responsibilities include training pediatricians, neonatologists, neurologists, neonatal nurse practitioners, nursing staff, and the neonatal critical care transport team.

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. Together, they manage

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. His 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. Dr. Parikh is also

interested in preterm brain injury, has developed a novel rodent model of preterm brain injury, and 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: Her 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: Providing education and mentorship to medical students, residents and fellows in training. Mihai Puia-Dumitrescu, MD, MPH

Clinical Interests: Improving outcomes of premature and critically ill infants through evidence based, family-centered clinical practice. Interested in increasing the use of point of care ultrasound in infants, Dr. Puia-Dumitrescu is a member of the Seattle Children's POCUS super-users group (a group of neonatology, anesthesia, critical care, and emergency medicine physicians). Scholarly Focus: Improving the lives of premature or critically ill infants through high quality clinical research. Understanding the importance of epidemiologic and quantitative skills in the conduct of clinical research, Dr. Puia-Dumitrescu obtained an MPH from the University of Miami in 2012, and a clinical research fellowship from Duke Clinical Research Institute in 2018. Leveraging his understanding in epidemiology and biostatistics together with his clinical knowledge, Dr. Puia-Dumitrescu is conducting clinical trials (he is the current PI for the AEROFACT 2B trial here at UW), pharmaco-epidemiologic and drug safety studies, and report outcomes of premature and critically ill infants. He has a strong commitment to academic medicine, pediatric clinical research, and improvement in the health of critically ill infants. Administration/Education Roles: Involved in educating future clinical researchers, in-training pediatric residents, neonatology fellows, neonatal nurse practitioners, and neonatal nursing staff.

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. Andy Shih, Ph.D.

Scholarly Focus: Dr. Shih initiated his independent research at the Medical University of South Carolina

(2012-2018) before moving to the city of Seattle. His research uses state-of-the-art in vivo imaging

methods to examine the basis of neurovascular function and dysfunction in models of stroke and small

vessel disease. His recent studies have focused on microscopic ischemic lesions often observed in VCID

(cerebral microinfarcts), and their enduring effects that may contribute to cognitive impairment. A second

line of research examines microvascular pericytes and their role in maintaining vascular stability in the

developing and adult brain. His research has been continually funded by the NIH (NINDS and NIA), and by

Foundations such as the American Heart Association, Dana Foundation NeuroImaging Award, Alzheimer’s

Association New Investigator Award, and Charleston Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease New Vision

Award. More information can be found on his lab website: Theshihlab.com.

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 the industry-sponsored trial by United Therapeutics 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.” 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 and referral sites.

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 quality improvement projects designed to improve stabilization of very low

birthweight infants. 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 and Telemedicine Lead for the Neonatology group.

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.

Thomas Wood, MD

Scholarly Focus: Dr. Wood specializes in animal models of premature brain injury and neonatal hypoxic-

ischemic encephalopathy, particularly in rodents and ferret. He is also participating in secondary

analyses of data from the PENUT trial that is relevant to neurodevelopment.

Administration/Education Roles: Tommy is an active mentor for Neonatology fellows and junior faculty

peers, as well as undergraduate students and Chemical Engineering graduate students, engaged in basic

neuroscience research. This year he was also a guest lecturer in endocrinology and physiology for a

400/500-level Chemical Engineering class in nanotechnology applications for health.

PUBLICATIONS: JULY 2 018 – JUNE 2019

(Faculty, Fellow)

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

2018

1. 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) Sep;93(9):1315-1320. PMID: 29847326.

2. Arora G, Esmaili E, Pitt MB, Green A, Umphrey L, Butteris SM, St Clair NE, Batra M, O’Callahan C, on behalf of the American Board of Pediatrics Global Health Task Force. “Pediatricians and Global Health: Opportunities and Considerations for Meaningful Engagement.” Pediatrics. 2018 Aug;142(2). PMID: 30054345.

3. Batra M, Pitt M, St Clair N, Butteris S. “Global Health and Pediatric Education: Opportunities and Challenges.” Advances in Pediatrics. 2018 Aug;65(1):71-87. PMID: 30053931.

4. Kemper K, Wilson P, Schwartz A, Mahan JD, Batra M, Staples B, McClafferty H, Schubert C, Serwint J, on behalf of the Pediatric Resident Burnout-Resilience Study Consortium. “Burnout in Pediatric Residents: Comparing Brief Screening Questions to the Maslach Burnout Inventory in the Pediatric Resident Burnout-Resilience Study Consortium’s Surveys.” Acad Peds. 2018, Nov 2. (Epub ahead of print). PMID: 30395934.

5. Reed S, Kemper K, Schwartz A, Batra M, Staples B, Serwint J, McClafferty H, Schubert C, Wilson P, Rakowsky A, Chase M, Mahan J. “ Variability of Burnout and Stress Measures in Pediatric Residents: An Exploratory Single Center Study from the Pediatric Burnout-Resilience Study Consortium.” Journal of Evidence Based Integrative Medicine. 2018 Jan-Dec. PMID: 30378438.

6. Kemper K, McClafferty H, Wilson P, Serwint J, Batra M, Mahan J, Schubert C, Staples B, Schwartz A, on behalf of the Pediatric Resident Burnout-Resilience Study Consortium. “Do Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Predict Burnout in Pediatric Residents?” Acad Med.2018, Dec 4. (Epub ahead of print) PMID: 30520809.

7. Lekshminarayanan A, Bhatt P, Linga V, Chauddhari R, Zhu B, Dave M, Donda K, Savani S, Patel S, Billimoria Z, Bhaskaran S, Zaid-Kalyani S, Dapaah-Siakwan F, Bhatt N. National Trends in Hospitalization for Fever and Neutropenia in Children with Cancer, 2007 to 2014. J Peds. Jul 2018. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2018.06.056. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 30029861

8. Bhatt P, Bray L, Raju S, Dapaah-Siakwan F , Patel A, Chaudhari R, Donda K, Bhatt NS, Dave M, Linga VG, Lekshminarayanan A, Patel SV, Billimoria Z, Zuckerman S, Yagnik P, Singh D. Temporal Trends of Pediatric Hospitalizations with Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis in the United States: An Analysis from 2006 to 2014 using National Inpatient Sample. J Pediatr. Dec 2018. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2018.10.044. [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 30528761

9. Bhatt P, Lekshminarayanan A, Donda K, Dapaah-Siakwan F, Thakkar B, Parat S, Chabra S, Billimoria Z. Trends in incidence and outcomes of gastroschisis in the United States: analysis of the national

inpatient sample 2010-2014. Pediatr Surg Int. Sept 2018. doi: 10.1007/s00383-018-4308-3. PMID: 30056479

10. Chabra S. Hedstrom AB. Necrotizing Enterocolitis and Short Bowel Syndrome. National Neonatology Curriculum Project. Minute CE.com. 2018.

11. Chabra S, Sawyer T. Ten commandments for neonatal-perinatal medicine fellows. J Med Educ Curric Dev. 2018 Sep.

12. Motz P, Von Saint Andre-Von Armnim A, Likes M, Chabra S, Traudt C, Iyer R, Dighe M. Limited Ultrasound protocol for Upper Extremity PICC monitoring: A pilot study in the NICU. Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine. 2018 Sep 23. doi: 10.1002/jum.14816.

13. Chabra S. Evolution of Delivery Room Management for Meconium-Stained Infants: Recent

Updates. Adv Neonatal Care. 2018 Aug; 18(4):267-275. PMID: 29889726

14. Gimferer I, Tamura G, Hongxiu J, Warner P, Gallagher M, Chabra S. Implication of Antibodies against Human Leukocyte Antigen in Simultaneous Presentation of Fetal and Neonatal Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia and Neutropenia. Transfusion and Apheresis Science 2018 Dec.

15. Krick J, Riehle K, Chabra S. Recurrent bloody stools associated with visceral infantile hemangioma in a preterm twin girl. BMJ Case Rep. 2018 Dec 3; 11(1). PMID: 30567166

16. Murthy K, NFM Porta, EK Pallotto, N Rintoul, S Keene, L Chicoine, J Gien, BS Brozanski, YR Johnson, B Haberman, DiGeronimo R, I Zaniletti, TR Grover on behalf of the Children's Hospitals Neonatal Consortium (CHNC) Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Focus Group. Predicting Risk of Infection in Infants with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia. J Pediatr. Sept 2018.

17. Lagatta JM, Hysinger EB, Zaniletti I, Wymore EM, Vyas-Read S, Yallapragada S, Nelin LD, Truog WE, Padula MA, Porta NFM, Savani RC, Potoka KP, Kawut SM, DiGeronimo R, Natarajan G, Zhang H, Grover TR, Engle WA, Murthy K; Children's Hospital Neonatal Consortium Severe BPD Focus Group. The Impact of Pulmonary Hypertension in Preterm Infants with Severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia through 1 year. J Pediatr. 2018 Dec;203:218- 224.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2018.07.035. Epub 2018 Aug 29. PMID:30172426

18. 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; Children's Hospitals Neonatal Consortium (CHNC). Withdrawal of Life-support in Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy. Pediatr Neurol. 2019 Feb;91:20-26. doi: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2018.08.027. Epub 2018 Nov 23. PMID:30559002

19. 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. Mokdad A. Morbidity, mortality and long-term consequences associated with diarrhea from Cryptosporidium infection in children younger than 5 years. A meta-analysis study. Lancet Global Health 2018: July (Vol 6, Issue 7) PE 758-768

20. 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. Morbidity and mortality due

to Shigella and enterotoxigenic E. coli: The Global Burden of Disease Study 1990-2016, Lancet Global Health 2018 Sept 2018

21. Brandstetter S, Mansen K, DiMarchis A, Quyhn NN, Engmann CM, Israel-Ballard K. A Decision Tree for Donor Human Milk: An Example Tool to Protect, Promote, and Support Breastfeeding. Frontiers in Pediatrics 2018: 6; 324

22. Ittleman B, German K, Scott E, Walker V, Flaherman V, Szabo J, Beavers. Umbilical Cord

Nonseverance and Adverse Neonatal Outcomes. Clinical Pediatrics. Oct 2018.

23. Motz, P, Gray MM, Sawyer TL, Kett J, Danforth D, Maicher K, Umoren R. Virtual Antenatal Encounter and Standardized Simulation Assessment (VANESSA): Pilot Study. JMIR Serious Games, 2018;6(2):e8. PMID 29752249

24. Gray, MM, Umoren R, Harris S, Strandjord T, Sawyer T. Use and Perceived Safety of Stylets for Neonatal Endotracheal Intubation: A National Survey J Perinatol, 2018 Aug. PMID: 30093617

25. French H, Gray MM, Gilliam-Krakauer M, Bonachea EM, Carbajal M, Payne A, Vasquez M, Rubinos L, Falck A, Izatt S, Dadiz R. Flipping the classroom: a national pilot curriculum for physiology in neonatal-perinatal medicine. J Perinatol, 2018 Oct;38(10):1420-1427. PMID 30087455

26. Piacitelli AM, Jensen D, Brandling-Bennett H, Gray MM, Batra M, Gust J, Thaker A, Kapur R, Perkins J, Mirzaa GM, Bennett JT. “Characterization of a severe case of PIK3CA related overgrowth at autopsy by droplet digital PCR and report of PIK3CA sequencing in 22 patients.” Am J Med Genet A. 2018 Nov. PMID: 30063105.

27. Juul SE, Comstock BA, Heagerty PJ, et al. High-Dose Erythropoietin for Asphyxia and Encephalopathy (HEAL): A Randomized Controlled Trial - Background, Aims, and Study Protocol. Neonatology 2018;113:331-8.

28. Peeples ES, Ezeokeke CK, Juul SE, Mourad PD. Evaluating a Targeted Bedside Measure of Cerebral Perfusion in a Nonhuman Primate Model of Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy. J Ultrasound Med 2018..

29. Parikh P, Juul SE. Neuroprotective Strategies in Neonatal Brain Injury. J Pediatr 2018.

30. Keir AK, Karam O, Hodyl N, Stark MJ, Liley HG, Shah PS, Stanworth SJ, on behalf of the NeoBolus Study Group. (Mayock DE - Site Investigator). International, multicentre, observational study of fluid bolus therapy in neonates. Journal Paediatr Child Health. Epub ahead of print 10/16/18.

31. Thompson EJ, Perez K, Hornik CP, Smith PB, Clark RH, Laughon M. Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act- Pediatric Trials Network Steering Committee. Sildenafil Exposure in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. American Journal of Perinatology. 2018 Aug 6. [Epub ahead of print]

32. Perez, K, Patterson J, Hinshaw J, Escobar C, Parajon D, Parajon L, Bose C. Essential Care for Every Baby: improving compliance with newborn care practices in rural Nicaragua. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 2018 Sep 12;18(1):371.

33. Gray KD, Dudash K, Escobar C, Freel C, Harrison T, McMillan C, Puia-Dumitrescu M, Cotten CM, Benjamin R, Clark RH, Benjamin DK, Jr., Greenberg RG, Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act-Pediatric Trials Network Steering C. Prevalence and safety of diazoxide in the neonatal intensive care unit. J Perinatol. Nov 2018;38(11):1496-502.

34. Puia-Dumitrescu M, Bretzius OM, Brown N, Fitz-Henley JA, Ssengonzi R, Wechsler CS, Gray KD, Benjamin DK, Sr., Smith PB, Clark RH, Gonzalez D, Hornik CP. Evaluation of Gentamicin Exposure in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Hearing Function at Discharge. J Pediatr. Dec 2018

35. 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. Acad Pediatr. 2018 Aug.

36. Sawyer T, Lee H, Aziz K. Anticipation and preparation for every delivery room resuscitation. Semin Fetal Neonatal Med. 2018 Oct;23(5):312-320. PMID: 30369405.

37. Sawyer T, Anderson M. Healthcare Simulation research in simulation & gaming: past, present, and future. Simulation & Gaming. 2018 Oct. 49(5) 475–478. DOI: 10.1177/1046878118803686.

38. Sawyer T, Gray M, Hendrickson M, Jacobson E, Umoren R. A Real Human Umbilical Cord Simulator Model for Emergency Umbilical Venous Catheter Placement Training. Cureus. 2018 Nov. 10(11): e3544. PMID 30450269

39. Sawyer T, Gray M. Simulation-based Procedural Skill Training. Internal Medicine Review. 2018 Sept; 4(9): Epub.

40. Berthiaume, A.A., Hartmann, D.A. Majesky, M.W. Bhat, N.R. Shih, A.Y. Pericyte structural remodeling in cerebrovascular health and homeostasis. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 10:210. Review Article. PMID: 30065645. Jul 2018.

41. Umoren RA, Gray MM, Schooley N, Billimoria Z, Smith KM, Sawyer, T. Effect of Video-based Telemedicine on Transport Management of Simulated Newborns. Air Medical Journal, 2018 Sept;37, 5. PMID: 30322635

42. Jacquet GA, Umoren RA, Hayward AS, Myers JG, Modi P, Dunlop SJ, Sarfarty S, Hauswald M, Hudspeth J, Velji A, Weiner SG, Tupesis JP. The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Health: An Innovative, Interactive, Online, Open-Access Curriculum for Medical Learners Planning an International Rotation. Medical Education Online. 2018 Aug.

43. 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, Apr. 2018.

44. Boss RD, Falck A, Goloff N, Hutton N, Miles A, Shapiro M, Weiss EM, Donohue PK for the Pediatric Chronic Critical Illness Collaborative. Low Prevalence of Palliative Care and Ethics Consultations for Children with Chronic Critical Illness. Acta Paediatrica 2018; 107(10): 1832-1833.

45. Miller KE, Coleman RD, Eisenberg L, Henriksen J, Lantos JD, Weiss EM. Unilateral Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Therapy in a Severely Impaired Child. Pediatrics 2018; 142(5).

46. Mann P, Weiss EM, Seltzer R, Dodge R, Boss R, Lantos JD. Child abuse, Incarceration, and Decisions about Life-sustaining Treatment. Pediatrics 2018; 142(6).

47. Wallis KE, Weiss EM. Distinguishing Primary and Secondary Early Intervention Programs: Implications for Families, Clinicians, and Policymakers. Am J Bioeth 2018; 18(11): 65-67.

48. Cuevas Guamán M, Akinkuotu AC, Cruz SM, Griffiths PA, Welty SE, Lee TC, Olutoye OO. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in premature infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia. ASAIO J. Sept. 2018 64:e126-e129.PMID: 29189422

49. Snyder J, Wood T, 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, 2018 Nov;70:25-33. doi: 0.1016/j.ijdevneu.2018.05.006 108

50. Dhillon SK, Lear CA, Galinsky R, et al. The fetus at the tipping point: modifying the outcome of fetal asphyxia. J Physiol 2018.

51. Garalde DR, Snell EA, Jachimowicz D, et al. Highly parallel direct RNA sequencing on an array of nanopores. Nat Methods 2018;15:201-6.

52. Massaro AN, Wu YW, Bammler TK, et al. Plasma Biomarkers of Brain Injury in Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy. J Pediatr 2018;194:67-75 e1.

53. Shah AR, Wilfond BS, Silvia A, et al. Informed consent for a neonatal clinical trial: parental experiences and perspectives. J Perinatol 2018;38:865-72.

54. Starr MC, Askenazi DJ, Goldstein SL, et al. Impact of processing methods on urinary biomarkers analysis in neonates. Pediatr Nephrol 2018;33:181-6.

55. Wassink G, Davidson JO, Lear CA, et al. A working model for hypothermic neuroprotection. J Physiol 2018.

2019

1. Billimoria Z, Chabra A, Patel A, Gray M, Umoren R, Sawyer T. Apgar Score of 0 at 10 Minutes and Survival to One Year of Age: A Retrospective Cohort Study in Washington State. J Perinatol. 2019. In press

2. Chabra S, Sawyer T, Strand M. The meconium aspirator: still a useful tool during newborn resuscitation. Am J Perinatol. 2019 Jan. doi: 10.1055/s-0038-1677477. [Epub ahead of print].

3. Chabra S, Strandjord T, Peeples E. Prolonged Non-Invasive Ventilation in Extremely Low Birth Weight Preterm Infants is Associated with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia. Accepted J Neo Perinat Medicine, Jan. 2019

4. Al-Haddad BJS, Jacobsson B, Chabra S, Modzelewska D, Olson E, Bernier R, Enquobharie D, Östling S, Waldorf KMA, Sengpiel V. Long-Term Risk of Neuropsychiatric Disease After Exposure to Infection During Fetal Life. JAMA Psychiatry. 2019 Mar 6. PMID:30840048

5. Hongxiu Ji, Bridges M, Graham K, Lennart T, Chabra S. Acute Funisitis Correlates with the Risk for Early-onset Sepsis in Term Newborns Assessed Using the Kaiser Sepsis Calculator. Pediatric and Developmental Pathology. In Press 2019.

6. Bridges M, Mcrae M, Pesek E, Chabra S. Systematic Implementation of a Sepsis Calculator Decreased NICU Admissions and Increased Breastfeeding Rate in a Community Hospital. J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs. 2019 Apr 8. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 30974074

7. Yanowitz T, DiGeronimo R, Zaniletti I, Sullivan K, Sharma J, Piazza K, Reber K, and Murthy K; CHND Surgical NEC Focus Group. Does the Initial Surgery for Necrotizing Enterocolitis Matter? Comparative Outcomes for Laparotomy vs. Peritoneal Drain as Initial Surgery for Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Infants. J Pediatric Surg. 2019 Apr; 54(4):712-717. Epub 2019 Jan. PMID:30765157

8. Dizon M, Rao R, Hamrick SE, Zaniletti I, DiGeronimo R, Natarajan G, Kaiser J, Flibotte J, Lee KS, Smith D, Yanowitz T, Mathur A, and Massaro A. Practice variation in anti- epileptic drug use for neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy among regional NICUs. BMC Pediatric. 2019 Feb 27;19(1):67. doi: 10.1186/s12887-019-1441-7. PMID: 30813933

9. Pérez-Escamilla, Engmann C. Integrating nutrition services into health care systems platforms: Where are we and where do we go from here? Maternal & Child Nutrition. 2019 Jan Suppl e12743

10. German K, Deutsch GH, Freed AS, Dipple KM, Chabra S, Bennett JT. Identification of a deletion

containing TBX4 in a neonate with acinar dysplasia by rapid exome sequencing. American Journal

of Medical Genetics Part A. Accepted Jan. 31, 2019. DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.61096.

11. Enlow E, Gray MM, Wallace-Keeshen S, D'Agostino JA, Abbasi S, Lorch SA. Health literacy of parents of very preterm infants at NICU admission and discharge: a prospective cohort study. J Perinatol. 2019 Feb 15. PMID: 30770882.

12. Brady J, Kovatis K, O’dea CL, Gray MM, Ades A. A Qualitative Analysis: What do neonatal-perinatal fellows identify as critical for achieving competency in tracheal intubation? Neonatology. 2019 Mar 19;116(1):10-16. PMID: 30889585.

13. Kumar D, Vachharajani AJ, Wertheimer F, Vergales B, Glass K, Dannaway D, Winter L, Delaney H, Ganster A, Arnold J, Urban A, Johnston L, Bruno C, Gray MM, Sawyer T, for the Organization of Neonatal Training Program Directors Task Force on Simulation. Boot camps in neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship programs: a national survey. J Neonatal Perinatal Med. 2019 Feb 23. [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 30829620.

14. Oster NV, Williams EC, Unger JM, Newcomb PA, Jacobson EN, deHart PM, Englund JA, Hofstetter AM. Sociodemographic, clinical and birth hospitalization characteristics and infant Hepatitis B vaccination. Vaccine. Accepted Mar 2019.

15. Hofstetter AM, Jacobson EN, deHart MP, Englund JA. Early childhood vaccination status of preterm infants. Pediatrics. Accepted Mar 2019.

16. Oster NV, Williams EC, Unger JM, Newcomb PA, Jacobson EN, deHart PM, Englund JA, Hofstetter AM. Hepatitis B birth dose: first shot at timely early childhood vaccination. Amer J Prev Med. Accepted May 2019.

17. Eldredge L, Creasy R, Presnell S, Debley J, Juul SE, Mayock D, and Ziegler S. Infants with evolving bronchopulmonary dysplasia demonstrate monocyte-specific expression of IL-1 in tracheal aspirates. American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, In Press April 2019

18. Juul SE, Derman RJ, Auerbach M. Perinatal Iron Deficiency: Implications for Mothers and Infants. Neonatology 2019;115:269-74.

19. Massaro AN, Wu YW, Bammler TK, Juul, SE. Dried blood spot compared to plasma measurements of blood-based biomarkers of brain injury in neonatal encephalopathy. Pediatr Res 2019.

20. Massaro AN, Wu YW, Bammler TK, MacDonald JW, Mathur A, Chang T, Mayock D, Mulkey SB, van Meurs K, Afsharinejad Z, Juul S. Dried blood spots (DBS) are not a reliable biospecimen for blood-based biomarkers of brain injury in neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). In Press. Pediatric Research. Jan 2019.

21. Bartle RM, Miller AG, Diez AJ, Smith PB, Gentile MA, Puia-Dumitrescu M. Evaluating Endotracheal Tube Depth in Infants Weighing Less Than 1 Kilogram. Respir Care. Mar 2019

22. Puia-Dumitrescu M, Benjamin DK, Sr., Smith PB, Greenberg RG, Abuzaid N, Andrews W, Chellani K, Gupta A, Price D, Williams C, Malcolm WF, Clark RH, Zimmerman KO. Impact of Gastrostomy Tube Placement on Short-Term Weight Gain in Hospitalized Premature Infants. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. Mar 2019.

23. 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. Neonatal intubation practice and outcomes: An international registry study. Pediatrics. 2019 Jan;143(1). pii: e20180902. PMID: 30538147

24. Wong J, Manhas D, Campbell DM, Moussa A, Sawyer T. Procedural experience of Canadian

neonatal-perinatal medicine fellows. J Clin Neonatol. 2019 Jan;8:47-53.

25. 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. Acad Pediatr. 2019 Jan 23. pii: S1876-2859(19)30008-7. [Epub ahead of print].

26. Sawyer T, Rovera E J. Publication Activity and Impact of the International Pediatric Simulation

Society Cureus Channel: 2014 to 2018. Cureus. 2019;11(2): e4067. DOI 10.7759/cureus.4067.

27. Sawyer T, Foglia E, Ades A, Moussa A, Napolitano N, Glass K, Johnston L, Jung P, Singh N, Quek BH, Barry J, Zenge J, DeMeo SD, Kim J, Nadkarni V, Nishisaki A, for the National Emergency Airway Registry for Neonates (NEAR4NEOS) investigators. Incidence, impact, and indicators of difficult intubations in the NICU. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2019 Feb 22. [Epub ahead of print].

28. Sawyer T, Motz P, Shooley N, Umoren R. Positive pressure ventilation coaching during neonatal

bag-mask ventilation: A simulation-based pilot study. J Neonatal Perinatal Med. 2019 Mar 20. doi:

10.3233/NPM-1618119. [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 30909252

29. Sawyer T, Foglia E. Defining resuscitation quality in the newly born. Am J Peri. 2019. In press.

30. Ozawa Y, Ades A, Foglia E, DeMeo S, Barry J, Sawyer T, Singh N, Glass K, Jung P, Huey Quek B, Johnston L, Kim J, Napolitano N, Shults J, Nadkarni V, Nishisaki A, for the National Emergency Airway Registry for Neonates (NEAR4NEOS) Investigators. Premedication with paralysis during neonatal intubation is associated with fewer adverse events. J Perinatol. 2019. In press.

31. Weiss EM, Magnus BE, Coughlin K. Factors Associated with Decision-Making Preferences among Parents of Infants in Neonatal Intensive Care. Acta Paediatrica 2019; epub ahead of print.

32. Backes CH, Notestine JL, Lamp JM, Balough JC, Notestine AM, Alfred CM, Kern JM, Stenger MR, Rivera BK, Moallem M, Miller RR, Naik A, Cooper JN, Howard CR, Welty SE, Hillman NH, Zupancic JAF, Stanberry LI, Hansen TN, Smith CV. Evaluating the efficacy of Seattle-PAP for the respiratory support of premature neonates: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. Jan 2019 20:63. PMID: 30658678

33. Welty S. Challenging the gestational age for the limit of viability: proactive care. J Perinatol. Jan. 2019 39:1-3. PMID: 30478270

34. Wood T, Moralejo D, Corry K, Snyder JM, Traudt C, Curtis C, Nance E, Parikh P, Juul SE. A Ferret Model of Encephalopathy of Prematurity. Developmental Neuroscience, 2019:1-15.

35. Wood TR, Stubbs BJ, Juul SE. Exogenous Ketone Bodies as Promising Neuroprotective Agents for Developmental Brain Injury. Dev Neurosci 2019:1-12.

36. Eldredge LC, Creasy RS, Presnell S, et al. Infants with evolving bronchopulmonary dysplasia demonstrate monocyte-specific expression of IL-1 in tracheal aspirates. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2019.

CHAPTERS, TEXTBOOKS

2018

1. Haney B and DiGeronimo RJ. (2018). Chapter 19. Management of the Neonate on ECMO. In Brogran T (Ed.), ELSO ECLS Specialists Manual (4th). Ann Arbor, MI: Extracorporeal Life Support Organization

2. Gray MM. Digestion and Absorption. Organization of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Training Program Directors’ National Neonatal Flipped Classroom Program. American Academy of Pediatrics, 2018.

3. 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

4. Juul SE and Christensen RD. Developmental hematology. In Avery’s Diseases of the Newborn. 10th edition. Eds, Gleason and Juul 2018

2019

1. Sawyer T, Ali N. Resuscitation of the Newborn. In: Gomella T, ed. Neonatology: Management, Procedures, on-Call Problems, Diseases, and Drugs. 8th Ed. Stamford, Conn: Appleton & Lange; 2019: In press

2. Sawyer T, Gray M, Umoren R. Umbilical line placement. In: Soghier L, Robin B, eds. Neonatal Simulation Guidebook. Chicago, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics; 2019: In press.

3. Sawyer T, Gray M, Umoren R. Manikins and Task Trainers. In: Soghier L, Robin B, eds. Neonatal Simulation Guidebook. Chicago, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics; 2019: In press.

4. Ades A, Sawyer T, Halamek L. Improving Neonatal Care. In: Deutsch E, Perry S, Gurnanay, eds. Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Improving Healthcare Systems. New York, NY. Springer Publishing; 2019: In press.

5. Sawyer T, Gray M. Debriefing ECMO simulation: Special Considerations. In Johnston L and Su L, eds. ECMO Simulation - A Theoretical and Practical Guide. New York, NY. Springer Publishing; 2019: In press.

6. Umoren RA, Thomas P. Immersive Learning: Virtual and Augmented Reality. AAP Neonatal

Simulation Guidebook. Forthcoming in 2019.

7. Umoren RA, Rybas N. Who am I as a healthcare provider? Identity and Transformative Learning in Virtual Environments in Stricker A, Calongne C, Truman B, Arenas F (Eds). Integrating an Awareness of Selfhood and Society into Virtual Learning, 2nd edition. A volume in the Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design (AETID) Book Series. Hershey: IGI Global. Forthcoming in 2019.

8. Umoren RA, Truman B. Transdisciplinary Collaborative Development of Healthcare Virtual Simulations in Stricker A, Calongne C, Truman B, Arenas F (Eds). Integrating an Awareness of Selfhood and Society into Virtual Learning, 2nd edition. A volume in the Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design (AETID) Book Series. Hershey: IGI Global. Forthcoming in 2019.

9. Parikh P, Juul SE. Neuroprotection strategies in preterm encephalopathy. IN: Seminars in Pediatric Neurology. Forthcoming in 2019.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

2018

1. Debbie Atherly, Cyril Engmann. Into a hopeful era against infant respiratory infection. Jul. 2018. https://www.path.org/articles/hopeful-era-against-infant-respiratory-infection/

2. Parajon, L, Hinshaw J, Woo, G, Escobar, C, Visick, M, Perez, K, and Bose, C. Breastfeeding Equity in Remote Rural Areas of Nicaragua: Training frontline health workers to assure early initiation of breastfeeding and skin-to-skin contact. Breastfeeding Oral Session. APHA November 2018.

3. Hunt EA, Duval-Arnould J, Bembea MM, et al (Sawyer T). Association between Time to Defibrillation and Survival in Pediatric In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest with a First Documented Shockable Rhythm. JAMA Network Open. Sept. 2018. Listed as a group author contributing for the American Heart Association’s Get with the Guidelines-Resuscitation Investigators.

2019

1. Cyril Engmann, Jessica Fleming. From pregnancy to protection: advancing the intersection between antenatal care and immunization. Jan. 2019. https://www.mhtf.org/authors/cyril-engmann/

2. Chabra S. “Hepatitis B vaccine birth dose: 2020 Goals and Importance of birth dose”, Jan. 2019, American Academy of Pediatrics, Washington Chapter Newsletter

PRESENTATIONS BY INVITATION (JULY 2018 – JUNE 2019)

2018

1. Billimoria Z, Chapman R, Rintoul N, DiGeronimo R. Neuromonitoring in Neonatal Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Patients. ELSO Meeting. Phoenix, Arizona. Presenting Author: Billimoria. September 2018.

2. Do J, Lam T, Billimoria Z, Kelly K, DiBlasi R, Zimmerman J, Clarkmoore M, Motz P. Evaluating Intervention Risk via New X-Ray Protocol. Children’s Hospital Neonatal Consortium Conference. Columbus, Ohio. Presenting Author: Lam. Oct 2018.

3. Chabra S. Invited speaker, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Veterans Affairs Anesthesiology Service, Nashville, Tennessee. Presentation Title: “Physician Wellbeing and strategies to decrease Burnout.” Oct 2018

4. Kirk CJ, Yalon L, Riehle K, Brogan T, and DiGeronimo R. Clinical Management after Carotid Artery Repair – an Opportunity for Improvement? Extracorporeal Life Support Organization Annual Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ, Sept 2018

5. Engmann C. Co-featured speaker with the Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations at the World Health Assembly Scaling Up Nutrition hub. May 2018

6. Engmann C. Sugarcane is sweetest at its Joint: Inequities, innovations and opportunities in global health. Keynote Speaker: Johns Hopkins Program for International Education in Gynecology and Obstetrics. Baltimore, MD. Aug 2018.

7. Engmann C. Developing ethical guidance for appropriate and equitable access to, and use of, human milk for vulnerable children. University of Oxford Ethox Centre milk bank experts’ workshop. Oxford, UK. Oct 2018

8. Engmann C. Stakeholders meeting to operationalize the nurturing care for early childhood development in the health sector. Invited Speaker: WHO-UNICEF-PATH-Country stakeholders meeting. Narobi, Kenya Oct 2018.

9. Gray MM, French H, Dadiz R, Gibbs K, Payne A, Vasquez M, Izatt S, Johnston L, Bonachea E, Falck

A, Gillam-Krakauer M. Flipping the Classroom on Respiratory Physiology: the National

Neonatology Curriculum. Platform presentation, 2018 American Academy of Pediatrics Annual

Meeting, Orlando, FL.

10. Hedstrom A. Invited speaker, Nyonyintono J and Hedstrom A, "Partnerships in Reducing Preventable Death in Rural Uganda: Establishing a Center of Excellence for Neonatal Care”. Global Health Special Interest Group, Pediatric Academic Society Meeting. Baltimore. April 2019.

11. Jackson JC. Invited Lecture“Case reviews of neonatal transfers from Kadlac over previous year”, “PDA occlusion in cath lab” and “HIE treatments.” Richmond, WA Sept 2018.

12. Juul, S. Visiting Professor, Sophie Womack Lectureship at Wayne State University. May 24, 25, 2018

13. Juul. S. Grand Challenges Meeting, Berlin, Germany. Neuroprotective strategies for high-risk newborns. October 15-17, 2018

14. Juul, S. Visiting Professor, Bench to Bedside: Neonatal Neuroprotection and, “What’s new in Neonatal Hematology”. OHSU, Portland Oregon. November 13, 2018

15. Belden J, Albertson M, Escobar Z, Long C, Dafina Ibrani, Traudt C. Effect of an Early Onset Sepsis Protocol on Antibiotic Utilization in Newborns ≥ 34 weeks. Vermont Oxford Network Annual Quality Congress; Oct. 2018; Chicago, IL.

16. Mietzsch U. Invited Lecture: “Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy: What’s New and Cool” Neonatal Nursing Conference, Indiana University Health, IN Sept 2018

17. Neufeld M. Invited Lecture: “Case Reviews and Simulation” with Rachel Umoren, MD. Skagit Valley Hospital, Mount Vernon, WA. Sept 2018.

18. Sawyer T. Invited speaker: 2nd Annual Neonatal Resuscitation Symposium. Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK. Presentation title: “Neonatal Resuscitation Briefing and Debriefing.” Oct. 2018

19. Sawyer T. Invited speaker: American Academy of Pediatrics, Neonatal Resuscitation Program Current Issues Seminar. Orlando, FL. Presentation title: “NRP Live.” Nov. 2018

20. Sawyer T. I’m an NRP Instructor Mentor: What do I Need to Know? American Academy of Pediatrics, Neonatal Resuscitation Program, Current Issues Seminar, Orlando, FL Nov. 2018

21. Daniels C, Loperiato J, White ML, Calderone R, Sawyer T, Stravus L, Wolbrick T. Simulation for the Difficult Office Conversation: HPV Refusal and More. American Academy of Pediatrics, National Conference and Exhibits, Orlando, FL Nov. 2018

22. Shih A. Invited Speaker, World Congress for Microcirculation, Vancouver, Canada. Sept. 2018

23. Shih A. Invited Speaker, ISN&N, Non-neuronal mechanisms of VCID, Dresden, Germany. Oct. 2018

24. Shih A. Invited Speaker, Vollum Institute Seminar, Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon. Dec. 2018.

25. Shih A. Invited Speaker, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, Colloquium speaker, U. British Columbia. Dec. 2018.

26. Umoren R. Invited Speaker, Simulation and virtual reality applications in healthcare. National Hospital, Abuja, Nigeria. August 29, 2018.

27. Umoren R. Invited Speaker, Virtual reality simulations for healthcare: The potential for VR and Serious Gaming to address known gaps in the implementation cascade for maternal-newborn health interventions in low and middle income countries. eHBB Project Launch. Nairobi, Kenya. September 7, 2018.

28. Umoren R. Invited Speaker, eHBB Landscape Survey and Usability Testing Brief Report. eHBB Project Launch. Nairobi, Kenya. September 7, 2018.

29. Umoren R. Invited Speaker, eHBB + mHBS/DHIS2: Virtual reality technology to improve newborn healthcare delivery in low and middle-income countries study overview. eHBB Project Launch. Nairobi, Kenya. September 7, 2018.

30. Umoren R. Invited Speaker, Simulation-Based Training Modalities for Higher Education. Alupe University College. Busia, Kenya. September 11, 2018.

2019

1. Billimoria Z, Kelly K, DiGeronimo R et al. Quality Improvement Initiative to Increase Hearing Screening of Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Infants Before Discharge. Society for Pediatric Research Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD. EPAS2019

2. Billimoria Z, Handley S, Brogan T, DiGeronimo R, et al. Interprofessional ECMO TeleRounding: A Novel Approach to Neonatal ECMO Education. Society for Pediatric Research Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD. EPAS2019

3. Billimoria Z, Chabra S, Patel D, Gray MM, Umoren RA, Sawyer TL. Apgar score of 0 at 10 minutes and survival to one year of age: A retrospective cohort study of the Washington State Comprehensive Hospital Abstract Reporting System database. 2019 Pediatric Academic Societies Conference. Baltimore, MD, April 27-30, 2019. Presenter: Billimoria Z.

4. Chabra S. Invited speaker, Seattle Public Schools, Annual Health Services Professional Development, Seattle, Washington. Presentation Title: “Moderate and Late Preterm infants: Neurodevelopmental Outcomes and Economic Burden.” Jan 2019.

5. Chabra S. Invited speaker, Washington Chapter American Academy of Pediatrics Vaccine Committee Meeting, Seattle, Washington. “Birth Dose for Hepatitis B vaccine: 2020 Goals”

6. Freed AS, Candadai S, Sikes MC, Thies JM, Fogus K, Mefford HC, Lam C, Margaret P. Adam MP, Sun A, DiGeronimo R, Dipple K, Deutsch GH, Billimoria Z, Bennett J. The Impact of Rapid Exome Sequencing on Medical Management of Critically-Ill Children: The Seattle Children’s Experience. ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Annual Meeting, Seattle WA, April 2019

7. Vyas-Read, DiGeronimo R et al; For the Children’s Hospital Neonatal Consortium (CHNC) BPD workgroup. Short-Term Outcomes in the Newly Re-Defined BPD: Findings from The Children's Hospitals Neonatal Consortium. Society for Pediatric Research Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD. EPAS2019

8. Rao R, DiGeronimo R et al; For the Children’s Hospital Neonatal Consortium (CHNC) HIE workgroup. Antecedents of neurological injury in neonates with mild hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (mHIE). Society for Pediatric Research Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD. EPAS2019

9. Datta A, DiGeronimo R, Sullivan K et al; For the Children’s Hospital Neonatal Consortium (CHNC) Mortality work group. Inter-center Variation in Autopsy Practices Among Regional NICUs. Society for Pediatric Research Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD. EPAS2019

10. Motz P, Do J, Lam T, DiBlasi R, Fang T, Kelly K, DiGeronimo R, Billimoria Z. Decreasing Radiographs in Neonates through Targeted Quality Improvement Interventions. Society for Pediatric Research Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD. EPAS2019

11. Weems M, DiGeronimo R, Grover T et al; For the Children’s Hospital Neonatal Consortium (CHNC) CDH work group. Analgesia and Sedation Medication Use in Infants with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia is Associated with Adverse Outcome. Society for Pediatric Research Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD. EPAS2019

12. Ahmad I, DiGeronimo R, Yanowitz T et al; For the Children’s Hospital Neonatal Consortium (CHNC) NEC work group. Antibiotic Duration and Predictors of Time to Full Enteral Feedings after Surgical NEC. Society for Pediatric Research Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD. EPAS2019

13. Ahmad I, DiGeronimo R, Yanowitz T et al; For the Children’s Hospital Neonatal Consortium (CHNC) NEC work group.Longer time to full enteral feeds following longer courses of antibiotics for medical necrotizing enterocolitis. Society for Pediatric Research Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD. EPAS2019

14. Engmann C. Keynote Speaker – Royal Society, British Academy, Academy of Medical Science & Royal College of Engineering Joint Conference on Frontiers in Development; Cambridge, UK. Mar. 2019

15. Engmann C. Maternal Immunization today and tomorrow: a global landscape and spotlight on respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) disease prevention. Keynote Speaker: The Royal Society, British Academy, Academy of Medical Sciences and Royal College of Engineering Joint Frontiers in Development Conference. Cambridge, UK Mar. 2019.

16. German K. Invited Speaker, “Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of Formerly Preterm Infants”, LEND Program, Seattle, WA 2019

17. German K. Invited Speaker, “Neurodevelopmental Care”, Nursing Conference: A Journey Through the NICU: Advancing Neonatal Outcomes. 2019

18. Gray MM, Dadiz R, Johnston L, Izatt S, Vasquez M, Bonachea E, Carbajal M, Falck A, Chess P, French H. The National Neonatal Respiratory Physiology Flipped Classroom Experience. Platform presentation, 2019 Pediatric Academic Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland.

19. Gray MM, Umoren RA, Josephsen J, Chitkara R, Strand M, Ramachandran S, Weiner G, Zaichkin JG, Sawyer TL, Billimoria Z, Motz P, Sie L, Strandjord TP, Kan P, Stavroudis T, Ades A, Lee HC. Gaps in NRP Provider Performance on Standardized Simulations: A report from the NRP eSim™ Study. 2019 Pediatric Academic Societies Conference. Baltimore, MD, April 27-30, 2019.

20. Jackson CJ. Invited Lecture: Seattle Children’s Hospital Regional Pediatric Nursing Grand Rounds, Seattle, WA: “CONNECTing Through Interpreters.” Apr 2019.

21. Mayock DE. “Is Epo safe and effective for neuroprotection?” The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Neonatology Research Seminar. Jun 2019

22. Mietzsch U. Invited Workshop, 42nd Annual Conference AAP SONMP, District VIII, “Hypothermia during neonatal critical care transport,” Anchorage, AK Jun. 2019

23. Sawyer T. Invited speaker: The Western Society for Pediatric Research. Session type: Western Perinatal Club Briefing. Carmel, CA. Presentation title: “Little Airway, Big Problem: Improving Neonatal Intubation Safety.” Jan. 2019

24. Sawyer T. Invited speaker: University of Calgary, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology. Calgary, Alberta Canada. Session type: Neonatal Grand Rounds. Presentation title: “Little Airway, Big Problem: Improving Neonatal Intubation Safety.” Feb. 2019

25. Sawyer T. Invited speaker: American Academy of Pediatric Neonatal Resuscitation Program Road Show. Blank Children’s Hospital, Des Moines, IA. Session type: Plenary Session. Presentation title: “The Science behind NRP” Mar. 2019

26. Sawyer T. Invited speaker: American Academy of Pediatric Neonatal Resuscitation Program Road Show. Blank Children’s Hospital, Des Moines, IA. Session type: Plenary Session. Presentation title: “Simulation, Debriefing, and Debriefing the Debriefer” Mar. 2019

27. Sawyer T. Post-Event Debriefing in Neonatal Care. University of Calgary, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology. Calgary, Alberta Canada Feb. 2019

28. Sawyer T, Weiner G. Neonatal Airway Management. American Academy of Pediatric Neonatal Resuscitation Program Road Show. Blank Children’s Hospital, Des Moines, IA. Mar. 2019

29. Shih A. Invited Speaker, The 3rd VCID Translational Workshop, Carlsbad, California. 2019

30. Shih A. Invited Speaker, “Pericytes: New Kids on the Block”, “Chronic Disorders and Cerebrovasc. Regulation” International Stroke Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii. Feb. 2019.

31. Shih A. Invited Speaker, Blood-brain barrier consortium meeting, Portland, Oregon. Mar. 2019.

32. Shih A. Invited Speaker, Neurovascular Unit Symposium, Columbia University, NY, 2019.

33. Shih A. Invited Speaker, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Blood-brain barrier course, CSHL, Long Island, NY. Apr. 2019

34. Hippe D, Umoren RA, McGee A, Bucher S, Bresnahan B. A targeted systematic review of cost analyses for implementation of simulation-based healthcare training methodologies, 2019 Pediatric Association of Nigeria Conference, Ibadan, Nigeria. Jan 24-25, 2019.

35. Mairami AB, Paton C, Asangansi I, Otuneye A, Audu L, Edgcombe H, Mairami F, McGee A, Muinga N, Mukhtar-Yola M, Rossner J, Winters N, Umoren RA. eHBB: Preliminary Testing and Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Simulation on Neonatal Resuscitation. 2019 Paediatric Association of Nigeria Conference. Ibadan, Nigeria. Jan 24-25, 2019. Presenter: AB Mairami.

36. Umoren RA, Bauman EB, Dong C, Kachur E, Mathews, M, Stapleton G. Foundations of Game-based Simulation. 2019 International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare. San Antonio, TX. Jan 29, 2019. Presenter: M. Mathews.

37. Umoren RA, Bucher S, Mairami AB, Purkayastha S, Bresnahan B, Ezeaka C, Esamai F, Paton C. eHBB/mHBS powered by DHIS2: Mobile Virtual Reality Newborn Provider Training in Helping Babies Breathe. SimVentor Showcase. 2019 International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare. San Antonio, TX. Jan 27, 2019. Presenter: RA Umoren.

38. Stapleton G, Adams RA, Bauman EB, Farra SL, Belda TE, Dong C, Kachur E, Umoren RA. Serious Games for Learning: Development and Application Bootcamp. 2019 International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare. San Antonio, TX. Jan 27-29, 2019.

39. Umoren RA. Invited Speaker, Novel Approach to Saving Newborn Lives through Simulation and Virtual Reality for Healthcare Worker Training. 2019 Paediatric Association of Nigeria Conference. Ibadan, Nigeria. January 24, 2019.

40. Umoren RA. Invited Speaker, with A Hedstrom, P Parikh. Neonatology Faculty Mentorship Series: Development Oversight Committees. January 15, 2019.

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