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In Alphabetical Order
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 Ronald
Clyman, M.D.
Univ of California, San Francisco
San
Francisco, CA
Ronald I. Clyman, M.D. is Professor of Pediatrics,
Associate Director of the Pediatric
Clinical Research
Center, and a member of the
Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University
of California, San Francisco
School of Medicine. Dr. Clyman earned his BA in biophysics at Amherst
College in Amherst,
Massachusetts, and his MD at Columbia
University School of Medicine in New York City. After graduating, he completed his
residency in pediatrics at the University
of California, San
Francisco. His fellowship in cyclic nucleotides and
fetal hemodynamics were conducted at the National
Institutes of Health National Heart and Lung Institute Laboratory of Cellular
Metabolism and the University of California
Cardiovascular Research Institute. Dr. Clyman’s research interests and professional expertise
are devoted to the treatment of extremely premature infants. Internationally
renowned for his basic and clinical studies of the ductus
arteriosus, he is the author of more than 167
original and review articles. His research has helped define the role of
oxygen and prostaglandins in the patent ductus patency and he is studying mechanisms that cause
irreversible ductal closure. Dr. Clyman is the recipient of 21 honors
and awards.
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Glenda Edwards
Robertson, RN, MA
Neonatology Outreach
Program Department of Pediatrics/Neonatology
Albuquerque,
NM
Glenda Edwards Robertson has a background in neonatal
nursing at the University of New Mexico Hospital’s Level III NBICU. In 2002,
she became the Neonatal Education Consultant for the University of New Mexico
Department of Pediatrics’ Neonatology Outreach Program. In this role she
plans, assesses, designs, develops, implements, and evaluates continuing
education opportunities for New Mexico’s
neonatal healthcare providers. Glenda is a Regional Trainer for the Neonatal
Resuscitation Program and has been asked to participate in NRP Steering
Committee Meetings. She also received an invitation to sit on the American
Academy of Pediatrics Continuing
Education Program (PCEP) Advisory Committee.
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Dawn Ehrhard-Wingard,
OTR/L, DOM
UNM Children's Hospital
Peds/Neonatology
Albuquerque,
NM
Dawn Ehrhard-Wingard, OTR/L,
DOM, occupational therapist and doctor of oriental medicine, has been teaching
touch and massage with families since1981. Since 1989 Dawn has worked as a
neonatal developmental specialist in the NICU, special care and well baby
nurseries at the UNM Children's Hospital. Dawn's extensive experience
includes working with families of babies born preterm and with prenatal drug
exposure. As an infant massage instructor Dawn has been on the faculty of the
Touching Lives Courses of the International Institute of Infant Massage, the
Somatic Therapy Institute and has lectured internationally.
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Erika Fernandez, M.D.
Pediatrics/Neonatology
Albuquerque,
NM
Dr. Fernandez is an assistant professor of Pediatrics in
the Division of Neonatology. She majored in electrical engineering and worked
in research in the Anatomy Department, University of Mexico School of
Medicine in her undergraduate years. She then received an MD degree from the
University of New Mexico School of Medicine and completed a pediatric
residency after which she practiced general pediatrics for 3 years at a local
New Mexico community healthcare
center. She returned to the University
of New Mexico for subspecialty
training in neonatal-perinatal medicine where she continues to work now as
faculty. Her research interest is in adrenal function in the newborn.
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Nancie Furgang,
UNM Children's Hospital
Peds/Neonatology
Albuquerque,
NM
Nancie Furgang
completed her graduate work in Occupational Therapy at the University of
Southern California in 1978 and has worked in the area of pediatrics ever
since. In 1990 she joined the staff at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital
where she entered the world of the NICU and developed clinical interests in
Developmentally Supportive Care and Neonatal Feeding and Swallowing
Disorders. Currently, Nancie is the director of the
Developmental Care Program at the University
of New Mexico.
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 David Ingram, Jr., M.D.
Indiana University Cancer Center
Department of Pediatrics R4
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Indianapolis,
IN
Dr. Ingram received his BA in Religious Studies from Brown
University, his MA in
Theology/Ethics and is MD from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Dr.
Ingram completed his pediatric residency at the University
of California at San
Francisco and a fellowship in neonatal-perinatal
medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Ingram is currently an
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Indiana
University School of Medicine. Dr. Ingram is an investigator in the Herman B.
Wells Center for Pediatric Research and a consulting and attending physician
at several local hospitals. Dr. Ingram has published over 40 articles and
book chapters. He has served in a variety of roles for numerous scientific
meetings and has participated in National Institutes of Health Study Section.
Dr. Ingram’s research topics include Neurofibromatosis Type 1, but most
recently the discovery of the organization of the vascular endothelium into
hierarchy of endothelial stem and progenitor cells in collaboration with Dr.
Mervin Yoder.
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 Dr. Stephen Jolley
Pediatric Surgeon of Alaska
Anchorage, AK
Stephen Jolley, M.D., is a
practicing pediatric surgeon for the Pediatric Surgeons of Alaska in Anchorage.
He has been in the practice of General Surgery for two years and Pediatric
Surgery for 21 years. Dr. Jolley is certified in
Pediatric Surgery by the American Board of Surgery and has an appointment
with the University of Washington School of Medicine as a Clinical Associate
Professor of Surgery. He also serves as an editorial consultant for the Journal of Pediatric Surgery. His
research interests include gastroesophageal reflux
disease and esophageal PH monitoring in infants and children. Dr. Jolley received his M.D. degree from Washington
University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
He completed his intern ship in surgery and residency in general surgery at
the University of Utah Affiliated Hospitals. His residency in pediatric
surgery was completed at the Children’s Hospital
of Oklahoma.
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John Kinsella,
M.D.
Highlands Ranch, CO
Dr. Kinsella is Professor of
Pediatrics in the section of neonatology at the Children’s Hospital
University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is the Director of Newborn ECMO
Service as well as Director of the Medical Advisory Group for the Flight for
Life-Newborn/Young Child Emergency Medical Transport team. His research focus
is on the prevention and treatment of bronchopulmonary
dysplasia and persistent pulmonary hypertension of
the newborn.
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Lucille McLoughlin,
M.D.
UNM Children's Hospital
Peds/Gastroenterology
Albuquerque,
NM
Dr. Lucille McLoughlin is a
board certified Pediatric Gastroenterologist at the Children’s Hospital of
New Mexico.
Dr. McLoughlin has been on the faculty of the University
of New Mexico for the past three
years; developing a pediatric liver clinic and small bowel/short gut clinic.
She manages a home TPN service for
children with short gut and cares for recipients of liver and small bowel
transplantation. Dr. McLoughlin has developed
protocols for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B and C as well as fatty
liver disease; as well as managing a medical service for a liver transplant
program.
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Rebecca Moran, M.D.
UNM Children's Hospital
Peds/Neonatology
Albuquerque,
NM
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 Robin
Ohls, M.D.
UNM Children's Hospital
Peds/Neonatology
Albuquerque,
NM
Dr. Robin Ohls
joined the faculty in August, 1995. Her primary research interest is in the
field of neonatal hematopoiesis. Currently she is
conducting clinical studies to assess the efficacy of erythropoietin therapy
in decreasing the need for red blood cell transfusions in term and preterm
infants with congenital heart disease, and in neonates who require surgery,
and will soon begin a multicenter study of
anti-staphylococcal hyperimmune globulin in preterm
intants. She performs clonogenic
assays of fetal and neonatal stem cells in the laboratory, comparing fetal
and neonatal erythroid progenitor cell response to
a novel erythropoiesis stimulating protein, and
continues to investigate the pathophysiology of the
anemia of prematurity using human fetal li ver and kidney cultures. In
addition, she collaborates with basic scientists in evaluating the pathophysiology of abnormal vasculogenesis
seen in retinopathy of prematurity by measuring
concentrations of matrix metalloproteinases in the
developing human vitreous, and measuring mRNA concentrations in developing
tissues using PRISM PCR.
Dr. Ohls was the recipient of an
NIH Physician Scientist Award to study the regulation of erythropoiesis
in the fetus and newborn infant. Dr. Ohls also
mentors residents and fellows in their research projects and is very active
in teaching medical students, residents, and fellows for the School
of Medicine. In 1999-2000
academic year, she received a Faculty Teaching Award
from UNM School of Medicine. Dr. Ohls is a
well-known speaker nationwide in the field of neonatal hematology and has
been an invited guest speaker at both national and international conferences.
Dr. Ohls is the Director of the Perinatal-Neonatal
Fellowship Program at the University
of New Mexico.
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Lu-Ann Papile,
M.D.
Pediatrics-Newborn
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston,
TX
LuAnn is a noted neonatologist
who was awarded Best Doctor in America
in 1992 and 1994 and was an invited Congressional Fellow in Washington,
DC, in 1992. She is a professor for the
Department of Pediatrics as well as the Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. She serves as
the Director of the Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship Program and is the Medical
Director for the Developmental Care Program. LuAnn is regarded as an
outstanding researcher in the field of neonatology. She is currently the
Principle Investigator in over a dozen research studies and is most known for
her longitudinal studies on the role of intracranial and intraventricular
hemorrhage in preterm infants. In addition to her duties at the University of
New Mexico School of Medicine, Dr. Papile is an
international guest lecturer and keynote speaker who has presented lectures
on such subjects as hypoxic/ischemic encephalopathy, perinatal brain injury,
developmental interventions in neonatal care, periventricular
and intraventricular hemorrhage, posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus, neonatal seizures, and neurodevelopmental outcome.
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Richard Polin,
M.D.
Columbia University Medical Center
New York-Presbyterian
Healthcare Medical Centers
New
York, NY
Richard A. Polin, M.D. is a
professor of pediatrics at Columbia
University, College
of Physicians and Surgeons in the
City of Newe York
and has bee director of the Division of Neonatology at Morgan Stanley
Children’s Hopital of New York-Presbyterian since
1988. After earning BA and MD degrees from Temple
University, D.r
Polin completed a pediatric internship and
residency at Children’s Memorial Hospital
in Chicago, and a pediatric
residency and neonatology fellowship at Children’s Hospital
of NY. He was Pediatric Chief Resident there from
1974-75 and Rustin McIntosh Fellow in Pediatrics from 1975-1977. Dr. Polin was
recently named the National Neonatal Education Award Recipient by the American
Academy of Pediatrics Section on
Perinatal and Physician of the Year Award both from the New York-Presbyterian
Hospital Columbia University Medical Center and the Morgan Stanley Children’s
Hospital of New
York-Presbyterian. Dr. Polin
has published over 100 original papers, more than 60 editorial reviews and
chapters, 20 books (including Fetal and
Neonatal Physiology, Workbook in Practical Neonatology, pediatric Secrets,
Fetal and Neonatal Secrets, Current Pediatric Therapy, Pocket Neonatology) and
more than 150 abstracts. He is editor
of the American Academy
of Pediatrics’ publication, “Grand
Rounds”.
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 Saroj Saigal, M.D,
FRCP©
McMaster University
Peds/Neonatology
Hamilton,
Ontario
Dr. Saigal is Professor,
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, McMaster
University, Hamilton, Canada.
Director, Growth & Development Clinic, Hamilton Health Sciences
Corporation, Hamilton, Ontario.
She has served as the External Consultant: NIH/ NICHD Workshop on Defining
the Content of Follow-up for High Risk Children,; Co-Moderator/Abstract
Reviewer: Neonatal Epidemiology and Follow-up Symposium, Pediatric Academic
Societies Annual Meeting; External Reviewer for Biobehavioral
and Behavioral Processes-6 Study Section for the National Institutes of
Health (NIH). Her honors are many and include, March
of Dimes Lectureship, Albuquerque, New
Mexico; William A.Silverman,
Visiting Professor, University of Texas,
Houston; Distinguished Neonatologist Award, Canadian Paediatric
Society 2005; Invited Committee Member, Institute
of Medicine, Committee on
Understanding Premature Birth and Assessing Healthy Outcomes. Her lifetime
work has been in the area of longitudinal follow-up of very low birth weight
infants.
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 Istvan Seri, MD, PhD
USC Division of Neonatal Medicine Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and Women's and Children's Hospital LAC+USC Medical Center Keck School of Medicine University of Southern California
Los
Angeles, CA
Istvan Seri, M.D., Ph.D., is head of the USC Division of
Neonatal Medicine at its locations at Childrens
Hospital Los Angeles, Women’s & Children’s Hospital at Los Angeles County/USC
Medical Center, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center and Good Samaritan
Medical Center. Since his arrival at
CHLA and USC, Dr. Seri has overseen the expansion of the USC Division of Neonatalogy and the creation of the Institute of
Maternal-Fetal Health. In 2006, Dr.
Seri became the Director of the newly formed “Center of Fetal and Neonatal
Medicine” at CHLA/USC incorporating the Division of Neonatology with its
academic neonatal network and the IMFH into one multidisciplinary center.
Dr. Seri’s basic and clinical research
activities have focused on the developmental regulation of cardiovascular and
renal function, the pathophysiology and treatment
of neonatal shock and more recently, the use of functional echocardiography
and other bedside hemodynamic monitoring techniques
in neonatal medicine. He has received
several awards to support his research activities including the Charles A. Janeway award from Harvard Medical School and awards from the NIH and other funding
agencies. Dr. Seri has published over
80 peer-reviewed scientific publications and book chapters, and he is the
co-editor of the Neonatal Hemodynamics Cardiovascular Series by Elsevier, which
will be published in 2006. He has also been a member or chair of several
scientific organizing committees in the US and abroad.
He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the Society of
Pediatric Research and the Pediatric Academic Society.
Dr. Seri received a medical degree from Semmelweis University School of Medicine (SUSM), Budapest,
Hungary in 1976, and he
completed a residency in pediatrics at SUSM, from October 1976 through June
1979. He was a Semmelweis Awardee
(1986). Dr. Seri was a research fellow
in developmental physiology at St. Göran's
Children's Hospital, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm,
Sweden, from October
1984 to September 1985. He was awarded a Ph.D. in developmental clinical
physiology from the Hungarian Academy
of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary,
in 1985. Dr. Seri was a research fellow in medicine and nephrology at Brigham
& Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, from October
1986 through June 1988; a research fellow in the Joint Program in Neonatology
at Beth Israel Hospital, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Boston Children’s
Hospital, Boston, Mass., from July 1988 through June 1989; and a clinical
fellow in the Joint Program in Neonatology, from July 1989 through June 1991.
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Sirkka-Liisa Spencer,
NNP
Edgewood,
NM
Sirkka Spencer graduated as a
Neonatal Nurse Practitioner from the University
of Arizona in 1980. She has
extensive experience as a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner and has worked in level
III NICU’s in Las Vegas,
Nevada and most recently, the University
of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
She was active with the Nevada Nurses Association (NNA) and was elected as
chair of the NNA Special Interest Group three times. During that time she worked
to advance the professional standing of NNP’s in
regard to licensing, prescriptive authority and education. She has been an
active member of the AAP District VIII Perinatal/Neonatal Section since the
early 1980’s. Mrs. Spencer has been a past presenter at several District VIII
meetings and is now actively involved in strengthening the Advanced Practice representation
of the AAP Perinatal/Neonatal Council.
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Robyn Wales,
M.D.
Phoenix, AZ
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 Kristi Watterberg, M.D.
UNM Children's Hospital
Peds/Neonatology
Albuquerque,
NM
Dr. Kristi Watterberg is a
Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Neonatology. Her primary
research interests are adrenal function in the fetus and newborn infant and the
pathogenesis and prevention of bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Pursuing this interest, Dr. Watterberg has conducted both observational and
interventional studies exploring the relationships between prenatal and
postnatal inflammation, adrenal function and the development of BPD. In 2001,
she received funding from NICHD for a multicenter
trial entitled, "Prophylaxis of early adrenal insufficiency to prevent
BPD". The short-term results of this study were published in Pediatrics
(114:1649, 2004), and showed that for infants exposed to prenatal
inflammation (chorioamnionitis), early treatment
with low-dose hydrocortisone increased survival and decreased BPD. The
two-year follow up of these infants will be completed in 2005. As Chief of
the Division, Dr. Watterberg looks forward to
continuing the mission of the Division to improve the health of newborn
infants throughout the State of New Mexico
through clinical services including newborn transport and outreach education
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