COURSE FACULTY

DIRECTOR

Dharmapuri Vidyasagar, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, UIC College of Medicine; Head, Division of Neonatology, University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago (Chicago, IL)

SPEAKERS

Farahnak Assadi, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Rush University Medical College; Director, Section of Nephrology, Rush Children's Hospital (Chicago, IL)

Nagamani R. Beligere, MD, MPH , Medical Director, Developmental
Follow-up Program, Perinatal Medicine, University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago (Chicago, IL)

Rama Bhat, MD , Professor of Pediatrics, UIC College of Medicine (Chicago, IL)

Vinod Bhutani, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, PA)

Barbara K. Burton, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (Chicago, IL)

Neil N. Finer, MD, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Pediatrics; Director, Division of Neonatology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego (San Diego, CA)

Kanika Ghai, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (North Chicago, IL); Director of Pediatric Endocrinology, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital (Park Ridge, IL); Voluntary Attending, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County (Chicago, IL)

Frank R. Greer, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Nutritional Sciences, University of Wisconsin Medical School (Madison, WI)

Lucky M. Jain, MD, MBA Professor of Pediatrics and Physiology; Director, Fellowship Program; Investigator, Center for Cell and Molecular Signaling, Emory University (Atlanta, GA)

Helen S. Johnstone, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Emerita, UIC College of Medicine (Chicago, IL)

Andrea D. Kemp, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine; Associate Residency Director, Obstetrics and Gynecology, UIC College of Medicine (Chicago, IL)

Edward E. Lawson, MD, Professor of Pediatrics; Vice Chair of Pediatrics for Children’s Center Operations; Chief, Division of Neonatology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions (Baltimore, MD)

Andrew M. Morgan, MD, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, UIC College of Medicine at Peoria; Chief, Section of Child Development, and Director, Regional Developmental Follow-up Project, Children’s Hospital of Illinois (Peoria, IL)

Gilberto R. Pereira, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)

Jeffrey M. Perlman, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College; Chief, Division of Newborn Medicine; Attending Pediatrician, Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian/ Weill Cornell (New York, NY)

Suma P. Pyati, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (North Chicago, IL); Chairman, Division of Neonatology, and Program Director, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County (Chicago, IL)

Jayant Radhakrishnan, MD, Professor of Surgery and Urology, Emeritus, UIC College of Medicine; Associate Director of Pediatric Surgery Education, Children’s Memorial Hospital (Chicago, IL)

Michael D. Reed, PharmD, Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University; Director, Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, (Cleveland, OH)

Charles R. Rosenfeld, MD, George L. MacGregor Professor of Pediatrics; Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Director, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (Dallas, TX)

Michael D. Schreiber, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, and Vice-Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago; Director, Neonatology Fellowship Training Program, University of Chicago Children's Hospital (Chicago, IL)

Michael J. Shapiro, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, UIC College of Medicine (Chicago, IL)

Rebecca A. Simmons, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)

Robin H. Steinhorn, MD, Raymond and Hazel Speck Berry Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; Head, Division of Neonatology, and Associate Chair of Pediatrics, Children's Memorial Hospital (Chicago, IL)

Bradley T. Thach, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Newborn Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis, MO)

Aruna Vade, MD, Professor of Radiology and Pediatrics, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine (Maywood, IL)

J. Deane Waldman, MD, MBA, Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology) and Pathology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center; Professor of Healthcare Strategy,
RO Anderson Graduate Schools of Management, University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM)

Gary M. Weiner, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital (Ann Arbor, MI)

Jeffrey A. Whitsett, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine; Chief, Section of Neonatology, Perinatal and Pulmonary Biology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, OH)

Isabelle A. Wilkins, MD, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UIC College of Medicine; Director, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago (Chicago, IL)