New Members

  • Raymen Assaf, MD, MPH, MA

    Dr. Rammy Assaf is a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Rady Children’s Health, Children’s Hospital Orange County. His interdisciplinary research is advocacy-driven and under the umbrella of social drivers of health (SDOH). These include social needs assessment and intervention; climate change and adolescent mental health; and transition of care of medically complex adult-aged patients in…

  • Dimitrios Angelis, MD

    Dimitrios Angelis, MD, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at UT Southwestern. He completed his fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, where he conducted translational research on hypoxia-ischemia and neonatal neuroprotection. His current work focuses on neonatal brain injury mechanisms, neuroprotective care practices, zinc and…

  • Danielle Alfano, MD

    Dr. Alfano is an attending neonatologist at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and an instructor in Pediatrics at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. As a physician scientist she investigates mechanisms of pathogen-specific molecular determinants of sepsis and endothelial dysfunction. The goal of her research is to determine the factors that confer increased risk…