Dr. Melissa Scala is a neonatologist and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University. Her research primarily focuses on understanding physiologic mechanisms and best care practices for inpatient infant developmental care in the neonatal intensive care unit. Particular areas of interest have included skin-to-skin care, infant language exposure and parental mental health. The use of…
I am a pediatric critical care physician at Children’s Nebraska and an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Physiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. My research focuses on changes to the microbiome in congenital heart disease. Recognizing that changes to the microbiome in critical illness influence outcomes, I…
Elizabeth (Betsy) Salazar, MD, MSHP, is an Assistant Professor of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Salazar’s research evaluates how the financing, structures, hospital operations, and processes of the perinatal health system impact the quality of care and outcomes for both low-acuity and high-acuity neonatal populations. She…
Dr. Jennifer Rumpel is a physician scientist and neonatologist committed to improving outcomes for infants through high quality hypothesis-driven research. She is actively involved in multidisciplinary research through the Children’s Hospitals Neonatal Consortium (CHNC). The projects that she has led through the CHNC have focused on neonatal acute kidney injury (AKI) and AKI-associated mortality through…
Dr. Julia Rosenberg is a general pediatrician and health services researcher committed to advancing health equity for children. She completed her training at Cornell University, Weill Cornell Medical College, Yale Pediatric Residency, and the Yale National Clinician Scholars Program, a postdoctoral research fellowship. She currently serves as Associate Director of the Yale Pediatric Refugee and…
Dr. Maria del Mar Romero Lopez is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and a member of the Institute for Clinical Research and Learning Health Care. She is a board-certified neonatologist, holding an MD from the University of Valencia (Spain), an MS in Child…
Seema Rani is an assistant professor of pediatrics at Thomas Jefferson University, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, practicing in the subspeciality of pediatric pulmonology and sleep medicine at Nemours Children’s Health, Delaware. Most of her childhood and early years were spent growing up in India in humble background. She completed her primary education and medical school…
Dr Aishworiya Ramkumar is a developmental behavioral pediatrician and clinician scientist based in Singapore with a primary research focus on autism spectrum disorder, specifically in predicting and modifying outcomes in children on the autism spectrum. Her secondary research interests lie in environmental influences such as screen time and sleep, on child development including social communication….
Dr. Vikram Raghu is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh and a pediatric gastroenterologist and transplant hepatologist at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on improving clinical decision-making for children with intestinal failure, intestine transplant, and liver transplant. He specializes in cost-effectiveness analysis and decision modeling, using these methods…
As a cardiac critical care and pulmonary hypertension physician, Dr. Radman is excited to help improve long-term outcomes for pediatric patients through research projects and collaborations. Her primary scholarly focus is ICU clinical outcomes research, including cardiac lesion-specific outcomes, nutrition/metabolism-related outcomes, and patient family outcomes following ICU discharge. Her work in industry and quality improvement…
Vilmaris Quiñones Cardona, MD, MPH, is a neonatologist and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine. Her academic and clinical interests center on quality improvement science, with a focus on optimizing outcomes for critically ill neonates in Level IV neonatal intensive care units. Dr. Quiñones Cardona’s research also encompasses hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and…