Dr. Patrick J McNamara graduated from Queen’s University Belfast in 1987, received his MRCPCH in Paediatrics in 1997 and Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training in Neonatal Medicine in 2002. He is currently a Staff Neonatologist and Director of the Division of Neonatology at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital, and Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, University of Iowa. He is the current chair of the Pan-American Hemodynamic Collaborative and Paediatric Academic Society Neonatal Hemodynamics Advisory. His clinical and research interests include myocardial performance in the settings of a hemodynamically significant ductus arteriosus, pulmonary hypertension and targeted neonatal echocardiography.

Dr. Regan Giesinger passed away in May 2023. She was an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatology at the University of Iowa where she was the Director of the Neonatal Hemodynamics Clinical and Training programs. She was also Secretary of the Pan-American Hemodynamics Collaborative and member of the US Hemodynamics Collaborative. Her areas of academic focus are the hemodynamics of critically ill neonates, particularly among neonates with perinatal hypoxic ischemic insult. Read about Dr. Regan Giesinger’s Legacy

Danielle R. Rios is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatology at the University of Iowa. She graduated from medical school at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in 2006. She completed residency in pediatrics and her neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital in 2009 and 2012. She completed the Clinical Scientist Training Program and received a MSc in Clinical Investigation from Baylor College of Medicine in 2014. She trained in Targeted neonatal Echocardiography at the University of Toronto. Her areas of academic focus are the hemodynamics of critically ill neonates,and predictive analytics to improve outcomes of extremely low birth weight infants.

Melissa Bates, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Health and Human Physiology and Neonatology at the University of Iowa.  Dr. Bates completed her PhD in Physiology at The Pennsylvania State University and a postdoctoral fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and Respiratory Neurobiology in the John Rankin Laboratory of Pulmonary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin. Her clinical research interests include understanding 1) how chronic intermittent hypoxia and supplemental oxygen impact long-term cardiorespiratory function in survivors of prematurity and 2) how prematurity impacts later life clinical outcomes, including cancer survivorship.

Sarah Haskell, DO is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Iowa. She completed her pediatric residency and critical care fellowship at the University of Iowa. Her research focuses on understanding the pathogenesis of acquired heart defects. She has used basic science and translational studies to investigate how the intrauterine environment influences offspring cardiac development.

Adrianne Bischoff Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa. She did her Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine training at the University of Toronto and completed her Neonatal Hemodynamics training at the University of Iowa. Her current academic work focuses on pulmonary hypertension in newborns.

Dr.Amy Stanford is a Clinical Assistant Professor at University of Iowa. She completed her neonatology fellowship in June 2020 and Neonatal Hemodynamics training in June 2021, both at Iowa. Her research interests include using targeted neonatal echocardiography to study perfusion of the immature intestinal tract in the setting of various PDA shunts.

Mendi is a Clinical Research Nurse Coordinator in Neonatology at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. Mendi received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Iowa, and her Master of Nursing Education from Benedictine University. Mendi had 13 years of Staff Nurse experience in several level III NICUs across the country prior to returning to Iowa in 2017 to pursue her career in Neonatal Research.​

Dr. Philip Levy is an Assistant Professor of Paediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a staff neonatologist at Boston Children’s Hospital. His patient-oriented and translational research initiatives focus on cardiac mechanics in congenital and acquired cardiopulmonary diseases in the neonatal and pediatric population. His professional activities span the realm of clinical service, research and teaching, all devoted to discovering, implementing and teaching evidence-based clinical care of seriously ill newborns. Dr. Levy’s work is part of a larger international collaborative that was established to examine emerging measures of cardiac function and pulmonary hemodynamics in large preterm birth cohorts to define physiological and pathological patterns of postnatal cardiac adaptation. Philip and his collaborators have introduced novel approaches for non-invasive quantitative cardiac focused imaging that yield sensitive and specific methods of assessment and management of neonatal and paediatric cardiopulmonary diseases. The major objective of his research is to extend the capacity for ultrasound as a tool to enhance the understanding of newborn cardio-pulmonary disease and explore its contribution in quantitative cardiac phenotyping.

Dr. Anup Katheria is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, and the Director of the Neonatal Research Institute and the NICU follow-up clinic at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns. Dr. Katheria earned his Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of California, Los Angeles, his MD from Drexel University College of Medicine, completed his pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital of Orange County, and his Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship at the University of California, San Diego.

Dr. Jenny Koo completed her Neonatal Perinatal Medicine fellowship at UC San Diego and Rady Children’s Hospital.  She is currently appointed staff neonatologist at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Infants. She continues her work through the Sharp Neonatal Research Institute with an interest and focus in hemodynamics as well as in point of care ultrasonography.

Dr. Amir Ashrafi is a neonatal-cardiac intensivist at CHOC Children’s Hospital with an interest in caring for newborns with hemodynamic instability and/or congenital heart disease.  He is the director of the Neonatal-Cardiac ICU and the clinical director of the neonatal ECMO program.  Dr. Ashrafi received his NICU training at UCLA Medical Center and his pediatric CVICU training at Boston Children’s Hospital.  He is the co-founder of the international medical conference “NeoHeart: Cardiovascular Management of the Neonate”, the co-founder and initial president of the Neonatal Heart Society, and serves on the board of the California Association of Neonatologists.

Dr. Anjan Batra completed his cardiology fellowship and 4th year electrophysiology fellowship at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. He is the vice chair of the UC Irvine School of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Batra’s research and scientific findings are reflected in more than 60 publications in prestigious national journals and text books. He is an internationally recognized lecturer who is known for his work on the prevention of sudden cardiac arrest.

Dr. John Cleary completed his Neonatology fellowship at UC San Diego. He is the co-founder of the international medical meeting “NeoHeart: Cardiovascular Management of the Neonate” and a board member of the Neonatal Heart Society. He is also the former president of the California Assoc. of Neonatologists.

Dr. Wyman Lai completed his cardiology fellowship at UCLA Medical Center. He is the assistant division chief of cardiology, co-director of the cardiac institute, and director of the echocardiography lab at CHOC Children’s Hospital.  He has served as the Chair of the Pediatric and Congenital Council Board of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and currently sits on the National Board of Echocardiography Board of Directors.

Dr. Leeann Pavlek is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and a neonatologist at Nationwide Children's Hospital, where she is an investigator in the Abigail Wexner Research Institute Center for Perinatal Research. She completed medical school at Northeast Ohio Medical University, pediatric residency at University of Michigan, and neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship at Nationwide Children's Hospital. She has a Master's degree in Medical Sciences from The Ohio State University. Her areas of clinical and research interest include cardiac development and neonatal cardiopulmonary physiology, particularly in extremely preterm infants.

Dr. J. Lauren Ruoss is an Assistant Professor of the Division of Neonatology and Department of Pediatrics at the University of Florida. She has a clinical and research focus on neonatal hemodynamics and point-of-care ultrasound. Dr. Ruoss is the co-founder and leader of the neonatal point-of-care ultrasound program at the University of Florida. Dr. Ruoss is a member of the neonatal international hemodynamics collaborative and through her research aims to evaluate the use of emerging non-invasive technologies, including point-of care ultrasound and echocardiography, for the rapid assessment and management of neonatal hemodynamic disturbances.

Dr. Marjorie Makoni is an Assistant Professor in Neonatology at The Children’s Hospital at Oklahoma University Health Science Center (OUHSC). She completed her medical School at St. George’s University School of Medicine, Grenada, her pediatric residency training at the University of Toledo, Ohio and NPM fellowship at OU Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK. She is the director of the TnEcho Hemodynamics program in the NICU at Children’s Hospital at OUHSC. Dr.Makoni’s clinical and Research Interests include chronic pulmonary hypertension, racial disparities in premature babies, genomics and metabolomics of cardiovascular development in premature infants.

Dr. Shazia Bhombal is a neonatologist and neonatal cardiologist at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.  She currently serves as Medical Director of the NICU Heart Team at Stanford, Co-Director of the CRIB Program (Cardiac and Respiratory care for the Infant with BPD) and Director of the NICU Ultrasound Program. She completed fellowships in Neonatal Perinatal Medicine at LAC + University of Southern California and in Cardiology at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Her research interest lies in bronchopulmonary dysplasia and development of pulmonary hypertension as well as education and training for targeted neonatal echocardiography and point of care ultrasound in the NICU.

Dr. Valerie Chock is the Associate Director for the Neonatal Prenatal Consultations Services (LPCH) and Associate Program Director for Research, Neonatology Fellowship Program. Her research includes investigation of altered hemodynamics and regional tissue oxygenation for infants at high risk for central nervous system injury and neurodevelopmental impairment. She has expertise developing both clinical and research applications for neonatal NIRS monitoring including assessment of neonates with a patent ductus arteriosus, preterm anemic infants, infants with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, and infants with congenital heart disease in the peri-operative period.

Dr. Van Meurs is the Director of the Neonatal ECMO Program and Director of the NeuroNICU. Her research interests include hypoxic respiratory failure, PPHN, inhaled nitric oxide use in term and preterm infants, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, and the use of aEEG, NIRS, and neuroprotection in the NICU.

Dr. Irina Prelipcean is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatology at the University of Rochester. She is a Staff Neonatologist at the University of Rochester Golisano Children's Hospital and is involved in the Neonatal Clinical Research Group and Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship Program leadership. She graduated from the University Of Central Florida College Of Medicine as part of the school’s charter class. She completed her residency and neonatology fellowship at the University of Florida. Her area of academic interest is integrated monitoring and improvement of outcomes in critically ill neonates. She is training in TNE and developing her research in hemodynamics and biomarkers involved in the neonatal brain and adrenal dysfunction.

Dr. Daniel Ibarra Ríos works as a staff neonatologist at Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez (HIMFG). He completed his medical school in Mexico City at the National Autonomous University (UNAM), pediatric residency at the HIMFG/UNAM, and his neonatal- fellowship at HIMFG/UNAM.  He trained in TNE at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto in 2016. He leads the Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography and Point of Care Ultrasound Program in the NICU at HIMFG. Dr. Ibarra research interests are hemodynamics of critically ill neonates integrating cardio-pulmonary physiology and functional echocardiography; he is also interested in lung and head ultrasound of the critically ill neonate.

Dr. Tina Leone is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University and a neonatologist at the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York Presbyterian. Dr. Leone completed medical school and her pediatrics residency at New Jersey Medical School. She completed her neonatology training at University of California, San Diego. She is currently the training program director for the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Program at Columbia University. Dr. Leone was trained in neonatal echocardiography in 2005 and has enjoyed teaching these skills to neonatology fellows in her program ever since. Her academic interests include neonatal resuscitation and transitional hemodynamics.

Prof EL-Khuffash is a Consultant Neonatologist at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, and a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. His primary clinical and research area is the assessment of heart function in term and preterm neonates. He is the lead for neonatal echocardiography and heart function assessment in the neonatal intensive care unit in the Rotunda Hospital. Prof EL-Khuffash graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 2002 and enrolled in the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland paediatric specialist training scheme in 2005. He completed a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree in University College, Dublin in 2008, a fellowship in neonatal cardiology at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, and his neonatal specialty training in Toronto, Canada (2009-2011). He obtained a diploma in clinical epidemiology during his time in Toronto. Following this, he was appointed as a consultant Neonatologist and Assistant Professor of Paediatric at the University of Toronto in January of 2011. Recently, Prof EL-Khuffash has assumed a leadership role at the European level in devising training guidelines for echocardiography by the Neonatologist. He is the lead author/editor of the Hemodynamic Module in the NOTE project, offering a new international online Masters level educational programme in neonatal medicine as collaboration between the European Society for Neonatology (ESN) and the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Southampton.He is the recipient of several national and international research awards, with international peer reviewed publications and keynote presentations and the lead for cardiovascular research, supervising several post graduate PhD candidates. He is the recipient of several national and international research awards, with international peer reviewed publications and keynote presentations and the lead for cardiovascular research, supervising several post graduate PhD candidates.

Dr. Elaine Neary is a consultant neonatologist at Liverpool Women’s Hospital in Liverpool, UK, an honorary clinical lecturer at University of Liverpool and a NIHR research scholar. She completed her medical school at Trinity College Dublin in 2007. Since she has completed dual paediatric and neonatal training in Ireland and Canada where she undertook a neonatal-perinatal fellowship and targeted neonatal echocardiography training at the University of Toronto.  She completed a PhD with RCSI in 2016, masters in health management services in 2012 and postgraduate diploma in statistics and a certificate in medical education in 2011 and 2017 respectively.

Dr. Nim Subhedar is a consultant neonatologist at Liverpool Women’s Hospital in Liverpool, UK, and Clinical Lead for the Cheshire & Merseyside Neonatal Network. He qualified from the University of Bristol in 1988 and trained in Bristol, Brisbane and Liverpool. He has undertaken an MD in the field of neonatal pulmonary hypertension and inhaled nitric oxide therapy. His clinical and research interests include neonatal cardiology and neonatal echocardiography in general and, specifically, patent ductus arteriosus, pulmonary hypertension and inhaled nitric oxide therapy. Until recently he chaired the European Inhaled Nitric Oxide Registry. He is a co-investigator on the UK Baby OSCAR Trial of early selective treatment of PDA in preterm infants.

Neil is a Consultant Neonatologist at the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow. He trained in neonatology at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia and the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow, UK.Neil is a Senior NHS Research Scotland Fellow, Scottish Quality and Safety Fellow, and Clinical Innovation Lead for the West of Scotland Innovation Hub. Neil has specialist clinical and research interests in neonatal haemodynamic assessment and management, including in congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Neil leads local and international collaborations, including within the CDH Euro-consortium and International CDH Study Group.  His other interests include Family Integrated Care, and clinical innovation including asynchronous video for remote care and non-invasive physiological monitoring.

Dr. María Carmen Bravo works as a staff neonatologist at La Paz University Hospital in Madrid, Spain. She completed her training program on Neonatologist Performed Echocardiography (NPE) with Prof Nick Evans in Sydney and she finished her PhD on new approaches to treat patent ductus arteriosus in 2011. She is the leader of the NPE program at La Paz Hospital and has directed NPE courses since 2010.Dr. Bravo´s specific research interests are in the field of critical care, neonatal cardiopulmonary physiology, functional echocardiography and the assessment of brain damage with cranial ultrasonography.

Willem-Pieter de Boode (Arnhem, 1966) received his doctorate degree with honours from the VU University Amsterdam. He specialised in Paediatrics (in Radboudumc and Sint Joseph Hospital, current Maxima Medical Center, in Veldhoven) and in Neonatology (Radboudumc), after which he was registered in 1999 as a Neonatologist. In 2010, he obtained his PhD at Radboud University on research into advanced techniques to investigate and monitor the blood circulation of newborns. De Boode is a paediatrician-neonatologist and staff member of the Neonatology department at the Amalia Children's Hospital Nijmegen. He is coordinator of the Radboudumc Neonatal Hemodynamics Research and Training Center and, as a former chairman and co-founder, closely involved in the Dutch working group Neonatal Hemodynamics. Willem is council member of the European Society for Paediatric Research (ESPR) and secretary of the ESPR Section “Circulation, Oxygen Transport and Haematology”. He is chairman of the ESPR special interest group “Neonatologist Performed Echocardiography (NPE)”, which is formulating European clinical, technical and training guidelines regarding the use of echocardiography on the NICU.

Dr. Yogen Singh is a Consultant in Neonatology and Padiatric Cardiology, Neonatologist with Expertise in Pediatric Cardiology (Cambridge University Hospitals), Associate Lecturer (University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine) and the Chair, Convenor and Academic Lead for the RCPCH’s Paediatricians with Expertise in Cardiology Special Interest Group, UK.Dr. Singh is also the Chair for ESPNIC Cardiovascular Dynamics Section and POCUS Working Group and the lead author for the ESPNIC evidence-based POCUS guidelines for use in neonatal and pediatric intensive care unit and “Expert Consensus Statement on Neonatologist Performed Echocardiography (NPE): Training and Accreditation in the UK”.He is the Director at ‘Cambridge Paediatric and Neonatal Echocardiography Course’ and TINEC course in Switzerland.

Dr. Mahmoud Montasser is a consultant neonatologist at University Hospital Wishaw, a transport consultant neonatologist at ScotSTAR regional neonatal transport team for West of Scotland, UK and honorary clinical senior lecturer at university of Glasgow. Dr. Montasser completed medical school in Egypt andpediatric training (neonatal subspeciality) in the UK. He completed his formal training in Neonatologist Performed Echocardiography (NOPE) including basic and advanced functional echocardiography during his final 2 years in collaboration with the pediatric cardiology and neonatal departments at The Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow.  Dr.Montasser’s main special interests and areas of research are neonatal hemodynamic assessment, cardio-pulmonary vascular transition and disease, functional echocardiography and lung ultrasound as part of point of care ultrasonography (POCUS) in neonates.

Dr. Neidin Bussmann graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2011, received her MRCPI in Paediatrics in 2015 and Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training in Neonatology in 2022. Neidin was awarded a PhD for her research entitled “A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial of Early Targeted Patent Ductus Arteriosus Treatment Using a Risk Based Severity Score (The PDA RCT)” in 2020. She is currently a Consultant Neonatologist in Cork University Maternity Hospital where she continues to train future neonatologists in the field of Neonatal Haemodynamics.

Professor Dempsey is the inaugural Horgan Chair in Neonatology at University College Cork, a Neonatologist at Cork University Maternity Hospital and is clinical lead at the INFANT Research Centre at University College Cork. He has a number of Higher Degrees, including a doctorate for work on Hypotension in the preterm infant, an MSc in Health Care Ethics and Law and an MA in Teaching and Learning. He supervises a number of PhD students and junior doctors on many aspects of newborn medicine including cardiovascular support, the newborn microbiome and delivery room stabilisation.

Samir Gupta is a Professor of Neonatology at Durham University, UK, and a Fellow at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at Oxford University (United Kingdom). He is the Division Chief of Neonatology, Hemodynamic Faculty Lead and Training Program Director at Sidra Medicine (Children's Hospital) - the only Quaternary care neonatal unit in Qatar. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. Prof. Gupta is a member of the European steering group of the Neonatologist Performed Echocardiography (NPE) and the founder and chair of the Neonatologist interested in Cardiology & Hemodynamics in the UK. He has successfully established the Q-NiCHE NPE echo training program at Sidra Medicine in Doha, Qatar. Prof. Gupta is the NHRC lead for the region Middle East & Asia.

Dr. Phani Kiran Yajamanyam is an attending physician in Neonatology at Sidra Medicine. He completed training in Neonatal-perinatal medicine in the UK in 2014 and subsequently became a fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in 2016. He has worked as a consultant in perinatal tertiary/Quaternary neonatal units for the last 9 years. His research interests include neonatal hemodynamics & neonatal infection. He also has a keen interest in patient safety and is the NICU lead for patient safety.

Dr. Naharmal Soni is a Senior Attending physician on the NICU at Sidra Medicine. He completed neonatal training in the UK in 2007 and has been working as Neonatal consultant for 15 years. His areas of interest include neonatal respiratory care, bedside patient monitoring solutions and the electronic patient record. He has keen interest in neonatal hemodynamics and is part of the neonatal hemodynamic team at Sidra medicine and a trainer.

Dr. Sanoj Ali joined the Division of Neonatology at Sidra Medicine in February 2018. He worked at the Royal Hobart Hospital in Australia as a consultant neonatologist before joining Sidra Medicine. He has a keen interest in neonatal hemodynamics and has presented in the past on the use of near infra-red spectroscopy (NIRS) for assessing the cardiovascular transition of very preterm infants soon after birth. The main focus of Dr Ali’s clinical research is in the field of automated oxygen control for preterm infants on respiratory support in the neonatal ICU.

Prof. Pradeep Suryawanshi is a Professor and Head of the Department of Neonatology at Bharati Vidyapeeth University Medical College in Pune India. He completed his medical school at B J Medical College Pune and his neonatology training from Nepean & Westmead Hospital Sydney. He is also the Director of the Neonatal Hemodynamics and POCUS Program in the NICU at Sahyadri Hospital PUNE. Professor Suryawanshi research interests are in the field of Neonatal Sepsis Hemodynamics, POCUS in Sepsis & Hemodynamics in growth restricted neonates.

Dr. Shiran S Moore attended medical school at Tel Aviv University and completed her pediatrics residency and Neonatal-Perinatal medicine fellowship at Meir Medical Center in central Israel. She then continued to a Neonatal Hemodynamics fellowship at McGill University Health Center – Montreal Children's Hospital. Currently, she is a staff Neonatologist at Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center – Dana Dwek Children's Hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel and is building the unit's neonatal hemodynamics service. Research interests include: cardiac function and development in extremely preterm infants and hemodynamics in acutely ill neonates.

Dr. Mai Al-Qubaisi is a board-certified neonatologist with a special interest in hemodynamics. She received her medical degree from Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain, and completed her residency and fellowship training at Hamad Medical Corporation and the University of Toronto. During her fellowship, she developed a keen interest in neonatal hemodynamics, specifically the use of echocardiography to diagnose and manage hemodynamic instability in premature and critically ill neonates. Dr. Al-Qubaisi is interested in neonatal hemodynamics research and studies. She is also actively involved in teaching and mentoring medical students, residents, and fellows.

Dr. Aravanan Anbu Chakkarapani is an attending Physician at Sidra Medicine. He holds an academic position of Assistant Professor in Clinical Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine, Qatar. He did post-graduation training in pediatrics in India, and a Fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at McMaster University and University of Toronto (Canada). His special interest is neonatal neuro-critical care and he contributes to the neonatal hemodynamic program at Sidra Medicine. He is lead for the NICU Clinical Translational Research.

A/Prof. Andrew Gill has been using ultrasound since the early 1980s and is a founding member of the Australasian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (ASUM) Certificate of Clinical Performed Ultrasound (CCPU) program in Australia and New Zealand. He has runs training program in Perth since 2003 and runs a Master’s Program in neonatal ultrasound through the University of Western Australia.

Prof. Arvind Sehgal is a neonatologist and the head of Cardiovascular Research at Monash Children’s Hospital. Prof Sehgal has been using ultrasound since 2003, with formal training in cardiology (Fellowship in Neonatal Cardiology, University College Hospitals, London, UK). His current research focuses on cardiovascular adaptations in infants with severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia and those with fetal growth restriction.

Dr. Tim Schindler is a staff specialist neonatologist at the Royal Hospital for Women. His areas of interest include bedside ultrasound, teaching and neonatal research. Dr. Schindler completed a PhD thesis investigating novel quantification techniques to measure brain blood flow using ultrasound in babies at risk of neurological harm.

Dr. Nicholas Williams completed his neonatal fellowship at BC Women’s & Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada before moving back to Australia and commencing at Royal Prince Alfred (RPA) Hospital as a neonatologist. Dr. Williams completed the Certificate in Clinician Performed Ultrasound (CCPU) training in Australia and is the current lead for TNE training at RPA. His academic interest is in extremely preterm infants.

A/Prof Koert de Waal is a neonatal clinician at John Hunter Children’s Hospital. He has been using ultrasound since the early 1990s and is actively involved in research in neonatal haemodynamics and novel ultrasound techniques.

Dr. Jan Klimek (MBChB, DA, DCH, MRCPCH, FRACP, CCPU [Neonatal]) is a Senior Staff Specialist Neonatologist in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Westmead Hospital and a Clinical Lecturer for the University of Sydney. Dr Klimek does much of the teaching for his medical colleagues in neonatal ultrasound towards the CCPU certificate.

Dr Melissa Luig (MBBS(Syd); Dip.Paeds(UNSW); MHL(Syd); FRACP) is a Senior Staff Specialist and Head of Neonatology at Westmead Hospital. Her background includes extensive experience in Neonatal & Paediatric retrieval medicine as well as developmental follow-up of high-risk infants and she has completed a higher degree in Australian Health Law. Her long-term vision for newborn care at Westmead is as a leading centre for excellence in clinical care, sought-after training opportunities, innovative teaching methods for multidisciplinary teams including simulation technology, and answering important questions through effective clinical & benchtop research.

Dr. Mark Tracy (PhD (University of Sydney), MSc Epidemiology (London University, UK), MBBS, DCH, FRACP, DLSHTM Epidemiology (London School Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), CCPU (Neonatal) ASUM) is a Senior Staff in Neonatology and lead researcher Westmead Hospital NICU. He is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Discipline of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney. He leads two main projects, the first project explores resuscitation methods, devices and training with engineers and clinicians and the second project is predictive modelling of outcomes of critically ill babies using AI and ML on high resolution physiological intensive care data. The data science team is in collaboration with CSIRO and Sydney University AI scientists. His other work involves Perinatal Epidemiology, Point-of-care cardiac ultrasounds, NIRS cerebral blood flow in newborns, early detection & prediction of NEC.  He has supervised numerous PhD, Masters, and Honours students.

Dr. Daphne D’Cruz (MBBS, DCH, FRACP, MMed [Clinical Epidemiology]) is a Senior Staff Specialist in Neonatology at Westmead Hospital and has a special interest in the long-term neurodevelopmental follow up of babies in the NICU. Her research interests include Neurodevelopmental outcomes in extreme preterm infants and interventions in improving their neuro-developmental outcomes.

Dr. Dharmesh Shah (MBBS, MD, DM, FRACP, PhD [The University of Sydney]) is a Staff Specialist Neonatologist at Westmead Hospital, qualified in neonatal functional cardiac echocardiography, with keen interest in clinical research on neonatal resuscitation of extremely preterm infants in delivery suite.

Dr. Rajesh Maheshwari (MBBS MD FRACP CCPU [Neonatal] MPhil [USyd]) is a Staff Specialist in Neonatology at Westmead Hospital and a Senior Clinical Lecturer with the University of Sydney. Dr Maheshwari's clinical and research interests include neonatal mask ventilation, thermoregulation, neonatal nutrition, neonatal functional cardiac ultrasound, and patient safety & quality issues.

Dr. Pranav Jani (FRACP, PhD, MD (Paeds), CCPU (Neonatal), M Clin Epid, MBBS) is a Staff Specialist at the Department of Neonatology at Westmead Hospital and a Clinical Lecturer at The University of Sydney. His research work includes PhD on NIRS on point-of-care monitoring of preterm infants, his special interest is in Translational research with focus on strengthening collaboration with National & International researchers. Dr. Jani holds a Certificate in Clinician Performed Ultrasound (CCPU) and has extensive experience in cranial & cardiac ultrasound.

Dr. Archana Priyadarshi (MBBS, MD, DNB, FRACP, CCPU [Neonatal]) is a Staff Specialist Neonatologist at Westmead Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and a Clinical Lecturer for the University of Sydney. Her PhD work includes the role of point-of-care abdominal ultrasound in the diagnosis of neonatal bowel conditions. She has a keen interest in the haemodynamic management of complex cardiac & cardiorespiratory cases in particular management of Pulmonary hypertension, congenital diaphragmatic hernia and is fully certified (Certificate in Clinician Performed Ultrasound) for more than 8 years.

Dr. Swapnil Shah (MBBS, DCH, DNB (PAEDS), MRCPCH, FRACP) is a Neonatologist & Paediatrician, is a Staff Specialist Neonatologist at Westmead Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Retrieval medicine consultant at the ‘Newborn and Paediatric Emergency Transport Services’ (NETS). He is fully certified (Certificate in Clinician Performed Ultrasound) and has keen interest in functional cardiac ultrasound in critically sick newborns.

Dr. Stephanie Boyd is a staff specialist neonatologist at The Grace Centre for Newborn Intensive Care at The Children's Hospital at Westmead and a Clinical Lecturer at the University of Sydney. She completed fellowship training in neonatology and targeted neonatal echocardiography in Toronto, Canada and is currently completing a PhD focusing on hemodynamics in congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Dr. Boyd is actively involved in research and has been successfully awarded competitive grant and philanthropic funding. Her research interests include neonatal cardiovascular care, and in particular the effects of haemodynamic disturbances, including congenital diaphragmatic hernia and acute pulmonary hypertension, and their management on brain injury and short- and long-term morbidity. Dr. Boyd is passionate about better understanding drivers of cardiorespiratory illness in newborns, and how haemodynamic problems and their intensive care treatments impact upon important outcomes.

A/Prof Sheryle Rogerson has been using Ultrasound in clinical practice since 1990. She completed a Diploma in diagnostic Ultrasound and is a board and founding member of the Australian National ultrasound certification programme, Certificate in Clinician Performed (neonatal) Ultrasound (CCPU). Her research interests are in hemodynamics and lung ultrasound.