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.

Regan Giesinger is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatology at the University of Iowa where she is the Director of the Neonatal Hemodynamics Clinical and Training programs. She is 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.

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 Associate 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. María Victoria Fraga is an attending neonatologist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She serves as the Director of Neonatal Point of Care Ultrasound in the Newborn/Infant Intensive Care Unit. She co-directs the biannual CHOP Bedside Ultrasound Course, offering multi-disciplinary training over two days in neonatal and pediatric acute care procedural and diagnostic ultrasound applications. Dr. Fraga previously served as Pediatric Ultrasound Committee Chair as well as Ultrasound Course Chair for the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM). She has delivered many SCCM and CHOP-based courses nationally and internationally. She has co-authored multiple manuscripts, chapters, and editorials on neonatal Point-of-Care ultrasound. She is also a member of the US Hemodynamics Collaborative.  She is especially interested in the bedside assessment of neonatal cardiac hemodynamics and ECMO as well as education and training for Point-of-Care Ultrasound in the NICU.

Dr. Estela Pina-Rodrigues is a neonatologist at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in Hollywood Florida. She completed her medical degree in Brazil and completed her fellowship in Neonatal Perinatal Medicine at Advocate Lutheran Children’s Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois. She has spent time with Michigan State University as an Assistant Professor and has been a staff neonatologist at Joe Dimaggio Children’s Hospital since 2007. Her clinical interests include quality improvement, point of care ultrasound, functional echocardiography, and hemodynamics.

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.

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.

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.

Marilena Savoia is a consultant neonatologist at Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital, Udine and contract professor in Neonatology in the Postgraduate Specialization in Paediatrics at Udine University. She specialised in Paediatrics at Udine University in 2001, completing her neonatal specialty training in the UK. She further developed her interest in Neonatologist Performed Echocardiography (NPE) with Prof Nick Evans in Sydney (2008) and in neonatal pulmonary hypertension with Prof Steven Abman in Denver (2013). She has a Master’s Degree in Paediatric Cardiology from Bologna University (2017) and has been member of the ESPR Governance Structure on NPE since 2018. Marilena is the lead of the first edition of the “Italian Training Program in Neonatologist Performed Echocardiography”, a nationwide project developed by the Study Group of Neonatal Cardiology of Italian Society of Neonatology, in close collaboration with the Italian Society of Pediatric Cardiology, endorsed by the ESPR. She has been practicing lung ultrasound (LUS) in day-to-day care since 2011, exploring lungs and heart crosstalking. She is in charge of the cardiac follow-up for BPD in NICU and outpatient clinic.

Dr. Iuri Corsini is a consultant neonatologist at the Careggi University Hospital of Florence (since 2008). He received his Medical degree in 2001, completed a specialization in Pediatrics and Neonatal Intensive Care in Florence in 2006 and completed a Master’s Degree in Paediatric Cardiology from Bologna University in 2013. Dr. Corsini is actively involved in neonatal research, particularly in hemodynamics, lung ultrasound, and animal models of neonatal disease. He is the chair of Italian neonatal cardiology study group and, along with Dr. Marilena Savoia and the Study Group of Neonatal Cardiology of the Italian Society of Neonatology, developed the the project “Italian Training Program in Neonatologist Performed Echocardiography”; a nationwide project developed in close collaboration with the Italian Society of Pediatric Cardiology and endorsed by the ESPR.