Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellows

Our Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship lasts three years. Meet our fellows who are at different stages of their career development, and learn about their research projects. All of our current fellows are members of the Stanford Society of Physician Scholars (SSPS) in the Department of Pediatrics.

Neha Kumbhat, Class of 2019

MD: Grant Medical College, affliated with Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, in Mumbai, India

Residency: Brookdale University Hospital & Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY

Mentors: Susan Hintz, MD, MS Epi and Alexis Davis, MD, MS Epi

Research: Research has shown adrenal insufficiency leads to low blood pressure in extremely preterm infants. My focus is in understanding how hypotension caused by adrenal insufficiency affects preterm infant death and morbidities. An adrenal gland that is unable to transition to extrauterine life is increasingly being recognized as a risk factor for poor outcomes in sick, premature infants. As more extremely premature infants survive, we have greater opportunity to investigate the role of adrenal function in these neonates. Understanding the role of adrenal function will provide clinicians with information to guide interventions and counseling families on outcomes and prognosis.

I am an Ernest and Amelia Gallo endowed fellow for 2017-2019 and will receive salary support from Stanford's Child Health Research Institute (CHRI). In addition, I will receive CHRI Master's Tuition support to pursue a Master's degree in Epidemiology and Clinical Research.

Vidya Pai, Class of 2019

MD: University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in San Diego, CA

Residency: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, PA

Mentor: Henry Lee, MD

Research: My research interest is in neonatal and perinatal epidemiology, specifically the morbidities of extremely premature infants. I am currently working on a project evaluating the relationship between abnormal maternal weight and the risk of intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) in premature infants. I received funding through the Child Health Research Institute to pursue a Master’s program in Epidemiology and Clinical Research starting Fall 2017.

Anca Pasca, Class of 2019

MD: Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Residency: Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA

Mentor: Theo Palmer, PhD

Research: I am particularly interested in brain development and neurodevelopmental disorders associated with preterm birth and perinatal diseases. Using 3D human cortical neural cultures derived from induced pluripotent stem cells, I am able to model normal and abnormal brain development in vitro. This allows for investigation of the effects of specific perinatal events (i.e. hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy) on neuronal development and maturation. Additionally, I am exploring the effects of various medications, like steroids, used in the neonatal population and known to adversely impact brain development. My goal is to uncover specific neuronal phenotypes and molecular pathways associated with neonatal diseases and to identify targeted therapies aimed at improving the long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes of NICU graduates.

Of note, Dr. Pasca is taking a two-year leave from clinical practice to pursue research under her PSDP Research Award. She will return in 2018 to complete her third year of clinical fellowship training.

Gregory Goldstein, Class of 2020

MD: Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA

Residency: Brown University in Providence, RI

Mentors: Gary Shaw, DrPH, Karl Sylvester, MD, and Henry C. Lee, MD, MS Epi

Research: My research interest is in neonatal epidemiology and clinical research. I am currently investigating antenatal risk factors for necrotizing enterocolitis using data from the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative.

I recently received a clinical trainee grant from the Child Health Research Institute (CHRI), which supports my research efforts. I also received funding from the CHRI to pursue a master’s degree in epidemiology and clinical research starting in the fall of 2018.

Laura Peterson, Class of 2020

MD: Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN

Residency: University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI

Mentor: Brice Gaudilliere, MD, PhD

Research: I am studying the dynamics of the neonatal and maternal immune systems using a high-dimensional flow cytometry technology called CyTOF. My primary focus is on learning more about the immunologic differences between preterm and term neonates. I am also interested in aspects of aberrant maternal immune functioning that contribute to preterm birth and to diseases of pregnancy such as preeclampsia.

Megan Ringle, Class of 2020

MD: St. George's University in Grenada, West Indies

Residency: Miami Children's Hospital in Miami, FL

Mentor: Shazia Bhombal, MD

Research: My research includes doing serial functional echocardiograms on all preemies born at gestational age < 29 weeks at 48 hours of life and days of life 3, 5, 7, and 14. I aim to assess hemodynamics and correlate the findings with near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) measurements. On another project, I am investigating the outcomes of neonates who had persistant pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN) in the NICU and required pulmonary hypertensive medications or catheterizations.

Additional Education: Dr. Ringle received a master's degree in public health from St. George's University in Grenada, West Indies.

Eman Haidari, Class of 2021

MD: Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY

Residency: UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland in Oakland, CA

Kevin McKim, Class of 2021

MD: Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA

Residency: Cohen Children's Medical Center in Queens, NY

Caroline Yeon-Kyeong Noh, Class of 2021

MD: Ajou University School of Medicine in South Korea

Residency: University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, FL

A Conversation with Recent Graduate Nicole Yamada

Our Division’s writer, Laura Hedli, interviews recent graduate Nicole Yamada about her experience in the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program at Stanford.

Why did you choose to pursue a fellowship in neonatology?

I really like taking care of babies, their physiology, and practicing fast-paced medicine. But the thing that was more unique to me was taking care of the family unit as a whole. No parent really expects to be in the NICU after her baby is born.

My personal interest is the difficult conversations: talking with parents about how sick their child is, or the fact that their child is dying, or the fact that we think it’s time for them to transition to comfort care. Those hard conversations are really challenging to do well. My own personal goal and interest is in learning how to do that well and how to help families have the best possible experience while going through such a difficult time.

Why Stanford?

The main thing that attracted me to this program was the opportunity to work with Dr. Lou Halamek in simulation-based research. Having someone in simulation who is also in neonatology is not a common resource from what I found during my fellowship interview process.

What got you interested in simulation-based research?

We did a lot of simulation-based training in neonatal resuscitation during my residency program. I became curious about how I could use simulation to improve performance in the delivery room. While I learned some basic skills in residency, I wanted to do more as far as improving human performance during newborn resuscitation.

Your fellowship research is focused on using simulation to improve communication. Explain.

I’m looking at communication between the different members of the team that are in the delivery room when a baby is being resuscitated. Can you standardize that communication and make it more concise so that people will make fewer errors during a resuscitation?

I’m using simulation to do research that one couldn’t otherwise do in a real clinical environment. It’s much harder to get a study done that involves real patients because then there’s risk to actual human life. Simulation-based research also allows us to standardize things a lot more than we would be able to in a [real] clinical environment. In my study, every person who came through did the exact same two clinical scenarios. All the vitals were exactly the same. All the equipment and where it was located and how it was set up was exactly the same. This took away a number of clinical variables, so that I could really isolate human behavior in response to my intervention.

Where are you with your research now?

I’ve completed my study and data analysis, and I have submitted a manuscript for publication; I’m awaiting response from the journal. In October, I gave oral presentations at two different sessions of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference & Exhibition: The Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Steering Committee and the Perinatal Section of the AAP. In January, I presented a poster at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare. I have been accepted to give an oral presentation at the Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare meeting, and I have abstracts submitted to Pediatric Academic Societies and the International Pediatric Simulation Symposia and Workshops.

What are the major findings?

I was able to show a trend of improvement in the primary outcome, which was a decrease in overall error rate. This meant that subjects adhered to the NRP algorithm better when they were exposed to a standardized resuscitation lexicon. They also decreased the time to starting positive pressure ventilation, which is breathing for the baby, and they decreased the time to starting chest compressions. This was an improvement on retrospective data I reviewed regarding how people performed in the [real] delivery room, where I found that providers are routinely late on starting positive pressure ventilation and chest compressions compared to when the algorithm says they should be starting. The next step will be to run a larger study with a larger sample size so that I can hopefully show statistical significance.

Dr. Halamek was your mentor on this project. What was that like?

I started talking to Lou about my research plans soon after I matched, while I was still in residency. That was very helpful because he was able to get me started on thinking about what I wanted to investigate. He’d say: “What’s interesting to you? What’s your question?” Once I answered, he said: “OK, if that’s your question, now you design the study.”

He’s always been very available and willing to help his fellows [Janene Fuerch and I] with whatever we needed for our research, while also giving us the independence to design and direct our own project.

In addition, Lou has been a fantastic career mentor for me as well, especially now that I’m in the phase of looking for jobs and thinking about where I’m going to be for the next stage of my career.

How have you balanced your clinical responsibilities with your research?

At every stage of our careers up until now – during residency training and med school – somebody always expects you to be somewhere at a certain time, and you have patient care responsibilities every day. In this fellowship, it’s more freeform. You are allowed to organize your time however works for you, but at the same time, you have to be disciplined about it. The longest stretch of clinical time we have is when we are on service blocks, which are 14 days in a row. Clinical service time is scattered throughout the fellowship training years, with the greatest amount in the first year and then gradually decreasing after that. The rest of the time is research time, but we still take overnight calls once or twice a week. People work in their research time around their calls and their service.

What should fellowship candidates and incoming fellows know about moving to the Bay Area?

The biggest thing people will experience is sticker shock given the cost of living out here. That said, I think it’s definitely doable on a fellow’s salary.

The weather is amazing. It’s usually sunny. We still get rain in the winter, but we don’t get the fog that San Francisco gets, which is nice, because that fog depresses me.

Is there anything else that you would want to add about the experience that you think incoming fellows should know?

One of the concerns I had coming into this program was: Am I going to get enough clinical experience? If you look at our numbers, we have a lot less clinical service weeks than some other programs out there.

But the difference is, when we’re in the unit, we’re taking care of really sick kids. Our unit is 40 beds, but it’s all level III/level IV babies, which makes our clinical experience really valuable but intense. At other institutions, they can have 40 beds, but half of those beds are the level II babies. So, you’re only taking care of 20 or 18 sick kids. Here, you get a lot more exposure anytime you’re in the unit to a lot of different pathophysiology and at high acuity.

Since you’re taking care of all level III/level IV babies, the learning curve must be quite steep.

It can be, but the attendings here are really supportive. I’ve never had an attending question why I called them in the middle of the night. On service, they are able to really support you, especially in that first year. They know that the unit can be overwhelming because of the acuity.

The other thing is we don’t have attendings in-house. Not all programs have that. For us, that’s a good learning opportunity as well, because you’re in the unit essentially by yourself. You have nurse practitioners, but you don’t have an attending. I’ve learned a lot from our nurse practitioners, but I’ve also really learned overnight: What is my comfort level? What do I know? How do I figure out when I need help? And what are the things where I can really push myself, to manage on my own? Not having attendings in-house was something I wanted for my fellowship training, because I wanted that challenge to help me develop my clinical skills and decision-making.

Yassar Arain, Class of 2018

Anna-Kaisa Niemi, Class of 2018

Anoop Rao, Class of 2018

Matthew Wallenstein, Class of 2017

Janene Fuerch, Class of 2016

Wannasiri (Awe) Lapcharoensap, Class of 2016

Nidhi Agrawal Shah, Class of 2015

Nicole Yamada, Class of 2015

Sohini Stone, Class of 2014

Maide Ozen, Class of 2014

Vishnu Priya Akula, Class of 2014

Bernardo Kracer, Class of 2013

Christine Johnson, Class of 2013

Ritu Chitkara, Class of 2012

Shayna Gaman-Bean, Class of 2012

Jonathan Palma, Class of 2012

Wen-Chun Jimmy Lan, Class of 2011

Anand Rajani, Class of 2011

Petruska Maak, Class of 2010

Katherine McCallie, Class of 2010

Yuri Knauer, Class of 2009

Ashvin Sangoram, Class of 2009

Stephanie Miller, Class of 2009

Lisa Chyl, Class of 2008

Anna Morgan, Class of 2008

Henry Lee, Class of 2007

David Randolph, Class of 2007

Alexis Davis, Class of 2006

Allison Murphy, Class of 2006

Valerie Chock, Class of 2005

Glenn Desandre, Class of 2005

Jodee Anderson, Class of 2004

Laura Drohan, Class of 2004

Christina Anderson, Class of 2003

Christopher Colby, Class of 2003

Anna Penn, Class of 2003

Heather Carriedo, Class of 2002

Carol Lin, Class of 2002

Reed Dimmitt, Class of 2001

Nick Mickas, Class of 2001

Toby Cohen, Class of 2000

Monica Hajdena-Dawson, Class of 2000

David Kaegi, Class of 2000

2018 News

Winter

Megan Ringle presented on the topic of neurodevelopmental outcomes in neonates with complex congenital heart disease undergoing catheterization or surgical intervention. The conference was held February 19-20, 2018.

Neha Kumbhat presented a poster at the 24th Annual California Association of Neonatologists (CAN) meeting, March 2-4 in Monterey, CA.

Spring

A review article in the June issue of Clinics in Perinatology explores the success of statewide quality collaboratives in improving the uptake of key perinatal interventions. Authors include Vidya Pai, MD, and faculty members Henry C. Lee, MD, MS Epi, and Jochen Profit, MD, MPH. In particular, the paper spotlights the work of the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative, whose data center is based at Stanford and has been led by faculty member Jeffrey Gould, MD, MPH, for the past twenty years. The CPQCC is a prominent leader of statewide neonatal quality improvement and has served as a model for other states’ perinatal collaborative organizations.
In March, Anna-Kaisa Niemi, MD, graduated from an online fellowship program in integrative medicine (University of Arizona); she pursued the integrative medicine fellowship currently with her neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship training at Stanford. Dr. Niemi recently accepted a full-time faculty position at Rady Chidren’s Hospital at the University of California, San Diego in San Diego, CA.

Summer

At the 92nd Perinatal and Developmental Medicine Symposium in Aspen on June 8, neonatal-perinatal medicine fellow Neha Kumbhat, MD, had a platform presentation on the association of high dose cosyntropin stimulation test with death or major morbidity in preterm infants.
Anca Pasca, MD, presented a poster on the effects of hypoxia on preterm brain development at the 11th Hershey Conference on Developmental Brain Injury, June 6-9.
Vidya Pai, MD, received the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32) from the National Institutes of Health. The award will support her research on high-risk infant follow-up (HRIF) in California. Following a targeted quality improvement initiative that was implemented in 2013 to improve HRIF referral at NICU discharge, Dr. Pai aims to identify patterns associated with HRIF referral, HRIF follow-up, and outpatient medical and supportive service needs among very low birthweight (VLBW) infants and infants with moderate or severe hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). She will also identify changes in patient-level, NICU, and regional factors associated with failure to refer, failure to follow-up, and need for service referrals at the HRIF visit. This research will utilize the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative (CPQCC) dataset, which includes maternal, neonatal and follow-up data and encompasses data from > 95% of all VLBW infants and infants with HIE in California. The ultimate goal of the work is to improve long-term outcomes for high risk infants and their families. Dr. Pai's research is also supported by the Stanford Child Health Research Institute and the American Academy of Pediatrics Marshall Klaus Health Services Award. Her mentors for this project are Susan Hintz, MD, MS Epi, Suzan Carmichael, PhD, and Henry Lee, MD, MS Epi.
Four of our fellows received Clinical Trainee Awards of $15K from the Stanford Child Health Research Institute
- Gregory Goldstein: Antenatal Risk Factors for Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Very Low Birth Weight Infants
- Vidya Pai: The Referral Patterns of High-Risk Infants
- Laura Peterson: Deep Immune Profiling of the Neonatal Immune System across Gestational Ages
- Megan Ringle: Utilization of Functional Echocardiography and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy to Characterize Ductal Hemodynamics in the Premature Neonate

Fall

2017 News

Winter

Anna-Kaisa Niemi gave an oral platform presentation at the Western Society for Pediatric Research annual meeting (January 26-28, 2017) entitled "Preterm delivery after treatment of maternal metastatic melanoma with immunotherapeutics." She reported on a preterm infant born at 24 weeks to a mother diagnosed with metastatic melanoma at 23 weeks of gestation who was treated with immunomodulators: nivolumab (PD-1 antibody), ipilimumab (CTL-4 antibody). This was the first report on the use of these during pregnancy.

Spring

Three of our fellows presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting (May 6-9, 2017).

Yassar Arain delivered an oral presentation entitled "A web-based decision support tool for management of hyperbilirubinemia in preterm infants." This work highlights the implementation and effectiveness of Premie BiliRecs (PBR). Premie BiliRecs is a web-based decision support tool designed for the management of hyperbilirubinemia in infants less than 35 weeks gestational age. Dr. Arain developed the tool with Jonathan Palma, MD, MS, and an article about its development was published last year in Clinics in Perinatology. Dr. Arain also gave a presentation on the tool at the iHealth 2017 Clinical Informatics conference in Philadelphia, PA (May 2-4, 2017).

Anca Pasca delivered a platform presentation entitled "Developing a 3D human cellular model of hypoxic encephalopathy of prematurity." Dr. Pasca is first-author on the abstract, and the 3D model she helped develop is the first of its kind. The model identifies specific corticogenesis defects associated with changes in oxygen tension.

Anoop Rao was a collaborator on the presentation entitled "Addressing social determinants of health in the community pediatrics setting: A pediatrician driven approach." For this project, Dr. Rao is building a website that enables efficient tabulation, mapping, and selection of available resources for the pediatric population in the Bay area.

Anca M. Pasca was an invited speaker at the Annual Congress of the Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics, held April 18-20, 2017 in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Pasca discussed the advances in neurodevelopmental disease modeling and drug screening using 3D human cortical spheroids, an in vitro technology that closely mimics human fetal development and allows the detailed interrogation of normal and abnormal developmental events in the laboratory.

First-year fellows Vidya Pai and Neha Kumbhat received Child Health Research Institute (CHRI) funding for a Master's Program in Epidemiology and Clinical Research at Stanford University School of Medicine. Both will pursue the master’s degree concurrent with fellowship training from 2017-2019. Additionally, Dr. Kumbhat was awarded the CHRI clinical (MD) trainee support grant for two years for her project "Co-Syntropin stimulation test as a marker of death or major morbidity in premature infants." Dr. Pai’s abstract titled "Improving antibiotic utilization for late-onset sepsis and necrotizing enterocolitis" was accepted to Stanford’s Resident/Fellow Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Symposium.

Anoop Rao along with fellowship director Vinod Bhutani, MD, and neonatologist William Rhine, MD, led a NeoDesign Focus Group at PAS. Building off a NeoDesign Speaker Series that happens each month at Stanford, this inaugural meeting was designed to further facilitate interactions between innovators in design, development, translation, and commercialization of technology. Participants initiated a dialogue about "design thinking" in the clinical setting, the challenges of testing new devices and barriers that may limit the provision of healthcare solutions in neonatology. Due to a strong turnout, a similar event is already in the works for PAS 2018.

Summer

Vidya Pai presented her work on “Maternal Body Mass Index and Risk of Intraventricular Hemorrhage in Neonates” at the American Academy of Pediatrics Experience National Conference & Exhibition in Chicago, IL on September 16-19. She is also an author on a recent paper “Approaches to end-of-life discussions with parents of a profoundly compromised newborn” in the Journal of Perinatology.

STAT News honors the brighest young minds in life science for their work in academic, industry, and the clinic. Anca Pasca is one of the scientists chosen for their 2017 list of STAT Wunderkinds. Dr. Pasca creates models of infant brains in the laboratory to investigate neurodevelopmental problems associated with preterm birth. She is specifically interested in studying how insufficient oxygen impacts the developing brain and how to prevent brain damage.

Fall

At the recent Stanford Health++ Hackathon on Oct. 21 and 22, Anoop Rao mentored three teams that devised designs to improve neonatal care.

Connect focused on making a parent-friendly interface to display real-time positioning of an endotracheal tube. This would be very useful in improving the rates of skin-to-skin care in the neonatal ICU by providing much-needed reassurance to parents who fear that their movements may lead to an unplanned extubation. This team won a special prize sponsored by Persistent Systems.
Nutrilink built a scalable, easy to use web-based platform, similar to OpenTable, for helping primary health care workers in low- and middle-income countries refer patients with severe acute malnutrition to regional hospitals. This team advanced to the finals and won the second grand prize.
NeoPlank designed, prototyped and 3D-printed a device that would stabilize a neonate’s hand to enable easier arterial catheterization. NeoPlank advanced to the finals of the hackathon.

Fellowship coordinator Meghan Stawitcke and her colleagues presented an interactive workshop on professionalism training in graduate medical education, titled "From Padawan to Jedi Master: Navigating the Dark Side of Professionalism" at the 5th Annual Pediatric Education Day on October 27.

Yassar Arain and Vidya Pai presented their work at the Vermont Oxford Network Annual Quality Congress. The fellows' posters were entitled “Improving Hyperbilirubinemia Management in Preterm Infants: Premie Bilirecs, a Novel EHR-integrated Clinical Decision Support Tool” (Arain), and “Improving Antibiotic Utilization for Late-Onset Sepsis and Necrotizing Enterocolitis in the NICU” (Pai). Dr. Arain was invited to speak about his research at a breakout session highlighting the use of electronic health records for quality improvement work. The conference took place on October 26-30 in Chicago, IL.

2018

Mediratta, R., Schwenk, H., Rao, A., & Chitkara, R. (2018). Case 6: Liver Failure and Rash in a 6-week-old Girl. Pediatr Rev, 39(6), 315.

Pai, V. V., Carmichael, S. L., Kan, P., Leonard, S. A., & Lee, H. C. (2018). Maternal body mass index and risk of intraventricular hemorrhage in preterm infants. Pediatr Res, 83(6), 1146-1151.

Pai, V. V., Lee, H. C., & Profit, J. (2018). Improving Uptake of Key Perinatal Interventions Using Statewide Quality Collaboratives. Clin Perinatol, 45(2), 165-180.

Number of 2018 publications, year to date:

3

2017

McClafferty, H., Vohra, S., Bailey, M., Brown, M., Esparham, A., Gerstbacher, D., . . . Niemi, A. K. . . . Section On Integrative, M. (2017). Pediatric Integrative Medicine. Pediatrics, 140(3).

Niemi, A. K. (2017). Review of Randomized Controlled Trials of Massage in Preterm Infants. Children (Basel), 4(4).

Paris, J. J., Pai, V., Cummings, B. M., Batten, J., & Benitz, W. E. (2017). Approaches to end-of-life discussions with parents of a profoundly compromised newborn. J Perinatol, 37(10), 1078-1081.

Girsen, A. I., Mayo, J. A., Wallenstein, M. B., Gould, J. B., Carmichael, S. L., Stevenson, D. K., . . . Shaw, G. M. (2017). What factors are related to recurrent preterm birth among underweight women? J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med, 1-7.

2016

Wallenstein, M. B., Sunshine P. Neonatal encephalopathy: epidemiology and overview, In Stevenson, Benitz, Sushine, Hintz, Druzin (Eds), Fetal and Neontal Brain Injury. (2016).

Fernandez-Pol, C., Wallenstein, M. B., & Chua, I. (2016). Case 1: Acute-onset Vomiting, Fever, and Bulging Fontanelle in a 7-month-old Boy. Pediatr Rev, 37(12), 536-538.

Gomez-Ospina, N., Scott, A. I., Oh, G., Potter, P., Goel, V. V., Destino, L., Baugh, N., Enns, G. M., Niemi, A. K., Cowan, T. M. (2016.) Expanding the phenotype of Hawkinsinuria: New insights from response to N-acetyl-L-cysteine. J Inherit Metab Dis, 39(6), 821-829.

Splinter, K., Niemi, A. K., Cox, R., Platt, J., Shah, M., Enns, G. M., Kasahara, M., Bernstein, J. A. (2016.) Impaired Health-Related Quality of Life in Children and Families Affected by Methylmalonic Acidemia. J Genet Couns, 25(5), 936-44.

Palma J. P., Arain, Y. H. (2016.) Development of a Web-Based Decision Support Tool to Operationalize and Optimize Management of Hyperbilirubinemia in Preterm Infants. Clin Perinatol, 43(2), 375-83.

Asplund, K. M., Kair, L. R., Arain, Y. H., Cervantes, M., Oreskovic, N. M., & Zuckerman, K. E. (2015). Early Childhood Screen Time and Parental Attitudes Toward Child Television Viewing in a Low-Income Latino Population Attending the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Child Obes, 11(5), 590-599.

Yamada, N. K., Fuerch, J. H., & Halamek, L. P. (2016). Impact of Standardized Communication Techniques on Errors during Simulated Neonatal Resuscitation. Am J Perinatol, 33(4), 385-392.

Yamada, N. K., Fuerch, J. H., & Halamek, L. P. (2016). Modification of the Neonatal Resuscitation Program Algorithm for Resuscitation of Conjoined Twins. Am J Perinatol, 33(4), 420-424.

Girsen, A. I., Wallenstein, M. B., Davis, A. S., Hintz, S. R., Desai, A. K., Mansour, T., . . . Blumenfeld, Y. J. (2016). Effect of antepartum meconium staining on perinatal and neonatal outcomes among pregnancies with gastroschisis. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med, 29(15), 2499-2503.

Wallenstein, M. B., Birnie, K. L., Arain, Y. H., Yang, W., Yamada, N. K., Huffman, L. C., . . . Stevenson, D. K. (2016). Failed endotracheal intubation and adverse outcomes among extremely low birth weight infants. J Perinatol, 36(2), 112-115.

Azuma, J., Wong, R. J., Morisawa, T., Hsu, M., Maegdefessel, L., Zhao, H., . . . Wallenstein, M. B., . . . Tsao, P. S. (2016). Heme Oxygenase-1 Expression Affects Murine Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Progression. PLoS One, 11(2), e0149288.

Macmurdo, C. F., Wooderchak-Donahue, W., Bayrak-Toydemir, P., Le, J., Wallenstein, M. B., Milla, C., . . . Stevenson, D. A. (2016). RASA1 somatic mutation and variable expressivity in capillary malformation/arteriovenous malformation (CM/AVM) syndrome. Am J Med Genet A, 170(6), 1450-1454.

Wallenstein, M. B., Shaw, G. M., & Stevenson, D. K. (2016). Preterm Birth as a Calendar Event or Immunologic Anomaly. JAMA Pediatr.

Riley, K. L., Carmichael, S. L., Mayo, J. A., Shachar, B. Z., Girsen, A. I., Wallenstein, M. B., . . . Shaw, G. M. (2016). Body Mass Index Change between Pregnancies and Risk of Spontaneous Preterm Birth. Am J Perinatol.

Palma, J. P., & Arain, Y. H. (2016). Development of a Web-Based Decision Support Tool to Operationalize and Optimize Management of Hyperbilirubinemia in Preterm Infants. Clin Perinatol, 43(2), 375-383.

2015

Le, K. P., Wallenstein, M. B., Chua I. (2015). IUGR infant with dehydration and weight loss. NeoReviews, 16, 708-710.

Fuerch, J. H., Yamada, N. K., Kobayashi, D. Hartman, G., Blumenfeld, Y., Hintz, S. R. , Chock, V. Y. (2015). The Role of a Fetal Center in Preparing for a Conjoined Twin Delivery. NeoReviews, 16(11), 617-623.

Yamada N. K., Fuerch J. H., Halamek LP. Simulation in Paediatrics. Manual of Simulation in Healthcare. Riley R (Ed.) Cambridge, UK: Oxford University Press (2nd Edition), 2014.

Fujioka, K., Yang, W., Wallenstein, M. B., Zhao, H., Wong, R. J., Stevenson, D. K., & Shaw, G. M. (2015). Heme oxygenase-1 promoter polymorphisms and risk of spina bifida. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol, 103(9), 741-746.

Yamada, N. K., Yaeger, K. A., & Halamek, L. P. (2015). Analysis and classification of errors made by teams during neonatal resuscitation. Resuscitation, 96, 109-113.

Shah, N. A., Van Meurs, K. P., & Davis, A. S. (2015). Amplitude-integrated electroencephalography: a survey of practices in the United States. Am J Perinatol, 32(8), 755-760.

Wallenstein, M. B., Olson, K., Peng, D. M., Stevenson, D. K., Shaw, G. M., Palma, J. P., & Bain, L. C. (2015). Case 1: Lactic Acidosis and Respiratory Distress in a 10-Day-Old Infant. Neoreviews, 16(7), e431-e433.

Wallenstein, M. B., & Wusthoff, C. J. (2015). 50 Years Ago in The Journal of Pediatrics: Cerebrospinal Fluid Protein Values of Premature Infants. J Pediatr, 166(6), 1396.

Pasca, A. M., Sloan, S. A., Clarke, L. E., Tian, Y., Makinson, C. D., Huber, N., . . . Pasca, S. P. (2015). Functional cortical neurons and astrocytes from human pluripotent stem cells in 3D culture. Nat Methods, 12(7), 671-678.

Shah, N. A., & Wusthoff, C. J. (2015). How to use: amplitude-integrated EEG (aEEG). Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed, 100(2), 75-81.

Wang, S. K., Callaway, N. F., Wallenstein, M. B., Henderson, M. T., Leng, T., & Moshfeghi, D. M. (2015). SUNDROP: six years of screening for retinopathy of prematurity with telemedicine. Can J Ophthalmol, 50(2), 101-106.

Akula, V. P., Joe, P., Thusu, K., Davis, A. S., Tamaresis, J. S., Kim, S., . . . Wallenstein, M. B., & Van Meurs, K. (2015). A Randomized Clinical Trial of Therapeutic Hypothermia Mode during Transport for Neonatal Encephalopathy. J Pediatr, 166(4), 856-861 e852.

Wallenstein, M. B., & Stevenson, D. K. (2015). New technique for umbilical artery catheter placement in the neonate. J Pediatr, 166(2), 501.

Lapcharoensap, W., Gage, S. C., Kan, P., Profit, J., Shaw, G. M., Gould, J. B., . . . Lee, H. C. (2015). Hospital variation and risk factors for bronchopulmonary dysplasia in a population-based cohort. JAMA Pediatr, 169(2), e143676.

Yamada, N. K., & Halamek, L. P. (2015). On the need for precise, concise communication during resuscitation: a proposed solution. J Pediatr, 166(1), 184-187.

Fuerch, J. H., Yamada, N. K., Coelho, P. R., Lee, H. C., & Halamek, L. P. (2015). Impact of a novel decision support tool on adherence to Neonatal Resuscitation Program algorithm. Resuscitation, 88, 52-56.

2014

Wallenstein M. B., Burgener E. B., Klotz J., Kerner J. (2014). Lactic acidosis and cardiovascular collapse in a teen with ulcerative colitis. Pediatrics in Review, 35, 444-446.

Yamada, N. K., & Halamek, L. P. (2014). Communication during resuscitation: time for a change? Resuscitation, 85(12), e191-192.

Fijalkowski, N., Zheng, L. L., Henderson, M. T., Wang, S. K., Wallenstein, M. B., Leng, T., & Moshfeghi, D. M. (2014). Stanford University Network for Diagnosis of Retinopathy of Prematurity (SUNDROP): five years of screening with telemedicine. Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina, 45(2), 106-113.

Wallenstein, M. B. (2014). The trouble with informed consent. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed, 99(3), F251.

Kumar, P., Yamada, N. K., Fuerch, J. H., & Halamek, L. P. (2014). The neonatal resuscitation program: current recommendations and a look at the future. Indian J Pediatr, 81(5), 473-480.

Wallenstein, M. B., Arain, Y. H., Birnie, K. L., Andrews, J., Palma, J. P., Benitz, W. E., & Chock, V. Y. (2014). Red blood cell transfusion is not associated with necrotizing enterocolitis: a review of consecutive transfusions in a tertiary neonatal intensive care unit. J Pediatr, 165(4), 678-682.

Todd, S., Arora, R., Kannikeswaran, N., Allarakhia, I., Sivaswamy, L., Wallenstein, M. B., . . . & Kerner, J. A. (2014). Index of suspicion. Pediatr Rev, 35(10), 439-446.

Cordero-Schmidt, G., Wallenstein, M. B., Ozen, M., Shah, N. A., Jackson, E., Hovsepian, D. M., & Palma, J. P. (2014). Pulmonary hypertensive crisis following ethanol sclerotherapy for a complex vascular malformation. J Perinatol, 34(9), 713-715.

Wallenstein, M. B., Hole, M. K., McCarthy, C., Fijalkowski, N., Jeng, M., & Wong, W. B. (2014). Mediastinal kaposiform hemangioendothelioma and Kasabach-Merritt phenomenon in a patient with no skin changes and a normal chest CT. Pediatr Hematol Oncol, 31(6), 563-567.

POSTER PRESENTATIONS, ORAL PRESENTATIONS, INVITED PRESENTATIONS

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

2016

Lapcharoensap, W., Schwandt, D., Sherman, J., and Lee, H. C. Challenges performing delayed cord clamping and CPAP resuscitation for preterm infants during C-section or vaginal delivery. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) Symposium, April 2016.

2015

Lapcharoensap, W., Bennett, M. V., Powers, R. J., Finer, N. N., Halamek, L. P., Gould, J. B.,Sharek, P. J., and Lee, H. C. Mortality and morbidity outcomes of VLBW infants participating in delivery room collaborative quality improvement projects in California. Vermont Oxford Network (VON) Annual Quality Congress; Chicago, IL. October 2015.

Fuerch, J. H., Yamada, N. K., Prasad, P., Halamek, L. P. Improving diagnostic accuracy & efficiency by optimization of bedside data display.

American Academy of Pediatrics; Washington, D.C. October 2015.
Pediatric Academic Society; San Diego, CA. April 2015.
6th Annual LPCH Annual Pediatrics Retreat; Palo Alto, CA. April 2015.
15th International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare; New Orleans, LA. January 2015.

Yamada, N. K., Fuerch, J. H., Halamek, L. P. Impact of standardized communication techniques on errors during simulated neonatal resuscitation.

International Pediatric Simulation Society Workshops and Symposium; Vancouver, Canada. May 2015.
Pediatric Academic Society; San Diego, CA. April 2015.
6th Annual LPCH Annual Pediatrics Retreat; Palo Alto, CA. April 2015.
15th International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare; New Orleans, LA. January 2015.

Yamada, N. K., Fuerch, J. H., Hintz, S. R., Halamek, L. P. Using simulation for patient-specific, pre-delivery planning for resuscitation of omphaloischiopagus conjoined twins. 6th Annual LPCH Annual Pediatrics Retreat; Palo Alto, CA. April 2015.

Fuerch, J. H., Yamada, N. K., Coelho, P. R., Lee, H. C., Halamek, L. P. Impact of a novel decision support tool on adherence to the neonatal resuscitation program algorithm. 15th International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare; New Orleans, LA. January 2015.

2014

Lapcharoensap, W., Gage, S. C., Kan, P., Profit, J., Shaw, G. M., Stevenson, D. K., and Lee, H. C. Risk factors for bronchopulmonary dysplasia in a population-based cohort. Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Meeting; Vancouver, Canada. May 2014.

Fuerch, J. H., Yamada, N. K., Prasad, P., Halamek, L. P. Improving diagnostic accuracy and efficiency by optimization of bedside data display: A human factors approach. LPCH Pediatrics Research Retreat; Palo Alto, CA. April 2014.

Fuerch, J. H., Yamada, N. K., Coelho, P. R., Lee, H. C., Halamek, L. P. Impact of a novel decision support tool on adherence to the Neonatal Resuscitation Program Algorithm. LPCH Pediatrics Research Retreat; Palo Alto, CA. April 2014.

Yamada, N. K., Fuerch, J. H., Halamek, L. P. Impact of standardized communication techniques on errors during simulated neonatal resuscitation.

14th International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare; San Francisco, CA. January 2014.
Western Regional Meeting; Carmel, CA. January 2014.

Lapcharoensap, W., Moses, S., Gold, P. J., Merritt, T. A., and Gold, J. Previously unreported novel mutation in COL1A2 with unusual presentation of osteogenesis imperfecta. Western Society Pediatric Research (WSPR) Meeting, Carmel, CA. January 2014.

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

2016

Yamada, N., Fuerch, J., Halamek, L. Human factors and ergonomics challenges in the neonatal intensive care unit: brainstorming the future. International Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics Conference (AHFE) 2016; Orlando, FL. July 2016 (accepted).

Fuerch, J., Yamada, N., Halamek, L. Human factors and ergonomics challenges in the neonatal
intensive care unit: brainstorming the future. International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care; San Diego, CA. April 2016.

Lapcharoensap, W., Bennett, M. V., Powers, R. J., Finer, N. N., Halamek, L. P., Gould, J. B.,Sharek, P. J., Lee, H. C. The effects of delivery room quality improvement on premature infant outcomes. Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Meeting; Baltimore, MD. April 2016.

Halamek, L., Fuerch, J., Yamada, N., Arafeh, J. Using simulation to assess, select and train your resuscitation teams. 16th International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare; San Diego, CA. January 2016.

2015

Fuerch, J. H., Yamada, N. K., Prasad, P., Halamek, L. P. Improving diagnostic accuracy & efficiency by optimization of bedside data display.

International Pediatric Simulation Society Workshops and Symposium; Vancouver, Canada. May 2015.
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society; Baltimore, MD. April 2015.
Western Regional Meeting; Carmel, CA. January 2015.

Fuerch, J. H., Yamada, N. K., Coelho, P. R., Lee, H. C., Halamek, L. P. Impact of a novel decision support tool on adherence to the neonatal resuscitation program algorithm. International Pediatric Simulation Society Workshops and Symposium; Vancouver, Canada. May 2015.

Yamada, N. K., Fuerch, J. H., Halamek, L. P. Impact of standardized communication techniques on errors during simulated neonatal resuscitation.

Human Factors and Ergonomics Society; Baltimore, MD. April 2015.
Western Regional Meeting; Carmel, CA. January 2015.

Pasca, A. M., Sloan, S. A., Clarke, L. E., Tian, Y., Nguyen, K., Kim, C. H., Park, J. Y., O'Rourke, N. A., Smith, S. J., Geschwind, D. H., Barres, B. A. and Pasca, S. P. Modeling human cortical development in a dish. Western Conference for Perinatal Research; Palm Springs, CA. January 2015.

Pasca, A. M., Sloan, S. A., Clarke, L. E., Tian, Y., Nguyen, K., Kim, C. H., Park, J. Y., O'Rourke, N. A., Smith, S. J., Geschwind, D. H., Barres, B. A. and Pasca, S. P. Building a human cortex in a dish: a novel tool for studying neurodevelopmental disorders. Western Society for Pediatric Research Meeting; Carmel, CA. January 2015.

2014

Halamek, L., Fuerch, J., Yamada, N. A clinician’s approach to human factors issues in healthcareat the Center for Advanced Pediatric and Perinatal Education at Stanford.” Human Factors and Ergonomics Society International Webinar. October 2014.

Yamada, N., Fuerch, J., Halamek, L. Impact of standardized communication techniques on errors during simulated neonatal resuscitation.

Pediatric Critical Care Fellows Conference, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. October 2014.
Program Current Issues Seminar, American Academy of Pediatrics; San Diego, CA. October 2014.

Fuerch, J. H., Yamada, N. K., Coelho, P. R., Lee, H. C., Halamek, L. P. Impact of a novel decision support tool on adherence to the neonatal resuscitation program algorithm.” Western Regional Meeting; Carmel, CA. January 2014.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

2015

Lapcharoensap, W. and Lee, H. C. The delivery room of the future. Workshop at Vermont Oxford Network (VON) Annual Quality Congress; Chicago, IL. October 2015.

Rao, A. Web-based subspecialist referral tool. NY State Pediatric Advocacy Coalition Conference. Mt. Sinai School of Medicine; New York, NY, 2015.

Lapcharoensap, W. and Weldon, B. Optimal timing of cord clamping. Clinical Consensus Conference, Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Stanford University; Stanford, CA. February 2015.

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