Seminar faculty

• Richard A Polin, M.D.

  Professor of Pediatrics College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
  Director of Neonatology Children’s Hospital of New York
  Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center

  Topics:

  * Evidenced based neonatology
  * Nutritional controversies in the premature infant
  * Strategies for prevention of lung injury
  * Necrotizing enterocolitis: Bugs, drugs and things that go bump in the night
  * What’s new about newborns? - Lessons from the recent literature
  
  

• Steven M. Donn, M.D.
  
  Professor of Pediatrics University of Michigan School of Medicine
  Director of Neonatology CS Mott Children's Hospital
  University of Michigan

  Topics:

  * Neonatal pulmonary graphics
  * Weaning infants from mechanical ventilation: Art, science or magic
  * Volume controlled ventilation in the newborn
  * Patient triggered ventilation
  * The ABC’s of mechanical ventilation: matching strategy with disease
  * Workshops on volume and pressure limited ventilation
  
  
• Jack Lorenz, M.D.
  
  Professor of Pediatrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons,
  Columbia University, Director Regional Perinatal Nurseries
  New York Presbyterian Hospital
  

  Topics:

  * Fluid & electrolyte management of the VLBW infant
  * Role of the neonatologist in medical decision making in the NICU
  * Survival & neurodevelopmental outcome of extreme prematurity
  * Update on surfactant
  * Ethical dilemmas
  * Puzzling cases form the NICU
  
  
• Sunil Sinha, M.D.
  
  Director of Neonatology
  James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, England

Topics:

* Neonatal encephalopathy in the term infant
* Brain injuries in preterm infants
* Neonatal seizures
* Neuroimaging in the newborn infant
* Oxygen therapy and monitoring