Dan L. Stewart, M.D.

Dr. Stewart joined the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Louisville School of Medicine in 1988, several years following the completion of his fellowship in Neonatology at this institution.  He initially completed his training in Pediatrics at the Medical College of Virginia.  Previously, Dr. Stewart has served in a variety of capacities, including as chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at East Tennessee State University.  Currently, he is a Professor of Pediatrics and Assistant Director of the Division of Neonatal Medicine.

Remaining active in his advocacy for children, Dr. Stewart has worked with multiple national and international organizations.  Dr. Stewart is a past President of the Kentucky Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and chairs the committee on Pediatric Advocacy in Kentucky.  He is also a board member and past president of the Kentucky Pediatric Society Foundation.  Additionally, Dr. Stewart has worked to promote improvements to neonatal care internationally, and he has traveled extensively in this regard to countries such as Romania, Moldova, and Vietnam.

Having authored over 50 publications and multiple abstracts, Dr. Stewart has pursued a diverse research agenda during his academic career.  Dr. Stewart has particularly focused on innovative work involving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, inhaled nitric oxide therapies, and high-frequency ventilation.  Dr. Stewart is a frequently invited speaker and has received multiple awards.  Most recently, Dr. Stewart was the recipient of the Marion Downs Award. 

Brian Darlow MD FRACP
Christchurch School of Medicine University of Otago Christchurch New Zealand

Brian Darlow, MD was raised in South-West London, read natural sciences and then medicine at Cambridge University and trained in the UK and New Zealand. He holds the CureKids Chair of Paediatric Research and is Head of the Department of Paediatrics, Christchurch School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand. Dr. Darlow’s clinical work is predominantly as a neonatologist and his research interests have focussed on free-radical disease in the newborn, longer term outcome following preterm birth and unit variations in outcome. He has been the PI or co-investigator on over 12 project grants from the NZ Health Research Council, together with other grants from various funding bodies, and PI and organiser of a number of large multicentre trials involving all level III neonatal units in New Zealand. Dr. Darlow has a number of ongoing international collaborations, has been a member of the Executive of the Australia and New Zealand Neonatal Network since 1994 and is currently Chair of the Network Management Committee. 

Dr. Carolyn Salafia
Dr. Carolyn Salafia is Board Certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology with subspecialty board in Pediatric Pathology. She has held academic appointments at the Associate and Full Professor levels at Georgetown University Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Salafia received her BA from Dartmouth College and an MD from Duke University School of Medicine. Following medical school, she completed a Residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the Yale-affiliated community hospitals of St Raphael and Danbury Hospital, where she began her long publication history with analyses of the placental pathology underlying complications occurring in a low-risk community based population.

Her research has focused on the clinical correlation of placental pathology with maternal, fetal and neonatal outcomes, and more recently on the mathematical modeling of placental growth and placental pathology. She has authored approximately over 100 original manuscripts and book chapters and 200 abstracts and received grant awards from the National Institutes of Health, including a K23 Mentored Mid-Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Mental Health, the goals of which were to evaluate our current methods of placental evaluation and develop novel measures that can improve our understanding of how gestational pathology appears to create risk for neurodevelopmental disorders. She was a National Science Foundation sponsored Fellow in 2007, 2008 and 2009 to the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA, where she has developed a multidisciplinary team that has created a number of novel means to measure and quantitate placental growth and development and its disease states including acute intraamniotic infection.

Dr. Jonathan Davis
Dr. Jonathan Davis is Chief of Newborn Medicine, Director of the Clinical and Translational Research Center and Professor of Pediatrics at the Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center. Dr. Davis received his BA from Brandeis University and an MD from McGill University Faculty of Medicine. Following medical school, he completed a Residency in Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and a Fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Dr. Davis has worked at the University of Rochester, the State University of New York at Stony Brook and is currently at Tufts University. His research has focused on respiratory disorders of newborn infants, causes of newborn brain injury and oxidant/antioxidant balance in diseases of newborns. He has authored approximately 125 original manuscripts and book chapters and 200 abstracts and received numerous grant awards from the National Institutes of Health, the March of Dimes, the American Lung Association and Private Industry totaling over $10,000,000. Dr. Davis has lectured extensively worldwide including the Vatican Children’s Hospital in Rome, the Pasteur Research Institute in Paris, as well as Canada, Greece, Turkey, Ireland, England, Israel and Japan. He has served on many advisory panels for the NIH (currently Chair of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Pediatric Sub-Committee at NICHD) and FDA in the US, Medical Research Council in Canada, British Lung Foundation and the National Health Council of Australia. 

Sherry E. Courtney, MD MS
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Neonatology
Stony Brook University Medical Center
Stony Brook, NY
Email: sherry.courtney@stonybrook.edu

Dr. Courtney received her MD degree from the University of Kansas in 1973.  She completed her pediatric residency and neonatal fellowship at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri in 1979.  Throughout the 1980’s she practiced at Children’s Medical Center, Dayton, Ohio, where she was Director of Newborn Medicine from 1982-1990.  She received her Masters of Science from the University of Michigan in 1991, in clinical research design and statistical analysis.  Throughout most of the 1990’s Dr. Courtney practiced at Cooper Hospital in Camden, New Jersey, where she was Director of Clinical Research for the Department of Pediatrics, and Professor of Pediatrics at Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine.  Dr. Courtney joined the Department of Pediatrics at Schneider Children’s Hospital on Long Island in 2002, and moved to Stony Brook University Medical Center in 2007 to direct the clinical research and the neonatal fellowship programs there.

Mark C. Mammel, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Co-director Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship
University of Minnesota
Director, Infant Diagnostic & Research Center
Children's Hospital - St. Paul, MN
Email: mamme001@tc.umn.edu

Dr. Vinod K. Bhutani is a professor at  Stanford University School of Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine.  His research interests are Neonatology; newborn jaundice, bilirubin biology and kernicterus prevention; pulmonary physiology, pulmonary functions and neonatal ventilation.