Dr. Sonia Lomeli Bonifacio is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the NeuroNICU at Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. She is renowned for her pioneering work in neonatal neurocritical care, significantly advancing the field through the establishment of protocols that enhance the care of critically ill newborns. She has been instrumental in developing a model of brain focused neonatal care to minimize brain injury in newborns and improving developmental outcomes. Through her extensive work in research, education, and clinical practice, Dr. Bonifacio continues to make a profound impact on the field of neonatal medicine. Dr. Courtney J. Wusthoff is Chief of Child Neurology at the University of California, Davis. Her research focus is neonatal EEG and seizures. She led development of the 2025 American Clinical Neurophysiology Society Guideline on Indications for Continuous EEG Monitoring in Neonates. She co-edited Neuromonitoring in Neonatal and Pediatric Critical Care (2022). Dr. Valerie Y. Chock is an expert in neonatal near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). She leads the US Neonatal NIRS Consortium to advance the use of neuromonitoring by promoting clinical and research initiatives. She has multiple publications on neuromonitoring and hemodynamics and led an NIH-funded multicenter trial investigating NIRS monitoring in preterm anemic infants. Dr. Susan R. Hintz is a neonatologist and perinatal epidemiologist, whose investigative work focuses on advancing multidisciplinary fetal-to-neonatal care and improving morbidities and post-discharge outcomes for high-risk infants. She serves in leadership roles in statewide and national follow up quality initiatives and studies and is founder and director of the complex fetal care program at Stanford. Dr. Maurice L. Druzin is Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University School of Medicine and in the Department of OBGYN. He served on the ACOG Hypertension in Pregnancy Taskforce which published national guidelines in 2013. He was co-chair of the CMQCC Taskforce which produced the toolkit in 2014 and 2021 on Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy. Professor Alistair Jan Gunn, is Professor of Physiology and Paediatrics, Department of Physiology at the University of Auckland. An Honorary Fellow of the Newborn Brain Society, he completed systematic preclinical studies of the evolution of brain injury during post-asphyxial encephalopathy, and the impact of cerebral hypothermia, conducted the first randomized controlled trials of therapeutic hypothermia, and supported its translation to routine clinical care. Dr David K. Stevenson, is the Harold K. Faber Professor of Pediatrics. He has received the Virginia Apgar Award, the highest award in Perinatal Pediatrics, and the John Howland Medal and Award, the highest award given by the American Pediatric Society. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
