Florence Bourgeois
Epidemiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital
Lina Chalak
Neonatology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Helen Christou
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
James W. Collins, Jr.
Neonatology, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine
Florence Bourgeois, MD, MPH is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Senior Associate Physician in Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is a member of the Computational Health Informatics Program at Boston Children’s Hospital where she directs the Initiative in Pediatric Therapeutics and Regulatory Science (PedRx.org) and is the Scientific Director of the institutional biobank. Dr. Bourgeois is also Co-Director of the Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science. Her research is focused on applying a combination of clinical epidemiology and big data analytics to evaluate the use and regulation of medications in children and assess gaps in pediatric drug evidence at the point of care. She is the recipie,nt of an Innovation in Regulatory Science Award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and has served as an Expert Visitor to the European Medicines Agency to analyze the EU’s pediatric drug legislation. Her clinical training and experience are in pediatrics and pediatric emergency medicine.
Florence Bourgeois
Epidemiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital
Lina Chalak, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, is the Director of the Neurological Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NeuroNICU) Program and Co- Director, Fetal and Neonatal Neurology Fellowship Training Program. She leads a multi-science research team that includes physiologists, biomedical engineers and specialists in MRI to evaluate various diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of neonatal asphyxia including “Mild HIE”. Her current NIH NINDS R01proposal is testing a novel “Neurovascular bundle” for a critical real time evaluation of the coupling of cerebral blood flow and neuronal activity in newborns for Real Time Detection of Injury.
Lina Chalak
Neonatology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dr. Christou is a medical graduate of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. She completed her pediatric residency at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York and her fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at the Harvard program in Boston. Her research is focused on the molecular mechanisms of pulmonary hypertension with emphasis in their translational applications.
She has served in leadership positions in education including as program director for the Harvard Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship program and she is a clinical neonatologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital where she currently serves as associate chair for research in the department of pediatric newborn medicine.
Helen Christou
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dr. Collins earned his BS and MD degrees from the University of Michigan and his MPH from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. He is the medical director of the neonatal intensive care unit and the associate program director of the pediatric residency program at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. He has been the principal investigator on several grants examining racial and ethnic group disparities in perinatal outcome. He has authored numerous research articles and is a frequent lecturer on issues related to birth outcomes. Dr. Collins has received several awards for his research, teaching, and leadership in maternal and infant health, including the March of Dimes Jonas Salk Health Leadership Award, Research Honoree and the Duane Alexander Award for Academic Leadership in Perinatal Medicine from the National Institute of Child Health and Development.
James W. Collins, Jr.
Neonatology, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine