Prof. Dr. Ahmet Yağmur received his medical education in english at Hacettepe University. He currently works at the Zubeyda Lady's Female Disease Training and Research Hospital.
Pr. Dr. Omer Erdeve began his medical studies at Hacettepe University and continued his education and professional work at Ankara University in the following years. He is the author of more than 10 awards and more than 180 scientific works.
Dr. Rustam Huseynov, Chief Neonatologist at the Ministry of Health, has been working as an intensive care neonatologist for over 27 years. Huseynov Rustam Huseynali oglu In 1984 he graduated from the Azerbaijan State Medical University named after N. Narimanov. He is currently the head of the neonatal intensive care and intensive care unit of the Scientific Research Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Nasib Guliyev - Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor. Director of the Scientific Research Institute of Pediatrics named after K.Farajova, President of the Turkic World Pediatric Association since 2007 He is the Chief Specialist in Pediatrics of the Ministry of Health. He has been a Honored Scientist since 2000. In 2007 he was elected President of the Turkic World Pediatric Union. Nasib Guliyev is the author of more than 150 scientific works. Under his leadership, 5 candidates of sciences and 1 doctor of sciences defended.
Kari Roberts, M.D. is Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatology. She earned her M.D. degree at the University of Minnesota and completed her pediatric residency and neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. In addition to attending in the NICU at the University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital and the Special Care Nurseries at Fairview Ridges and Southdale hospitals, Dr. Roberts is involved in research regarding pre-medication for elective intubations. Her other research interests include newborn resuscitation, pain and physiologic responses during invasive procedures, and resident competency and training.
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Prof. Dr. Begum Atasay received his pediatric education at Ankara University, and began his academic career at various prestigious universities. He is currently working in the Department of Pediatrics at Anakar University.
Dr. Natasha Halasa is a pediatric infectious disease specialist in Nashville, Tennessee and is affiliated with Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She received her medical degree from University of Toledo College of Medicine and has been in practice between 11-20 years. Dr. Halasa accepts several types of health insurance, listed below.
Zuzanna Kubicka, MD obtained her medical degree at the Medical University in Lodz, Poland and completed pediatric residency at St. Barnabas Hospital Bronx, New York Presbyterian Hospital Network, followed by neonatal-perinatal fellowship at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH. She joined Boston Children’s Hospital in 2007. Dr. Kubicka has a special interest in the neonatal quality improvement. She participated in multiple QI projects including prevention of nosocomial infection, optimizing nutrition in very low birth weight infants with exclusive human milk diet, steroids for prevention of chronic lung disease. She led a multidisciplinary project to reduce chronic lung disease in very low birth weight infants, resulting in significant improvement in neonatal care. The outcomes were subsequently published in a peer-reviewed journal: “Quality improvement to reduce chronic lung disease rates in very low birth weight infants: high compliance with a respiratory care bundle in a small NICU.” Dr. Kubicka is also a co-author in a book chapter in AAP Textbook of pediatric care and Neonatology for primary care on transient metabolic disturbances in newborn.
Dr. Fort specializes in neonatology in the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Maternal, Fetal & Neonatal Institute. He is a co-lead for the institute’s Research and Quality Network and a co-chair of its research council. He advocates for research education and has ongoing projects with residents and fellows related to caffeine and respiratory outcomes as well as biomarkers predictive of necrotizing enterocolitis.
Dr. Fort’s research focus includes control of breathing and apnea of premature infants, specifically as it relates to its management with caffeine. During his fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, he successfully presented, with support of his mentor Waldemar Carlo, a large, multicenter, randomized controlled trial called the MOCHA trial, which is currently recruiting at the Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) neonatal research network clinical sites to evaluate the use of caffeine at home for premature infants. He is also a site principal investigator for the Intermittent Hypoxia and Caffeine (ICAF) trial, a multicenter trial headed by Dr. Carl Hunt and Eric Eichenwald. Dr. Fort is also an expert reviewer for caffeine with the Journal of Perinatology as well as being a junior member and reviewer for the Society of Pediatric Research. He has received teaching awards during his training and received the 2015 Society of Pediatric Research Fellows’ Section Clinical Research Award as well as the Clinical Young Investigators’ Award from the Southern Society of Pediatric Research for a pilot randomized control trial comparing vitamin D dosing in extremely preterm infants during his fellowship.
Before his fellowship, during which he also obtained a certificate in Global Health and completed a Clinical and Translational Sciences program. Dr. Fort began his medical career at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Herdia in Lima, Peru before moving to the United States and completing an undergraduate degree at the University of North Carolina and Chapel Hill. He earned his medical degree from the University Of North Carolina School Of Medicine. He completed his pediatric residency at Duke University Medical Center. He worked as a community pediatrician and a hospitalist in the neonatal intensive care unit for three years at Duke, Jersey Shore Medical Center, and Gov. Juan F. Luis Hospital & Medical Center in the U.S Virgin Islands.
