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Newly Launched Newborn Brain Society Now Accepting Memberships FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Boston, Mass. — A collective of the world’s leading newborn brain care providers have come together and launched the Newborn Brain Society (NBS). This new organization is focused on advancing newborn brain care through international multidisciplinary collaboration, education, and innovation. With founding leadership representation from […]

Joseph J. Volpe, MD, Neurologist-in-Chief Emeritus, Bronson Crothers Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School As requested by Dr. Mohamed El-Dib, President of the Newborn Brain Society, the following consists of brief reflections on the past, present and future of neonatal neurology. The reflections are highly selective and will not include names, to avoid the inevitable,

Betsy Pilon, President, Hope for HIE & NBS Board Member In 2012, my first child was born. After a routine pregnancy with exceptional prenatal care, he unexpectedly stopped moving at 37 weeks gestation. He was born through an emergency c-section, intubated, assessed, and transferred to Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit to begin hypotermic cooling for

Professor Alistair Gunn, Departments of Physiology and Paediatrics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. Therapeutic hypothermia is a dream revisited, first suggested in antiquity (1). The possibility that it could improve recovery after a period of hypoxia-ischemia at birth was first tested in small uncontrolled studies in the 1950s and 1960s (2). In those first

Robert White, MD, Director, Regional Newborn Program, Beacon Children’s Hospital (South Bend, Ind.), Newborn Brain Society – Education Committee Babies enter the NICU during life’s most active stage of brain growth and learning which forces this crucial development to occur, for better or worse, in an environment that is far removed from the normal in

Gabriel Variane, MD, Founder of PBSF – Protecting Brains & Saving Futures Brazil counts with almost 3 million live births per year, from those, it is estimated 15-20 thousand infants with Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE), what accounts for approximately 2 infants with HIE per hour. Like any developing country, the resources available for neonatal care