Board of Directors

Mohamed El-Dib, MD is the Director of Neonatal Neurocritical Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He is a neonatologist with additional training in neonatal neurology. The BWH Neonatal Neurocritical program is a multidisciplinary group of specialty trained nurses, neurologists, neuroradiologists and developmental specialists. This group

Laura R Ment, MD, is Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology and Associate Dean, Yale School of Medicine. A graduate of Brown University and Tufts University School of Medicine, Dr. Ment received her training in both pediatrics and pediatric neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. A former member of the NANDS Council of the National

Christopher Smyser, M.D., M.S.C.I., is the A. Ernest and Jane G. Stein Professor of Developmental Neurology and Director of the Division of Pediatric and Developmental Neurology at Washington University where he is a Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics, Radiology, Psychiatry, and Neurosurgery. He is also Neurologist-in-Chief at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. Dr. Smyser is a pediatric

Dr. Sewell is a neonatologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. She has led educational opportunities, clinical guideline development, quality projects, and research initiatives related to advance newborn brain health. She is the co-director for the NeuroNICU at Children’s Hospital of Atlanta.

Alexa K. Craig, M.D., M.Sc., M.S., is the Vice Chair of Research at Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital, where she also serves as Division Director of Pediatric Neurology and Co-Director of the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital Scholar’s Academy. She is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine. She is board certified in

Eleanor Molloy is the Professor and Chair of Paediatrics and Child Health in Trinity College Dublin(TCD), Ireland. She is a paediatrician and neonatologist based in Children’s Health Ireland at Crumlin & Tallaght and the Coombe Hospital. Her research group is concerned with interdisciplinary child health research and the promotion of Paediatric Translational projects to improve

Dr. Nikki Robertson is a Professor of Perinatal Neuroscience at UCL and University of Edinburgh, currently leading 2 preclinical large animal neonatal neuroprotection labs focused on therapies to improve outcomes in neonatal encephalopathy.  As a consultant neonatologist, she has practiced for 25 years in the UK. Dr. Robertson aims over the next 5-10 years to