Newborn Brain Society

Board of Directors

Mohamed El-Dib, MD

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 …

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Laura R Ment, MD

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 …

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Christopher Smyser, MD, MSCI

Christopher Smyser, M.D., M.S.C.I., is the director of the Neonatal Neurology Clinical Program and head of the Pediatric Neurocritical Care Section in the Division of Pediatric and Developmental Neurology at Washington University/St. Louis Children’s Hospital, where he is an Associate Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics and Radiology. He also co-directs the Baker Family Fellowship in Neonatal …

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An Massaro, MD

An N. Massaro is a Professor of Pediatrics at The George Washington University School of Medicine and a neonatologist at Children’s National Hospital (CNH). She is a Principal Investigator in the Center for Translational Science and the Center for Neuroscience in the Children’s Research Institute at CNH. Her research broadly centers on neonatal neurology and …

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Sonia Bonifacio, MD

Dr. Sonia Lomeli Bonifacio, Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, joined the Stanford faculty in May of 2015 and is the Associate Medical Director of the NeuroNICU. Sonia is a native San Franciscan and completed all her medical training, medical school through fellowship, at the University of California in San Francisco. She was on the faculty …

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Betsy Pilon

Betsy Pilon is the Executive Director of Hope for HIE, a global nonprofit dedicated to improving the quality of life for children and families impacted by HIE through awareness, education and support for neonatal and pediatric acquired hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy. Hope for HIE serves over 6,000 families worldwide, through a comprehensive network.  After her own son, …

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Janet Soul, MDCM, FRCPC

Janet Soul is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Fetal-Neonatal Neurology Program at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Soul obtained her medical degree at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, then moved to Boston to complete her pediatric residency, Child Neurology training in the Harvard Longwood Neurology Program, and …

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