Newborn Brain Society

Committee Co-Chairs

Rafaela Fabri, MD

Dr. Rafaela Fabri currently lives in São Paulo, Brazil. Dr. Fabri graduated in Medicine from the University of Taubaté (2012). She completed residency in Pediatrics and Neonatology fellowship at the Irmandade da Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Paulo (2016). She is the Medical Director at PBSF – Protecting Brains & Saving Futures, attending physician in the …

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Lina F Chalak, MD, MSCS

Dr. Lina F Chalak, MD, MSCS is a Professor in Pediatrics and Psychiatry at UT Southwestern. Dr. Chalak is a neonatologist founding director of the Neurointensive Care NICU program and co-director of the Neonatal Neurology Fellowship Program. Her NIH funding trajectory started with a KL2 followed by K23 then RO1. Her current federally funded research …

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Maran Ramani, MD

Dr. Ramani is the Associate Program Director of the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program at the University of Alabama. As the Associate Program Director, he is responsible for the quality of the fellow clinical experience, didactic educational lectures, duty hours and working environment. He is also responsible for the creation and implementation of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine fellowship …

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Michael D. Weiss, M.D., FAAP

Dr. Michael Weiss is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Florida. Dr. Weiss obtained his Bachelor of Arts and Sciences, Biology Major from Florida State University in 1990. He attended the Program in Medical Science at Florida State University from 1990-1991. From 1991-1994, he attended the University of Florida College of Medicine and …

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Eric Peeples, MD

Eric Peeples is a neonatologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Children’s Nebraska. Dr. Peeples is also the director of the neonatal neuroscience program at Children’s, and he heads the Newborn Brain Injury lab at the University of Nebraska Medical Center which performs bench and …

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