Steering Committee

Terrie Inder, MBChB, MD, is the first appointed chair of the newly transitioned Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. As board-certified in newborn medicine and with training in child neurology, her major discoveries have been in clinical and translational research into the nature and timing of brain injury in […]

I am Professor of Perinatal and Developmental Neurology at the University of Southampton and honorary Consultant Paediatric Neurologist at Southampton Children’s Hospital, UK, where I lead the multidisciplinary perinatal and developmental neurology service. My research focus is on brain development and neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants with developmental brain abnormalities or perinatal brain injury, and we

Dr. Steven Miller is Head and Professor of the UBC Department of Pediatrics and the Chief of Pediatric Medicine at BC’s Children Hospital. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. He holds the Hudson Family Hospital Chair in Pediatric Medicine and James & Annabel

Pierre Gressens received his Medical Degree (UCL, Brussels, Belgium) in 1989 and his Ph.D. at the University of Louvain Medical School (UCL) in 1995. He further specialized in Child Neurology and carried out his post-doctoral research training at the NIH (Bethesda, USA). He has been working at Robert Debré Hospital, Paris both a researcher and

Dr. Hannah Glass is a Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. She is a neonatal neurologist, co-director of the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Neurointensive Care Nursery (NICN), and Director of Neonatal Critical Care Services at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, San Francisco. She is also the

Lauren Jantzie, PhD, is an associate professor and pediatric neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Kennedy Krieger Institute. Her translational research lab is dedicated to understanding the pathophysiology and treatment of many forms of perinatal brain injury. As the leader of a large multi-disciplinary research team that includes discovery bench science,

Dr. Scher’s training in fetal/neonatal neurology (FNN) began as an undergraduate at the University of Rochester (1968-72), medical school at SUNY/Downstate (1972-76), pediatric residency training at Cornell/New York Hospital (1976-78), neurology/pediatric neurology and clinical neurophysiology fellowship training at the University of Minnesota (1978-81), and a neonatal neurology research fellowship at Stanford University (1981-83). His academic