NeoHeart Europe 2026 - Programme Organisers & Faculty Biographies

Consultant Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthetist and Intensivist on CICU & Educational Lead CICU, Great Ormond Street Hospital; Honorary Lecturer, University College London, UK

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Specialty Lead - Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital; Honorary Associate Professor, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science, UK

Dr Aparna Hoskote is the Specialty Lead for Cardiac Intensive Care at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, and Honorary Associate Professor, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science, London, UK. The Cardiac ICU is a quaternary referral centre for children with congenital heart disease and a nationally commissioned centre for ECMO, mechanical circulatory support (ventricular assist devices), cardiothoracic transplantation, pulmonary hypertension, and tracheal disease. Alongside a strong commitment to exemplary clinical care, clinical governance, and international collaboration, she has focussed on bedside cardiovascular and cerebrovascular physiology, and outcomes research related to neurodevelopmental outcomes in neonates and children supported on extracorporeal life support.

Dr Hoskote is a member of the EuroELSO Steering Committee and holds the position of Treasurer and is the co-chair of the EuroELSO Working Group on Neurological Monitoring and Outcome. She is also member of the ESPNIC (European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care) Executive Committee as the chair for professional development.

Garrett Isaac Neubauer Professor of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center; Section Chief, Neonatal Cardiac ICU, Children’s Hospital of New York, USA

Ganga Krishnamurthy, MD, is the Medical Director of the Milstein Family Infant Cardiac Unit and is the Garrett Isaac Neubauer Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center. She is one of the few doctors in the United States with unique and rare expertise in neonatal cardiac intensive care and is a pioneer in her field. As Medical Director of the nation’s first and only dedicated neonatal and infant cardiac intensive care unit, Dr. Krishnamurthy brings exclusive qualifications for leading a team of specialists.

She works closely with doctors from maternal fetal medicine, fetal cardiologists, pediatric cardiologists, neonatal and pediatric cardiothoracic surgeons, and general surgeons to provide evidence-based, family-centered, comprehensive care from birth until discharge. The multidisciplinary approach at the Infant Cardiac Unit has produced outstanding outcomes, particularly in low birthweight and premature neonates with complex congenital heart disease.

Dr. Krishnamurthy applies her rare expertise to evaluate and treat newborns with complex congenital heart diseases. Some of the conditions she treats are hypoplastic left heart syndrome, d-Transposition of the Great Arteries, Tetralogy of Fallot, Truncus Arteriosus, and Totally Anomalous Pulmonary Vein drainage.

In addition, Dr. Krishnamurthy is a nationally recognized thought leader in the field of neonatal cardiac intensive care and has several publications to her credit. She is committed to the mission of improving the health of children born with congenital heart disease and dedicated to the advancement of science in the field of neonatal cardiac intensive care.

Division Chief and Medical Director, Division of Cardiology, TriStar Centennial Children’s Hospital Tennessee, USA

Dr. Victor Y. Levy is a board-certified pediatric cardiologist and neonatologist specializing in neonatal hemodynamics, congenital heart disease, pulmonary hypertension, and cardiac intensive care. He currently serves as Division Chief and Medical Director of Pediatric Cardiology at TriStar Centennial Children’s Hospital, part of HCA Healthcare, in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Levy completed fellowship training in pediatric cardiology and neonatology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, with additional advanced training in CVICU and pulmonary hypertension at Stanford University.

He is internationally recognized for his work advancing collaborative neonatal cardiac care and is the co-founder of the Neonatal Heart Society and NeoHeart, a multidisciplinary global educational platform focused on improving outcomes for newborns and children with congenital and cardiopulmonary heart disease. Dr. Levy has held leadership positions at major children’s hospitals across the United States and is widely known for developing innovative neonatal hemodynamics and cardiac care programs that bridge neonatology, pediatric cardiology, and cardiac intensive care medicine.

Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital; Hub Neonatal Psychologist, London Neonatal ODN, UK

I’m a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and I’ve worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) on the Intensive Care units for the last 14 years. Since 2023 I’ve also been working with the London Neonatal ODN in a Hub role across the 11 neonatal units in North Central and East London. Along with my ODN colleagues and the unit-based psychological professionals, this role aims to help Neonatal units to embed Psychologically Informed Care into their everyday practice.

As psychological professionals working on neonatal units we advocate for the importance of parents as partners, family integrated care, and supporting parents to access emotional support both during and after their baby’s admission. Part of my role also involves educating staff who care for babies and their families on other hospital wards (that aren’t neonate-focused) and in the community, post-discharge.

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal Perinatal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA

Dr. Noorjahan (Nora) Ali is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern. Her research focuses on neonatal resuscitation for infants with congenital heart anomalies in the NICU. She leads national initiatives, including Chair of the AAP Neonatal Resuscitation Program cardiac section, and contributes to AAP NRP NICU, CHNC and American Heart Association resuscitation efforts.

Neonatologist, Montreal Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, McGill University, Canada

Gabriel Altit is a neonatologist and clinician-scientist at the Montreal Children’s Hospital and McGill University, where he leads work in neonatal hemodynamics, targeted neonatal echocardiography, neonatal pulmonary hypertension and neonatal cardiovascular research. He is also the founder of NeoCardioLab, an educational platform dedicated to advancing knowledge translation, research, and innovation in neonatal and pediatric cardiovascular care.

Neonatologist, Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC), USA

Dr. Amir H. Ashrafi is a cardiac neonatologist at CHOC Children’s Hospital. Dr. Ashrafi’s primary interest is neonates with hemodynamic instability and/or congenital heart disease. He is the Assoc medical director of the CHOC NICU, director for the neonatal cardiovascular service line, medical director of the neonatal ECMO program, founder of the NeoHeart conference, and co-founder of the Neonatal Heart Society.

Chair, Department of Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center; Surgeon-in-Chief, NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center; Roth Salzhauer Family Professor of Surgery, Pediatric and Congenital Adult Cardiac Surgery, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital and Komansky Children’s/Weill-Cornell, USA

Dr. Emile Bacha is a US board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon with a subspecialization in pediatric and congenital cardiac surgery. Dr. Bacha is currently the Surgeon-in-Chief at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Chair of the Department of Surgery at Columbia University. He previously served as Chief of the Division of Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery, and Director of Congenital Heart Surgery at New York- Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital and Komansky/Weill-Cornell Children’s.

Dr. Bacha is of German-Lebanese background and was born in Beirut, Lebanon. He received his medical degree at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. He completed his surgical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Emory University Hospitals, in addition to a research fellowship at the Marie-Lannelongue Hospital of Paris-Sud University in France. He completed a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Children's Hospital Boston.

Dr. Bacha has been supported by grants from the NIH, AHA, the American Association of Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Foundation and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS). Dr. Bacha is a recognized expert in all aspects of pediatric and adult congenital cardiac surgery. He is also the principal developer of a widely accepted technical competency metric for pediatric heart surgeons. Dr. Bacha has published more than 400 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is a past-Associate Editor of the Journal for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, and currently serves as the 106th President of the AATS.

Consultant Cardiac Surgeon and Head of Service, Congenital Heart Service, Evelina Children’s Hospital; Honorary Professor of Surgery, King’s College London, UK

David Barron is the head of cardiac surgery for the combined programmes at Evelina Children’s and the Royal Brompton Hospitals, London. Honorary Professor at King’s College London. Before joining in 2025, he was Division Head at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto and Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto, which is in the top 5 surgical programmes in North America, steering Sick Kids to the highest quality outcomes in its history. He was also Director of the Adult Congenital Heart Surgery service at Toronto General Hospital. Previously, Mr Barron was the Senior Cardiac Surgeon at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, where he had been a consultant since 1999, and honorary Professor at University of Birmingham.

He graduated from St. Thomas’ Hospital in London, and had his cardiothoracic training at Papworth Hospital, Southampton, the Royal Brompton Hospital and Great Ormond Street. He is dual qualified in both internal medicine and in cardiothoracic surgery and has a doctorate (MD) from Imperial College in biomechanical assist. He has been national lead for Congenital Cardiac Training in the UK and has been on the Executive of the British and European Cardiothoracic Societies as well as on the programme committee of the American Association (AATS) and the led the Data Centre for the Congenital Heart Surgeons’ Association (CHSS).

His research interests include Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, Congenitally Corrected Transposition, complex pulmonary atresia and 3D Printing in Cardiac Surgery. His research has focused on surgical innovations in these conditions as well as in developing risk adjustment scores and in quality improvement systems, supported by grants including CIHR, NIHR and British Heart Foundation of >$5M. He has 270 peer reviewed publications, has authored chapters in 18 textbooks, and written two congenital cardiac textbooks.

Consultant Neonatologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, University College London Hospital, UK

Sadaf is a Consultant Neonatologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital and University College London Hospital (MD, France, MRPCH, UK). Her clinical interests include POCUS, neonatal cardiology(EACVI certified), ethics(member of the GOSH ethics committee). She is the lead for neonatal simulation at GOSH, and member of the education team of NeoFOCUS-UK.

Consultant Neonatologist and Lead for Paediatric & Neonatal Cardiology, Medway NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Dr. Bikash Bhojnagarwala is a Consultant Neonatologist with a specialist interest in neonatal and paediatric cardiology. He holds European certification in congenital heart disease echocardiography and has advanced expertise in Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS), including lung, line, and cardiac assessments, as well as integrated haemodynamic evaluation and structural congenital heart disease. He provides comprehensive care for neonates and children with rhythm disturbances and congenital or acquired cardiac conditions, and leads paediatric cardiology services at Medway NHS Foundation Trust. He is also the Lead for Neonatal Services at the Oliver Fisher Neonatal Unit.

In addition to his clinical role, Dr. Bhojnagarwala is a Clinical Lecturer at Kent and Medway Medical School. He holds national leadership positions as Honorary General Secretary of the Paediatricians with Expertise in Cardiology Special Interest Group (PECSIG) and Honorary Treasurer of NeoFOCUS-UK. He is also an elected executive board member of the Lifelong Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) Network. Dr. Bhojnagarwala is actively engaged in research, education, and innovation, with his work presented at national and international conferences, where he also frequently chairs sessions. His current interests include advancing neonatal cardiology, haemodynamic monitoring, and the application of lung ultrasound in neonatal care.

Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatology, Emory University/Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, USA

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Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital ; Honorary Clinical Lecturer, University College London, UK

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Consultant Paediatric Intensive Care & Director of Bioethics, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

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Consultant in Children’s Intensive Care, Great Ormond Street Hospital; Professor, Institute Cardiovascular Science, University College London, UK

Professor Katherine (Kate) Brown has been a Consultant in Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care at Great Ormond Street Hospital since 2002. She completed Masters Public Health (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 2008), MD (Cambridge University 2015) and became Professor Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care and Deputy Head of Department of the Children’s Institute of Cardiovascular Science at UCL in 2022. She is Centre Lead for Outcomes of Children’s Cardiovascular Disease and Critical Illness, Children’s Institute of Cardiovascular Science UCL.

Paediatric Cardiologist and Head of the Department of Cardiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

I am Professor of Paediatric Cardiology at Great Ormond Street Hospital and University College London.. I was appointed a consultant at Great Ormond Street in 2001. I was Associate Editor of the journal Heart (BMJ Journals) for 7 years until 2015. I am Associate Editor of the journal Pediatric Transplantation. My special interest is in paediatric heart muscle disease, paediatric heart failure and the management of children after cardiac transplantation. GOSH is a national centre for advanced heart failure therapies including ECMO and ventricular assist devices. Over 750 paediatric cardiothoracic transplants have been performed at GOSH, which is the largest paediatric transplant programme in Europe.

Senior Research Fellow - Children’s Cardiovascular Disease, University College London, UK

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Consultant Fetal and Paediatric Cardiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

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Section Head, Interventional Cardiology, Division of Cardiology; Professor, Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada

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Professor of Research and Education in Fetal Cardiac Development, Surgical and Interventional Cardiac Anatomy, University College London, UK

Prof Andrew Cook is Director of Education and leads the Centre for Morphology & Structural Heart Disease at UCL’s Institute of Cardiovascular Science / Great Ormond Street Hospital, based at the Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children, London, UK.

He is active in research, education and training with expertise in the structural architecture of the heart during fetal development, in congenital and acquired adult disease. He is the founder of The Heart Academy. Current research focusses on Organ-to-Cell Molecular Imaging (OCMI) linking Hierarchical Phase Contrast Tomography (HiP-CT) to Spatial transcriptomics; Deep-phenotyping of congenital and structural heart disease using synchrotron imaging and HiP-CT; the use of VR and 3D immersive environments for dissemination & education; and structural anatomy for device design.

Consultant Pediatric Cardiology, UZ Leuven, Belgium

Bjorn Cools is a pediatric cardiologist at the University Hospitals Leuven. He obtained his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree at the University of Antwerp in 2002 and subsequently followed the Pediatrics Training program at the same University. After graduating as pediatrician in 2007 he further specialized in Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology at Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 2021, he earned a Doctor’s Degree in Biomedical Sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven.

He is senior staff member at the Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology department of UZ Leuven from 2010. His fields of expertise are interventional cardiology, heart failure and pediatric heart transplantation and pulmonary hypertension. He is appointed as Assistant Professor at KU Leuven, where he contributes to academic teaching and research in cardiovascular sciences. He is the vice-president of the Belgian Academy of Pediatric Cardiology.

Consultant Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthetist and Intensivist on CICU & Educational Lead CICU, Great Ormond Street Hospital; Honorary Lecturer, University College London, UK

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Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, Great Ormond Street Hospital; Reader and Head of Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, University College London Institute of Child Health, UK

Paolo De Coppi is the NIHR and Nuffield Chair of Pediatric Surgery, and Consultant Pediatric Surgeon at the Great Ormond Street Hospital. He is Head of the Surgery Unit, Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Section, DBC, UCL. Past President of the European Pediatric Surgical Association (EUPSA). In 2020, he became the first Pediatric Surgeon to be elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2024, Professor Paolo De Coppi has been added to TIME's inaugural TIME100 Health List of the 100 most influential people in global health.

Full Professor of Pediatrics, Chief of the Division of Pediatric and Neonatal Critical Care, Paris Saclay University Hospitals-APHP, France

Earned his MD degree at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome where he also obtained his fellowship in Pediatrics and Neonatology, and two postgraduate diplomas in pediatric emergencies and neonatal. He eventually earned a PhD in Clinical Molecular Biology in 2012

Division Chief since 2013, Associate Professor since 2015 and then Full Professor of Neonatology since 2021 at Paris Saclay University. At the time of appointment, he was the youngest Full Professor of neonatology in Europe: he runs one of the biggest European NICUs.

He is currently Past President of the European Society for Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC), the largest European pediatric scientific society that brings together neonatal and pediatric intensivists on the continent.

His group specialized in intensive care for to life-threatening newborns and infants (prematurity, ARDS, PPHN, bronchiolitis, congenital heart disease, malformations, therapeutic hypothermia etc..). During the pandemics he was actively engaged and discovered the transplacental transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (Nature Comm 2020, a work with more than 500 citations) and for this he was appointed pro-tempore consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO). He has also served as member of the Pediatric Committee of the European medicine Agency.

His main interest is respiratory critical care, spanning from surfactant biology, to epidemiology and patient – ventilator interaction and monitoring and lately lung ultrasound as diagnostic and monitoring imaging tool. He proposed for the first time the use of a quantitative lung ultrasound score in neonates and published it in 2015 in JAMA Pediatr. This paper was originally rejected and then accepted immediately after a second round with 6 reviewers and today has hundreds of citations.

Author of about 400 scientific papers and dozens of books and chapters (H index 56). He received multiple awards including the Research Award of the Italian Society of Neonatology, the European Young Investigator Award in 2010 and his group won the Bengt Robertson Award in 2018. He is Honorary President of the Pediatric Medicine Branch of the Asia-Pacific Health Association and Editor of the European Journal of Pediatrics, the oldest pediatric scientific journal on the continent.

He is Honorary member of ESPNIC, American Pediatric Society and Spanish Neonatal Society.

The President of the Italian Republic on the proposal of the Prime Minister Mario Draghi, appointed him Knight of the Republic on Dec 27, 2021 and awarded him with the Medal of Public Health on April 7, 2025.

Headshot Courtesy of APHP-Paris Saclay University

Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

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Head of Pediatric Trauma Center, ECMO and Burn Unit, Children’s Hospital Bambino Gesù; Secretary, ESPNIC, Italy

Dr Matteo Di Nardo was born in Marino (Rome) Italy on 26th November 1977

He graduated in General Medicine and Surgery in 2001 and finished the specialty in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care in 2006 at the Catholic University of Sacred Heart. He worked for one year in the service of Adult Cardiac Anesthesia and Intensive Care of the European Hospital of Rome. After this experience, he started working in the pediatric intensive care unit of the Children's Hospital Bambino Gesù of Rome. From 2013, he is responsible for the Respiratory ECMO program in Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital. He is also the coordinator of the neonatal and Pediatric ECMO transport for the Center and South of Italy in the “Rete Respira ECMO Project” of the Italian Minister of Health. From 2014 he is an active member of the EuroELSO Steering Committee. His scientific activities and interests are related to the prevention of the ventilator induced lung injury and to the use of extracorporeal life support in children.

Head, Pediatric Cardiology Department, Hospital de Santa Marta, ULSSJ, Portugal

Prof. Dr. José Diogo Martins is the Head of the Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Coordinator of the Reference Center for Congenital Heart Disease at Hospital de Santa Marta, Unidade Local de Saúde São José (ULSSJ), Lisbon, Portugal.

He graduated from NOVA Medical School in 1994 and completed his specialist training in Pediatric Cardiology in 2003, which included a Senior Fellowship in Interventional Pediatric Cardiology at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School (2001-2002). Prof. Martins holds a Master's degree in Medical Education (2008, summa cum laude) and a PhD in Medicine from NOVA Medical School (2019, summa cum laude).

Prof. Martins has published 50+ peer-reviewed articles in indexed international journals including The Lancet, Journal of the American Heart Association, and the European Heart Journal. He has authored 18 book chapters in major cardiology textbooks, including contributions to Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery and Intensive Care (Springer, 2022) and Cardiologia Fundamental (Lidel, 2020). His research, particularly the LOVE-COARCT international study involving Harvard, Stanford, and Baylor institutions, has been presented and awarded at major conferences including the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions. He is a frequent invited speaker at national and international conferences (80+ invited lectures).

With nearly two decades of teaching experience, Prof. Martins teaches at both NOVA Medical School and Católica Medical School, teaching Pathophysiology and Medical Ethics.

He currently serves as the President of the Pediatric Cardiology Specialty Board of the Portuguese Medical Association.

CICU Consultant Intensivist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

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Professor of Clinical Pediatrics & Attending Neonatologist Physician, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia(CHOP), USA

I am a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and an attending neonatologist physician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia with an interest in the bedside assessment of neonatal cardiac hemodynamics and in procedural and diagnostic point-of-care ultrasound.

Professor of Congenital Cardiac Nursing, Birmingham City University, UK

Dr Kerry Gaskin is a Professor of Congenital Cardiac Nursing at Birmingham City University. Prof Gaskin has over 20 years of senior academic experience, leading departments (Midwifery, Paramedic, Advanced Practice/CPD) and managing academic teams, leading undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD courses, coordinating research and knowledge exchange within the school of nursing and midwifery and empowering academic, clinical staff and students to engage in academic and research professional development. She is currently seconded (0.2FTE) to Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as the Research Development Lead for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals (NMAHP); she has supervised many masters’ students and is currently supervising 8 PhD students.

A Registered Children’s Nurse and Adult Nurse, Kerry worked in Children’s Cardiac Intensive Care, Paediatric Intensive Care and High Dependency Care at several specialist Children’s Cardiac Units and Children’s Hospitals in the UK before moving into academia in 2005.

Kerry is a mixed-methods researcher with a particular interest in congenital heart disease and congenital cardiac nursing, she has led numerous pedagogical and clinical research studies and received funding through SPARK The Midlands, NIHR Wessex ARC, NIHR i4iFAST, The Health Foundation and Heart Research UK. She was Chair of the Congenital Cardiac Nurses Association (CCNA) UK (2000-2025), Associate Editor for Evidence Based Nursing and on the Editorial Board of Journal of Paramedic Practice providing paediatric expertise (2009-2025). Her doctoral research focused on parental experiences of having a child with CHD and home assessment using an early warning tool called the Congenital Heart Assessment Tool (CHAT), to enable parents to identify signs of deterioration in their infant and to make prompt contact with the appropriate health care professional.

Consultant in Cardiac Intensive Care, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

Javier has international consultant experience in paediatric intensive with a strong interest in cardiology including European accreditation in paediatric echocardiography. He is the lead for resuscitation and infection control on the unit and his mains areas of interest are education, simulation and research in functional echocardiography.

Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, University College London, UK

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Professor of Neonatology, Durham University, UK; Division Chief, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Sidra Medicine, Qatar

Samir Gupta is Professor of Neonatology at Durham University, United Kingdom, & Division chief of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Sidra Medicine, Qatar. He is member of European steering group of the Neonatologist performed echocardiography (NPE), and Chair of the Non-invasive cardiac output SIG of European Society for Pediatric Research (ESPR). He is Program Director of Neonatal Hemodynamic program in Qatar, and NHRC lead for Middle East and Asia. He is the founder and conference director of annual Neonatal Cardiology & Hemodynamics conference (NeoCard-UK) since 2010. He has over 250 publications and has been invited for over 300 lectures worldwide. He is Associate editor of Seminars in Fetal & Neonatal Medicine journal.

Consultant Neonatologist and Clinical Lead, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

I have been a consultant and clinical lead at the NICU at Great Ormond Street Hospital since 2014. Prior to that, I was a consultant neonatologist at King’s College Hospital. London for 15 years. I have an interest in neonatal respiratory physiology, particularly apnoeas and ventilation, and have published widely in this area.

Assistant Professor, Division of Neonatal Perinatal Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine/ SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital, USA

Dr. Hari Gopal is a neonatologist, clinical researcher, and educator with a strong interest in congenital diaphragmatic hernia, neonatal hemodynamics, and cardiopulmonary physiology, with a particular focus on the hemodynamic interactions of the ductus arteriosus. She is passionate about advancing neonatal care through research, mentorship, and medical education, and hosts Rupa’s Fellows Friday on the Incubator podcast.

Consultant Anaesthetist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

Lucy has been a consultant anaesthetist at GOSH since 2010 - and has spent that 16 years providing expert care for children with heart disease. She has previously been the lead for cardiac anaesthesia and the clinical director for the ODN, currently managing the cardiac pre op assessment clinic, running the reflective M&M sessions and concentrating on education for resident doctors in the department and alumni group.

Paediatric Cardiologist, UZ Leuven, Belgium

Ruth Heying is working as a Pediatric Cardiologist at the University Hospital Leuven, Belgium. She is engaged in clinical patient care including pre- and postoperative care, echocardiography and catheterizations. At KU Leuven, she is the head of the research unit Cardiodevelopmental Biology/Pediatric Cardiology. Her experience covers basic and clinical research. Collaboration with international experts in the field has been established. She is the chair of the Educational Committee of the European Association of Pediatric Cardiology and an active member of the working group Basic Science and Genetics and of the association.

Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada

Dr. Osami Honjo is the chief of cardiovascular surgery at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto. His clinical expertise includes open-heart surgery for neonates and infants with complex congenital heart conditions, surgical palliation for single ventricle patients, and mechanical cardiopulmonary support. Dr. Honjo is the surgical director of adult congenital heart disease program at Toronto General Hospital where he specializes complex adult congenital heart surgery.

His research focuses on myocardial protection during cardiopulmonary bypass and optimizing donor heart perfusion for transplantation. Dr. Honjo holds the CIT Group Chair in Congenital Heart Surgery and is dedicated to improving surgical outcomes through clinical research. He received his medical degree from Shimane Medical University and a PhD from Okayama University.

Director, Department of Congenital and Pediatric Heart Surgery, Technical University Munich and German Heart Centre Munich, Germany

Prof. Dr. med. Jürgen Hörer completed his medical studies in Homburg, Bern and Paris. He published his doctoral thesis on membrane-bound proteins involved in the secretory pathway.

He began his career at the German Heart Center in Munich, where he was appointed deputy head of the congenital program and professor of cardiac surgery. After three years as Head of the Division of Congenital Heart Disease at Marie Lannelongue Hospital, he became Director and University Professor (TUM) of the Division of Congenital and Pediatric Heart Surgery at the German Heart Center Munich and Head of the Division of Congenital and Pediatric Heart Surgery at the University Hospital Großhadern (LMU) in 2018.

Specialty Lead - Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital; Honorary Associate Professor, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science, UK

Dr Aparna Hoskote is the Specialty Lead for Cardiac Intensive Care at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, and Honorary Associate Professor, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science, London, UK. The Cardiac ICU is a quaternary referral centre for children with congenital heart disease and a nationally commissioned centre for ECMO, mechanical circulatory support (ventricular assist devices), cardiothoracic transplantation, pulmonary hypertension, and tracheal disease. Alongside a strong commitment to exemplary clinical care, clinical governance, and international collaboration, she has focussed on bedside cardiovascular and cerebrovascular physiology, and outcomes research related to neurodevelopmental outcomes in neonates and children supported on extracorporeal life support.

Dr Hoskote is a member of the EuroELSO Steering Committee and holds the position of Treasurer and is the co-chair of the EuroELSO Working Group on Neurological Monitoring and Outcome. She is also member of the ESPNIC (European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care) Executive Committee as the chair for professional development.

Senior Clinical Paediatric Perfusionist, Great Ormond Street Hospital; Honorary Clinical Lecturer, University College London, UK

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Fetal and Paediatric Cardiologist, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool, UK

Dr Caroline Jones is an experienced fetal and paediatric cardiologist and clinical lead at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, specialising in perinatal management of congenital heart disease. She is Co‑Director of the North West CHD Operational Delivery Network, Chair of the British Fetal Cardiology Association, and Honorary Secretary of the BCCA.

Consultant Fetal and Paediatric Cardiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

Dr Victoria Jowett is a consultant fetal and paediatric cardiologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital, where she is the lead for the cardiology department in addition to leading the fetal cardiology service. She is president of the British Congenital Cardiac Association (BCCA). Her research interests include the impact of antenatal diagnosis on perinatal outcome in CHD and her as a member of the NHS England congenital heart disease clinical reference group focuses on national standards, education and improving CHD care pathways.

Neonatologist, Stollery Children’s Hospital, Alberta, Canada

Dr. Chloe Joynt is a Professor and neonatologist in the cardiac and surgical NICU, Stollery Children’s Hospital Cardiac Program, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Her interests lie in multidisciplinary resuscitation education and improving cardiac/surgical neonatal clinical practice. She is a member of the AAP Professional Advisory Council responsible for NRP Cardiac.

Consultant in Paediatric Cardiology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK

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Chief of Cardiology, Consultant in Paediatric and Adolescent Cardiology, Interventional Cardiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

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Director of the Clinic for Neonatology and Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Centre Mannheim, Germany

Florian Kipfmueller is the Director of the Department for Neonatology and Pediatric Intensive Care at University Medical Center Mannheim, Germany. He also holds a Full Professorship for Neonatology at the Medical Faculty Mannheim of Heidelberg University. He has co-authored numerous peer-reviewed studies investigating outcomes and monitoring methods in critically ill neonates. His research includes work on pulmonary hypertension and cardiac dysfuinction dynamics in infants with CDH, biomarker-guided prognosis during extracorporeal life support, and respiratory outcomes in preterm newborns.

Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

Mr Kostolny has been leading the cardiothoracic surgical department at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London since 2015. The unit is the largest in the UK, performing more than 500 open heart cases annually. It is one of the two centres in UK performing heart and lung transplantation and mechanical support in children and the only national centre for tracheal surgery.

He carries out surgery on the whole spectrum of congenital heart disease from complex neonatal surgery to adults with congenital heart defects. His main areas of clinical interest include aortic valve repair, treatment of pulmonary atresia with multifocal blood supply and complex biventricular repairs.

Mr Kostolny performs around 250 operations a year in UK and abroad and is co-author in more than 100 publications and book chapters. He is member of several professional bodies and lectures regularly at international meetings. As associate professor at UCL his research interests include clinical outcomes – congenital heart surgery (aortic valve repair, DORV, C-CTGA) linking operative data to outcome measures, large scale validation of computer simulations for personalised cardiovascular treatments in congenital heart disease & 3D Imaging.

Garrett Isaac Neubauer Professor of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center; Section Chief, Neonatal Cardiac ICU, Children’s Hospital of New York, USA

Ganga Krishnamurthy, MD, is the Medical Director of the Milstein Family Infant Cardiac Unit and is the Garrett Isaac Neubauer Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center. She is one of the few doctors in the United States with unique and rare expertise in neonatal cardiac intensive care and is a pioneer in her field. As Medical Director of the nation’s first and only dedicated neonatal and infant cardiac intensive care unit, Dr. Krishnamurthy brings exclusive qualifications for leading a team of specialists.

She works closely with doctors from maternal fetal medicine, fetal cardiologists, pediatric cardiologists, neonatal and pediatric cardiothoracic surgeons, and general surgeons to provide evidence-based, family-centered, comprehensive care from birth until discharge. The multidisciplinary approach at the Infant Cardiac Unit has produced outstanding outcomes, particularly in low birthweight and premature neonates with complex congenital heart disease.

Dr. Krishnamurthy applies her rare expertise to evaluate and treat newborns with complex congenital heart diseases. Some of the conditions she treats are hypoplastic left heart syndrome, d-Transposition of the Great Arteries, Tetralogy of Fallot, Truncus Arteriosus, and Totally Anomalous Pulmonary Vein drainage.

In addition, Dr. Krishnamurthy is a nationally recognized thought leader in the field of neonatal cardiac intensive care and has several publications to her credit. She is committed to the mission of improving the health of children born with congenital heart disease and dedicated to the advancement of science in the field of neonatal cardiac intensive care.

Medical Director, Echocardiograph, Rady Children’s Health Orange County; Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, USA

Dr. Wyman W. Lai is the Director of Echocardiography, Rady Children’s Health Orange County, and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, Irvine. He is also Senior Advisor, Innovation and Intelligence in Medical Education, CHOC Sharon Disney Lund Mi4 Institute.

Dr. Lai has participated extensively in professional organizations to improve health care quality and access in the United States and abroad. He served on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Echocardiography and the National Board of Echocardiography, and he is the Founder and CEO of Empowering Hearts Globally. Dr. Lai has published extensively and is the lead author on a comprehensive textbook entitled, “Echocardiography in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease.”

Matron, Cardiac Intensive Care, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

Trained in South Africa, I have worked in Intensive care my whole career. Moving to London in 2002, I started working on CICU at GOSH as an E grade and fell in love with it, during this time I became an ECMO trained nurse. I went home to SA for 3 years in 2005 and returned to CICU in 2008, progressing from band 6 to band 7 in 2015 and in 2020, whilst in the process of completing a master's in health care leadership, I progressed to the role of Matron.

Division Chief and Medical Director, Division of Cardiology, TriStar Centennial Children’s Hospital Tennessee, USA

Dr. Victor Y. Levy is a board-certified pediatric cardiologist and neonatologist specializing in neonatal hemodynamics, congenital heart disease, pulmonary hypertension, and cardiac intensive care. He currently serves as Division Chief and Medical Director of Pediatric Cardiology at TriStar Centennial Children’s Hospital, part of HCA Healthcare, in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Levy completed fellowship training in pediatric cardiology and neonatology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, with additional advanced training in CVICU and pulmonary hypertension at Stanford University.

He is internationally recognized for his work advancing collaborative neonatal cardiac care and is the co-founder of the Neonatal Heart Society and NeoHeart, a multidisciplinary global educational platform focused on improving outcomes for newborns and children with congenital and cardiopulmonary heart disease. Dr. Levy has held leadership positions at major children’s hospitals across the United States and is widely known for developing innovative neonatal hemodynamics and cardiac care programs that bridge neonatology, pediatric cardiology, and cardiac intensive care medicine.

Consultant Paediatric and Fetal Cardiologist, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, UK

Dr David F A Lloyd is a Consultant in Paediatric and Fetal Cardiology at Evelina London Children’s Hospital and a Senior Clinical Lecturer at King’s College London. His work focuses on advanced 3D and 4D imaging of the fetal heart using MRI and echocardiography, and on understanding how placental function influences fetal cardiovascular development and long-term cardiovascular health.

Paediatric Cardiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

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Consultant Prenatal and Paediatric Cardiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

Professor Jan Marek is a consultant prenatal and paediatric cardiologist with expertise in cardiovascular imaging and echocardiography in particular. Jan is a Professor at the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences at University College London and Charles University, Prague.

Paediatrician, Leipzig Heart Center, Germany; Fellow, Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

Mr Branko Mimic is a Consultant Congenital Cardiac Surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) and St Bartholomew’s Hospital (Barts Heart Centre) in London. He specialises in neonatal and complex infant cardiac surgery, paediatric heart transplantation, and adult congenital heart surgery.

After graduating from the University of Belgrade Medical School, Mr Mimic completed advanced specialist training in congenital cardiac surgery both within the UK and Serbia. Before joining the team at GOSH in 2022, he was the Surgical Lead at the East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre (EMCHC) in Leicester, where he was responsible for maintaining outstanding standards of clinical care.

An active researcher and academic, Mr Mimic earned his Master of Science (MSc) in 2014 and his Doctor of Medical Science (PhD) in 2018. His primary research interests include myocardial protection, surgical outcomes, and risk modelling in cardiac surgery. Alongside his clinical and academic work, he is deeply committed to global health and has led numerous humanitarian charity missions to deliver life-saving cardiac surgery to children overseas.

Consultant Cardiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

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Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

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Consultant Neonatologist, University Hospital Wishaw & ScotSTAR; Chair, NeoFOCUS-UK BAPM SIG, UK

Dr Mahmoud Montasser is a Consultant Neonatologist at University Hospital Wishaw and Neonatal Transport Consultant with ScotSTAR. Dr Montasser's clinical and academic work is centred on integrated functional haemodynamics and point of care ultrasound (POCUS) in the newborn. He has advanced expertise in neonatal functional echocardiography, lung ultrasound, and bedside POCUS for central lines.

He is the founder and national chair of NeoFOCUS-UK — the British Association of Perinatal Medicine (BAPM) affiliated specialist interest group dedicated to promoting neonatal functional haemodynamics and POCUS across the UK. Through NeoFOCUS-UK, he has led national and international workshops and educational webinars attended by clinicians worldwide.

Clinical lead for Cardiovascular MR and CT and Consultant in Cardiovascular Imaging, Great Ormond Street Hospital, University College London, UK

Dr Kristian H. Mortensen (MD, PhD, FRCR) is a Consultant in Cardiovascular Imaging and Clinical Lead for Cardiovascular MR and CT at Great Ormond Street Hospital, with specialist expertise in advanced multimodality cardiac imaging. He is actively involved in clinical service development, education, and research within cardiovascular imaging.

Consultant Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

• Paediatric cardiac and transplant surgeon, Lead Thoracic and Tracheal surgeon, and surgical lead for ECMO and lung transplant programme
• Visiting Surgeon / visiting Professorship (Graz, Leuven, Rotterdam, Ghent and Lund)
• Founding director and Trustee, Smiling Heart Foundation UK (Charity organisation)
• Advisor for VAD/Transplant programme, National heart institutes at Singapore and Malaysia.
• Committee member
• Communications and workforce committee, Paediatric council, ISHLT
• Editorial Board, CCTS and JRR
• Paediatric division of National Organ Donation Committee, NHS BT
• Clinical trials group, thoracic organ transplantation, NHS BT
• Advisory group for paediatric pulmonary hypertension, American thoracic society (guidelines steering committee)
• Advisor in National tumour group for Wilms and sarcoma for chest tumours (NRAP and NSAP) UK
• Advisor, Thoracic solid organ transplant board, Biotest SOT
• Workforce group, Research and communications, CTSnet
• Book chapters on Heart transplant (3 chapters), airway surgery and teamwork (2 chapters) and chest wall reconstruction (2 chapters)
• >170 publications in peer-reviewed journals; >80 invited lectures across international meetings.

Professor of Cardiovascular Imaging and Physics, University College London, UK

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Pediatric Resident & Postdoctoral Researcher, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital Utrecht, The Netherlands

Maaike Nijman just finished and defended (June 12) her PhD into perinatal brain development, brain injury, and neuroprotection in children with critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) at the Department of Neonatology and Pediatric Cardiology at the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht. During her PhD, Maaike coordinated the CHD LifeSpan imaging study, a prospective longitudinal MRI study in the fetal, postnatal, and postoperative period in neonates with CCHD, and the CRUCIAL trial, a multicenter placebo-controlled study on the effect of postnatal and perioperative allopurinol on brain injury in neonates with CCHD, which is conducted in four academic centers in the Netherlands. In her fourth PhD year, Maaike spent a few months at the Centre for the Developing Brain at King’s College London, where she worked on volumetric MRI analyses of fetal brain development in pregnancies complicated by CCHD. In the spring of 2026, Maaike Nijman started pediatric residency at Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital in Utrecht.

Lead Nurse (ECMO Service Team), Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

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Cardiac Nurse Specialist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

Aileen O’Sullivan is the lead cardiac nurse specialist for the single ventricle service at Great Ormond Street Hospital. She has a background in Cardiac Intensive Care nursing and student education prior to her current role. Her areas of interest as lead CNS for this group of patients are investigating ways to alleviate parental anxiety in the home environment and educating local teams about the risks associated with shunt dependent circulation in interstage single ventricle patients.

Consultant Neonatologist and Clinical Innovation Director, Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow, UK

Neil is Consultant Neonatologist and Clinical Innovation Director at the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow, UK. He has specialist clinical and research interests in neonatal hemodynamics including specifically in pulmonary hypertension and congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH). He collaborates widely with international groups including in the CDH International Study Group and CDH Euro Consortium. Neil’s other interests include neonatal Family Integrated Care and Clinical Innovation. Neil is Vice Chair of Neo-FOCUS UK and a member of the American Society of Echocardiography TNE SIG Executive.

Neil is a Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Associate Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK, and NHS Research Scotland Senior Fellow.

E: neil.patel3@nhs.scot

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/neil-patel-840941281/

Fetal Cardiac Nurse Specialist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

Miranda Porritt is the lead fetal cardiology clinical nurse specialist at Great Ormond Street Hospital. She has a background in CICU and ECMO prior to fetal cardiology. Her focus in fetal cardiology care is managing maternal anxiety following diagnosis of CHD and has implemented interventions to reduce the consequences of anxiety on mother and baby.

CICU Consultant Intensivist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

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MD, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania; Attending Neonatologist, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), USA

Natalie Rintoul, MD, is a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and an attending neonatologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). She is Medical Co-Director of the Special Delivery Unit Neonatal Service, Medical Director of the Neonatal Surgical Service in the N/IICU, and Director of the Neonatal ECMO Program. She is a fetal consultant and neonatologist with the perinatal palliative care program. Dr. Rintoul’s research interests include neonatal surgical and cardiac diagnoses, including congenital diaphragmatic hernia and myelomeningocele, perioperative care of the surgical neonate and ECMO. Dr. Rintoul serves on the national Pedi-ECMO steering committee and is co-chair for the Children’s Hospital Neonatal Consortium ECMO Focus group. She is currently the Chair of the ELSO Conference Committee.

CICU Consultant Intensivist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

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Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

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Director, Heart Institute, SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital, Spain; Staff, Cardiac Intensivist, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, USA

Pediatric cardiologist, intensivist, and physician–scientist specializing in congenital heart disease and critical care. Director of the Heart Institute at SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital and Staff Cardiac Intensivist at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Faculty at the University of Barcelona and the University of Pittsburgh, leading translational research on brain injury and neurodevelopment

Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine, Executive Co-Director of the Heart Institute, Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, Miami, FL; Professor of Pediatrics, Florida International University (FIU), Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, USA

Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine, Executive Co-Director of the Heart Institute, Nicklaus Children's Hospital. Miami, FL. Professor of Pediatrics, Florida International University (FIU), Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine.

Medical-President, ESPNIC; Chief and Hospital Director, Childrens Hospital Landshut, Germany

Karl Florian Schettler is Chief of Pediatrics and Hospital Director at the Childrens Hospital of Landshut in Germany. He is also the current Medical-President of the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC). He is board certified in Neonatology, Pediatric Intensive Care, Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Diabetology. He has a Master Degree in Health Business Administration. His key areas of research include aEEG and influence of hemodynamics and further implementation of aEEG into pediatric intensive care.

Paediatric Critical Care Physiotherapist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

Dr Emma Shkurka is a post-doc clinical academic physiotherapist in paediatric critical care. Her primary research focus is evaluating the efficacy of airway clearance and rehabilitation interventions for mechanically ventilated children, to improve quality and safety of care, and optimise outcomes. She is committed to promoting and supporting physiotherapists and allied health professionals working within paediatric critical care. Whilst advocating for research and clinical care that is representative of the multidisciplinary and holistic care necessary for this population.

Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at GOSH since 2023.

Consultant Paediatric Cardiac Surgery since 2008 at Sahlgrenska University Hospital.

Head of Paediatric Heart Centre in Gothenburg 2016 to 2023.

PhD in Cardiac Surgery 2007 – University of Gothenburg.

Vice Chair for Innovation, Children’s Institute and Director of Cardiovascular Innovation, Children’s Institute Department of Heart, Vascular & Thoracic, Division of Cardiology & Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, USA

I am a physician-scientist and healthcare innovator whose goal is to bring novel technologies, especially related to artificial intelligence, wearable biosensors, and virtual reality, to real-world clinical practice in an effective, efficient, and safe manner. To achieve this, I have positioned myself at the intersection of clinical cardiology, biomedical engineering, and computer science. Informed by my clinical work, I have successfully worked with industry and academic partners to implement clinically meaningful improvements to their technologies.

Callaghan Family Chair in Cardiac Intensive Care, Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital; Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Ravi Thiagarajan has more than 25 years of experience caring from critically ill children with heart disease. He is currently Chief Emeritus and Callaghan Family Chair in Cardiac Intensive Care, Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital. His areas of academic interest include studying short- and long-term outcomes for children requiring Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) and is co-leading a multi-center, international, randomized clinical trial of blood transfusion strategies in ECMO.

Professor of Pediatric Cardiology, Children’s Heart Center Linz, Austria

Andreas Tulzer is an interventional and fetal cardiologist and the director of the Children’s Heart Center Linz, Austria. He is also the chair of the fetal cardiac intervention program in Linz, Europe’s largest program for fetal cardiac interventions, with a special focus on patients with critical aortic stenosis and PAIVS.

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York, USA

Dr. Diana Vargas is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University and Medical Director of the Infant Cardiac Unit and Neonatal ECMO at NewYork‑Presbyterian Hospital. Dual‑trained in Neonatology and Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care, she focuses on complex congenital heart disease, diaphragmatic hernia, pulmonary hypertension and standardization of point‑of‑care ultrasound practice in the NICU.

Head of Section for Cognitive Science and Neuropsychiatry, UCL Institute of Child Health; Head of Clinical Neuropsychology, Great Ormond Street Hospital; Director of the Centre for Developmental Cognitive Science, University College London, UK

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