Prof EL-Khuffash is a Consultant Neonatologist at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, and a Full Professor of Paediatrics at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. His primary clinical and research area is the assessment heart function in term and preterm neonates. He is the lead for neonatal echocardiography and heart function assessment in the neonatal intensive care unit in the Rotunda Hospital. He is also a board certified lactation consultant and a digital artist. He is the recipient of several national and international research awards with a total grant value of over 3.5 million euro, 175 international peer reviewed publications and over 25 keynote presentations. He has successfully supervised 9 post graduate PhD candidates since his return to Ireland and continues to mentor post graduate PhD students. Prof EL-Khuffash completed a one year fellowship in paediatric cardiology in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin. Prof EL-Khuffash has assumed a leadership role at a European level in devising training guidelines for echocardiography by the Neonatologist. He is the lead author/editor of the Haemodynamic Module in the NOTE project, offering a new international online Masters level educational programme in neonatal medicine as collaboration between the European Society for Neonatology (ESN) and the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Southampton. Prof EL-Khuffash graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 2002 and enrolled in the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland paediatric specialist training scheme in 2005. He completed a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree in University College, Dublin in 2008 and his neonatal specialty training in Toronto, Canada (2009-2011). Following this, he was appointed as a consultant Neonatologist and Assistant Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto in January of 2011. He obtained a diploma in clinical epidemiology during his time in Toronto.

Prof Jan Miletin graduated from Charles University Prague in 1999 (awarded MD). He was awarded PhD in 2021 (Thesis entitled ‘Low Cardiac Output in Extremely Low Gestation Age Neonates and Intraventricular Haemorrhage’). Prof Miletin was appointed as a Consultant Neonatologist in the Coombe Hospital in Dublin in 2009 and as UCD Clinical Professor in 2017. He was awarded Paediatrician of the Year at the Ashville Media Group Irish Maternity and Infants Awards in 2010 and was awarded Special Merit Award in 2011. His main areas of research interest are extreme prematurity, neonatal respiratory support and neonatal haemodynamics. He is actively involved in neonatal research and pragmatic neonatal trials and published extensively on these topics.

Tim Hundscheid is a fellow neonatology in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Radboud University Medical Center – Amalia Children’s Hospital in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. His clinical interest lies specifically in congenital heart disease, neonatal hemodynamics and neonatologist performed echocardiography. In his PhD project, the BeNeDuctus trial, he focused on the controversy on patent ductus arteriosus management in extreme preterm infants. The primary analysis of the data from the BeNeDuctus trial were recently published and showed non-inferiority of expectant management in comparison to early pharmacological treatment with ibuprofen.

Dr Jose Honold is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California San Diego. He has worked as a Neonatologist and ECMO specialist for over 25 years in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and CVICU at Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego. Dr Honold has been the Medical Director of the Neuro NICU since it was developed in 2011. He has trained fellows and nurses to performed neuromonitoring on infants admitted for evaluation of possible Brain injury. His team has been involved in several published Research projects, mostly looking for more efficient anticonvulsants like the NEOLEV study and the Lacosamide Study. Dr Honold has been a board member of INA soon after it was founded and is now the current President of the International Neonatal Association.