Geraldine Boylan is Professor of Neonatal Physiology, Department of Paediatrics & Child Health, University College Cork, Ireland and Director of the INFANT Research Centre – www.infantcentre.ie She has worked in clinical neurophysiology for many years and since 1996 has worked exclusively in the field of neonatal neurophysiology. She leads the Neonatal Brain Research Group at the INFANT centre – a multidisciplinary research team focused on neuromonitoring for infants in the neonatal intensive care unit, particularly for seizure detection and the early diagnosis of brain injury. Her team uses AI to develop automated systems for newborn seizure detection and brain health assessment. She is also focused on developing better medicines and medical devices for children and is the Irish lead for the conect4children(c4c) Pan European clinical trials network (www.conect4children.org) and co-founder of the HRB Irish Network for Children’s Clinical Trials (www.in4kids.ie)

Professor Walsh’s research has focused on newborns at high risk of cerebral injury. In particular he has studied different methods for the early identification of brain injury, and also in optimizing neuro-protection strategies, to hopefully improve their outcomes. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2004, was awarded his PhD from UCC in 2014 and completed the Harvard Neonatal Perinatal Fellowship Program in 2016. Following fellowship he became an Attending Neonatologist in the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, with an academic appointment to Harvard Medical School, before returning to Cork as a Consultant Neonatologist. His current research includes leading a multi-site project to improve the early detection of cerebral palsy in Ireland, and is also the site lead for two multi-centre neuro-protection studies for newborns with HIE.

Dr. Philip Levy is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a physician in the Division of Newborn Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. His patient-oriented and translational research initiatives focus on cardiac mechanics in congenital and acquired cardiopulmonary diseases. His professional activities span the realm of clinical service, research, and teaching. He has a particular interest in the management of neonates with HIE, PDA, pulmonary hypertension and congenital heart disease. Today, Dr. Levy will discuss the management of pulmonary hypertension in infants with BPD.

Nikki Robertson is Professor of Perinatal Neuroscience at University College London and the University of Edinburgh and a consultant neonatologist. Over the last 25 years, Nikki has led research into brain protection of the term newborn relevant to high and low income settings. Her goal is to translate promising adjunct and mono-therapies such as melatonin and mesenchymal stromal cell therapy into early phase clinical trials (e.g. ACUMEN phase I study, starting in 2023). Nikki has an interest in MR biomarkers, in particular MR spectroscopy, blood markers of injury, inflammation, metabolomics, EEG and NIRS.