I am an emeritus professor at both University Pennsylvania, USA and McMaster University, Canada. I am a neonatal physician trained from medical school to advanced fellow status in the UK; with further training at Toronto Hospital Sick Children, Canada. I am MSc qualified in Clinical Epidemiology (McMaster University). At McMaster University, I helped establish the Neonatal Research group out of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics (led and co-founded by myself, Barbara Schmidt, and Robin Roberts). Since 2007 I worked mainly in the USA at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. I was the founding Director of the Chronic Lung Disease Program at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. I am committed to mentoring junior
researchers and clinicians. I was fortunate to receive several teaching and mentoring awards – the last being in 2015 – an award for Junior Faculty mentoring at Children’s Hospital Philadelphia. I have been involved with randomized controlled trials (RCT) in either the neonatal ICU or the pediatric ICU since 1985. This involvement includes service on several data safety monitoring committees for RCTs. I remain a passionate advocate of Evidence Based Medicine in neonatal trials, which I interpret as an imperative to have more high quality randomized evidence of therapies in the NICU. I was on the foundation editorial founding board of an international organization “Evidence Based Neonatology” (https://ebneo.org/).