Dr. Barrero-Castillero (Ale) is an attending neonatologist and health services researcher at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an Instructor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She currently chairs the NICU Discharge Planning Committee since June 2022. Additionally, she serves as an attending neonatologist at Boston Children’s Hospital in the NICU and the Growth and Developmental Support Programs (GraDS), where she focuses on the long-term neurodevelopmental follow-up of former preterm infants after discharge. Her clinical work and academic pursuits are dedicated to addressing healthcare disparities and developing interventions to reduce them, particularly for immigrant children and their families during the NICU stay, as they prepare for discharge, and as they transition home. Dr. Barrero-Castillero is also a proud international medical graduate, Latina, and mother of three.