Prof. Dr. Satyan Lakshminrusimha is a Professor and the Chair at the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, University of California, Davis, USA. He is also the Pediatrician-in-Chief and the Dennis and Nancy Marks Endowed Chair in Pediatrics at the UC Davis Children’s Hospital. He is the co-chair of the Clinical Funds Flow Committee of UC Davis Health. He obtained his MD from Government Medical College, Mysore, India in 1994. He then completed a residency in Pediatrics at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, New York in 1994–1996 and a fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1996–1999. Prof. Dr. Lakshminrusimha’s research focus is on understanding the pathophysiology of neonatal transition and evaluating the science behind neonatal resuscitation to develop new techniques to improve the efficacy of resuscitation in resource-limited settings. He is also interested in translational and clinical research evaluating oxygen and pulmonary vasodilator therapy in persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN) secondary to conditions such as meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS) and congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH).  He is the recipient of the Faculty Young Investigator Award at the Eastern Society for Pediatric Research meeting in 2008 and the Mentor of the Year Award at the Eastern Society for Pediatric Research meeting in 2016 and is the first neonatologist to receive the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Education Award in 2023.