Dr. Leslie Young is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine and works as a neonatologist at the Golisano Children’s Hospital at University of Vermont Health. Dr. Young's current research is focused on optimizing the care provided to infants with in-utero opioid exposure following delivery and on improving longer-term outcomes for these infants and their families. She is involved in numerous NIH sponsored research programs (The Advancing Clinical Trials in Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal (ACT NOW) Collaborative, The HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) program, and the HEAL Evaluation of Limited Pharmacotherapies for Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal (HELP for NOWS) consortium) in support of this work. Dr. Young served as a principal investigator for the Eating, Sleeping, Consoling for Neonatal Opioid withdrawal (ESC-NOW) clinical trial conducted at hospitals across the United States and published in the NEJM in 2023 and for the OPTimize NOW clinical trial. In addition to this work, Dr. Young serves as the Vermont site PI for the ECHO Trials Network (formerly the ECHO ISPCTN), working to improve the feasibility of research conducted in rural settings and to increase representation of rural and underserved communities in clinical trials.