Dr. Nelin is the Division Chief of Neonatology and the Dean Jeffers Endowed Chair of Neonatology at Nationwide Children's Hospital, and Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of Neonatology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Florida Atlantic University and his MD degree from the University of South Florida. Dr Nelin completed both a pediatric residency and a neonatology fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr Nelin is dedicated to maintaining and continuing to develop the culture of best outcomes throughout the Neonatal Network at Nationwide Children’s through innovative strategic planning built on the One Team concept. Clinically, Dr. Nelin is interested in extremely preterm infants and helped to develop the Small Baby Program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital between 2004 and 2010. Dr Nelin has become particularly interested in those extremely preterm infants that go on to develop the most common co-morbidity of extreme preterm birth, bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). Since 2010 he has been involved in the continued development and evolution of the Comprehensive Center for BPD (CCBPD) here at NCH. The CCBPD is the home to the only dedicated in-patient unit for infants with BPD.  Dr Nelin’s current research interest is in developing therapies and approaches to improve long-term outcomes of extremely preterm infants, and especially for those who develop established BPD. Dr Nelin has become involved in several national groups focused on improving outcomes in extremely preterm infants and BPD patients. For example, Dr Nelin also worked with Dr Steve Abman, a pediatric pulmonologist from Denver, to found and implement the BPD Collaborative, which is a collection of centers that have dedicated BPD teams committed to improving outcomes of infants with established BPD. The BPD Collaborative has grown from 7 institutions to 60 institutions and Dr Nelin is currently the Chair of the Executive Board.