Our Team
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Professor Samir Gupta MD MRCP DM FRCPCH FRCPI - Conference Director
Professor of Neonatology, Durham University, United Kingdom Division Chief Neonatology, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
Samir Gupta is Professor of Neonatology at Durham University, UK and Fellow at National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Oxford University, United Kingdom. He is Division chief of Neonatology, a Quaternary care neonatal unit at Sidra Medicine (Children’s hospital), Qatar.
He is a Fellow of Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health and Fellow of Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. He is member of European steering group of the Neonatologist performed echocardiography (NPE). He is founder and chair of the Neonatologist with interest in Cardiology & Hemodynamics in the UK and has now successfully established Qatar NPE training program at Sidra Medicine in Doha, Qatar.
He is a member of several scientific organizations, including the European Society for Pediatric Research (ESPR) and Society for Pediatric Research (USA). He has authored over 150 articles in indexed peer reviewed journals and books. He has been invited guest editor for high impact journals.
He is Chief investigator of Baby-OSCAR trial on patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), (https://www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/baby-oscar). He established 1st global Annual international neonatal cardiology & hemodynamics conference in UK in 2010, which is successfully running to date (www.neonatalcardiology.co.uk). He is lead for Asia & Middle East for the NHRC (https://neonatalhemodynamics.com).
He has established Neonatal hemodynamics program at Sidra Medicine with a team of clinicians, that has significantly improved neonatal outcomes in surgical, complex and sick newborn infants. He works collaboratively with Pediatric cardiology and fetal medicine division to improve the care of complex cardiac patients admitted to the NICU. Currently, he is working to set up the ‘Cardiac ICU on NICU’’ and expanding the NPE training program internationally. He also advises on various international forums on cardio-respiratory disorders and management and is international expert in this field.
Dr David Crossland
Consultant Paediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiologist
David Crossland is a Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne. Special interests include interventional congenital cardiology, mechanical support in congenital heart disease and ACHD. He maintains an active interest in neonatal cardiology and haemodynamic assessment. This includes working closely with the teams in the Northern region looking at tissue Doppler in preterm infants and developing guidelines for the management of babies with congenital diaphragmatic hernia with associated severe pulmonary hypertension. He is at a loss to understand the reasons for the completely different methods of assessing the circulation of neonates used on cardiac PICU compared to NNU and is convinced that a meeting of minds will improve the care of babies in both settings.
Dr Majd Abu-Harb
Consultant Neonatologist/Paediatric Cardiologist
Dr Majd Abu-Harb is a consultant Neonatologist at Sunderland Royal Hospital, also a neonatal lead clinician. Areas of interests include Fetal and Perinatal Cardiology, Neonatal Haemodynamics. Main research interests center around Epidemiology of Congenital Cardiac malformations.
Professor Patrick McNamara
University of lowa
Patrick McNamara graduated from Queens University Belfast in 1987, received his MRCPCH in Pediatrics in 1997 and Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training in Neonatal Medicine in 2002. He is currently a Staff Neonatologist and Director of the Division of Neonatology at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital, and Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, University of Iowa. He is the current chair of the PanAmerican Hemodynamic Collaborative, Pediatric Academic Society Neonatal Hemodynamics Advisory and Neonatal Hemodynamics (TnECHO) Special Interest Group at the American Society of Echocardiography. His clinical and research interests include myocardial performance in the settings of a hemodynamically significant ductus arteriosus, pulmonary hypertension and targeted neonatal echocardiography. He has published over 350 peer reviewed publications, chapters and other works.
Professor Jonathan Wyllie
Consultant Neonatologist with Expertise in Cardiology
Professor Jonathan Wyllie is a neonatologist and paediatrician with expertise in cardiology at The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough. He has a long-standing interest in resuscitation and neonatal haemodynamics as well as an interest in paediatric cardiology.
Originally on the Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS) international working group, he became one of the originators of the Newborn Life Support (NLS) course in the UK and Europe. He was President of the Resuscitation Council UK (2017-2021), Vice President (2016-2017 and 2021-2022) and a founding member and chair of the Newborn Life Support (NLS) and Advanced Resuscitation of the Newborn Infant (ARNI) subcommittees for the Resuscitation Council UK. He is also an ex co-chair of the ILCOR Neonatal Task Force for the evidence evaluation process and was on the task force from 1998-2022. He was a co-author of newborn resuscitation guidelines for Europe and the UK for 2010, 2015 and 2021. In 2010 he received the Fellowship of the European Resuscitation Council for services to resuscitation, in 2015 Honorary membership of the Resuscitation Council UK and in 2018 Honorary Fellowship of the RCPCH.
He is an elected member of the RCUK Executive and Chair of the North East and North Cumbria Congenital Heart Disease Network.
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Dr Sundaram Janakiraman
Neonatal Consultant
I work as Consultant Neonatologist at James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, one of the Tertiary level NICU in Northern England. I graduated in India and completed my postgraduate Paediatric and Neonatal training in the UK across North West and Northern regions of England. Neonatal cardiology and haemodynamics are my fields of interest. I actively contribute to facilitate training, postgraduate education and research. I love gardening which helps me to be happy. It gives me immense satisfaction to harvest vegetables and fruits.
Dr Nim Subhedar
Consultant Neonatologist
Dr. Subhedar is a Consultant Neonatologist working at Liverpool Women’s Hospital and Honorary Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. He graduated from the University of Bristol and subsequently received a MD from the University of Liverpool for work in neonates with pulmonary hypertension. He currently chairs the international Registry of Pulmonary Hypertension in Neonates (RePHyNe). His research interests include neonatal pulmonary hypertension, inhaled nitric oxide therapy, neonatal haemodynamics and echocardiography. He is a co-applicant on the UK multicentre NIHR-HTA funded Baby OSCAR trial of early selective treatment of patent ductus arteriosus. He led the first randomised controlled trial of inhaled nitric oxide in preterm neonates and previously chaired the European Inhaled Nitric Oxide Registry.
Dr Caroline Jones
Consultant Paediatric & Fetal Cardiologist
Dr Jones is a Consultant Fetal and Paediatric Cardiologist in the North West of England and Clinical Lead at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool. She trained in paediatric cardiology at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, Alder Hey and Evelina London where she undertook a fellowship in fetal cardiology. Her clinical interests include fetal echocardiography and the prenatal and perinatal management of congenital heart disease. She is currently co-director of the North West, North Wales and Isle of Man Congenital Heart Disease Network and Honorary Secretary of the British Congenital Cardiac Association.
Professor Willem de Boode
Professor of Neonatology
Radboud University/Radboud university medical center (Radboudumc)
The Netherlands
Willem de Boode, a neonatologist at Radboudumc Nijmegen, Netherlands, completed his PhD in 2010, focusing on advanced hemodynamic monitoring. His areas of interest are neonatal hemodynamics, cardiovascular physiology, NPE, advanced hemodynamic monitoring, PDA, and Extracorporeal Life Support. Dr. de Boode is project leader of the BeNeDuctus Trial and holds the title of Professor of Neonatology at Radboudumc. Since September 2023, he has served as the president of the European Society for Pediatric Research (ESPR).