The Chair of the Department of Pediatrics is: Michael W. Konstan, MD.
The Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Division Faculty are as follows:
Richard J. Martin, M.D. Dr. Martin was born in Sydney, Australia. He completed his Neonatology fellowship at CWRU School of Medicine in 1976 and was appointed director of the division in1998. Dr. Martin’s interests include apnea, respiratory control, and gastroesophageal reflux. His laboratory work includes studies in airway constriction, nitric oxide, and arginase. He is also involved in many clinical studies, often in collaboration with Juliann DiFiore and Marina Arko in the neonatal apnea program.
Michele C. Walsh, M.D., M.S. Epi. Dr. Walsh completed her Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine fellowship at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in 1988. Dr. Walsh is the Director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Co-director of the Division of Neonatology. Dr. Walsh’s research interests include outcomes research, respiratory disease, and quality initiatives. She is the principal investigator for CWRU in the NICHD Neonatal Research Network. She is also Cuyahoga Country PI for the National Children’s Study. In addition, she collaborates with the PPRU, a multi-center pediatric pharmacology network.
Avroy A. Fanaroff, M.D. Dr. Avroy “Av” Fanaroff was born and educated in South Africa. He joined Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital as a fellow in Neonatology in 1969. He is a pioneer in Neonatology and has been recognized as such internationally. He has received many honorary degrees and awards including educational awards and the prestigious Apgar Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics. He served as chairman of the department of pediatrics from 2004 to 2008 after serving 23 years as Rainbow’s Director of Neonatology. Dr. Fanaroff was a founding member of the NICHD Neonatal research Network and has authored and edited the leading texts in Neonatology as well as serving as Editor of the Yearbook of Neonatal Perinatal Medicine since 1987. He also serves on the Board of University Hospitals Health System.
B.R. Prasad Achanti, M.D. Dr. Achanti was a fellow at Cook County Hospital in Chicago and spent 23 years at Fairview General Hospital before joining our faculty. He works mainly at Southwest General Hospital and Parma Community Hospital and will be a leading force in the growth of Rainbow’s Neonatology services on the west side of Cleveland.
Jill E. Baley, M.D. Dr. Baley completed her fellowship at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in 1981. She is the medical director of the Rainbow 4 Neonatal Transitional Nursery and the Constant Care Nursery at Southwest General Hospital. Her special interest is infectious diseases in neonates.
Monika Bhola, M.D. Dr. Bhola completed her fellowship at Loyola University in 1998. Her interests include transport and resuscitation. She is the director of the Sim NewB neonatal resuscitation simulation program and the director of neonatal resuscitative services.
Maura Crowley, M.D. Dr. Crowley was a fellow at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and joined the Rainbow faculty in 2010.
Jonathan M. Fanaroff, M.D., J.D. Dr. Fanaroff completed his residency and fellowship at Rainbow. His interests include neonatal bioethics and medico-legal issues. He is the director of the Rainbow Center for Ethics and an associate director of the NICU with focus on education and ethics.
Kate Griswold, M.D. Dr. Griswold completed her Pediatrics residency at Rainbow and works as a general pediatrician in the Neonatology division caring for normal newborns in MacDonald Women’s Hospital.
Maureen Hack, M.D. Dr. Hack is a world renowned expert in the long-term follow-up of premature infants. She primarily studies neurodevelopmental outcomes, neuropsychiatric outcomes, and functional status. She is currently following cohorts into adolescence and young-adulthood.
Anna Maria Hibbs, M.D., M.S.C.E. Dr. Hibbs completed her fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 2006. She is co-director of the fellowship program, focusing on the fellows’ research experience. She coordinates journal club and research conference. Her research interests are (1) the long-term pulmonary outcomes of prematurity, with an emphasis on wheezing and sleep disordered breathing, (2) GI-pulmonary interactions, particularly the relationships between gastroesophageal reflux and wheezing and apnea, and (3) evidence-based medicine, with interests in medication use, study design, and implementation.
Prabha Kc, Ph.D. Dr. Kc’s research is focused in understanding the neuronal signaling pathways in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) influencing hypertension and respiratory output induced by hypoxia.
Mary L. Nock, M.D. Dr. Nock completed her fellowship at Rainbow in 2003. She is the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program director and an associate director of the NICU with focus on patient safety and quality improvement. Her research interests include G6PD deficiency and jaundice in neonates, prevention of kernicterus, and quality improvement.
Mary Elaine Patrinos, M.D. Dr. Patrinos was a fellow at Loyola University Medical Center near Chicago. She has worked in academic and non-academic neonatology programs in Illinois, Hawaii, and New Mexico. She joined the Rainbow faculty in 2011.
Souheir Saker, M.D. Dr. Saker completed her Pediatrics residency at Tod Children’s Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio and Akron Children’s Hospital. She works as a general pediatrician in the Neonatology division caring for normal newborns in MacDonald Women’s Hospital.
Eileen K. Stork, M.D. Dr. Stork completed her fellowship at Rainbow in 1984. She is the director of the Neonatal ECMO (Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation) Program. Her clinical interests include pulmonary hypertension of the neonate, ECMO, congenital heart disease, and fetal medicine.
Christopher G. Wilson, Ph.D. Dr. Wilson’s laboratory is primarily interested in the generation and modulation of respiratory rhythm in the mammalian central nervous system.
Deanne E. Wilson-Costello, M.D. Dr. Wilson-Costello is director of the neonatal follow-up clinic and is site PI for the Neonatal Research Network follow-up. Her main interest is neurodevelopmental outcomes of premature infants.
F. Gulgun Yalcinkaya, M.D. Dr. Yalcinkaya was born in Icel, Turkey and completed her fellowship at New York University Medical Center. She is involved with neonatal follow-up clinic and the Sim NewB neonatal resuscitation program and is the medical director of the MacDonald Hospital Newborn Nursery.
Syed I. A. Zaidi, Ph.D. Dr. Zaidi has actively collaborated with Dr. Richard Martin for a number of years. His interests are in mechanisms of neonatal lung disease, and he has done a lot of the groundwork in establishing the importance of neurotrophins in BPD.