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Pediatric Insights Podcast
Learn more on about latest research and advancements in pediatric care from Children's Health experts through our Pediatric Insights Podcasts.
A Shift in NeuroNICU Care for Preterm Infants (doctorpodcasting.com) – Featured Speakers: Lina Chalak, MD and Michelle Machie, MD
Lina Chalak, M.D., is a board-certified neonatologist at Children's Health℠and Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at UT Southwestern. She is the Interim Division Chief of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Children’s Health and is also Director of the Neurological Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (Neuro-NICU) Program – the first-of-its-kind in Texas. Dr. Chalak specializes in the care of infants with neurological conditions, such as seizures or brain injuries.
Michelle Machie, M.D., is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in child neurology. She is an assistant professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center and specializes in hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, perinatal brain injury and congenital malformations.
Improving Care and Outcomes for Neonates with Seizures (doctorpodcasting.com) – Featured Speaker: Alison Dolce, MD
Alison Dolce, M.D., is a board-certified Pediatric Neurologist and Epileptologist at Children’s Health and Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at UT Southwestern. She’s also the Director of the Pediatric Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship Program and Co-Director of the Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Clinic. Her specialties include pediatric neurology, clinical neurophysiology and pediatric epilepsy.
Conferences & Events
Neonatal Insights Series: Essentials of Newborn Resuscitation
Friday, November 8, 2024
Arun Prasath, MD
Neonatal Insights Series: Understand the role speech, Physical and Occupational therapy in neonatal care
Friday, December 13, 2024
Reid Ballard, SLP and Katy Brown, PT
Neonatal Insights Series: Effective Lactation Support for Mothers of Neonates
Friday, January 10, 2025Â
Dawn Schindler, BSN, RN, IBCLC
Neonatal Insights Series: Care of ELBW Infants (Extremely Low Birth Weight)
Friday, February 14, 2025
Venkatakrishna Kakkilaya, MD
Neonatal Insights Series: Respiratory therapy in NICU
Friday, March 14, 2025Â
Andew Carrillo
Neonatal Insights Series: Nutrition in Premature Infants
Friday, April 11, 2025
Rachel Mills, RD
Neonatal Insights Series: Neonatal Syphilis
Friday, May 9, 2025
Amanda Evans, MD - UT Southwestern
Neonatal Insights Series: Basics of Neonatal Transport
Friday, June 6, 2025
Carol Hasty, MS, RN
Neonatal Insights Series: Neonatal HIE
Friday, July 11, 2025
Lina Chalak, MD, MSCS
Neonatal Insights Series: Neonatal Sepsis
Friday, August 8, 2025
Shamaila Gill, MD
Neonatal Insights Series: Congenital Heart disease in neonates
Friday, September 12, 2025
William Penn Laird, MD
Neonatal Insights Series: Neonatal Hypotension
Friday, October 10, 2025Â
Abhishek Makkar, MD
Neonatal Insights Series: Neonatal Emergencies (Seizures/Respiratory Distress (Pneumothorax)/SVT
Friday, November 7, 2025Â
Sushmita Yallapragada, MD, MSCI
Neonatal Insights Series: Neonatal Ethics: "Inadvisable or Impermissible? Refusal of Resuscitation at 24 weeks"
Friday, December 12, 2025
Becky Ennis, MD