SHINE: Symposium on Health Innovation and Neonatal Excellence

January 20 - 22, 2027
Florida Hotel Conference Center
Orlando, FL

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Course Information

Faculty

Activity Director

DIRECTOR

Hany Aly, MD, MSHS, FAAP
Chairman, Division of Neonatology
Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Professor of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University LCM

CO-DIRECTOR

Mohamed A Mohamed, MD, MS, MPH, FAAP
Vice Chair, Division of Neonatology
Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Professor of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University LCM

Planning Committee

Jalal Abu-Shaweesh, MD, MBA
Professor of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University LCM
Staff Neonatologist
Cleveland Clinic Children’s

Carol Bennett, MSN, MBA, APRN, PCNS-BC, CCRN, CPN
Pediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist
Nursing Education & Professional Practice
Cleveland Clinic Children’s

Anirudha Das, MD, MPH, CPAHA, FAAP
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University LCM
Medical Director of Neonatal Virtual Health
Cleveland Clinic Children’s

John Dickson, RRT                    
Pediatric Respiratory Therapy
Cleveland Clinic Children’s

Tina DiFiore, MSN, CNS, NNP-BC, RN
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Nurse Practitioner
Cleveland Clinic Children’s

Christopher Heinrich PA-C, MEd
Internal Medicine and Subspecialties
Cleveland Clinic

Tracy McAlpine Peterson
Administrative Program Coordinator
Cleveland Clinic Children’s

Jennifer Ramsey, DNP, APRN-CNP
Certified Nurse Practitioner
Cleveland Clinic Children’s

Firas Saker, MD
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University LCM
Medical Director
Cleveland Clinic Children’s

Prem Shekhawat, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland Clinic Children’s

Meghan Whelan, MSN, NNP-BC, RN             
Certified Nurse Practitioner
SHINE Project Manager
Cleveland Clinic Children’s

Natalie Yeaney, MD                   
Neonatal Director Fetal Care Center
Cleveland Clinic Children’s

Guest Faculty


Susan Bell, DNP, MS, CNRN, APRN-CNP, EBP-C
Program Director
Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare
College of Nursing
The Ohio State University

Elaine M. Boyle MBChB, MSc, MD, PhD
Professor of Neonatal Medicine and Leicester City Football Club Professor of Child Health, School of Healthcare, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK


Jennifer L. Cohen, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Medical Genetics
Associate Professor in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Associate Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina, USA


David Durand, MD
Neonatology Technical Consultant, Aerogen Pharma
President, D Durand Consulting, Inc
San Mateo, California, USA


Juan Espinoza, MD, FAAP
Chief Research Informatics Officer, Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Associate Professor of Pediatric and Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois, USA


Keith Feldman, PhD
Associate Professor of Learning Health Sciences
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Michigan

About
Amy Jnah, DNP, NNP-BC
Clinical Professor & Director, NNP Program
East Carolina University 
College of Nursing, Advanced Practice Nursing & Education
Greenville, North Carolina USA


David C Kaelber, MD, PhD, MPH, FAAP, FACP, FACMI, FAMIA 
Chief Health Informatics Officer and VP of Health Informatics and Patient Engagement Technologies, The MetroHealth System
Professor of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Population and Quantitative Health Sciences
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio, USA


Ryan McAdams, MD
Neonatal Intensivist, Divisions of Neonatology & Global Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health
Madison, WI, USA


 
T. Michael O’Shea, MD, MPH
C. Richard Morris Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA


Zachary Vesoulis, MD, MSCI
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Applied Health Informatics
Director of Clinical Research, Division of Newborn Medicine
Co-Director, NeuroNICU Program - St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Division of Newborn Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine


Marty O. Visscher, PhD, CPI
Professor, Skin Pharmaceutics and Cosmetic Science
Director, Infant Skin Research Program
James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy
College of Medicine
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA