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Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program

About Us

Learn more about our dynamic program.

About Us

Learn more about our dynamic program.

A Rich Legacy of Training the Best + Brightest Neonatologists in the Nation

The Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship at Women & Infants Hospital/The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University dates back to 1973. We have a total of 9 fellows, with 3 fellows at each year. We are fortunate to successfully recruit excellent national and international medical school graduates who come to us from excellent residency programs. Each fellow uniquely contributes to our program and is given the latitude to shine in their own fashion. Our fellowship has maintained continuous accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

The vast body of research conducted in this relatively new subspecialty have resulted in clinical advances that richly fortify the training and clinical practice of our present day fellows. From our simulation program to innovative research projects, as well as a continuous emphasis on quality improvement, we always have room to grow -- all to improve the health of our infants.

State-of-the-Art NICU

In September 2009, the Division of Neonatology in the Department of Pediatrics opened a state-of-the-art, 80 bed (2 floors), single-family room NICU, located in the specially constructed South Pavilion at Women & Infants Hospital.

Unit Highlights:

  • Satellite pharmacy locations on each patient floor staffed by pediatric pharmacists
  • Portable x-ray machines dedicated to NICU patients
  • Radiology workstation on each floor for quick image retrieval
  • In-unit laboratory (one per floor) for rapid blood gas results and phlebotomist assistance
  • Multiple conference rooms within the NICU to provide proximate patient-care during presentations
  • Bridge connection from the NICU direct to the labor floor and operating rooms
  • Bubble CPAP
  • POCUS
  • Neuro NICU rounds

Meet our Chief Of Pediatrics

Jill L. Maron, MD, MPH, is our new Chief of Pediatrics. It is an exciting time for our department and we welcome Dr. Maron to our pediatric family! To learn more about Dr. Maron, click here.

Connect with Program Leadership

  • photo of Dr. Little

    Alison Little, MD, MPH

    alittle@wihri.org
  • Photo of Melissa Duran, MD

    Melissa Duran, MD

    mduran@wihri.org
  • photo of Christine Rockwell

    Christine Rockwell

    crockwell@wihri.org

Read On!

Learn more about the medical community-at-large, here at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Brown Medicine Magazine

Making us Proud!

Smoltap, a pediatric lumbar puncture stabilization device co-designed by Ravi D'Cruz, MD ('19 Brown NICU fellowship graduate) and Brian Alverson, MD, is now on the market.

BizJournal-Spinal Tap Device

The following is excerpted from Dana Forsythe's article in Rhode Island Business Journal, date of publication, January 10, 2023, 01:13pm EST:

In 2019, Doctors Brian Alverson and Ravi D’Cruz were frustrated by the existing method for performing a spinal tap on an infant, which requires physically holding a baby on his or her side in the correct position while a doctor performs the procedure.

Smoltap has now entered the market with multiple children's hospitals purchasing the product. The Providence-based company is currently manufacturing more than 500 devices in Taiwan, with the first shipment of 50 arriving last month which went to distributors fulfilling initial hospital orders and sales demo units.  

Additionally, hospital trials are about to commence, according to Alverson, who practices at the Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence. He also said Smoltap’s patent application was recently approved by the USPTO .

As part of their Smoltap Inc.’s development, Alverson and D’Cruz teamed up with NEMIC to work on patents, product design and prototyping with Dan Nelsen at Nelsen Design. With NEMIC's help the doctors raised $100K from Brown Innovation Fund and, in April of 2022, the company raised an additional  $544,000 in seed capital from MagpieX, Cherrystone, and The Charles Hood Foundation

“Our mission is to reduce the failure rate, stress, and cost associated with existing infant spinal tap procedures,” he said. “Our goal is to make the Smoltap experience/procedure the standard of care.”

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To read the full article, click on the rectangular box above.

To visit the website for Smoltap, please visit this link

Ravi may be reached at ravi.dcruz@gmail.com.

 

 

Women & Infants Hospital Named One of the Best Maternity Hospitals

Kudos to our maternity service at Women & Infants Hospital on being named by Newsweek and Statista as one of America's Best Maternity Hospitals 2022!

Newsweek - Top Maternity Hospital - 2022
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