Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine providers offer care for babies with challenges due to premature birth, severe illness, or a congenital anomaly in North Carolina Children’s Hospital’s Newborn Critical Care Center (NCCC). Following discharge, many patients are evaluated in the Special Infant Care Clinic (SICC), a specialty outpatient clinic staffed by Neonatal-Perinatal providers and designed to promote the best developmental outcomes for these children. Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine is extensively involved in ongoing clinical research with the goal of improving care delivered to critically ill newborns throughout the nation and around the world.
NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE NEWS
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Therapy for Perinatal Asphyxia Does Not Benefit Preterm Infants, Study Finds
A national multi-site clinical trial, co-led by researchers at the UNC School of Medicine, has found that therapeutic hypothermia may be harming preterm infants recovering from a specific type of brain injury.
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Welcome New Clinical Provider: Annie Westlund, NNP
Annie Westlund, NNP joined the Pediatric Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine on January 24, 2025. Annie graduated in December 2023 from Duke with an MSN and has been working as an NNP since May 2024. Prior to moving to NC, she lived in Greenville, SC, where she worked as a NICU nurse for 10 years. During her time as an RN, she helped start the group’s small baby unit and was a member of the transport team for a number of years. We are excited to have her join the UNC team. Welcome Annie!
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Good Elected to American Society for Clinical Investigation
Misty Good, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division Chief of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and Co-Director of Carolina Child Health Scholars Program, was recently elected to membership of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
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UNC Children’s, Cincinnati Children’s, and the NEC Society announce NEC Symposium in Chicago
The NEC Society, Cincinnati Children’s, and UNC Children’s are proud to announce the NEC Symposium in Chicago, September 7 – 10, 2025. As the world’s largest conference focused on necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), the NEC Symposium will bring together key stakeholders to unite the global community for a world without NEC.