About the Editors
Editor-in-Chief
Patrick G. Gallagher, MD, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Dr. Patrick Gallagher is Director of the Center for Perinatal Research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Professor of Pediatrics, Physiology, and Cell Biology at the Ohio State University. His interests include perinatal infectious diseases, diagnosis and treatment of genetic diseases, and disorders of the blood. His research group studies hematopoiesis, especially erythropoiesis, focusing on genetics and genomics controlling these processes. Study of perturbed hematopoiesis in inherited and acquired disorders of erythrocytes, platelets, and leukocytes, and bone marrow failure syndromes, particularly those presenting in the fetus and newborn, are another focus of the laboratory. Other areas of research include genomics of T lymphocytes and human cardiac smooth muscle cells, gene correction by addition and editing techniques, and control of cellular hydration, and membrane structure/function. Dr. Gallagher provides education for trainees at all levels including high school, undergraduate, graduate, and medical students, as well as postdoctoral fellows and sabbatical faculty. He has served on and chaired numerous NIH and foundation grant review study sections. He has served in various capacities on many editorial boards for journals spanning neonatology, pediatrics, genetics and hematology to molecular biology. Dr. Gallagher has been Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Perinatology since 2019.
Deputy Editor
Tonse N.K. Raju, MD, DCH, USA
Dr. Tonse N. K. Raju is an Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics at Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland. He previously served as Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Illinois in Chicago (1986-2002), where he was a Co-Director of the NICU and the neonatology fellowship training program. His research interests include perinatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, hypothermia and brain protection strategies, systematic reviews, pulmonary surfactant, and other topics related to neonatal critical care. Dr. Raju served as Project Officer and Branch Chief at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (2002-2018). He has written more than 250 peer-reviewed publications including book chapters and 7 books, 5 of which are fiction. Dr. Raju has a deep interest in the study and teaching of the history of medicine, and writing fiction—the latter include translating novels, poetry, and stories into and from English into and from Kannada, a South Indian language.
Many of his books have received critical acclaim; these include: The Nobel Chronicles: A Handbook of Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine, 1901-2000 (Author House, 2002); and The Importance of Having a Brain: Tales from the History of Medicine (Outskirts Press, 2012). Some of his non-medical books include; Don't Stand in Front of a Palace or Behind a Horse: An Illustrated Book of South Indian Proverbs (Author House, 2002); Poems and a Novella by A.K. Ramanujan (Oxford University Press, 2006); and the Kannada translation of Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes (Savira Pakshigalu, Ankita Publications, 2009). Dr. Raju has been Deputy Editor of the Journal of Perinatology since 2020.
Associate Editors
Laura Goetzl, MD, MPH: Maternal Fetal Medicine
Dr. Laura Goetzl is Professor and Vice Chair for Translational Research at McGovern School of Medicine (UT Health Sciences at Houston). Her interests include fetal and neonatal brain injury from a variety of insults including: viral infection, hypoxia, and medication/drug exposures. She has developed extracellular vesicle-based biomarkers to detect injury non-invasively from maternal and neonatal blood samples. Dr. Goetzl enjoys mentoring junior faculty, fellows, doctoral candidates, and residents in translational research. Dr. Goetzl is the Secretary Treasurer for the Perinatal Research Society, a former standing member of the NIH PN study section, and a current ad hoc reviewer for the NIH and the March of Dimes. She also serves on the advisory board for the AAP NPM Section, Neonatal and Developmental Medicine Symposium. She has been an Associate Editor since 2022.
Stephen Pearlman, MD: Quality Improvement
Dr. Pearlman is a neonatologist and a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, USA. Dr. Pearlman completed a Master of Science in Healthcare Quality and Safety at the Jefferson School of Population Health. He previously directed the neonatal fellowship at Jefferson and mentored many fellows in clinical and quality improvement projects. Currently, Dr. Pearlman serves as Clinical Effectiveness Officer, Acute Care at Christiana Care and Medical Director for the CANDOR program on disclosure of medical errors. Dr. Pearlman joined the Journal of Perinatology as Associate Editor for Quality Improvement in 2014 and serves as the Course Director for the Quality Day at the Hot Topics in Neonatology meeting. He also is a member of the AAP Committee on Child Health Financing and an emeritus member of the AAP Section of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Coding Committee. Dr. Pearlman is passionate about improving the quality of the care we deliver and patient experience through greater transparency.
Rita Ryan, MD: Neonatal Medicine
Dr. Rita Ryan is Professor of Pediatrics (Neonatology) at Case Western Reserve University and a full-time attending neonatologist at UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s hospital, USA. Her interests include neonatal lung biology, the effects of hyperoxia and neonatal origins of adult lung disease. She has a special interest in surfactant biology and the type II alveolar epithelial cell. She has mentored numerous fellows, residents medical and undergraduate students in both basic and clinical research. Her clinical research interests involve neonatal respiratory modalities, refeeding after necrotizing enterocolitis and the need for a feeding tube at discharge. Dr. Ryan serves on the Program Committee for the Pediatric Academic Society meeting and founded the Neonatal and Developing Lung Interest Group at the American Thoracic Society. She has been a Journal of Perinatology Editorial Board member since 2008, and an Associate Editor since 2019.
Renate Savich, MD: Neonatal Medicine
Dr. Renate Savich is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of New Mexico and has been a Chief, Division of Neonatology at both the University of New Mexico and University of Mississippi. She was the Fellowship Director at UNM and served on the Executive Committee for the Organization of Neonatal Training Program Directors. She received her undergraduate degree at Northwestern University in Biomedical Engineering and her Medical Degree at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL. Her residency in Pediatrics was at Children’s Memorial Hospital/Northwestern University in Chicago and her fellowship in Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine at the University of California/San Francisco. She has also served as the Chair of the AAP Section on Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine (SoNPM). She is one of the founding members of the SoNPM Women in Neonatology group. She has been very committed to addressing gender and racial/health inequalities in our profession and our patients, giving numerous lectures in these areas. She has also been active in Global Health, teaching neonatal resuscitation through Helping Babies Survive (HBS)/WHO Essential Newborn Care in developing countries and mentoring globally and serving on the HBS Executive Committee for AAP for the last 10 years. She has helped in developing the material for WHO/AAP for the transition to a digital model of teaching resuscitation globally with the onset of COVID. She also is a member of the New Mexico Pediatric Society Advocacy Committee. She also has had NIH funding support to perform whole genome sequencing on babies in the NICU at the University of Mississippi with congenital anomalies and undiagnosed diseases. She has been an active educator at all levels and has presented nationally and internationally on neonatal topics. Dr. Savich lives in Germany part of the year. She has been a Journal of Perinatology Editorial Board member since 2020 and an Associate Editor since 2022.
Jonathan Swanson, MD, MSc, MBA: Neonatal Medicine
Dr. Jonathan Swanson, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Virginia, USA, received his MD from the University of Rochester in New York and completed both his pediatric residency and neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. He obtained a master’s degree in healthcare quality and safety from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia in 2013. Dr. Swanson is currently the Chief Quality Officer for Children’s Services and the Medical Director for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at UVA Children’s.
Dr. Swanson’s passion and research focuses on necrotizing enterocolitis, specifically looking at means of creating an improved definition of NEC and how it differs from spontaneous intestinal perforation. Other research interests include neonatal nutrition, neonatal quality improvement and cost-effective care. He is also a founding member of the international Neonatal Kidney Collaborative. He provides education and training for all levels of trainees at UVA Children’s, from high school students to pediatric fellows. Dr. Swanson has authored over 50 journal articles and book chapters and is frequently invited to present his work at national and regional conferences and symposiums. He has been a member of the Journal of Perinatology Editorial Board since 2015 and an Associate Editor since 2017. Dr. Swanson is also the Social Media Editor for the Journal’s Twitter account.
Francis Mimouni, MD, MS: International
Dr Francis Mimouni is Director of Pediatrics at Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel; President, Israeli Board of Pediatrics; Secretary General, International Neonatology Association; Professor Emeritus, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Editor, Emeritus
Gilbert I. Martin, USA
Edward E. Lawson, USA
