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Akhil Maheshwari (USA) founded the Global Newborn Society (GNS) with help from Dr. Minesh Khashu from the UK, who had to later leave the organization for personal reasons. Please click here for more details about his contributions. He is a member of the Society for Pediatric Research/American Pediatric Society, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. In addition, he has been honored with Fellowships of the Royal College of Physicians (Edin), the GNS, Indian College of Haematology, and the Interdisciplinary Academic Research and Innovation Society (Amsterdam). He is serving in many countries; he is currently most active in Bangladesh, India, and Mongolia.
He has served in academic leadership positions and then in 2021, he decided to dedicate 2 years to develop the Global Newborn Society and its journal, the newborn, and then, in June 2023, he returned to active academics at Louisiana State University - Shreveport as a Professor of Pediatrics. He studies the mechanisms of inflammation in infants focused on macrophage biology. In addition to more than 200 invited lectures, he has published more than 180 peer-reviewed articles, contributed more than 50 chapters in leading textbooks of neonatology, and authored 7 textbooks. The latest, Principles of Neonatology, has been well-received. Some details can be seen on LinkedIn and Wikipedia (page still maturing).
Maheshwari is a recognized advocate for the care of newborn infants. He firmly believes that the fetus and the newborn represent a single continuum and so there is a need to strengthen both maternal and infant care for good outcomes. He has represented the Global Newborn Society and emphasized this belief on the National Public Radio and television channels (1, 2) in the US to communicate these views. He has also been active in public organizations such as the Rotary Club (Washington DC Metro-Bethesda, #7620) and Rotary International. He is particularly passionate for the care of infants with Down syndrome (Trisomy 21). To improve the care of critically-ill infants, he sought help from experts from all over the world and developed an international consortium, the LAYA (Looking At Your practices in Application), to develop and evaluate a 'bundled approach'. Under his leadership, our journal newborn has grown and now represents more than 30 organizations from all over the world.
Our patrons, Professors Waldemar Carlo, Kei Lui, and Horacio Ociovich chaired the GNS during the period 2023-2024 and now continue to provide encouragement, leadership, and guidance.
Professor Waldemar Carlo is a renowned neonatologist from the USA. He is the Edwin M. Dixon Endowed Chair in Neonatology, Director, Chronic Lung Disease Prevention Program; Director, Home Readiness Program; Director, Early Developmental Intervention Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in USA. He is a globally-recognized scholar with >600 publications, 60,000 citations. He has a tremendous body of scientific and much-needed community work in Africa and South Asia, where he has led educational programs developed to reduce preventable deaths in newborn infants in low- and middle-income countries, including Essential Newborn Care and Helping Babies Breathe, a simplified version of the Neonatal Resuscitation Program. He has designed and led innovative pragmatic large-scale trials conducted in the Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research at the National Institutes of Health, USA.
Professor Kei Lui is a renowed Senior Clinical Academic Neonatologist and Professor at the School of Women’s and Children’s Health at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He is an expert in neonatal outcomes, epidemiology, and clinical trials with over 200 publications, and is the chief investigator in multiple NHMRC/MRFF and CIHR projects. He currently Chairs the Australian and New Zealand Neonatal Network and serves on the Board of Directors of the iNEO International Neonatal Network.
Professor Horacio Osiovich is a renowed neonatologist and Clinical Professor at the University of British Columbia and the BC Women’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada. His main research focus is on various aspects on infection, and cardiac and respiratory problems in infants. As Division Head, he also has a special interest in the training and education of future neonatologists in Canada and Latin America. He is recognized all over the world for his tireless efforts to improve neonatal outcomes in under-privileged communities.
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