Hello friends 👋 The Incubator Podcast is back on the floor for day two of PAS 2026 in Boston. Ben and Daphna continue their conversations with the researchers, clinicians, and advocates shaping the future of neonatology — from cutting-edge science on neonatal hematology and opioid-exposed infants to some of the most powerful parent perspectives we have ever had in the booth. If yesterday set the tone, today raises the bar. Catch all of these episodes on both our podcast chan

Hello friends 👋 The Incubator Podcast is back on the floor for day two of PAS 2026 in Boston. Ben and Daphna continue their conversations with the researchers, clinicians, and advocates shaping the future of neonatology — from cutting-edge science on neonatal hematology and opioid-exposed infants to some of the most powerful parent perspectives we have ever had in the booth. If yesterday set the tone, today raises the bar. Catch all of these episodes on both our podcast chan

Hello friends 👋 The Incubator Podcast is proud to bring you exclusive coverage of PAS 2026 in Boston, one of the most anticipated gatherings in pediatric and neonatal medicine. Today marks day one of the conference. Ben and Daphna are already on the floor sitting down with leading researchers, clinicians, and innovators shaping the future of neonatology. These special episodes explore the latest advances in neonatal brain injury, cell therapy, family centered care, and much

Hello friends 👋 In this episode, Dr. Callie Marshall, a third-year neonatology fellow at Washington University, shares her journey through medical school and fellowship, highlighting her research on racial variations in neonatal care. She discusses her mentorship experience, emphasizing the importance of finding a mentor who aligns with one's interests and values. Dr. Marshall elaborates on her research project that investigates the accuracy of near-infrared spectroscopy (N

Breaking news from the American Board of Pediatrics: a proposal to move all 15 pediatric subspecialties to a two-year, competency-based training model by July 2028 just dropped, and Ben and Daphna are breaking it down in real time. What does shifting from time-based to EPA-grounded training mean for neonatology fellows? Is two years actually enough? What happens to scholarship, research exposure, and the physician-scientist pipeline? And should neonatology take this reshuffli

Hello friends 👋 In this episode of At the Bench, Misty Good and David McCulley interview Dr. Christopher Thom, a neonatologist and leader blood lineage development. Dr. Thom discusses his training in hematology research and what inspired him to build an outstanding research program studying platelet biology and how his research is being translated to change transfusion care for patients. The conversation emphasizes the importance of collaboration in neonatology physician-sc

Hello friends 👋 The transfusion threshold consensus is here — but practice hasn't fully caught up. In the second episode of On with VON, Ben and Daphna sit down with Dr. Roger Soll and Dr. Ravi Patel to extend the conversation from the Vermont Oxford Network Grand Rounds on evidence to practice for transfusion thresholds. The core finding across trials is consistent: lower thresholds for both packed red blood cells and platelets appear safe. The guidelines are freely availa

Hello friends 👋 The AAP has weighed in on therapeutic hypothermia for HIE, and Daphna walks through the clinical report in full. The core eligibility criteria haven't moved — but the edges have gotten more nuanced. Late initiation, the 35-week zone, mild HIE, sentinel events, MRI timing, and feeding during cooling are all addressed. Also this week: a prospective pilot from Australia tests whether adding bedside ultrasound to plain radiography improves surgical risk stratifi

Hello friends 👋 In this episode, Mbozu and Shelly-Ann sit down with Dr. Bharati Datta and Dr. Josel Doyle for a conversation that spans four decades and one very full circle moment. Over 40 years ago, Dr. Datta arrived in St. Vincent and the Grenadines from India as the only pediatrician on the island. One of the tiny preterm babies she cared for, weighing barely over a pound at discharge, grew up to become a neonatologist herself. That baby is Dr. Doyle. Together we explo

Hello friends 👋 In this Tech Tuesday episode, Ben sits down with Dr. Itamar Nitzan and Alon Meritrikin-Gold, the co-founders of SkinCubator, a revolutionary wearable incubator designed to transform neonatal skin-to-skin care. They discuss how reframing kangaroo care from a rare procedure to a continuous necessity inspired this paradigm-shifting device. The hosts dive into the clinical logistics, from safely transferring intubated extremely preterm infants to alleviating par