Ben Courchia

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 more — spanning...

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 reshuffling of the cards...

Hello Friends 👋 In this week’s episode, Daphna hosts a powerful roundtable featuring Drs. Kerri Machut, Milenka Cuevas-Guaman, Emily Miller, Christine Bishop, and Christiane Dammann—leaders of a national effort to improve neonatology staffing. Together, they share insights from their recently developed recommendations, created through a Delphi consensus process and supported by a strategic grant from the AAP Section on Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. These evidence-informed guidelines aim to...