We recognize the enormous potential of technology in our field, especially when tapped for research, clinical, educational and training purposes. Initial work resulted in the building, expansion, and cataloguing of the division's intellectual assets. Clinicians, academicians, researchers, trainees, Neonatal and Infant Critical Care Unit staff members, ancillary staff, and parents assisted in assembling resources that are available to the public and that can be applied to neonatal research publications and neonatal grant applications. Education & TrainingEducation and training continues to be an extremely high priority of the neonatal faculty, including the continuing education of faculty members themselves through lecture profiles, evidence-based faculty-consensus clinical practice meetings, and serving as invited or key-note speakers or being in attendance at multiple national and international conferences and symposia. In addition, the scope of postgraduate medical and nursing education continues to broaden with structured pediatric resident neonatal intensive care unit rotations at the NICCU at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and the NICU at the LAC+USC Medical Center, training of neonatal fellows (our Neonatal Fellowship Program is the largest one in Southern California), and training sessions for neonatal nurses, respiratory therapists and ECMO specialists. All of these activities involve core academic responsibilities for the division’s faculty. |