The NEC Society is honored to announce Alice Hoffsten as the recipient of the Allison Rose Advocacy Scholarship. Alice is a physician-scientist in the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health at Uppsala University in Sweden.
With support from this Scholarship, in honor of Dr. Allison Rose, Alice will participate in the NEC Symposium, the world’s largest conference focused on necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). Taking place in Chicago, September 7 – 10, 2025, the NEC Symposium offers participants a transformative learning experience through rigorous science and humanized stories dedicated to understanding, preventing, diagnosing, and treating NEC.
About Alice Hoffsten
Alice received her PhD in 2024, recognized for her dissertation titled “Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Preterm Infants: Impact on Infant Mortality and a Search for Predictive Biomarkers.” Alice is dedicated to expanding knowledge of the pathophysiology of NEC and exploring methods to diagnose NEC earlier. Her work encompasses nearly a dozen of the NEC Research Priorities.
Advancing NEC Advocacy
Alice is an outstanding advocate for the NEC community. She has presented at several conferences, emphasizing disparities in NEC and access to care. She intends to devote her career to studying new diagnostic tools and treatments for NEC, improving access to potentially life-saving treatments, and the effects of gender, race, and socioeconomic status on NEC.
Alice is a member of the NEC Society’s Research Incubator and participates in the organization’s mentorship program. Since 2015, she has held several leadership roles, including serving as a clinical scenario and academic training instructor at Linköping University in Linköping and Norrköping, Sweden.
We are grateful for Alice’s dedication and commitment to propel our vision of a world without NEC.
Remembering Dr. Allison Rose
Allison Rose, a neonatologist at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, cared for infants and helped elevate the NEC Society’s work by engaging in various research, education, and advocacy efforts.
Her leadership within the NEC Society began in 2019 at the NEC Symposium in Ann Arbor, and she became increasingly involved in the NEC Society until her devastating cancer diagnosis and passing in 2024. We are forever grateful for Allison’s dedication to patient-families and contributions to our mission of building a world without NEC.
To carry on Allison’s light, the NEC Society allocated funding for the Allison Rose NEC Advocacy Scholarship to support a clinician focused on NEC to attend the NEC Symposium in Chicago, IL, September 7-10, 2025. We share Allison’s commitment to equity, advocacy, and optimizing care to protect infants from necrotizing enterocolitis. We will continue to honor Allison by advancing our work to prevent NEC and holding her memory in our hearts.
To learn more about the Allison Rose Advocacy Scholarship, click here.
