The NEC Society Research Collaborative strives to improve the prevention and treatment of neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis by bringing together multidisciplinary investigators to conduct novel research as one collective team. The Research Collaborative values the patient-family voice in the development, implementation, and analysis of its projects.

Click here to read the Research Collaborative announcement.

NEC Society Research Collaborative Members

• Steven Abrams, MD, University of Texas at Austin
• Pierro Augustino, MD, University of Toronto 
• Gail E. Besner, MD, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
• Martin Blakely, MD, MS, Vanderbilt University
• Jennifer Canvasser, MSW, NEC Society 
• Michael Caplan, MD, Northshore University Health System
• Elizabeth Cristofalo, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Cynthia Downard, MD, MMSc, FACS, University of Louisville
• Richard Ehrenkranz, MD, Yale
• Henri Ford, MD, University of Southern California 
• Samir K. Gadepalli, MD, MBA, University of Michigan
• Christopher Gayer, MD, PhD, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
• Sheila M. Gephart, PhD, RN, University of Arizona
• Katherine Gregory, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Misty Good, MD, MS, Washington University School of Medicine
• David J. Hackam,MD, PhD, FACS, Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Amy Hair, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital
• Catherine J. Hunter, MD, Children’s Hospital of Chicago  
• Ulf Kessler, Service de Chirurgie, HFR Fribourg
• Jae Kim, MD, PhD, University of California, San Diego
• Liza Konnikova, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School
• Troy A. Markel, MD, FACS, FAAP, Indiana University
• Camilia R. Martin, MD, MS, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center-Harvard Medical School
• Colin Martin, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Steven J. McElroy, MD, University of Iowa
• R. Lawrence Moss, MD, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
• Josef Neu, MD, University of Florida Professor of Pediatrics
• Oluyinka Olutoye, MD, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine 
• Mohan Pammi, M.D., Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine
• Aloka L. Patel, M.D., Rush University Children’s Hospital
• Alexander Penn, PhD, US Army Institute of Surgical Research
• Brian Scottoline, Oregon Health & Science University
• Karl Sylvester, MD, Stanford
• Erin Umberger, M.Arch, NEC Society  
• Mark Underwood, MD, University of California, Davis
• Brad W. Warner, MD, Washington University 
• Joern-Hendrik Weitkamp, Vanderbilt University
• Scott Welak, M.D., Medical College of Wisconsin
• Toby Debra Yanowitz, MD, MS, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Research Collaborative Priorities and Projects:

To be announced soon!