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Tiny Baby Collaborative

The Tiny Baby Collaborative provides highly specialized care to babies born at 22 0/7 and 24 6/7 weeks gestation. Winnie Palmer Hospital cares for the highest volume of these infants in the country.

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Thais Queliz Pena, MD

Director

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Kathryn Winn, MD

Fellowship Education Director

Developmental Care Collaborative

The Developmental Care Collaborative provides specialized care to older infants with complex, multi-system disease processes who require long-term medical technologies like tracheostomies. It has a focus on intensive developmental supports to help infants achieve their best even during prolonged and medically complex hospital stays.

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Douglas E. Hardy, MD

Director

Point of Care Ultrasound

Our new POCUS program focuses on bringing state-of-the-art ultrasound support to into daily clinical use in the Winnie Palmer NICU, both for procedures and as a clinical decision aid. An orientation to basic POCUS skills is provided during the first weeks of fellowship training, and there is longitudinal training throughout fellowship on core POCUS skills.

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Zachary Anderson, MD

Fellowship Education Director for POCUS

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Jessica Lauren Ruoss, MD

Co-Director

ECMO/CDH and PH Team

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Mark Stephens, MD

Co-Director

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Jenifer Cuestas, MD

Co-Director

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Lakshmi Rajkumar, MD

Fellowship ECMO Education Director

  • At Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies, we have one of the few neonatal ECMO centers in the state of Florida.
  • We were the first to offer ECMO to the state of Florida in 1989 and has since been responsible for saving over 540 newborns and counting.
  • We’ve been recognized as an ECMO Center of Excellence by the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO)—the world’s premier ECMO organization—since 2007. This award is only for select centers that provide exceptional ECMO care.
  • Each year, approximately 10 to 20 neonates and children are supported with ECMO in our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CVICU) and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU).
  • Neonatal-Perinatal fellows can rotate in each unit to gain a wider appreciation for the diversity of ECMO and to be exposed to different management strategies.
  • Our success rate of greater than 80 percent for seriously ill babies recovering from ECMO speaks to our expertise in caring for their severe conditions.
  • We are the first in the state to offer a dedicated neonatal hemodynamic team that provides their expertise in all ECMO patients.
  • Our multidisciplinary team of experts including neonatologists, cardiologists, intensivists, perfusionists, nurses, respiratory therapists and other specialists provide customized ECMO care for every patient that requires ECMO.
  • At Orlando Health Winnie Palmer, patients on ECMO have around-the-clock access to an attending physician through the program’s “ECMO Resource MD” position.
  • Our program also offers the services of a patient and family counselor, a developmentalist and a child life specialist to help make this time as comfortable and emotionally manageable as possible.
  • Our entire team meets the highest standards of training and expertise, ensuring the best care for your child.
  • We have recently introduced highly specific ECMO simulations that will be used keep our ECMO team members on the cutting edge of the latest techniques.