Neonatal Early Career Exchange Program (NECE)

Infant in the NICU at Nationwide Children's Hospital hooked up to feeding tubes.

Welcome! The Neonatal Early Career Exchange (NECE) program was created to pair early-career physicians with neonatologists at some of the nation’s most renowned hospitals for neonatal care.

Experts from around the country have joined together to offer junior faculty hands-on collaborative experiences to help advance their careers, and most importantly, enhance patient care.  Keep reading to learn what this program could do for you!

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The program offers faculty who are less than five years out from their fellowships opportunities to:

  • expand their networks of colleagues and potential mentors,
  • develop collaborative partnerships for research,
  • gain experience in disseminating academic work, and
  • discover unique clinical programs from around the country.

Advantages of the exchange program for early career neonatal faculty include:

  • Increasing national visibility and reputation
  • Supporting research collaborations
  • Advancing dissemination of academic work
  • Developing new clinical skills and/or learning about new clinical programs
  • Fostering further collaboration and a supporting environment across partnering institutions

Participating Institutions

Institution Site Champion Site Expertise Website
University of Iowa Danielle Rios Neonatal Hemodynamics Visit Website
Boston Children's Hospital Philip Levy Pre-term CHD
Neonatal consultation
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Stanford Children's Hospital Lou Halamek
Nicole Yamada
Simulation-based Training
Simulation-based Research
Human and System Performance
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Nationwide Children's Hospital Leif Nelin
Chronic lung disease (BPD)
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University of California San Francisco Betsy Crouch
Brain injury
Neuroprotection
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University of North Carolina Misty Good Necrotizing Enterocolitis Visit Website

How the Program Works

Visits are tailored to the junior faculty member’s career interests and the strengths of the host program.

During the visit, the guest and host faculty meet to discuss potential research collaborations and/or unique clinical programs and skills. Guest faculty then deliver invited talks to foster the exchange of ideas and participate in other activities of interest.

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