Author: Anton H. L. C. van Kaam

Steven M. Donn, MD, FAAP, FAARC Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital Michigan Medicine University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI USA Mark C. Mammel, MD, FAAPProfessor of Pediatrics University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN USA Anton H.L.C. Van Kaam, MD, Ph D Professor of Pediatrics Department of Neonatology Emma Children’s Hospital Amsterdam Netherlands Dr. Donn is actively involved in teaching, research, and patient care activities. He is a member of numerous professional societies, including elected memberships in the Society for Pediatric Research, the European Society for Pediatric Research, and the American Pediatric Society. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and chaired its national Committee on Medical Liability and Risk Management, and was named a fellow of the american association forrespiratory care for his notable contributions to the field. He has been chosen as one of the “Best Doctors in America” since 1994, and was selected by Child Magazine in 2001 as one of “Ten Pediatricians Who Make a Difference.” He is internationally known for his expertise in the management of respiratory failure in newborns. He has authored more than 250 medical journal articles, edited 34 books and specialty journals, written 250 book chapters, and has produced numerous educational materials on neonatal respiratory complications, hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, and high-technology respiratory support of the newborn.  Dr. Donn has been invited internationally to present his research and to teach neonatal intensive care. During his career he has held consulting positions for numerous medical device manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, and a healthcare management corporation and served on the FDA Specialty Panel for Respiratory and Anesthesia Devices.Dr. Mammel is currently Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, after retiring from clinical practice at Children”s Hospitals & Clinics of Minnesota in St Paul. He continues to write, serves as a manuscript reviewer for many journals, and is a member of a number of professional societies, including the Society for Pediatric Research, the American Pediatric Society, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He has also served as a consultant to the NIH. His career passion has been respiratory care of the newborn infant, and he was a pioneer in the development and study of high frequency ventilation. He was also an early proponent and researcher into the use of neonatal pulmonary graphics and measured lung mechanics to optimize the use of the mechanical ventilator. He has been an international speaker, and has published over 250 scientific papers, book chapters, and abstracts. Anton van Kaam is currently professor of neonatology and the chief of the neonatalintensive care units at the Emma Children’s Hospital in the Academic Medical Center and the VU university medical center in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He did his medical and pediatric training in Rotterdam at, respectively, the Erasmus Medical Center and the Sophia Children’s Hospital. Following his certification in 1997 he moved to the Emma Children’s Hospital in Amsterdam, where he did is training in Neonatology until 1999. Since then, he has been working as a consultant in Neonatology and obtained his Ph D degree in 2004. In 2010 he was appointed chief of neonatology at the Emma Children’s Hospital AMC and, in addition, in 2017 at the VU university medical center. In 2014 he was appointed as full professor of neonatology.