All presenters are on staff on staff at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago or faculty members at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine unless noted. 

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Aimen Shaaban, MD

Fetology Chicago Course Director
Director, The Chicago Institute for Fetal Health
Attending Physician Pediatric Surgery
Lurie Children's Hospital Professor of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Amir Alhajjat, MD

Co-Director, Fetal Surgery
The Chicago Institute for Fetal Health
Attending Physician, Pediatric Surgery, Lurie Children's Hospital

Anne Boat, MD

Associate Chief Medical Officer, Physician Engagement: Director, Fetal Anesthesia, Lurie Children's Hospital
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Janelle Bolden, MD

Co-Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, The Chicago Institute for Fetal Health
Chief of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Northwestern Medicine

Robin Bowman, MD

Director, Multidisciplinary Spina Bifida Center
Co-Director, Fetal Neurosurgery, The Chicago Institute for Fetal Health
Medical Director, Camp Independence;

Meghan Coghlan, MD

Co-Director, Fetal Neonatology, The Chicago Institute for Fetal Health
Attending Physician, Neonatology, Lurie Children's Hospital

Karim Diab, MD
Director, Fetal Cardiac Research and Education Program, Lurie Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; Elected Fellow of the American College of Cardiology & American Society of Echocardiography; Editor-In-Chief of Journal of Pediatric Cardiology, Springer Nature

Mary Donofrio, MD

Medical Director, Prenatal Cardiology Program; Co-Director, Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Outcome Program; Advanced Imaging Cardiologist, Children's National

Stephanie Eyerly-Webb, PhD
Scientific Investigator, Midwest Fetal Care Center, Children's Minnesota

Courtney Finlayson, MD

Attending Physician, Endocrinology, Lurie Children's Hospital
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Endocrinology), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Edward Gong, MD

Co-Director, Fetal Urology, The Chicago Institute for Fetal Health
Attending Physician, Urology

Nina Gotteiner, MD

Attending Physician, Cardiology, Lurie Children's Hospital

Safwan Halabi, MD

Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer
Vice Chair of Informatics, Medical Imaging
Director, Fetal Imaging
Attending Physician, Medical Imaging (Radiology)

Meredith Harris, MD

Attending Physician, Nephrology (Kidney Diseases), Lurie Children's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Nephrology), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Shinjiro Hirose, MD

Vice-Chair, Department of Surgery, UC Davis
Chief, Division of Pediatric General, Thoracic and Fetal Surgery
Director of Pediatric Surgery, Shriners Hospitals for Children – Northern California 
Medical Director of Pediatric Trauma 
Professor, Department of Surgery, UC Davis

Kavita Hodgkins, MD

Attending Physician, Nephrology, Urology, Lurie Children's Hospital 

Jonathan Ida, MD, MBA, FACS, FAAP

Attending Physician, Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery 
Vice Chair of Procedural Services, Department of Surgery, Lurie Children's Hospital 
Member, Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Camilo Jaimes Cobos, MD

Service Chief Pediatric Neuroradiology
Associate Chair for Imaging Sciences
Co-Director Pediatric Imaging Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Emilie Johnson, MD, MPH, FACS

Attending Physician, Urology
Member, Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation
Associate Professor of Urology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Emilie Lamberg Jones, BSW, RN, C-EFM, CPLC

Nurse Outreach Navigator, The Chicago Institute for Fetal Health

Christoph Lees, MD, FRCOG

Professor of Obstetrics, Imperial College London
Head of Specialty, Fetal Medicine, Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Clinical Director for Fetal Medicine, North West London ICS

Sheetal Patel, MD, MSCI, FAAP

Medical Director, Fetal Cardiology Program, Fetal Cardiac Co-Director, The Chicago Institute for Fetal Health; Attending Physician, Cardiology, Lurie Children's Hospital;
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

William Peranteau, MD

Attending surgeon in the Division of General, Thoracic and Fetal Surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia  
Adzick-McCausland Distinguished Chair in Fetal and Pediatric Surgery
Associate Professor of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Xavier Pombar, DO

Attending Physician, Maternal-Fetal Medicine 

Kristine Rimbos, MS, RNC-OB, C-EFM, NE-BC, FAWHONN

Director, Nursing, The Chicago Institute for Fetal Health 

Erin Rowell, MD

Co-Director, Pediatric Surgery, The Chicago Institute for Fetal Health
Medical Director, Fertility & Hormone Preservation & Restoration Program
Attending Physician, Pediatric Surgery, Lurie Children's Hospital

Laura Vernon, MD

Attending Physician, Neurology, Lurie Children's Hospital 

Abigail Wilpers, PhD, WHNP-BC

Assistant Professor, Research Track
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute