Content Development

Web site content author

Dr Rosemarie Boland: PhD, MN (Neonatal Nursing), RM, RN

Nurse Educator: Paediatric Infant Perinatal Emergency Retrieval (PIPER) Victoria

Executive member of the Victorian Newborn Resuscitation Project

Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne

NeoResus Project Director

Associate Professor Michael Stewart: MD, FRACP

Director: Paediatric Infant Perinatal Emergency Retrieval (PIPER) Victoria

Consultant Neonatologist: The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne

Executive member and Project Director of the Victorian Newborn Resuscitation Project

NeoResus program development and review

A/Professor Michael Stewart: NeoResus Project Director & Director: Paediatric Infant Perinatal Emergency Retrieval, Victoria

Dr Marta Thio: Consultant Neonatologist, The Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne; and Paediatric Infant Perinatal Emergency Retrieval, Victoria

Dr Rosemarie Boland: Paediatric Infant Perinatal Emergency Retrieval, Victoria; Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Murdoch Children Research Institute, Melbourne

Avril McLean: Neonatal Nurse Educator, Paediatric Infant Perinatal Emergency Retrieval, Victoria

Robyn Smith: Neonatal Nurse Educator, Paediatric Infant Perinatal Emergency Retrieval, Victoria

Jacquie Whitelaw: Neonatal Nurse Educator, Paediatric Infant Perinatal Emergency Retrieval, Victoria

Members of the Victorian Newborn Resuscitation Project Steering Committee

Acknowledgments

The Victorian Newborn Resuscitation Project would like to acknowledge and thank the following individuals for their contribution to this web site:

Dr Julie Shaw: Project Manager (May 2008 – May 2009) for developing the original course outline for modules 1 – 5 and original material for the Facilitators training program.

Members of the Victorian Newborn Resuscitation Project Steering Group for their invaluable feedback during the development of the site content.

Professor Colin Morley: Professor/Director of Neonatal Medicine at the Royal Women’s Hospital & Royal Children’s Hospital (1998 – 2008), ILCOR member, ARC Representative and Council Member (retired 2008) & ARC Neonatal Guideline author, for his invaluable advice and wealth of newborn resuscitation research to guide best practice.

Associate Professor Stuart Hooper & Professor Rob Lewis from Monash University and Professor Naoto Yagi of the SPring-8 synchrotron facility in Japan for allowing us to use the videos of the rabbit pups.

Associate Professor Stuart Hooper for his contributions to the ” Transition from intra-uterine to extra-uterine life” and the “Preterm infant: special considerations” sections of Learning Module 1 on this web site.

Associate Professor Lou Halamek, Director of the Center of Advanced Pediatric and Perinatal Education (CAPE) at Stanford University for allowing us to reproduce the ten key behavioral skills in simulation based training (“The Ten Commandments”).

Dr Andy Gill, Consultant Neonatologist from King Edward Memorial Hospital, Western Australia for the animated graphics used in the Neopuff™ Infant Resuscitator presentation.

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, Australia and New Zealand for allowing us to use their Neopuff graphics and allowing us to photograph the Neopuff™ for use in this web site.

Parker Healthcare Australia for allowing us to photograph the disposable 280mL infant resuscitator for use in this web site.

Chris Fry for photographing and editing images for this web site.

Original website review (2008-2014)

  • Professor Colin Morley: Professor of Neonatal Research, The Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne (retired)
  • Dr Jennifer Dawson: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne.
  • Dr Kevin Wheeler: Consultant Neonatologist, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.

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