Neonatal Screening Online Course(s) & Continuing Education

Dr. Elizabeth Sharpe is a neonatal nurse practitioner and vascular access specialist with over 25 years of experience in Level II and Level III NICUs. She is an Associate Professor Clinical Nursing at The Ohio State University and Specialty Track Director of the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Specialty in the Master of Science Graduate Nursing Program. Her unique contributions focus on education, vascular access, simulation, and harm prevention. She is the coauthor of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN) Guideline for Practice: Neonatal Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters, 3rd Edition, and has authored numerous publications. Dr. Sharpe has served two terms on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN.org) and currently serves as the NANN liaison to the Council of International Neonatal Nurses. She was honored to be named the 1st Janet Pettit Scholar by the Association for Vascular Access (avainfo.org) and a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and the National Academies of Practice.

Heidi Heflin RN, MN, CPSTI became a Child Passenger Safety (CPS) Technician in 2013, then an instructor with training in transportation of children with disabilities and school bus transportation. A year later, she established the CPS exhibit at the American Academy of Pediatric Conference for >10,000 attendees seen annually since. She instantly saw the need to combine her experiences by advising, educating, and advocating for nurses in CPS, leading to national, then international presentations. In 2018, she relaunched CPS-In-Healthcare Google group to support hospitals without CPS staff. She’s written for NANN E-News for neonatal nurses and CPS Express for CPSTs. In 2021, she joined the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine and is revising their child restraint policy. She was named a Kidz in Motion ‘CPS Hero’ 2019, 2022, and was a recipient of the SafetyBeltSafe U.S.A. 2022 Siegel Child Safety Restraint Award. Her research examining neonatal nurses’ CPS knowledge and practice is pending publication. Heidi ‘s fervor is for working with CPS pioneers in lower- and middle-income countries. Her favorite work is with CPS Malaysia especially when she met with the Director of the Road Safety Council in 2018. When not working, she cycles with friends, hikes with her dog Olive, or ocean-swims with dolphins.

Carrie Rhodes is the Passenger Safety Program Coordinator at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. She is a Child Passenger Safety Technician-Instructor, Certified Health Education Specialist, and instructor for Safe Travel for All Children: Transporting Children with Special Healthcare Needs, and holds a Master of Transportation Safety Administration from Clemson University. In her role as Passenger Safety Program Coordinator, she focuses on facilitating safe transportation at the time of discharge for patients of all ages, from neonates to teens. Her work includes frequent assistance with car seat tolerance screenings across the hospital's neonatal intensive care units, working with families and clinical staff to achieve the correct balance between a neonate's cardiorespiratory safety and their protection in the event of a motor vehicle crash. She is passionate about ensuring NICU staff understand the importance of both neonate positioning and proper car seat use, as well as remaining abreast of the most currently available evidence to inform transportation decisions and practices.

Dr. Sue Hall has been a neonatologist for 25 years, and before that she worked as a master’s level social worker. She has a BA from Stanford University, an MSW from Boston University, and an MD from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She completed training in Pediatrics and Neonatology at The Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, MO, then joined the faculty at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine where she affiliated for 19 years. Now in private practice at a community hospital NICU in Oxnard, California, Dr. Hall was the Co-Chair of the National Perinatal Association’s Workgroup on “Interdisciplinary Recommendations for Psychosocial Support of NICU Parents,” which resulted in publication of a supplement issue of Journal of Perinatology in December, 2015. She is also the author of a book about life in the NICU, titled For the Love of Babies, published in June, 2011.

Regina Grazel is a certified perinatal advanced practice nurse with more than 30 years of neonatal nursing experience. She holds several clinical designations, including ANCC board-certified high-risk perinatal nurse, neonatal resuscitation program regional trainer, NANN neonatal developmental care specialist, and certified breastfeeding counselor. Jean is currently serving on the National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN) Board of Directors as the Immediate Past President having completed her term as President in October 2016. Jean is also a former president of the Delaware Valley chapter of NANN. After many years as a Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist in the acute care setting, she has moved into the public health arena. Jean is employed by the New Jersey Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics as the Program Director for the New Jersey Department of Health Critical Congenital Heart Defects Screening Program and Zika Infant Surveillance.

Dr. Jacqueline Hoffman has over 37 years in the field of neonatal health care. She completed her Masters in Perinatal/Neonatal Health at the State University of StonyBrook and her DNP at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. She was previously the NNP Track Coordinator and Clinical Faculty at UAB and the University of Florida. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Rush University in Chicago in the DNP-NNP track. She has a clinical practice with Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and is the lead NNP at PeaceHealth Southwest in Vancouver, Washington. She precepts medical (family and pediatric residents) and NNP students in her clinical practice. She was part of the original Council for the National Association of Neonatal Nurse Practitioners (NANNP), is a Member-At-Large for the Florida Association of Neonatal Nurse Practitioners (FANNP), and is a member of the Academy of Neonatal Nurses, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Perinatal Section, American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), and member of the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing (AWHONN). She has authored several book chapters in textbooks targeted for the NNP. She is a nationally known speaker as well as has presented several poster presentations on Case Studies.

Leslie Parker has a dual position at the College of Nursing and the College of Medicine at the University of Florida where she is a professor. She has been a neonatal nurse practitioner since 1990 and continues to practice as a neonatal nurse practitioner in the NICU at UF Health. She was the tract coordinator of the neonatal nurse practitioner program from 1992-2011. She has been involved in human milk research for nearly two decades and focuses on improving milk production in mothers of critically ill and premature infants. She is funded by the National Institutes of Health for her team’s work regarding neonatal nutrition including the risk of feeding tube contamination, risks and benefits of gastric residual evaluation and optimizing consumption of breast milk for preterm infants.