1. Melissa U Nelson is a clinical fellow in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal–Perinatal Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine (CT, USA). Her research interests include neonatal infectious disease epidemiology and quality and safety within the neonatal intensive care unit.
2. Matthew J Bizzarro is Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Yale University School of Medicine and Medical Director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital (CT, USA). His research interests include neonatal infectious disease epidemiology and hospital-acquired infections.
3. Patrick G Gallagher is Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics, Genetics and Pathology at Yale University School of Medicine. He is Director for both the Yale Center for Blood Disorders and the Expression and Genomics Core at the Yale Center of Excellence in Molecular Hematology. His research interests include neonatal hematology, erythropoiesis, inherited abnormalities of the erythrocyte, and neonatal infectious disease epidemiology.