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For
this inaugural edition of NeonatalNews.Net,
Dr. Leonard E. Weisman, Head of the Section of Neonatology at Baylor
College of Medicine provides a few words of introduction.
We
are pleased to introduce the first issue of NeonatalNews.Net.
With this issue, we also mark a half century since the beginning
of the Newborn Section at Baylor College of Medicine—in itself
a reason to celebrate. But, as the new millennium introduces exciting
new technologies and scientific advances, we must keep our sights
and hearts focused on the small, and often very frail, babies
that we care for each day. It is in this spirit that NeonatalNews.Net
is launched.
Back
in 1950, Dr. Murdina Desmond headed the small staff of the new
section and laid a solid foundation in neonatal education, research,
and patient care upon which her colleagues and successors have
built the section to where it is today. In the year 2000, the
35 clinicians/faculty/scientists of Baylor’s Newborn Section
- provide patient care in 5 Houston-area hospitals that, combined,
deliver more than 25,000 infants each year,
- have graduated more than 3% of the neonatologists in the
U.S., and
- participate in innovative research.
The
goals of NeonatalNews.Net are to create a vehicle for dialogue
with a broader group of medical professionals, share what we learn
along the way, and, as a result, improve neonatal care.
We
invite you to tell us how we do in reaching those ends and what
topics we might present in future issues that may prove informative
to our colleagues.
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