Journal Club

The American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Neonatal Perinatal Medicine (AAP-SONPM) Journal Club is a collaboration between the American Academy of Pediatrics Section of Neonatal Perinatal Medicine, and the International Society for Evidence-Based Neonatology (EBNEO). All the Journal Club articles are peer-reviewed and published in the Journal of Perinatology. 

Goals of the Journal Club are:

1. to provide education to trainees through both the content of the articles and the process of authoring the articles
2. to encourage trainees to critically evaluate the written literature
3. to expose trainees to the process of authorship and review

Journal Club Articles: Complete list of Journal Club Articles can be accessed at the Journal of Perinatology website.

To submit an article

Please see Guide to Authors on the Journal of Perinatology website. Submissions to Journal Club require pre-approval. Please contact co-editors Viral Jain, MD ([email protected]), Matthew Rysavy, MD, PhD ([email protected]), Mattie Wolf ([email protected]) or Brain King ([email protected]) before submission. Submission without pre-approval will be rejected.

Editorial Board Members/Mentors:

Alan Jobe, MD, PhD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Clyde Wright, MD
Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA

Wally Carlo, MD, FAAP
University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA

Dmitry Dukhovny, MD, MPH, FAAP
Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA

Ravi Mangal Patel, MD, MSc, FAAP
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

Mark Hudak, MD, FAAP
University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA

Brenda Poindexter, MD, FAAP
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

Atul Malhotra, MD, PhD, FRACP
Monash Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

Scott Lorch, MD, MSCE
CHOP, Philadelphia, USA

Joseph Schulman, MD
Department of Health Care Services, Sacramento, California, USA

Statistical Editors:

Dhuly Chowdhury, MS, MBA
RTI International Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC.

Denise Babineau, PhD
RTI International Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC.

Journal Club Committee Editors:

Viral G. Jain, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA

Mattie Wolf, MD, MSc
Emory University School of Medicine, Atalanta, GA, USA

Brian King, MD
Boston Childrens Hoispital, Boston, USA

Matthew A. Rysavy, MD, PhD
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX, USA