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Anne Hansen, MD, MPH
Kenneth McIntosh, MD
Steven B. Spedale, MD
John J. LaBella, MD, FAAP
Angela J. Burd, RNC, APN-C, CCNS
Naya Currington
Maureen Doolan Boyle

Hansen is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and is board certified in pediatrics and neonatal-perinatal medicine. After graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1990, she completed an internship and residency at Children's Hospital Boston. She went on to complete a fellowship at CHB while earning an MPH degree from the Harvard School of Public Health.

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Kenneth McIntosh, MD
Dr. Kenneth McIntosh has more than 35 years of experience in the research and treatment of pediatric infectious diseases. He has made important contributions to basic research on respiratory viruses and has been a leader in clinical research on pediatric HIV infection. Among other research projects, he directs the Children's Hospital Boston AIDS Clinical Trials Unit and has served as chair of the Pediatric Executive Committee of the NIH/NIAID AIDS Clinical Trials Group.

McIntosh is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. After completing an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, he served as a research associate in the Laboratory of Viral Diseases at the National Institutes of Health. In 1969, he was recruited to the faculty of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado where he served as professor and chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Denver General Hospital. In 1979, McIntosh moved to Children's Hospital Boston as clinical chief of infectious diseases, and from 1989 to 2000 was chief of infectious diseases and professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. McIntosh also has served as director of the Diagnostic Virology Laboratory and as interim director of the Clinical Research Program at Children's Hospital Boston.

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Steven B. Spedale, MD
Dr. Steven Spedale is the chief of neonatology and medical director at Woman's Hospital in Baton Rouge, LA.

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 John J. LaBella, MD, FAAP
Dr. John LaBella is a pediatrician in private practice in Cranberry Township, PA. Board certified in pediatrics and neonatal-perinatal medicine, he is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and a member of the AAP's section on neonatal-perinatal medicine. He also serves as a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and has participated in numerous studies in newborn medicine.

After earning his MD at the State University of New York Health Sciences Center at Syracuse in 1991, LaBella completed a pediatrics residency at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and a neonatal-perinatal fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh's Magee-Women's Hospital.

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Angela J. Burd, RNC, APN-C, CCNS
Angela Burd is a clinical nurse specialist certified in high-risk neonatal nursing and critical care. She is a neonatal intensive care (NICU) advanced practice nurse and has held staff positions in the NICUs of the University of Missouri Health Sciences Center in Columbia, Mo., New England Medical Center in Boston, Mass., and St. Peter's University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J. Currently a consultant to several hospitals and a representative of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN), Burd also serves on the multidisciplinary review team of Central New Jersey Maternal and Child Health Consortium and chairs the nursing research committee of Atlantic Health System.

Burd earned her B.S.N. (with honors) in 1998 and her M.S.N. in 2000, both at the University of Missouri-Columbia's Sinclair School of Nursing. She is licensed by the New Jersey, Massachusetts, Missouri and Ohio State Boards of Nursing.

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Naya Currington
Naya Currington, 26, of Elkton, Md., is the mother of three children: Brittany, 8, Marlen, Jr., 6, and Ayana, 2. Marlen, Jr. had a severe RSV infection as a baby and Ayana, born a preemie, received RSV prevention medication and did not come down with RSV disease.

Marlen, Jr., was born full-term, but had a severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection when he was eight weeks old. He was hospitalized, and Naya and her husband, Marlen Sr., were warned that their son might not survive through the night. Marlen Jr. did survive and was able to go home after a three-day stay in the Intensive Care Unit. However, he had symptoms of asthma up until age 5.

The Curringtons’ third child, Ayana, was born prematurely at 27 weeks gestation in February 2003. Remembering Marlen Jr.’s frightening RSV bout, Naya was determined to protect her newborn from this illness, especially since Ayana was a preemie and her lungs were not yet fully developed. Thanks to her mother’s persistence, Ayana received an RSV prevention medication injection during her 90-day stay in the Special Care Unit. She did not come down with a severe RSV infection and today is a healthy toddler.

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Maureen Doolan Boyle
Maureen Doolan Boyle is the founder and president of Mothers of Supertwins (MOST), a volunteer organization that provides support and education for the parents of triplets, quadruplets and more. Boyle also is the chairman of PreemieCare, a division of MOST devoted to promoting the health and wellness of all babies who are born preterm. She currently holds a position on the expert advisory board for iParenting.com and is an editorial advisory board member for Preemie magazine.

Founded in 1987, shortly after Boyle gave birth to triplets, MOST has grown into a network of 250 volunteers in nearly every state and 50 countries worldwide. Boyle and the six-person staff at the group's headquarters in East Islip, N.Y., train volunteers, publish a quarterly magazine, raise donations, and assemble and mail information packages for new and expectant parents of multiples. They also maintain the web sites; www.MOSTonline.org. and www.PreemieCare.org.

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