Jeffrey B. Gould, MD, was appointed professor of pediatrics at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. An investigator and clinician, he has worked with David Stevenson, MD, the Faber professor of pediatrics, developing the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative. Gould received his MD from the University of Rochester in 1965 and trained in pediatrics at Yale and perinatal medicine and research biology at UC-San Diego. He is a leading public health researcher in population-based studies related to neonatal and perinatal diseases. His research focuses on strategies to assess the quality of perinatal care based on risk-adjusted indicators of neonatal morbidity. In January he was named director of perinatal epidemiology and health outcomes in the division of neonatology and developmental medicine at Stanford.

Ashima Madan, MD, was promoted to associate professor of pediatrics at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. Madan joined Packard in 1993 as a staff physician and clinical instructor and received an appointment to the pediatrics faculty in 1998. She served at El Camino Hospital as medical director of the neonatal intensive care unit. Her postdoctoral work included a pediatrics residency and a neonatology fellowship at UC-San Francisco. Her recent research focuses on neonatal hypoxic brain injury and retinopathy of prematurity, the most common cause of blindness among children in the United States. Currently she is principal investigator of a study on the prevention of anemia in pre-term infants and co-principal investigator of a study on early detection of vision impairment in high-risk infants. Madan is director of neonatal transport at Packard.