This valuable reference and learning tool showcases 50 unique, real-life cases from NeoReviews popular “Index of Suspicion in the Nursery and “Visual Diagnosis”. These 50 cases cover rare conditions or unusual clinical manifestations of common conditions that medical professionals see every day.
Topic areas include cardiology, dermatology, endocrinology, fluids and electrolytes, gastroenterology, genetics, hematology and oncology, inborn errors of metabolism, maternal-fetal medicine, neurology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, otolaryngology, and pulmonology. More than 100 images provide assistance for visual learning.
Author Biography:
Dr Dara Brodsky is a neonatologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), an Associate Director of the BIDMC Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, the Director of Education in the BIDMC Department of Neonatology, and an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School (HMS). She is very involved in medical education at HMS and in the Harvard Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program. She is a co-director of the Newborn Medicine Summer Student Research Program at Boston Children's Hospital, a Principal Clerkship Experience Advisor at BIDMC for 7-11 Harvard Medical Students students/year and an active member of the Academy at Harvard Medical School. She has co-authored 3 books to assist trainees and neonatologists with board review: Neonatology Review, Neonatology Review: Images, and Neonatology Case-Based Review. She is also co-editor of the textbook Primary Care of the Premature Infant and Neonatology Review: Q & A. She served as an editorial board member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)-sponsored online NeoReviewsPlus and currently is Deputy Editor of the AAP-online journal NeoReviews and Associate Editor of the Visual Diagnosis and Video Corner section. In recognition for her teaching efforts, she received the 2010 Merton Bernfield Award for mentoring neonatology fellows in the Harvard Fellowship Program, the BIDMC Academy of Medical Educators award in 2013, the HMS Medical Student Teaching Award in Pediatrics in 2013, the Richard Rivas Memorial Great Teacher Award in 2015 for her talks at the board review course Specialty Review in Neonatology, and the R. Stone Award for Excellence in Teaching at BIDMC.
Dr Josef Neu is Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology; he received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1971, at Wisconsin State University, Whitewater, WI. In 1975 he received his Medical Doctorate, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. Dr. Neu completed his Pediatrics Residency at John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD from 1975-1978, 1978-1980 Postdoctoral Fellow in Neonatology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA. In 1987 he completed his Sabbatical, Inselspital, at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
