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Global Leadership in Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Care: “Following the ‘Golden Rule’ in multicentre collaborations – an interview with Jane W. Newburger, MD”

Part of: CTY Global Leadership in Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2020

Justin T. Tretter  and
Jeffrey P. Jacobs
Justin T. Tretter*
Affiliation:
The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine,Cincinnati, OH, USA
Jeffrey P. Jacobs
Affiliation:
Congenital Heart Center, UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital, Gainesville, FL, USA Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Florida,Gainesville, FL, USA Cardiology in the Young, Cambridge, UK
*
Author for correspondence: Justin T. Tretter, M.D., The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH45229, USA. Tel: 513-636-4432; Fax: 513-636-3952. E-mail: justin.tretter@cchmc.org
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Abstract

Dr. Jane Newburger is the focus of our first in a planned series of interviews in Cardiology in the Young entitled, “Global Leadership in Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Care”. Dr. Newburger was born in Manhattan, New York, United States of America. She was raised in the Bronx for her first six years of life, at which point her family moved to Yonkers, New York, where she spent the rest of her childhood. She then attended Bryn Mawr College where she majored in psychology. Dr. Newburger subsequently attended Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1974. She did her internship and residency in paediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital in 1974–1976, followed by her fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital in 1976–1979. She received her Masters in Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health in 1980.

Dr. Newburger has spent her entire career as a paediatric cardiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where she was appointed a Professor of Pediatrics in 1999 and has held the position as Commonwealth Professor of Pediatrics since 2008. She has established herself as a leading clinical scientist within the field of paediatric cardiology, with expertise in leadership of multicentre and multidisciplinary research, including the building of collaborative groups. She has been continuously funded by the National Institute of Health since 1982, and amongst other areas has led the field in the areas of neurodevelopmental outcomes in congenital heart disease, improved methods of vital organ support, and management of Kawasaki disease. This article presents our interview with Dr. Newburger, an interview that covers her path towards becoming a clinical scientist, her interests spanning four decades of hard work, and her strategies to design and lead successful multicentre studies.

Keywords

cardiologycongenital heart diseaseinterviewKawasaki diseasemulticentre collaborationneurodevelopmental outcomes
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Interview
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Cardiology in the Young , Volume 30 , Issue 9 , September 2020 , pp. 1221 - 1225
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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