Jeffrey V. Eckert graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin Department of Physiology and received his Ph.D. Then, he completed his Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. He is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
Kathryn Burge is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She received her Ph.D. in Biology from Baylor University. Her research interests include necrotizing enterocolitis, neonatal nutrition, metabolism, preclinical and translational studies, and developmental programming.
Hala Chaaban is an Associate Professor, an Adjunct Professor of Nutrition Sciences, and the Director of the Translational Research, Section of Neonatal–Perinatal Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She earned her MD at the Beirut Arab University Medical School in 2001. Then, she completed her Pediatric Residency (2004) and Fellowship (2006) in Neonatology at the American University of Beirut, her Perinatal–Neonatal Fellowship (2009) at the Women and Infants Hospital of RI/Brown University, and her Pediatric Residency (2011) at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Her research interests include necrotizing enterocolitis, preterm intestinal development, and antibiotics use in the neonatal ICU.
