About Our Expert Witnesses

Neonatal Intensive Care Premature Infant

Experienced

Karen Lefler - 35 years of experience in Neonatal Intensive Care of which 26 years practicing as a Board Certified Neonatal Nurse Practitioner
Tangela Williams - 25 years of experience in Neonatal Intensive Care of which 16 years practicing as a Board Certified Neonatal Nurse Practitioner
Melinda Ross - critical care, step down, pre/post-operative, emergency room, and medical surgical units for the past 14 years in the fields of Neonatology and Pediatrics.

Extremely Premature Infant in NICU which are cared for by RN's and Neonatal Nurse Practitioners

Knowlegable

Understand Standards of Care. Solid knowledge base from Routine Newborn Care to Neonatal Intensive Care and Neonatal Developmental Care and Pediatrics

Neonatal Nurse Practitioners attend high risk deliveries, may perform Neonatal Resuscitation

Areas of expertise

Karen Lefler & Tangela Williams - EPI (Extremely Preterm Infants), brain injury (therapeutic hypothermia/body cooling), birth injury, infants with respiratory failure, congenital heart disease, neonatal resuscitation, pediatric/cardiothoracic surgical infants, ECMO (heart lung bypass) high-risk deliveries, routine newborn care, newborn developmental follow-up and neonatal transport
Melinda Ross: Prioritize and Implement advanced, evidence based nursing care therapies and treatments to extremely preterm infants (EPI), respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), respiratory failure, brain injuries, and congenital heart disease. Neonatal and Pediatric resuscitation expertise. Provider of routine newborn care. Nurse Preceptor and educator.