Collaborators
The fellows, physician-artists, faculty mentors, peer-reviewers, parent-advisors and project leads who build the Atlas — and the institutions behind them.
Fellows
Fellows are at the foundation of this project, developing an entry on a selected topic that is meaningful to them. While the vast majority of fellows authoring entries are in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine training, we welcome authorship from other trainees related to the field of Fetal Medicine. Fellows are provided a curated collection of recent articles on communication science, research the selected fetal pathology, and work closely with their faculty mentor over two months to write an entry focused on communicating complex medical information in a compassionate, transparent, and accurate way. Fellows build relationships with their faculty mentors, the peer-reviewers, and the physician-illustrators as they learn about complex medicine and communication through this problem based learning curriculum, both required components of NPM training. The Atlas provides optional assessment tools for faculty to use to provide feedback to fellows. All fellows are first authors for their work, are credited on the website, and preserve rights to their intellectual property.
Physician-artists
Our unique team of physician-artists are recruited for their unique combined skill sets in medicine and visual communication. They develop original illustrations that help build a narrative connecting embryology, pathophysiology, and clinical significance in a humanistic way using the artistic principles of composition, color, and contrast. Each artist preserves their own style and method of developing artwork - ranging from pencil to digital work. Several of our physician-artists have built a medical career combining art into their clinical medicine or medical education. Several have sustained a medical career using art as an outlet. Some had careers as artists prior to medicine, some are completely self-taught. All our physicians are members of the Medical Arts and Humanities Collaborative, a professional community bringing like-minded medical professionals together to support each other's aspirations. Our illustration team are co-authors for their work, are credited on the website (provided portfolios are linked on the artist profiles), and preserve rights to their intellectual property.
Faculty mentors
Institutional faculty mentors support the fellows and guide them as they build their entries from scratch. Through this mentorship, we strengthen professional relationships and cultivate fetal medicine education with supervision and feedback. Each fellowship program is different, and so faculty mentors are sometimes part of fetal centers, sometimes program directors, and sometimes support multiple fellows. Each fellow has at least one faculty mentor that is a neonatologist, however sometimes a fetal pathology warrants adjunct mentorship from a faculty mentor in a field adjacent to neonatology. All faculty mentors are co-authors of their work, are credited on the website, and preserve rights to their intellectual property.
Peer-reviewers
Peer-reviewers are content experts recruited from the Fetal Therapy Focus Group (FTFG) of the Children's Hospitals Neonatal Consortium (CHNC). The CHNC is a national organization of high acuity Neonatal Intensive Care Units focused on the mission to improve the quality of neonatal care through sharing data and experience. The FTFG is comprised of content experts in fetal medicine from institutions across the country, made of neonatologists, surgeons and maternal-fetal medicine specialists. Through two-cycles of review by these content experts, our entries aim to meet the academic standards for peer-review established by our peer-reviewed journals. The content experts ensure the information in these entries is accurate, thorough, and accessible. All peer-reviewers are credited on the website.
Parent-Advisors
Parent-advisors are parents who have formerly had babies admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), and now chosen to use this experience to inform the review process of our entries from the perspective of a parent. We work with parent-advisors to make sure our collaboration is trauma-informed. Fellows are additionally encouraged to reach out to former NICU parents when developing their individual entries to inform their writing. Parent-advisors who serve as peer-reviewers are credited on the website.
Project leads
Project leads for the Atlas of Fetal Pathologies have been dedicated to the development of this project since 2025, and for years before then cultivating expertise and relationships that allowed the Atlas to become a reality. They are responsible for developing the curriculum, bringing the collaborations together, finalizing the entries, spreading the word about the Atlas, and sustaining this project.
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DonnaMaria Cortezzo, MD
Faculty mentor
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center
- Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Kelsey Donoho, MD
Peer-reviewer · Faculty mentor
- Children's National Hospital
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Kristen Lee Moriarty, MD, MS
Fellow
- Thomas Jefferson University
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Kuan-Chi Lai, MD, MPH
Peer-reviewer · Faculty mentor
- Children's Hospital Los Angeles
- Los Angeles, California, United States
Namrita J. Odackal, DO
Physician-artist · Project lead
- Nationwide Children's Hospital
- Columbus, Ohio, United States
Vonita Chawla, MD
Peer-reviewer · Faculty mentor
- Arkansas Children's Hospital
- Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
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Institutions
| Institution | Location | Collaborators | Entries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nationwide Children's Hospital | Columbus, Ohio, United States | 2 | 3 |
| Arkansas Children's Hospital | Little Rock, Arkansas, United States | 1 | 1 |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | Los Angeles, California, United States | 1 | 1 |
| Children's National Hospital | Washington, District of Columbia, United States | 1 | 1 |
| Connecticut Children's Medical Center | Hartford, Connecticut, United States | 1 | 1 |
| Thomas Jefferson University | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | 1 | 1 |
| UT Southwestern | Dallas, Texas, United States | 1 | 0 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States | 1 | 0 |
Get credit for your academic work
Suggested ways to include the Atlas of Fetal Pathologies in your CV.
FELLOW · FACULTY MENTOR · PHYSICIAN-ARTIST
Peer-reviewed publications / digital content
Fellow last name First initial, Artist last name First initial, Faculty mentor last name First initial. Topic name (Topic abbreviation). In: Atlas of Fetal Pathology [Internet]. Publication year Month day [cited current date]. Available from: [Website URL]
Every entry page shows its ready-to-copy citation under How to cite this entry.
PEER-REVIEWER
Service / peer review
Peer Reviewer, Atlas of Fetal Pathologies
Invited peer reviewer of fetal medicine educational content, [Start year–present]
ALL COLLABORATORS
Promotion dossier
Consider including it in sections like educational curriculum or digital tools:
[Insert your collaborator role]: Contributed to the development of the Atlas of Fetal Pathologies, an open-access, illustrated and peer-reviewed resource supporting communication between providers and families based on national fetal medicine curriculum.