Our Providers
American Family Children's Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) staff in Madison, Wisconsin, provides excellent care for premature and full-term neonatal infants requiring complex surgical interventions and/or subspecialty medical care.
Our care team includes:
- Neonatologists: Physicians with special training in caring for premature babies and babies in need of complex care.
- Pediatric surgeons: Physicians with special training in performing surgery on newborns.
- Subspecialty physicians: Physicians with expertise in any of a number of medical specialties and conditions, called in to provide care recommendations as necessary.
- NICU hospitalists: Pediatricians who work exclusively in the NICU, working closely with neonatologists and other members of the care team.
- Residents and fellows: Physicians training for service in neonatology and in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
- Neonatal nurse practitioners: Advanced practice nurses with specialized training who work with the neonatologists and nursing staff in providing critical care to infants in the NICU.
- Nursing staff: Registered nurses specially trained to care for premature and sick infants. If a baby is in the NICU for a long period of time, a small group of nurses will take primary responsibility for the infant's nursing care and teach the parents and caregivers prior to taking the baby home.
- Respiratory therapists: Providers with expertise in treating newborns with lung problems.
- Health psychologists: Mental health professionals who help families cope with the stress of their stay at the hospital.
- Child Life specialists: Certified Child Life specialists help children, adolescents and families cope with the fear and anxiety associated with the medical environment and hospitalization.
Meet Our NICU Providers
- Claudette Adegboro, MD
- Alicia Barnes, NP
- Adam S. Bauer, MD
- Megan Berube, MD
- Eileen A. Cowan, MD
- Matthew W. Harer, MD
- Katherine F. Hirsch, NP
- Amber K. Humphries, NP
- Dinushan C. Kaluarachchi, MD
- Julie M. Kessel, MD
- Nathan T. Lepp, MD, MPH
- Jamie J. Limjoco, MD
- Angela Maginn, NP
- Ryan M. McAdams, MD
- Nina S. Menda, MD
- Olachi J. Mezu-Ndubuisi, MD
- Jaclyn A. Miller, NP
- Elaine M. Mohaupt, NP
- Emily Niederhauser, NP
- Michael A. Porte, MD
- Christian Rhoads, NP
- Kathryn E. Stadler, NP
- Jessica A Steine, NP
- Carolyn L. Terry, NP
- C. Lydia Wraight, MD
- Danial M. Zepplin, NP
Meet Our NICU Hospitalists