Dr. Esther Rai is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Dr. Rai earned her medical degree in 2008 from the Medical University of the Americas, St. Kitts & Nevis.  She completed her pediatric residency training at Michigan State University in 2012, before returning to Canada to attend Western University, to complete her fellowship training in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine in 2015. She subsequently completed Western University’s Clinical Investigator Program in 2016.

Karen Lasby’s forty-year career has helped her become an expert in the support of premature babies and their families after NICU discharge. Karen has made presentations locally, nationally, and internationally, and she has written and taught online courses to educate nurses about how to care for babies in the NICU. She has also been a research co-investigator and has published articles related to premature babies. And she served on the executive boards of the Canadian and International associations for neonatal nurses.

Dr. Takeshi Arimitsu is a neonatologist in the Department of Pediatrics at the Keio University Hospital School of Medicine. In 2019, he was the attending physician during the delivery of what was then the world’s smallest baby boy. Weighing just 268 grams at birth, the infant left the hospital in good health and with no serious complications. Dr. Arimitsu has extensive experience in caring for marginally viable small infants, including a girl weighing 265 grams at birth in 2007 (the second smallest baby in the world at the time).

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