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Why The Bubble CPAP Institute? OUR MISSION BCPAP Editorial Board (Disclosure)
Why The Bubble CPAP Institute?

In the Bubble CPAP institute, healthcare providers will have introduction to neonatal lung mechanics, factors that contribute to damaging the developing lungs, and different modules of non-invasive respiratory interventions.

The Bubble CPAP Institute reviews the foundation how bCPAP works. It contains information on the differences between outcomes associated with bCPAP versus endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation. In addition, it delineates the difference between bCPAP, traditional CPAP, and nasal cannula with oxygen supplementation. The quality page provides steps on initiating a new bCPAP program in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, including preparing the environment for success and ensuring quality and standardization of the process.

The Bubble CPAP Institute offers educational materials in various formats that areaccessible via personal computers and mobile devices. Educational modules are presented as written chapters, visual presentations and hands-on descriptive videos. In a later phase, the Bubble CPAP Institute will offer interactive services such as discussion blogs and free consultations with experts for advice on bCPAP assembly and troubleshooting.

OUR MISSION

Our mission is to have an interactive platform that provides bCPAP knowledge, skills and know-how, readily available to healthcare providers anywhere in the world

The Bubble CPAP Institute aims to provide bCPAP knowledge and skills to healthcare providers and caregivers who care for neonates and young infants with respiratory compromise. The information on this platform intends to cater to the needs of different specialties (physicians, nurses, respiratory therapist, etc.), be suitable for different types of learners (written, visual, interactive, etc.), and be free for all.

BCPAP Editorial Board (Disclosure)

The Bubble CPAP Institute is a free educational platform that equips healthcare providers with the knowledge and skills necessary to safely and efficiently use bCPAP in caring for their premature and young infants. It aims to provide evidence-based scientific materials that are free from commercial bias.

Editorial board members are experts in the field and have been teaching and writing about bubble CPAP for several decades. Commercial affiliations of individual board members are disclosed under their bio sections

Hany Aly
MD, MSC
  • Senior Editor, Bubble CPAP Institute
    Chairman, Department of Neonatology
    Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital Professor of Pediatrics,
    Lerner College of Medicine
    Case Western Reserve University
Dr. Aly has his postdoctoral fellowship training in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. He co-directs the bubble CPAP and the non-invasive respiratory management of the neonate conference in Washington, DC. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. He has published and reviewed for many journals and written several book chapters.
Mohamed A. Mohamed
MD, MS, MPH
  • General Editor, Bubble CPAP Institute
    Vice Chairman, Department of Neonatology
    Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital
    Professor of Pediatrics, Lerner College of Medicine
    Case Western Reserve University
Dr. Mohamed received his fellowship training at the perinatology center, New York hospital, the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He has been practicing non-invasive respiratory strategies for the most vulnerable infants over the last 20 years. He has several publications on the outcomes of preterm infants managed with non-invasive interventions. Dr. Mohamed directs the bubble CPAP and the non-invasive respiratory management of the neonate conference and hands-on workshop held annually in Washington, DC since 2011. He teaches essentials of pediatrics & neonatal medicine to medical students, pediatrics residents, and neonatology fellows.
Jen Wung
MD, FAAP
  • Senior Editor, Bubble CPAP Institute
    Professor of Pediatrics
    Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
    Children's Hospital of New York
    New York, NY
A pioneer in Bubble Nasal CPAP therapy, Dr. Wung is a neonatal intensivist who has directed respiratory care at the Columbia-Presbyterian NICU since 1974. He is board-certified in Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesiology. He received his medical degree from Taipei Medical University in 1966. His post-graduate trainings include: Residencies in obstetrics-gynecology and anesthesiology, and fellowship in combined pediatrics and neonatal intensive care medicine at Columbia in 1973. Dr. Wung has served as a World Health Organization consultant in China in 1987, and has participated in several National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute sponsored committees.
Beri Massa-Buck
MD
  • Editor, Bubble CPAP Institute
    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
    Division of Neonatology
    Children National Medical Center
    Washington, DC
Dr. Mass-Buck is an attending neonatologist at the Neonatal ICU at the George Washington University Hospital. She received her neonatal-perinatal medicine training at the Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC. Dr. Massa-Buck has been practicing non-invasive respiratory management strategies at the bedside over the past several years and acquainted with different techniques that suite different clinical scenarios.
Kari Roberts
MD
  • Editor, Bubble CPAP Institute
    Associate Professor of Pediatrics
    Division of Neonatology
    University of Minnesota
    Minneapolis, MN
Dr. Roberts completed her pediatric residency and neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Dr. Roberts is involved in research regarding pre-medication for elective intubations. However, her major involvement in the field is through her successful research in non-invasive surfactant instillation using laryngeal masks in infants larger than 1000g. Her other areas of interests include newborn resuscitation, pain and physiologic responses during invasive procedures, and resident competency and training.
Mohamed El-Dib
MD
  • Editor, Bubble CPAP Institute
    Director, Neurocritical Care, Neonatal ICU
    Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston MA
    Associate Professor of Pediatrics
    Harvard Medical School
Dr. El-Dib completed his fellowship training in Neonatology and Neonatal Neurology and Brain development at Children’s National Medical Center and the George Washington University in Washington, DC. He is an established researcher and author of more than 50 peer reviewed manuscripts, abstracts and book chapters. His focus of interest is brain injury and neurodevelopmental outcomes in both term and preterm neonates.

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The Bubble CPAP Institute is an interactive educational platform aiming to make the knowledge and skill set of Bubble CPAP accessible to practitioners who care for neonates and young infants across the globe. This platform will primarily focus on the know-how and will offer educational modules on issues like when to consider bCPAP in managing infants with respiratory distress, how to assemble the bCPAP circuits, how to apply the nasal interface and how to troubleshoot bedside issues.
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MD, MSC

Hany Aly

  • Senior Editor, Bubble CPAP Institute
    Chairman, Department of Neonatology
    Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital Professor of Pediatrics,
    Lerner College of Medicine
    Case Western Reserve University

Dr. Aly has his postdoctoral fellowship training in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. He co-directs the bubble CPAP and the non-invasive respiratory management of the neonate conference in Washington, DC. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. He has published and reviewed for many journals and written several book chapters.

MD, MS, MPH

Mohamed A. Mohamed

  • General Editor, Bubble CPAP Institute
    Vice Chairman, Department of Neonatology
    Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital
    Professor of Pediatrics, Lerner College of Medicine
    Case Western Reserve University

Dr. Mohamed received his fellowship training at the perinatology center, New York hospital, the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He has been practicing non-invasive respiratory strategies for the most vulnerable infants over the last 20 years. He has several publications on the outcomes of preterm infants managed with non-invasive interventions. Dr. Mohamed directs the bubble CPAP and the non-invasive respiratory management of the neonate conference and hands-on workshop held annually in Washington, DC since 2011. He teaches essentials of pediatrics & neonatal medicine to medical students, pediatrics residents, and neonatology fellows.

MD, FAAP

Jen Wung

  • Senior Editor, Bubble CPAP Institute
    Professor of Pediatrics
    Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
    Children's Hospital of New York
    New York, NY

A pioneer in Bubble Nasal CPAP therapy, Dr. Wung is a neonatal intensivist who has directed respiratory care at the Columbia-Presbyterian NICU since 1974. He is board-certified in Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesiology. He received his medical degree from Taipei Medical University in 1966. His post-graduate trainings include: Residencies in obstetrics-gynecology and anesthesiology, and fellowship in combined pediatrics and neonatal intensive care medicine at Columbia in 1973. Dr. Wung has served as a World Health Organization consultant in China in 1987, and has participated in several National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute sponsored committees.

MD

Beri Massa-Buck

  • Editor, Bubble CPAP Institute
    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
    Division of Neonatology
    Children National Medical Center
    Washington, DC

Dr. Mass-Buck is an attending neonatologist at the Neonatal ICU at the George Washington University Hospital. She received her neonatal-perinatal medicine training at the Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC. Dr. Massa-Buck has been practicing non-invasive respiratory management strategies at the bedside over the past several years and acquainted with different techniques that suite different clinical scenarios.

MD

Kari Roberts

  • Editor, Bubble CPAP Institute
    Associate Professor of Pediatrics
    Division of Neonatology
    University of Minnesota
    Minneapolis, MN

Dr. Roberts completed her pediatric residency and neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Dr. Roberts is involved in research regarding pre-medication for elective intubations. However, her major involvement in the field is through her successful research in non-invasive surfactant instillation using laryngeal masks in infants larger than 1000g. Her other areas of interests include newborn resuscitation, pain and physiologic responses during invasive procedures, and resident competency and training.

MD

Mohamed El-Dib

  • Editor, Bubble CPAP Institute
    Director, Neurocritical Care, Neonatal ICU
    Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston MA
    Associate Professor of Pediatrics
    Harvard Medical School

Dr. El-Dib completed his fellowship training in Neonatology and Neonatal Neurology and Brain development at Children’s National Medical Center and the George Washington University in Washington, DC. He is an established researcher and author of more than 50 peer reviewed manuscripts, abstracts and book chapters. His focus of interest is brain injury and neurodevelopmental outcomes in both term and preterm neonates.