Prof. Dr. Ivan L. Hand

Prof. Dr. Ivan Hand is an Attending Neonatologist and Director of Neonatology at Kings County Hospital, part of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. He is a Professor of Pediatrics at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine and was a former executive member of the Committee on Fetus and Newborn (CoFN) of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). He undertook his medical training and pediatric residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed his fellowship in neonatal–perinatal medicine at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. He also earned a master’s degree in clinical research at Albert Einstein. He has held various leadership positions in the American Academy of Pediatrics, including serving on the steering committee for the NeoPrep review course and the editorial board of NeoReviews, an online Neonatology review. He also served as the District II, New York State representative to the Neonatal–Perinatal Section executive committee. For the past 20 years, he has worked in the New York City Public Hospital System as a Director of Neonatology and co-Director of the Regional Perinatal Center. He is also the Chairperson of the Ethics Committee of Kings County/SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. His research interests include nutritional interventions, neonatal outcomes and bioethics.