Wax & Gold
An Ethiopian Newborn Initiative
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Thomas Eusterbrock
Dr. Eusterbrock has practiced clinical neonatology in Germany and the East Bay in California for more than 30 years, in community hospitals as well as multispecialty referral and teaching hospitals. He has been volunteering since 2012 in maternal-newborn quality improvement projects in Ethiopia. Dr. Eusterbrock currently serves as the vice president of Wax & Gold.
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Suzanne Hally
Suzanne Hally is a neonatal intensive care nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a Harvard teaching hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. She has 18 years’ experience in the roles of staff nurse, charge nurse, and clinical educator. She is actively involved in quality improvement in maternal-newborn health, both locally and globally. She is a member of…
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Phillip Platt
Phillip Platt is a neonatal nurse practitioner in a private medical group in Texas. He has more than 30 years’ experience at the community and university level. He is actively involved in institutional quality improvement initiatives, including working as a volunteer in Ethiopia in maternal and newborn health. Mr. Platt currently serves as the treasurer…
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Louis Pollack
Dr. Pollack practiced neonatology in metropolitan Seattle for 30 years as university staff and a community-based private practitioner. He served for 10 years in various positions within the Perinatal Section of the American Academy of Pediatrics, including inaugural chair of the Committee on Practice, and was principle author of the original neonatology national practice survey.…
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Misrak Tadesse
Dr. Tadesse is a neonatologist who has been practicing in Maryland for over 18 years. She is actively involved in institutional maternal-newborn health quality improvement initiatives both in the US and Ethiopia. She has been volunteering in Ethiopia since 2004 where she has been involved in quality improvement initiatives for newborns and their mothers. She…
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Brett D. Nelson
Dr. Nelson is Associate Professor and global health faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He has been involved in clinical care and program management in dozens of countries on all seven continents, focusing on the needs of vulnerable populations, particularly newborns, children, and mothers affected by extreme poverty, conflict, or disaster. Dr.…
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Cheryl Slater
Cheryl Slater is a Nurse Professional Development Specialist in the NICU/newborn nursery at Boston Medical Center. Cheryl also has worked as a NICU nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital for over twenty years. Cheryl also has clinical experience in pediatrics and PICU nursing. Cheryl has been a volunteer with Wax and Gold since 2017.
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Sharla Rent
Sharla Rent is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and practicing neonatologist at Duke University. She is also affiliate faculty at the Duke Global Health Institute with a research focus on newborn resuscitation, perinatal loss, and bereavement support. Dr. Rent also serves as co-Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Neonatal Perinatal Medicine’s Subcommittee…
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Ellen Diego
Dr. Ellen Diego is a US-trained Assistant Professor in the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and clinical neonatologist at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Diego’s scholarly area of focus centers on building capacity for improving perinatal care of infants and reducing preventable neonatal death in low- and middle-income countries. Specifically, employing quality improvement (Ql) methodology to…
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Jill Dombey
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Tracy Shannon-Woelfel
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Barb Zobitz