Anne R Synnes

MHSc, MDCM, FRCPC

Investigator Emerita, BC Children's Hospital

As a neonatologist who cares for small and sick newborns, I am interested in improving the short-term and long-term outcomes of patients in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). I am part of a Canadian team that is testing a new method (EPIC) for improving outcomes by implementing what has been proven and learning from NICUs with good outcomes. I am coordinating the team that is implementing this method to reduce infections. After these newborns go home, I study the well-being and outcome of those who have survived extreme prematurity, severe illness in the newborn period and other factors that put children at high risk of long term developmental disabilities. In addition, I am interested in finding the best way to ensure that these survivors have access to the effective treatments, health and educational services they may require.