Directory of NIDCAP Training Centers

United States

National NIDCAP Training Center, Established 1982
Director: Heidelise Als, PhD
Contact: Sandra M. Kosta
Enders Pediatric Research Laboratories, Room EN107
Children's Hospital Boston
320 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: 617-355-8249
Fax: 617-730-0224
E-mail: nidcap@childrens.harvard.edu

Sooner NIDCAP Training Center, Established 1986
Co-Directors: Andrea Willeitner, MD & Eleanor (Bunny) Hutson, RN
Contact: Eleanor (Bunny) Hutson, RN
Oklahoma Infant Transition Program
Sooner NIDCAP Training Center
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Bielstein Tower, 4B4402
940 NE 13th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73104
Phone: 405-271-6625, ext.1
Fax: 405-271-2149
E-mail: bunny-hutson@ouhsc.edu

West Coast NIDCAP and APIB Training Center
at University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, Established 2008, first established Oakland, CA 1987
Director and Contact: Kathleen VandenBerg, PhD
University of California San Francisco
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology
533 Parnassus Avenue, #0734
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: 415-476-6119
E-Mail: vandenbergk@peds.ucsf.edu

Carolina NIDCAP Training Center, Established 1989
Director and Contact: James M. Helm, PhD
WakeMed, Division of Neonatology
3000 New Bern Avenue, 3rd Floor
Raleigh, NC 27610
Phone: 919-350-8276
Fax: 919-350-8146
E-mail: jimhelm@med.unc.edu or jhelm@wakemed.org

Colorado NIDCAP Center, Established 1989
Director and Contact: Joy V. Browne, PhD, PCNS-BC, IMH (IV) Mentor
University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Center for Family and Infant Interaction C234
L28 Room Number 5112
Aurora, CO 80045
Voice: 303-724-7668
Fax: 303-724-7664
E-Mail: browne.joy@tchden.org

St. Luke's NIDCAP Training Center, Established 1995
Co-Directors: Beverly Holland MSN, RN, NE-BC and Karen M. Smith, RNC, BSN, MEd
Contact: Karen M. Smith, RNC, BSN, MEd
St. Luke's Regional Medical Center
190 East Bannock Street
Boise, ID 83712
Phone: 208-381-4374
Fax: 208-381-7668
E-mail:smithka@slhs.org

Mid-Atlantic NIDCAP Center, Established 1995
Director and Contact: gretchen Lawhon, RN, PhD
The Children's Regional Hospital at Cooper University Hospital
One Cooper Plaza: Dorrance Suite 755
Camden, NJ 08103-1489
Phone: 856-342-2442
Fax: 856-342-8007
Email: lawhon-gretchen@cooperhealth.edu

Connecticut Children's NIDCAP Training Center, Established 2007
First established at University of Connecticut NIDCAP Training Center, Farmington, CT, 2002
Co-Directors: Ann Milanese, MD and Dorothy Vittner, RN, MSN
Contact: Dorothy Vittner, RN, MSN
Connecticut Children's Medical Center
Newborn Intensive Care Unit
282 Washington Street
Hartford, Connecticut 06106
Phone: 860 545-8960
Fax: 860 545-8945
Email: dvittner@ccmckids.org

University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago NIDCAP Training Center, Established 2006
Director: Beena Peters, RN, MS
Contact: Jean Powlesland, RN, MS
Newborn Intensive Care Unit, M/C 501
University of Illinois Medical Center NIDCAP Training Center
1740 W. Taylor St.
Chicago, IL 60612
Phone: 312-996-1747
Fax: 312-996-2328
Email: jpowlesl@uic.edu

NIDCAP Training and Research Center at Cincinnati Children's, Established 2007
 Director: Whittney Brady, MSN, RN
Contacts: Tammy Casper, MSN, MEd, RN or Linda Lacina, RN
Regional Center for Newborn Intensive Care Unit
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
3333 Burnet Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45229
Phone: 513-636-7134 (Ms. Casper)
Email: Tammy.Casper@cchmc.org
Phone: 513-636-7434 (Ms. Lacina)
Email: Linda.Lacina@cchmc.org

Europe

Karolinska NIDCAP Training Center, Sweden, Established 1999
Directors: Bjorn Westrup, MD, PhD
Co-Directors: Agneta Kleberg, RN, PhD & Karin Stjernqvist, PhD
Contact: Ann-Sofi Gustafsson, RN, BSN
Neonatal Unit
Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital at Karolinska University Hospital
SE-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46-8-5177 9426
Fax: +46-8-5177 3095
Email: nidcap@karolinska.se

French NIDCAP Center, Brest, Established 2004
Director: Jacques Sizun, MD
Co-Director and Contact: Nathalie Ratynski, MD
Department of Pediatrics and Medical Genetics,
University Hospital
29609 Brest Cedex, France
Phone: +33 298 22 36 66
Fax: +33 298 22 39 86
Email: nathalie.ratynski@chu-brest.fr

Sophia NIDCAP Training Center, Established 2005
Director: Nikk Conneman, MD
Co-Director and Contact: Monique Oude Reimer, RN
ErasmusMC-Sophia, Childrens Hospital
Dr. Molenwaterplein 60
Room Sb 2607
P.O. Box 2060
3000 CB Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Phone: +31104637181
Fax: +31104636542
E-mail: nidcap@erasmusmc.nl

UK NIDCAP Training Centre at St. Mary's, Established 2006
Director and Contact: Inga Warren, Dip COT, MSc
Winnicott Baby Unit
St. Mary's Hospital
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Praed Street
London W2 1NY, UK
Phone: 00 44 (0)207 886 1283/6773/2172
Email: inga.warren@imperial.nhs.uk
www.winnicott.org.uk

The Brussels NIDCAP Training Center, Established 2007
Director: Dominique Haumont, MD
Contact: Delphine Druart, RN
Department of Neonatology
Saint-Pierre University Hospital
Rue Haute, 322
B 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Voice: +32 2 5354226
Fax: +32 5354563
E-mail: delphine_druart@stpierre-bru.be

South America

Centro Latinoamericano NIDCAP, Established 2005
Director and Contact: Graciela Basso, MD, PhD
Mansilla 2686
3 piso, departamento 8
CP 1425 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Phone: 00541149617945 or 00541148261717
Email: basso.grace@gmail.com