UAMS Health - Kaitlin E. Cockerell, M.D.

Dr. Caroline E. Crocker is a neonatologist at Arkansas Children's Hospital employed by UAMS Health.

Dr. Douglas E. Seglem is a neonatologist at Arkansas Children's Hospital employed by UAMS Health.

Dr. Indirapriya D. Avulakunta is a neonatologist at Arkansas Children's Hospital employed by UAMS Health.

Ankita Shukla, M.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatology. She received her medical degree from the Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences in India. She completed her residency at St. Peter's University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J. She continued her training with a fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Matt Merves, M.D., joined the faculty at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in 2020 after serving on faculty at Emory University for six years. In addition to caring for critically-ill newborns at both the UAMS delivery hospital and Arkansas Children's referral center, Dr. Merves is passionate about furthering fellowship education and outreach. Current interests include utilizing technology and adult learning theory to enhance education as well as impact more remote clinical care both locally and internationally.

As an assistant professor in neonatology at UAMS, Megha Sharma, M.D., was selected to the inaugural class of Implementation Science Research Program funded through the UAMS Translational Research Institute, where she focuses on the application of evidence-based best-practices and research into regular use by clinicians. Her passion is to work towards promoting a culture of judicious laboratory testing and preventing iatrogenic blood losses in premature babies, neonatal lung vascular physiology and long-term outcomes of infants born with birth defects. She is site principal investigator for three randomized clinical trials aiming to optimize health outcomes of extremely premature babies.

Dr. Hall's main interests include neonatal pain, telemedicine and infant mortality. Dr. Hall has been involved in several studies to mitigate neonatal pain, a necessary component of neonatal intensive care. Additionally, Dr. Hall has been involved in implementing strategies to lower infant mortality. His team discovered infant mortality, infant morbidity, and costs could be lowered through perinatal regionalization using telemedicine. Additionally, he has been involved in community education through telemedicine through a project called Peds PLACE. This program has been highly successful and brings the insight of "town and gown" together to foster learning opportunities. Dr. Hall also consults with community nurseries through telemedi...

Dr. Maria A. Garcia Fernandez is a pediatrician at Arkansas Children's Hospital employed by UAMS Health.