Congratulations to Brian King, MD, BIDMC Department of Neonatology, who has been promoted to Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. This well-deserved recognition reflects Dr. King’s outstanding contributions to health services research and his commitment to improving the value of neonatal care. Dr. King has distinguished himself through his scholarly focus on economic evaluations, resource utilization, and practice variability in neonatal medicine, work that directly impacts the delivery of cost-effective, high-quality care to high-risk newborns.

He currently serves as Principal Investigator for three trial-based economic evaluations: the PIVOTAL trial, examining percutaneous intervention versus observational approaches for arterial ductus in low-weight infants; the Aero-05 trial, studying aerosolized Infasurf for spontaneously breathing patients with early respiratory distress syndrome; and CoolPrime, a comparative effectiveness study of therapeutic hypothermia in infants with mild hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. Beyond clinical trials, Dr. King employs decision analysis modeling to assess the economic impact of interventions in neonatal care and to evaluate the value of additional research funding.

Dr. King is an active leader in the broader neonatology community. He serves on the steering committee for the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine (SONPM) Journal Club and is a board member and social media lead for The International Society for Evidence-based Neonatology (EBNEO).