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Akhil Maheshwari, MD, the Founding Chair of the GNS, is the current Editor-in-Chief of the newborn. He initiated this mouthpience journal in terms of official registration, infrastructure, and global acceptace. It has been accepted as the official mouthpiece by 38 more organizations from all over the world. It is completely open-access with no money required to submit a paper or purchase an issue. Many organizations are now planning to contribute and help develop the journal.

Maheshwari is a elected member of the Society for Pediatric Research/American Pediatric Society and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), an adjudged Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and an elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh), the GNS, Indian College of Haematology, and the Interdisciplinary Academic Research and Innovation Society (Amsterdam). 

He received medical education at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh in India. He then relocated to the University of Florida at Gainesville, Florida for further training in clinical pediatrics and laboratory research. Two years later, he relocated with the same team to the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida (USF) to continue his research and for fellowship training in neonatology.

The image is a recent photograph of the Editor-in-Chief of our journal, the newborn.

He has served in faculty and departmental leadership positions at several Universities in the United States. His first appointment was at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he served for 6 years. In 2010, he was recruited to the University of Illinois at Chicago as the Head of Neonatology and the Director of the Fellowship program in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. Here, he developed a 4th year of advanced training in academic neonatology. In 2014, 4 years later, he was invited to join as Professor of Neonatology, Pamela and Leslie Muma Endowed Chair in Neonatal Research, Chief of Neonatology, and Assistant Dean for Medical Education at the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. In 2018, he was recruited to the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland as the Director of Neonatology, Vice-Chair (Integration) of Pediatrics, and the Josephine S. Sutland Professor of Newborn Medicine. He has been perceived as highly-skilled in neonatal clinical care, basic and translational research, epidemiology, and the larger newborn healthcare picture (1,2,3,4,5,6) over the last 20 years. In 2021, after recovering from a serious life-threatening illness, he decided to dedicate 2 years to develop the Global Newborn Society and its journal, the newborn. With his commitment to newborn health, he dedicated 1 year at the Louisiana State University - Shreveport as the State of Louisiana has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the US. After completing these commitments to himself, he has now moved to New York (NY) to join the Boston Children's Physicians Group at the NY Medical College, Valhalla, NY to resume academic neonatology while maintaining the GNS and its international work. 

Maheshwari is recognized for his work in the mechanisms of inflammation in infants, particularly in the gastrointestinal tract. His recent work has been focused on macrophage biology and the involved genetic factors. In addition to more than 200 invited lectures, he has published more than 185 peer-reviewed articles, contributed more than 50 chapters in leading textbooks of neonatology, and authored 7 textbooks. The latest, the Principles of Neonatology was released in November 2023. 

He serves on the editorial boards of numerous medical journals, and has led many committees to review scientific proposals at the National Institutes of Health and at the American Heart Association. He also serves on the College of Reviewers at the CIHR and similar committees in the United Kingdom, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Hong Kong, China.

Maheshwari is currently serving as a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Eminence at the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India; Vice-President (honorary) to promote clinical quality-improvement work in the group, Neonatology-Certified, Brooksville, TX. He is a Board Member of the PreemieWorld Foundation, Springfield, VA, USA and the Mongolian Association of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Neonatology, UlaanBaatar, Mongolia. He is an Advisor to the Bangladesh Neonatal Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh and to the Autism Care Network Foundation. He also works at the Rotary Club (its Metro-Bethesda branch at Washington DC).

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