The Legends of Neonatology Award recognizes an extraordinary clinician who has dedicated his or her life to improving the care and outcomes of our smallest patients.
Dr. Timothy Biela NEO Conference Course Director
Legends of Neonatology
The Legends of Neonatology Hall of Fame was established to celebrate the remarkable individuals — the “legends” — whose clinical contributions have helped forge new ground in neonatal medicine.
2027 Awardee
Roger Soll, M.D.
Professor of Neonatology at the Larner College of Medicine and Senior Advisor to the Vermont Oxford Network
Dr. Soll is the H. Wallace Professor of Neonatology at the Larner College of Medicine and Senior Advisor to the Vermont Oxford Network. Dr. Soll is an authority in evidence-based medicine and randomized clinical trials. He is the coordinating editor of Cochrane Neonatal, part of the Cochrane Collaboration, and author or co-author of the Cochrane Reviews of surfactant therapy. He is the author of numerous peer reviewed articles and book chapters on the subject of surfactant replacement therapy and evidence-based medicine.
A native of New York City, Dr. Soll graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Genetics and History of Science in 1975. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Health Sciences/Chicago Medical School in 1978. He returned to New York City to complete his residency training in Pediatrics at Bellevue Hospital/New York University Medical Center in 1981. After 2 years with the Public Health Service, Dr. Soll returned to academic training. He completed the post graduate fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at the University of Vermont in 1983 and has remained in Vermont ever since.
Previous Honorees
2026
Waldemar Carlo, M.D.
2025
David Stevenson M.D.
2024
Wanda D. Barfield, M.D., MPH
2023
Barbara Schmidt, M.D.
2022
Jeffrey B. Gould, M.D., MPH
2021
Robert D. Christensen, M.D.
2020
Vermont Oxford Network
2019
Reese Clark, M.D.
2018
Eduardo Bancalari, M.D.
Richard J. Martin, M.D.
2017
Alan H. Jobe, M.D., Ph.D.
Richard Polin, M.D.
2016
Vinod Bhutani, M.D.
Ronald Bloom, M.D.
Catherine Cropley, R.N.
Dharmapuri Vidyasagar, M.D.
2015
John Kattwinkel, M.D.
Philip Sunshine, M.D.
2014
Frederick Battaglia, M.D.
Joseph Volpe, M.D.
Alan Spitzer, M.D.
2013
Lilly Dubowitz, M.D., MRCP, FRCP
M. Jeffrey Maisels, M.B., BCh, DSc
Jen-Tien Wung, M.D., FCCM
2012
William Oh, M.D.
Abraham Rudolph, M.D.
2011
Forrest Bird, M.D., Ph.D., Sc.D.
Stanley Dudrick, M.D.
2010
John Clements, M.D.
George Gregory, M.D.
2009
Robert Bartlett, M.D., FACS
William Norwood, M.D.
2008
Marshall Klaus, M.D.
Jerold Lucey, M.D.
Avroy Fanaroff, M.D.
2007
Mary Ellen Avery, M.D.
Lucille Ann Papile, M.D.
Virginia Apgar, M.D.
Maria Delivoria-Papadopoulos, M.D.
Mildred Stahlman, M.D.