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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.